Shen Qi left Sun Yat-sen University and went home. As soon as he arrived, he revised his paper.
The revisions were soon finished. Shen Qi checked it over and found no problems.
"Oh, right. According to academic convention, I need to add my institutional affiliation." Shen Qi's gaze returned to the first page of his paper.
Journal articles followed a standard format. The first page was laid out as follows (for example):
<Applications of the General Theory of Relativity to Some Field> (paper title, no more than 20 characters)
Old Wang (author's name)
(Yanjing University, School of Physics, Capital, 100000)---Parentheses are required here. Fill in the author's institution, address, postal code, and other information. Authors without an institutional affiliation or a permanent address may leave this blank.
The abstract and keywords came below.
Shen Qi's paper followed the standard format exactly, except that he had left the parentheses beneath his name on the first page blank. He'd had some reservations when he first submitted it.
But the Big Treasure Sword editor had told him to fill in as much information as possible. So what if he was a high school student?
So Shen Qi tapped away at the keyboard, filling in his institutional affiliation, address, postal code, and other information beneath his name on the first page:
(Nangang City No. 2 Middle School, High School Department, Nangang City, 510000)
The title of Shen Qi's paper was <Some New Methods for Solving Second-Order Linear Nonhomogeneous Differential Equations with Constant Coefficients>. It was exactly 20 characters long.
The original title had been 19 characters. After taking the Big Treasure Sword editor's professional advice, Shen Qi added the word "new," bringing the title to the 20-character limit without going over.
Actually, paper titles were like book titles: the shorter they were, the easier