skills/research/research-paper-writing/references/sources.md
This document lists all authoritative sources used to build this skill, organized by topic.
The writing philosophy, citation verification workflow, and conference reference materials in this skill were originally compiled by Orchestra Research as the ml-paper-writing skill (January 2026), drawing on Neel Nanda's blog post and other researcher guides listed below. The skill was integrated into hermes-agent by teknium (January 2026), then expanded into the current research-paper-writing pipeline by SHL0MS (April 2026, PR #4654), which added experiment design, execution monitoring, iterative refinement, and submission phases while preserving the original writing philosophy and reference files.
| Source | Author | URL | Key Contribution |
|---|---|---|---|
| Highly Opinionated Advice on How to Write ML Papers | Neel Nanda | Alignment Forum | Narrative framework, "What/Why/So What", time allocation |
| How to Write ML Papers | Sebastian Farquhar (DeepMind) | Blog | 5-sentence abstract formula, structure templates |
| A Survival Guide to a PhD | Andrej Karpathy | Blog | Paper structure recipe, contribution framing |
| Heuristics for Scientific Writing | Zachary Lipton (CMU) | Blog | Word choice, section balance, intensifier warnings |
| Advice for Authors | Jacob Steinhardt (UC Berkeley) | Blog | Precision over brevity, consistent terminology |
| Easy Paper Writing Tips | Ethan Perez (Anthropic) | Blog | Micro-level tips, apostrophe unfolding, clarity tricks |
| Source | Author | URL | Key Contribution |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Science of Scientific Writing | Gopen & Swan | Topic/stress positions, old-before-new, 7 principles | |
| Summary of Science of Scientific Writing | Lawrence Crowl | Summary | Condensed version of Gopen & Swan |
| Source | URL | Key Contribution |
|---|---|---|
| How To Write A Research Paper In ML | Blog | Practical walkthrough, LaTeX tips |
| A Recipe for Training Neural Networks | Karpathy Blog | Debugging methodology that translates to paper structure |
| ICML Paper Writing Best Practices | ICML | Official venue guidance |
| Bill Freeman's Writing Slides | MIT | Visual guide to paper structure |
| Document | URL | Purpose |
|---|---|---|
| Paper Checklist Guidelines | NeurIPS | 16-item mandatory checklist |
| Reviewer Guidelines 2025 | NeurIPS | Evaluation criteria, scoring |
| Style Files | NeurIPS | LaTeX templates |
| Document | URL | Purpose |
|---|---|---|
| Paper Guidelines | ICML | Submission requirements |
| Reviewer Instructions 2025 | ICML | Review form, evaluation |
| Style & Author Instructions | ICML | Formatting specifications |
| Document | URL | Purpose |
|---|---|---|
| Author Guide 2026 | ICLR | Submission requirements, LLM disclosure |
| Reviewer Guide 2025 | ICLR | Review process, evaluation |
| Document | URL | Purpose |
|---|---|---|
| ACL Style Files | GitHub | LaTeX templates |
| ACL Rolling Review | ARR | Submission process |
| Document | URL | Purpose |
|---|---|---|
| Author Kit 2026 | AAAI | Templates and guidelines |
| Document | URL | Purpose |
|---|---|---|
| Template | GitHub | LaTeX templates |
| API | Documentation | Best For |
|---|---|---|
| Semantic Scholar | Docs | ML/AI papers, citation graphs |
| CrossRef | Docs | DOI lookup, BibTeX retrieval |
| arXiv | Docs | Preprints, PDF access |
| OpenAlex | Docs | Open alternative, bulk access |
| Library | Install | Purpose |
|---|---|---|
semanticscholar | pip install semanticscholar | Semantic Scholar wrapper |
arxiv | pip install arxiv | arXiv search and download |
habanero | pip install habanero | CrossRef client |
| Tool | URL | Purpose |
|---|---|---|
| Citely | citely.ai | Batch verification |
| ReciteWorks | reciteworks.com | In-text citation checking |
| Tool | URL | Purpose |
|---|---|---|
| PlotNeuralNet | GitHub | TikZ neural network diagrams |
| SciencePlots | GitHub | Publication-ready matplotlib |
| Okabe-Ito Palette | Reference | Colorblind-safe colors |
| Resource | URL | Purpose |
|---|---|---|
| Overleaf Templates | Overleaf | Online LaTeX editor |
| BibLaTeX Guide | CTAN | Modern citation management |
| Source | URL | Key Finding |
|---|---|---|
| AI Hallucinations in Citations | Enago | ~40% error rate |
| Hallucination in AI Writing | PMC | Types of citation errors |
| NeurIPS 2025 AI Report | ByteIota | 100+ hallucinated citations |
→ Start with: Neel Nanda, Sebastian Farquhar, Andrej Karpathy
→ Start with: Gopen & Swan, Ethan Perez, Zachary Lipton
→ Start with: Zachary Lipton, Jacob Steinhardt
→ Start with: Official venue guidelines (NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, ACL)
→ Start with: Semantic Scholar API, CrossRef, citation-workflow.md
→ Start with: Venue reviewer guidelines, reviewer-guidelines.md
→ Start with: human-evaluation.md, Prolific/MTurk documentation
→ Start with: paper-types.md
| Source | URL | Key Contribution |
|---|---|---|
| Datasheets for Datasets | Gebru et al., 2021 (arXiv) | Structured dataset documentation framework |
| Model Cards for Model Reporting | Mitchell et al., 2019 (arXiv) | Structured model documentation framework |
| Crowdsourcing and Human Computation | Survey | Best practices for crowdsourced annotation |
| Krippendorff's Alpha | Wikipedia | Inter-annotator agreement metric reference |
| Prolific | prolific.co | Recommended crowdsourcing platform for research |
| Source | URL | Key Contribution |
|---|---|---|
| ML CO2 Impact | mlco2.github.io | Compute carbon footprint calculator |
| NeurIPS Broader Impact Guide | NeurIPS | Official guidance on impact statements |
| ACL Ethics Policy | ACL | Ethics requirements for NLP research |