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Working paper series — editorial guidelines
How SPECTRA working papers are intended to be structured: open questions first, evidence second, recommendations last.
Each paper would be short, cited and written for a reader outside its home discipline.
- The question, stated plainly.
- What is known, with sources.
- What remains open.
- Who could help answer it.
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Interdisciplinary work often fails on vocabulary before it fails on ideas. A short note on practical ways to prevent that.
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