I am about to submit an article for review, and had to format in a special way. Here is a quick summary of what I did: No paragraph indents: \setlength{\parindent}{0in} but a single line between: \usepackage{parskip} Left text justification:  \begin{flushleft} ...  \end{flushleft} Double spacing: \renewcommand{\baselinestretch}{2}