APSCFormat
APSCFormat is an open, vendor-neutral document format specification designed to standardize the layout, metadata, and content structure of scholarly papers and technical documents. Created by the Association for Publishing Standards and Compatibility (APSC), it provides rules for organizing manuscripts, styling, and exchanging documents between authors, editors, and publishers. The format emphasizes machine readability, reproducibility, and accessibility, supporting both human viewing and automated processing.
The specification defines a fixed document skeleton including a title page with authors and affiliations, abstract,
APSCFormat is designed to be implementation-friendly, offering official templates and reference implementations in several programming languages,
Adoption has grown in academic publishing as an optional submission format and in some conference pipelines.