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ors-writing-style
Use when polishing the prose and notation of an Operations Research (OR) manuscript — enforcing the equation-free introduction, the text-only abstract under 200 words, clean theorem-proof exposition, and INFORMS author-year house style. Polishes language and house style; it does not formulate the model (ors-theory-development) or run the submission preflight (ors-submission).
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# Writing Style & House Style (ors-writing-style)
## When to trigger
- Drafts are complete and you want them to read like an *Operations Research* paper.
- The introduction contains equations, or the abstract is over 200 words or full of symbols.
- You need consistent notation, theorem exposition, and author-year citations.
## OR's distinctive style rules
- **Equation-free introduction (hard rule):** the introduction must clearly state the
**problem, the results, and their significance to the OR community** and must
**contain no equations or mathematical notation**. Write each result as "we show
that ..." in plain language. This is a distinctive OR accessibility requirement.