Apocalypse Redux Non-canon sidestory: Research Team Bailey publishing guideli

Non-canon sidestory: Research Team Bailey publishing guidelines

The following are the (un)official guidelines for our research group’s conduct when publishing:

1. The most important rule is proper citation. Mistakes and misinterpretations can be fixed, accidentally ripping soone off or making impactful statents without supporting evidence will have long term consequences. That includes any bombshells Dr. Thoma casually drops in the middle of a conversation. Make him provide a source, and if he hasn’t written it down sowhere citable, either make him publish sothing to quote or provide an experint that can prove his statent. Just because he said sothing does not an you don’t have to prove it.

2. There are no specific rules as to the formatting of publications. Choose a font and spacing that looks professional, suits the nature of the publication and does not have symbols that can be misread given the subject matter. Professor Chandler already got a complaint from soone who misread the chemical formula for chlorine as being the empirical chemical formula for hexaiodobenzene and burnt their eyebrows off because in Arial, a small L looks to a large I.

Edit 1: Yes, that ans that Comic sans is off the table.

3. Be reasonable when choosing whom to na as co-authors. You can na near-sapient familiars and enhanced pets as co-authors, but if you do so, make sure to make it possible for the reader to tell that they’re not available for, say speaking at a conference.

Edit 1: this ca up because of F. D. C. Willard. In 1975, a physicist nad Jack H. Hetherington wrote a solo paper that included the phrase “we” a few tis and was told that wasn’t acceptable for a paper written by a single person.

Because changing that would have been a lot of work in those tis, he decided to put down his cat Chester as a co-author. To avoid anyone who knew his cat from noticing, he used the scientific na (Felis dosticus) as part of a fictitious na and used the cat’s father’s na (Willard) as a false surna. The whole thing got exposed when F. D. C. Willard was invited to speak at a conference.

(sen.wikipedia/wiki/F._D._C._Willard#cite_note-Zankl-1)

Edit 2: If you put down a familiar, tell . Soone just invited Brisa M. Mina to speak at a conference about the paper on “Familiar Evolutions through Raid Boss Aspects”, which she co-authored. Apparently, they didn’t read far enough to realize that the “M.” stands for Microraptor and that she signed with a clawprint. I don’t know the nas of everyone’s pets, so I won’t always be able to imdiately reply to such a ssage with “that’s soone’s familiar”.

4. When giving scientific nas to newly discovered species, please take that seriously, scientific nas are almost impossible to change, even if they’re racist or otherwise unprintable. If there’s an appropriate joke to make, I won’t stop you, but please keep the joke nas to one in ten.

Edit 1: Here’s an example of a good joke na: The “Mini” genus of frogs, whose scientific nas are “Mini mum”, “Mini scule” and “Mini ature”. (Schertz et al., 2019, sen.wikipedia/wiki/Mini_(frog)).

Edit 2: Yes, that man’s na is indeed the German word for “prank”.