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msom-writing-style
Use when polishing the prose of a Manufacturing & Service Operations Management (M&SOM) manuscript — front-loading the operational insight, controlling mathematical notation, writing the structured abstract, and applying INFORMS author-year house style within the 32-page typeset cap. Late-stage polish; do not invoke before the model/identification is settled.
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# Writing Style (msom-writing-style)
## When to trigger
- The introduction buries the operational insight under notation or literature
- The structured abstract is missing a required part or is jargon-heavy
- Notation is dense, inconsistent, or front-loaded before motivation
- You are reconciling the manuscript to INFORMS author-year style and the page cap
## Lead with the operations insight, not the math
M&SOM readers are operations researchers, but the journal prizes **clarity** and **managerial relevance** alongside technical validity. Open by stating the **operational problem, the decision, and the insight** in words before equations. Introduce notation only when it is needed; a reader should grasp the contribution from the introduction without parsing a model. For analytical papers, narrate the *structure* of the result ("the optimal policy is a threshold that…") rather than dumping the theorem first.
## Write the mandatory structured abstract