There are many publications on this topic. Some online links are:
In addition there are many manuals which are available in print, e.g:
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Breach, Mark. - Dissertation writing for engineers and scientists. - Student ed. - Harlow : Pearson Education Ltd., 2009
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Day, Robert A., and Barbara Gastel. - How to write and publish a scientific paper. - Seventh ed. - Cambridge : Cambridge U.P., 2012
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Krantz, Steven G. - Handbook of typography for the mathematical sciences. - Boca Raton (FL), [etc.] : Chapman & Hall/CRC, 2001
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Krantz, Steven G. - A primer of mathematical writing : being a disquisition on having your ideas recorded, typeset, published, read, and appreciated. - Second ed. - Providence (RI) : A.M.S., 2017
- Radhakrishna, L. - Write mathematics right : principles of professional presentation, exemplified with humor and thrills. - Oxford : Alpha Science Int., 2013
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Schuster, Ethel, Haim Levkowitz and Osvaldo N. Oliveira. - Writing scientific papers in English successfully : your complete roadmap. - [S.l.] : Hypertek.com, 2014
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Turabian, Kate L. - A manual for writers of research papers, theses, and dissertations : Chicago style for students and researchers. - 9th Ed. - Chicago (IL) : Univ. of Chicago Press, 2018
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Zobel, Justin. - Writing for computer science. - 3rd Ed. - Singapore [etc.] : Springer, 2014
All these titles are available in our library.
Typesetting
Many publishers request an electronic submission of articles. In mathematics and computer science the open source TeX and LaTeX typesetting packages are commonly used. In fact a number of the style files as required by publishers are already available in the CWI environment.
There are many online tutorials as well as printed manuals. Some online sources are:
If you would like to prepare text in XML format, which includes mathematical formulas, to be placed directly on the web, please refer to MathML.