Paper writing features

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https://mobile.twitter.com/giffmana/status/1608568387583737856

• I am a big fan of the gray text passages for things that were tried but didn’t work.

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Not a journal article, but still a neat technique that I’ve seen in a few papers: split the text, put citations beside the body:

matilde park / I'm not a pod: 1956's Invasion of the Body Snatchers

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CLS student presentation - cool structure - what was expected, what wasn’t expected

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Quantum monodromy in NCNCS – direct experimental confirmation - Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics (RSC Publishing)

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Nice point-by-point literature review.

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Frightening Small Children and Disconcerting Grown-ups: Concurrency in the Linux Kernel
Frightening Small Children and Disconcerting Grown-ups | Proceedings of the Twenty-Third International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems

This seems to be a fascinating and anomalous paper.

It makes extensive use of inline block quotes and hyperlinks.

This is something you don’t find a lot in science, but I think getting things “straight from the horse’s mouth” really helps in many situations.

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https://arxiv.org/pdf/2412.18573

a succinct lead-in structure and very clearly stated findings

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it’s in vogue to use a bit of AI artwork to break a long wall of text in an article. I don’t know where this practice came from, but it doesn’t really feel good to me.

Above is a very classy alternative; a <h>, but so big that it acts much like a tabloid “dropped cap”.