Tuesday, 13 August 2019

writing - How to handle multiple versions of a paper (e.g. conference and journal version)


A usual flow of a project (in my field) commonly looks like this:



having a result -> (1) writing a paper (with all the proofs) -> (2) making a conference version -> (3) uploading a full version to eprint -> (4) journal version



Usually, (2) is a shorter version of (1); and (3) is almost the same as (1) up to some changes that came up during the process of making (2); Yet, the work on (2) and (3) happens almost at the same time.


The question is how to deal with maintaining both versions (full + short) of the same paper.


So far I have been keeping two separate "papers", but this solutions has its problems: if you make a change to one (say, fixing a typo), you need to remember making the same change in the other one (which you usually forget).



What is the best strategy?




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