Sustainability Science — On Formatting

Tiago Bele
Sustainability Science
3 min readAug 7, 2022

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Dear writers, try to follow this structure.

Photo by Sigmund on Unsplash

It is like this because everybody likes it. It increases readability, and it helps you organize your ideas better and show the reader what to expect. Did you see the image above? There is a reference to the photographer and where we got the picture. Do the same.

On the main title, appropriately capitalize the words on it. There are great websites that can do this with a simple copy+paste.

Always when depicting some idea or fact on bullet points, use a double dot like this:

  • Here I pressed “asterisk” and then “Space” to begin the bullet point
  • Here it was just an enter, after the previous line

And now was just an enter and backspace. You can also present as numbers:

1- Like this.

2- Just by typing.

Let’s talk about another thing.

Format the Subtitles Accordingly

With a bold and adequately capitalized structure, like the one above. Moreover, did you see the three dots above the subtitle? That is done to break a section and let the reader know something new (but still related to what you are talking about) is coming. This is not strictly necessary, but do use the…

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Tiago Bele
Sustainability Science

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