IPI Publishing Guide

Reading Position

This page has been rebuilt from the local PDF. The source is only about 629 extracted words, but it matters because it defines the final presentation discipline for IPI-style articles. It is not a theory page. It is a conversion guide: how to turn a note into a manuscript.

Read it after the theory and summary pages are stable. It is the last step in the route because publication formatting should not drive the research, but it should discipline the final article once the claims, equations, figures, and references are ready.

Document Shape

The guide is a compact template. It opens with journal metadata, a title block, author affiliations, corresponding author details, abstract, and keywords. It then gives instructions for manuscript preparation, equation numbering, figures and tables, citations, acknowledgements, and references.

Publication Workflow

For this site, the useful transformation is from "interesting note" to "submission-ready paper." The guide is a clean reminder that a manuscript is not just its argument. It is also permissions, numbering, captions, references, authorship, and acknowledgement discipline.

1. Title and metadata. Prepare a clear title, short title, author list, affiliations, corresponding author, and publication dates when known.
2. Abstract and keywords. Summarise contents and findings in a compact abstract, then list searchable keywords separated by semicolons.
3. Full contribution. Include the entire text, figures, tables, and references in the contribution file.
4. Equations. Number equations consecutively on the right margin and do not include section counters.
5. Figures and tables. Use clear, legible illustrations; embed them in text; place figure captions below and table captions above.
6. Citations. Use Arabic bracketed numbers in citation order and do not cite disconnected work.
7. Acknowledgements. Recognise contributions that do not meet authorship criteria, while keeping authorship separate.
8. References. Keep references connected to the paper and format them consistently.

Copyable Template Anchors

These anchors translate the guide into site-ready manuscript preparation blocks.

Title: [clear manuscript title]

Authors: First Author^{1,*}, Second Author^{2}

* Corresponding author: author@example.org

Abstract: purpose + method + key result + claim boundary, <= 400 words

Keywords: Recursive Survival Geometry; Topology; Entropy; Information Physics

Equation numbering: (1), (2), (3), ... with no section counter

M : (s, rho) -> (x, y) = gamma(s) + rho R(s)    (1)

Figure caption: place below the figure

Table caption: place above the table

Citation style: single [1], multiple [2,3], sequential by first use

Acknowledgements: support, gifts, technical help, organisational assistance, personal thanks

Authorship rule: authors belong in author list, not merely in acknowledgements

How RSG Should Use This

This guide is especially useful for the RSG PDF library because many pages are theory notes, bridge notes, correspondence notes, or draft updates. The publication guide supplies the point at which a page becomes a paper: claims are tightened, equations are numbered, captions become self-contained, references become connected, and acknowledgements are separated from authorship.

site page -> live summary -> tightened note -> IPI manuscript

claim discipline -> equation discipline -> figure discipline -> reference discipline

Acknowledgement Boundary

The guide makes a useful distinction for the site. Acknowledgements are for contributions that do not meet authorship criteria: technical support, gifts received, organisational assistance, and personal thanks. Anyone who meets the criteria for authorship should be listed as an author.

For RSG pages, this means that site-wide acknowledgements can remain on the visualisation/about layer, while manuscript-specific acknowledgements should be handled in the article itself. That keeps gratitude visible without confusing authorship, correspondence, and formal responsibility.

Claim Discipline

The safe reading is: this document contributes to publication practice only. It does not add theoretical evidence, but it does determine how evidence, figures, equations, and references should be presented.

• Do not let formatting decisions substitute for claim clarity.
• Do not cite references that are not connected with the paper.
• Do not place authors in acknowledgements when they meet authorship criteria.
• Do not use copyrighted figures, tables, animations, quotations, or web material without permission.
• Do use the template to force final checks before submission.

Terms To Carry Forward

Abstract

A mandatory concise summary of contents and key findings, capped by the guide at 400 words.

Keywords

Semicolon-separated search terms with capitalised first letters.

Equation numbering

Consecutive equation numbers in parentheses, set on the right margin, without section counters.

Figure caption

Numbered and placed below the figure.

Table caption

Placed above the table.

Acknowledgements

A place for non-author contributions, organisational assistance, gifts, technical support, and personal thanks.

Recommended Reading Move

Read this page when a summary or theory note is ready to become a manuscript. It is not where the research begins; it is where the research becomes legible to a journal format.