Easy Paper Writing Checklist

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There are plenty of resources online about writing papers. This is just an checklist of easy but very important things to do before submitting a paper for either review or publication.

• Conference Checklists
• include the conference checklist if it exists (e.g. NeurIPS Paper Checklist)
• no going over the page limit
• Consistent Referencing Style
• abbreviations or full names for conferences and journals (e.g. AAAI vs. Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence)
• conference and journal publishers (I generally omit them)
• page numbers for conference papers where possible, and both volume and page numbers for journal papers
• Figures and Tables
• all figures and tables are referenced in the text
• no ?? anywhere due to missing keys in

  \ref{}

  or

  \cite{}

• Scholarship
• up-to-date versions of referenced papers (e.g. journal ≥ conference ≫ arXiv/workshop)
• correct bibtex citations (e.g. it's easy to make a typo in the year or coauthors in a bibtex entry)
• Acknowledgments
• projects and funding sources
• non-authors who you think helped
• Code
• link to code repository if desired or promised