Sunday, October 5, 2014

Guidance for Scientific Writing

The Structure, Format, Content, and Style of a Journal-Style Scientific Paper

Typesetting mathematics for science and technology according to ISO 31/XI

According to the standard, constants like i and Euler's e, and the differential operator d should be upright. However, these typesetting rules seem to be ignored by many respected authors and publishers. See this thread for some interesting discussions on this issue: What's the proper way to typeset a differential operator? For those looking for an easy solution, one of the re-posts there suggests to typeset a math paper in Latex using package commath.

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