Announcement: Some General Feedback on the Submitted Reports

Philipp Leitner
2025-12-22T16:44:38+01:00

Hi everybody,

I hope all of you have now received feedback from peer reviewers as well as from either me or Esme!

A handful of general observations (in addition to the more detailed, individual feedback):

Please order references in the order of appearance (i.e., the first cited paper in the report should be [1], the second [2], and so forth). If you use a reference management system like bibtex or biber (which you really should!) this can be done by setting a parameter.

Also on the topic of references: you can download good bibtex entries for each paper published at a decent scientific publisher at the publisher's webpage, which is generally the best way to get accurate citation lists. Don't write your bibtex entries manually, and don't have ChatGPT write them. We have seen a few citation sections that were a bit of a mess. Please carefully check your references before the final submission.

Many of you seem to struggle with transitions in their writing (https://writingcenter.unc.edu/tips-and-tools/transitions/). Transitions are text that connects one section to the previous content, or one paragraph to the last. They are very important for how fluid the text reads.

/philipp