Body text

Merops can automatically identify the structure of paragraphs in the document body, based on their context, content and formatting. For example:

  • list styles are applied to sequential numbered or bulleted paragraphs;
  • a ‘displayed quotation’ style is applied to paragraphs wholly enclosed by quote marks.

Headings

Merops can automatically apply the correct hierarchy to headings and can standardize:

  • preset headings (e.g. Methods and Materials, Abstract)
  • capitalization
  • paragraph style
  • heading numbers

Merops can automate the time-consuming task of changing titles and headings from upper case into ‘sentence’ or ‘title’ case, while ensuring that document elements such as place names, chemical and biological terms and acronyms, are not changed in error.

Merops hosts data tables of persistent heading names, e.g. INTRODUCTION, Patients & methods, Acknowledgements. These tables, which support international languages, can be maintained and improved by individual users, or database administrators if a centralized solution is required.

Header and end section

Merops can automatically identify the various header and end section items based on their context, content and formatting. As well as applying the correct paragraph style, here are a few other things Merops can standardize:

Author list and affiliations

  • cross-checking footnotes, with different symbols styles for different footnote types
  • formatting, punctuation and sequence of author names
  • capitalization and sequence of addresses

Abstract

  • alert on long abstracts
  • standardization of heading

Keywords

  • alphabetic sorting
  • wording and capitalization of heading
  • punctuation between keywords

Glossary

  • alphabetic sorting
  • wording of heading
  • term/definition sequence and punctuation

Other examples of header items Merops can identify and standardize include the document title, correspondence, table of contents, running title, and document history information.