Research Writing

1. Tittle should be in title case
2. Check all authors names, emails, affiliations, etc.
3. Check number of words in abstract and add keywords not more than 6.
4. Check you have declare all the abbreviations correctly, see journal or conference format.
5. Check you have correctly used \cite and \citep
6. Check you don't have any missing citations
7. Check you have small introduction to each section
8. Check if you label to all sections, sub, subsubsection, equations, figures, tables, theorems, etc.
9. Check if you used comma or fullstops after each equation
10. Check if you have referred all figures and tables in the paper
11. Check if you have fullstops at the end of caption in figure and table 
12. Captions should be in sentence case.
13. Equations are referenced as \eqref and fig and tables and \ref
14. Figure: labels should be in the format e.g., Velocity (v) [m/s], legends should be there for all lines 
15. SIunits should be in () in text and in [] in plots and tables and in normal font (not in math mode $$)
16. Check if you mentioned all possible variables and their description 
17. Equations: use proper syntax not only align, some variables which don't have any exact variable should be in text format e.g., ref is Reference so keep it as text but if you want to use y_r then use math mode
18. Either keep all numbers in the paper in math or text mode.
19. Table: use bold font for main row 
20. Check if you correct acknowledgements
21. All reference (except non published or in press) should have page numbers, all abbreviations should be in uppercase like FPGA, MPC, DSP, etc.
22. Use of comma before AND: if the list has>2 items e.g., MPC, PID, and SMC.
23. There is always a comma after i.e., e.g., and full-stop after etc.
24. MATLAB is the correct word, not Matlab or matlab.
25. Use of hyphens (-): e.g., fixed-point, FPGA-based. (if you use e.g., the don't use etc.). There should be a comma before etc.
26. All variable notations should be unique in the paper.
27. It is a general rule to define full-form and short-form for 1st use.
28. For reference labels: use in small letter format as 1st author surname:year:1st word of the tile. Basically, just copy paste BibTeX entry from google scholar and give colon (:) in between.
29. Check for double full-stops, commas, or white spaces.
30. Check grammar with Grammarly https://app.grammarly.com/docs/new by copy paste.
31. Space before Brackets - ()
32. Space before units , if within the mathematical $$ operation use ~
33. Write Table complete in the table reference. 
34. "nonlinear" is a complete word, dash not comes there.  

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