<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"> Dear Sara,<div><br></div><div>MDPI are probably the worst offenders.</div><div><br></div><div>My policy: make the ms as simple as possible, with minimum formatting. This fits most ’normal’ journals. I note that Elsevier already go over to ‘free format’ for the initial submission, at least for some of their journals.</div><div><br></div><div>Best wishes,</div><div><br></div><div>Robert</div><div><br></div><div><br><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>On 9 Jun 2023, at 09:51, Sara Hellström <sarahellstromvalentin@gmail.com> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div><div dir="auto"><div dir="auto">Dear all, </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Is formating an unnecessary time sink?</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-01846-9">https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-01846-9</a><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Best,</div><div dir="auto">Sara</div></div>
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