Source Bibliography
This document lists all authoritative sources used to build this skill, organized by topic.
Origin & Attribution
The writing philosophy, citation verification workflow, and conference reference materials in this skill were originally compiled by Orchestra Research 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.
Writing Philosophy & Guides
Primary Sources (Must-Read)
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
Foundational Scientific Writing
Source Author URL Key Contribution The Science of Scientific Writing Gopen & Swan PDF Topic/stress positions, old-before-new, 7 principles Summary of Science of Scientific Writing Lawrence Crowl Summary Condensed version of Gopen & Swan
Additional Resources
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
Official Conference Guidelines
NeurIPS
Document URL Purpose Paper Checklist Guidelines NeurIPS 16-item mandatory checklist Reviewer Guidelines 2025 NeurIPS Evaluation criteria, scoring Style Files NeurIPS LaTeX templates
ICML
Document URL Purpose Paper Guidelines ICML Submission requirements Reviewer Instructions 2025 ICML Review form, evaluation Style & Author Instructions ICML Formatting specifications
ICLR
Document URL Purpose Author Guide 2026 ICLR Submission requirements, LLM disclosure Reviewer Guide 2025 ICLR Review process, evaluation
ACL/EMNLP
Document URL Purpose ACL Style Files GitHub LaTeX templates ACL Rolling Review ARR Submission process
AAAI
Document URL Purpose Author Kit 2026 AAAI Templates and guidelines
COLM
Document URL Purpose Template GitHub LaTeX templates
APIs
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
Python Libraries
Library Install Purpose semanticscholarpip install semanticscholarSemantic Scholar wrapper arxivpip install arxivarXiv search and download habaneropip install habaneroCrossRef client
Citation Verification
Tool URL Purpose PlotNeuralNet GitHub TikZ neural network diagrams SciencePlots GitHub Publication-ready matplotlib Okabe-Ito Palette Reference Colorblind-safe colors
LaTeX Resources
Resource URL Purpose Overleaf Templates Overleaf Online LaTeX editor BibLaTeX Guide CTAN Modern citation management
Research on AI Writing & Hallucination
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
Quick Reference by Topic
For Narrative & Structure
→ Start with: Neel Nanda, Sebastian Farquhar, Andrej Karpathy
For Sentence-Level Clarity
→ Start with: Gopen & Swan, Ethan Perez, Zachary Lipton
For Word Choice & Style
→ Start with: Zachary Lipton, Jacob Steinhardt
For Conference-Specific Requirements
→ Start with: Official venue guidelines (NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, ACL)
For Citation Management
→ Start with: Semantic Scholar API, CrossRef,
For Reviewer Expectations
→ Start with: Venue reviewer guidelines,
For Human Evaluation
→ Start with:
For Non-Empirical Papers (Theory, Survey, Benchmark, Position)
→ Start with:
Human Evaluation & Annotation
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
Ethics & Broader Impact
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
