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Overview
A pattern for transforming structured paper metadata into a standardized markdown template, ensuring consistent formatting across all entries in a curated academic paper list.
Description
Paper entry formatting is the process of taking a dictionary of paper metadata (title, authors, publication date, venue, and identifiers) and producing a uniform markdown block that can be inserted into a README file. The goal is to guarantee that every paper in the curated list looks identical in structure, regardless of which metadata fields are present or missing.
The template enforces a fixed layout:
- A title line prefixed with a marker character, hyperlinked to the arXiv abstract page.
- An arXiv PDF link line for direct access to the paper PDF.
- An authors line listing all contributors by name.
- A date line showing the publication date in
YYYY-MM-DDformat. - A publisher line indicating the venue or defaulting to "arXiv.org" when no venue is provided.
- A collapsible abstract section using HTML
<details>/<summary>tags to keep the list scannable.
Missing or empty fields are handled with sensible defaults: titles default to "N/A", abstracts to "No abstract available.", and empty venues to "arXiv.org". The formatting function also resolves secondary identifiers (such as arXiv IDs) by making an additional API call using the paper's primary identifier.
Usage
Use this pattern when:
- Adding new papers to the curated list, whether manually or via automated script.
- Ensuring all entries follow the same visual structure so readers can scan the list quickly.
- Generating markdown output from Semantic Scholar API responses.
- Building templates that include both human-readable text and collapsible sections.
Theoretical Basis
The paper entry formatting pattern applies a template rendering approach: structured data is projected onto a fixed textual template with placeholder substitution.
FORMAT_PAPER_ENTRY(paper_metadata):
1. EXTRACT core fields from metadata:
title, authors, paperId, publicationDate, venue
2. RESOLVE secondary identifiers:
CALL external API with paperId -> retrieve arxivId, abstract
3. APPLY defaults for missing values:
IF title is absent -> "N/A"
IF abstract is absent -> "No abstract available."
IF venue is empty string -> "arXiv.org"
4. CONSTRUCT derived URLs:
abstract_url = "https://arxiv.org/abs/" + arxivId
pdf_url = "https://arxiv.org/pdf/" + arxivId
5. RENDER template:
MARKER + [title](abstract_url)
- PDF Link: [Paper Link](pdf_url)
- Authors: comma-joined author names
- Date: publicationDate
- Publisher: venue or default
- Abstract: collapsible HTML block
6. RETURN rendered string
Key properties of this pattern:
- Idempotency -- formatting the same paper metadata always produces the same output, making the function safe to call repeatedly.
- Default substitution -- every field has a fallback value, so the template never contains empty or broken placeholders.
- Separation of concerns -- the formatting logic is independent of how papers are discovered or where the output is written; it only transforms data into text.