Paper Style Guidelines - norrissam/ra-manual GitHub Wiki

For style questions not explicitly addressed here, we will follow whatever the American Economic Review does.

• References to numbered tables, figures, sections, appendixes, and equations should not be capitalized: "See table 3 and equation 4", not "See Table 3 and Equation 4".
• Use the Oxford comma: "apples, pears, and bananas", not "apples, pears and bananas".
• References in the text
  • No nested parentheses in parenthetical references: "Some authors (e.g., Gentzkow and Shapiro 2010)..." not "Some authors (e.g., Gentzkow and Shapiro (2010))..."
  • Possessive apostrophe before parenthetical reference: "Gentzkow's (2006) approach" not "Gentzkow (2006)'s approach"
• Titles of sections and subsections, tables and figures, axis labels, row and column headers in tables, etc. have the only the first word and any proper nouns capitalized. Do not use "title caps" (e.g., "Log population", not "Log Population", and "Main results" not "Main Results").
• The "references" section of the online appendix should include only those references cited in the online appendix but not cited in the body of the paper.
• The word "data" is plural. So write "the data show", not "the data shows".