Report Formatting

Supported Profiles

V6 / V6.1

• first page lead section:
  • centered title
  • adviser line beneath title
  • full-width abstract
• body:
  • two columns beginning at Introduction
  • moderate gutter
  • readable body font, not dense publisher compression
• headings:
  • prominent Heading 1 section titles
  • smaller but distinct Heading 2 subsection titles
• captions:
  • smaller than body text
  • left-aligned
  • directly below figures or tables
• visual neighborhoods:
  • widen the whole subsection around a major figure or wide table
  • keep the heading, lead-in text, visual, and caption together when they belong to one block
• references:
  • Vancouver style preserved
  • smaller but still readable

V7

• page:
  • A4 portrait
  • one column from title through references
• first page:
  • thin orange-red rule at the top
  • larger black display title
  • adviser line under the title
  • abstract continues in the same one-column flow
• typography:
  • serif body text
  • black headings
  • dark gray adviser line and captions
• figures and tables:
  • full-width within page margins
  • captions directly below the figure or table
  • no column switching or widened sub-sections because the whole document is already one column

Peer

• page:
  • A4 portrait
  • one column from title through closing sentence
• structure:
  • orange-red top rule
  • black title
  • one concise reflection paragraph below
• typography:
  • same visual family as v7
  • serif body text
  • black title
  • dark gray secondary text
• behavior:
  • no fake journal metadata
  • no proofing marks in the exported review file

Use The Bundled Tools

• Use assets/journal-reference.docx as the Pandoc reference DOCX for v6 and v6.1.
• Use assets/journal-reference-v7.docx as the reference DOCX for the one-column v7 profile.
• Use assets/journal-reference-peer.docx as the reference DOCX for the peer-review statement export profile.
• Use scripts/new-journal-reference-docx.ps1 only when a reference DOCX needs regeneration.
• Use scripts/render-markdown-docx.py to build the unstyled DOCX from Markdown while preserving image and table references.
• Use scripts/format-journal-docx.ps1 to apply the journal layout and export PDF.

Notes

• This skill is formatting-first, not editing-first.
• Prefer layout adjustments over rewriting text.
• Keep older paper versions untouched when producing a new formatting version such as v6.
• Match the broad structure of the local sample article without fabricating publisher metadata that is not part of the paper.
• Avoid fragmenting figure/table subsections across different column modes when one widened block is clearer.