I just use markdown commands for my formatting.
https://github.com/adam-p/markdown-here/wiki/Markdown-Cheatsheet
No editor, I just learned the commands overtime so I can just type :D
Thanks for your kind words too, comments like this really make my day!
You are a magician if you are just doing this directly in the Steemit editor, especially keeping track of the citations. High quality posts.
I don't even use the steem editor per say, I just type it directly in mark down. I sometimes type things out in a word document first and then just copy paste it over, but thats more just for catching my typos (which I still miss a bunch of!)