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shorter form “all elements
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” in later references, is “regular” implicit in the latter
expression?
Are abbreviations and acronyms stated in full when first used? Are any abbrevia-
tions or acronyms introducedmore than once? Are the full statements subsequently
used unnecessarily?
Are any abbreviations used less than, say, four times? If not, can they be removed?
Do all headings have maximum or minimum capitalization? Has a term been
capitalized in one place and not in another?
Is the style and wording of headings and captions consistent?
Are names always used in the same way? Has a consistent convention been used
for the formation of new names?
Is spelling consistent? What about “-ise” versus “-ize”, “dispatch” versus
“despatch”, or “disc” versus “disk”?
Is tense used correctly? Are references discussed in a consistent way?
Have bold and italic been used logically?
Are any words hyphenated in some places but not others?
Have units been used logically? If milliseconds have been used for some measure-
ments and microseconds for others, is there a logical reason for doing so? Is the
reason clear to the reader? Has “megabyte” been written as “Mb” in some places
and “Mbyte” in others?
Are all values of the same type presented with the same precision?
Are the graphs all the same size? Are the axis units always given? If, say, the
x
-axes
on different graphs measure the same units, do the axes have the same label?
Are all tables in the same format? Does the use of double and single lines follow
a logical pattern? Are units given for every value? Are labels and headings named
consistently? If, say, columns have been used for properties A to E in one table,
have rows been used elsewhere? That is, do all tables have the same orientation?
Does every figure and table have a caption?
Has the same style been used for all algorithms and programs? Is there a consistent
scheme for naming of variables? Do all pseudocode statements have the same
syntax? Is the use of indentation consistent?
In the references, has each field been formatted consistently? Have italics and
quotes been used appropriately for titles? Is capitalization consistent? Are journal
and conference names abbreviated in the same way? Is the style of author names
consistent? Has the same core set of fields been provided for each reference of the
same type?
Is formatting consistent? Has the same indentation been used for all displays?
Are some displays centred and others indented? Do some sections begin with an
unindented paragraph and others not?
Do the parentheses match?
