The website focuses on academic writing in English. It covers four elemental language topics: cohesion, grammar, punctuation, and style.

Watch Arxiv-papers on as a website.

This website offers a ranking of many computer security conferences. The ranking is accompanied by a yearly acceptance ratio statistic.

The SIGPLAN Empirical Evaluation Checklist provides guidelines on how good evaluations should be structured and explained, with a focus on the programming language research community. However, the concepts are transferable to other disciplines as well.

The IETF provides official BibTeXs to download. They work for RFCs, BCPs, and drafts.

The BibTeXs for BCPs work, but only, if the BCP consists of a single RFC. If the BCP consists of multiple RFCs, the BibTeX will only show the first one.

For drafts, the draft version number, the last two digits, have to be removed from the URL.

Examples:

• https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/rfc8484/bibtex/
• https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-tls-esni/bibtex/

Available entries can be found in the RFC Index and the BCP Index.

The GitHub repository contains lots and lots of information about scientific paper writing in LaTeX. It lists different tools and packages which you might want to use.

The Academic Phrasebank is a general resource for academic writers. It aims to provide you with examples of some of the phraseological ‘nuts and bolts’ of writing, organized according to the main sections of a research paper or dissertation.

The data bank contains the categories “Introducing Work”, “Referring to Sources”, “Describing Methods”, “Reporting Results”, “Discussing Findings”, and “Writing Conclusions”.

The System Security Circus by Davide Balzarotti presents many statistics about the Top-4 security conferences, such as authors and affiliations.