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Use when the prose, abstract, or introduction of an INFORMS Journal on Computing (IJOC) manuscript buries the computational advance or misreads the house voice. Makes the method land for an OR-meets-CS readership; it does not change the underlying results.

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# Writing Style (ijoc-writing-style)

## When to trigger

- The abstract reads like an application summary and never states the computational advance
- The introduction takes pages to reach "what is new computationally"
- The method section is unreadable prose where pseudocode and structured statements belong
- The paper is over the **25-page limit** and needs tightening, not just trimming
- A coauthor wants the draft to read like an IJOC paper, not a CS conference paper or an OR theory paper

## The IJOC voice

IJOC readers are OR/MS researchers comfortable with computation and CS researchers comfortable with OR — write for both. The voice is **precise, methods-forward, and quantitative**: state the problem, state the method, state what it provably and empirically achieves, in that order. Avoid two failure modes the readership notices instantly — the *application-essay* voice that delays the method, and the *CS-conference* voice that drops OR rigor (no problem formulation, no fair baseline discussion). The house format reinforces brevity: single-column, 1.5-spaced, 12-point, 1-inch margins, with a **≤300-word abstract carrying no formulas or mathematical notation** (检索于 2026-06；以官网为准).
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