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name: paper-structure description: Paper structure, LaTeX conventions, and citation format for this research project allowed-tools: Read, Grep, Glob

Paper Structure

Current Paper

• Title: [Paper Title]
• Target Venue: [Conference/Journal]
• Deadline: [Submission Deadline]
• Page Limit: [e.g., 8 pages + references]

Document Structure

Copypaper/
├── main.tex           # Main document
├── sections/
│   ├── 01-intro.tex
│   ├── 02-related.tex
│   ├── 03-method.tex
│   ├── 04-experiments.tex
│   └── 05-conclusion.tex
├── figures/
├── tables/
└── references.bib

LaTeX Conventions

Figures

Copy\begin{figure}[t]
  \centering
  \includegraphics[width=\linewidth]{figures/method.pdf}
  \caption{Our proposed method overview.}
  \label{fig:method}
\end{figure}

Tables

Copy\begin{table}[t]
  \centering
  \caption{Comparison with baselines.}
  \label{tab:results}
  \begin{tabular}{lcc}
    \toprule
    Method & Accuracy & F1 \\
    \midrule
    Baseline & 0.85 & 0.83 \\
    Ours & \textbf{0.92} & \textbf{0.90} \\
    \bottomrule
  \end{tabular}
\end{table}

Citations

Copy% Single author
\citet{Smith2023} showed that...
As shown in prior work~\citep{Smith2023}...

% Multiple authors
\citet{Smith2023,Jones2024} demonstrated...

Citation Format

BibTeX entries in references.bib:

Copy@inproceedings{Smith2023,
  author    = {John Smith and Jane Doe},
  title     = {A Novel Approach to X},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of ABC 2023},
  year      = {2023},
  pages     = {1--10},
}

Key References

1. [Foundation paper] - Smith et al., 2020
2. [Baseline method] - Jones et al., 2022
3. [Related approach] - Brown et al., 2023

Reproducibility Checklist

• Random seeds documented
• Hyperparameters in appendix
• Dataset splits specified
• Code repository linked
• Compute resources listed