§ 04 — Newsletter
A monthly letter on editing craft, macro releases, and style-guide changes — read by 9,200 researchers, editors, and journal staff.
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Contents, by topic
Every issue draws from six standing sections.
APA, AMA, Vancouver, BibTeX — and the tooling that keeps them honest.
Release notes and recipes from the macro library, with before/after diffs.
What changed in the major guides this month — and what it means at the desk.
Equations, units, class files, and the fixes that make reviewers stop noticing.
Docstrings, READMEs, and notebooks — editing research code without touching its logic.
Prompts, guardrails, and where judgment stays human — reported from practice.