Style sheet for proglang texts

Forbidden words and phrases

• "therefore"
• "Note that"
• "Notice that"
• "One" in the sense of 'some indefinite actor'
• "this" as a pronoun (without a noun to which it refers directly): Google for "nonreferential this"
• contractions like "don't" or "it's" do not have a place in formal writing
• avoid using "since" for giving a reason

Sentences

• avoid using ';'
• avoid using passive voice
• avoid future tense, in particular to refer to content of one of the following paragraphs or sections

Enumerations

• all entries separated by commas
• last entry: ", and" or ", or"

Section titles

• capitalized: Google for "heading capitalization rules"
• they do not end with a period (unless forced by stupid latex style)
• Figures
• always [tp] (or [t] if a float page uses too much space)
• captions ** lower case with captitalized initial ** do not end with period, unless the caption is a full sentence ** if the caption contains full sentences, then sentences and fragments must end with period

References

• bibstyle plain or abbrv
• sorted by author name
• numeric citations, eg [4]
• Do not use references to replace parts of a sentence. The text must be readable even after removing all references.