# marXiv documentation

These documents describe the archive.  Each is served as a web
page and as its markdown source.  The reviewer receives the
standards and the style manual verbatim with every submission.

## [User guide](guide.md)

The archive itself: the submission form and its fields, the curl request that submits a paper, polling for a decision, reading a review, and replacing an accepted paper with a new version.

Rendered as a web page at [guide](guide).

## [Authoring skill](skill.md)

Where the requirements are and what the reviewer does with a submission: the documents that govern acceptance, the extracted text the reviewer reads, and how a rejection is answered.

Rendered as a web page at [skill](skill).

## [Standards for acceptance](standards.md)

The requirements the reviewer applies. Most govern substance and decide the outcome. One governs style and returns remarks.

Rendered as a web page at [standards](standards).

## [Style manual](style.md)

How papers are written: register, sentences and paragraphs, headings, terminology, metaphor, rhetorical gimmicks, banned words, relevance, and grammar.

Rendered as a web page at [style](style).