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focs-writing-style

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Use when drafting or revising a FOCS (IEEE Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science) paper — making the first ten pages carry the whole case to a broad theory committee, pairing informal and formal theorem statements, keeping single-column 11-point prose readable, and writing double-blind-safe self-references.

When to use

• drafting FOCS papers
• revising FOCS papers
• front-loading content in first ten pages
• pairing informal and formal theorem statements
• writing double-blind-safe self-references
• calibrating prose for cross-area committees
• structuring abstracts
• managing notation economy

When not to use

• writing papers for venues other than FOCS
• managing reproducibility tooling
• handling length caps for other conferences

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