How you writePapers → cites

Sources travel with the sentence.Not pasted on at the end.

Drafts move fast; submissions stall on “where did this come from?” Keep papers and in-text cites on the same manuscript.

Pick a layout and startWhat goes in the library

You can attach papers once the draft is open.

ACL page one
  1. 01

    Attach the papers you argue with

  2. 02

    Cite inside the body

  3. 03

    Draft related work and the bibliography

  4. 04

    Match the venue’s citation style

Related work must check out

Related work is not adjective piles—each contrast should point to a real paper.

Venue styles change; the evidence links should not. Keep provenance, then restyle.

This draft vs what you keep

Papers for this manuscript can stay short and on-question. Surveys and method pieces you reuse belong in the knowledge library for the next draft.

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