Reformatting Algorithm of Scientific Articles

Abstract

This study offers a suggested method to enhance the reformatting of papers using the guidelines and templates provided by scientific publications. The suggested methodology is semi-automatic, which reduces time and effort to a significant degree. The manual reformatting method employed by writers and editors requires a great deal of time and work.  Every author attempts to submit an article online through the website of a scientific journal; this submission involves a series of steps and requires particular information at each stage as well as in the pre- or post-processing stages. The article must follow the journal's author instructions precisely and in a specific format. Any article conversion into a journal format is a laborious, time-consuming procedure that may not be done accurately. The editors and reviewers of scientific journals have the same issue with reformatting submitted papers. They find it to be a laborious procedure that requires follow-up and tracking to ensure the article is formatted correctly.  Thus, the suggested method will address every one of these issues and provide a quick, simple, and very accurate way to reformat papers according to journal format. Here, VB.NET interfaces and utilities are utilized to create an algorithm for reformatting works submitted to journals for publication, complete with stringent formatting guidelines for writers. By decreasing the amount of time required to reformat the articles by 66% and raising the percentage of compatibility between the article and the journal format or template to acceptable rates, which reach a range of 95% to 99%, the suggested system produced positive results when compared to manual or traditional methods.