Researchers lose hours formatting papers for journal submissions
Researchers spend hours adapting manuscripts to journal-specific formatting rules and figuring out what files a submission requires. The rules can be tedious to apply or hard to find, and instructions may omit requirements that appear during submission. Current workflows described here involve manual formatting and searching, while the effort can make authors put off submitting.
For researchers submitting papers to journals. Mentioned from Nov 2023 to Jul 2026 on Bluesky and Hacker News.
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I've wasted hours of my life trying to get Latex to format my journal articles to different journals' specifications. That's tedious typesetting that wastes my time
jimmar on Hacker NewsJan 2026I had one a couple of months ago where they asked for a new document (I think a lay summary), and I was like "but this isn't in any of the instructions anywhere!!" I always set aside most of a day for submitting, but it's still such a pain
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