Aye. There's no one size fit all for the perfect formatting just like there's no one size fits all for dming/game style but any attempt to help out the fledgling DM would be greatly appreciated.
Magic currently coaching somebody who is brand new to not only DMing but the genre in general. You can physically see the stress drain from their face when you hand them index cards with quick references for NPCs on them so they can stick them in the pages or one with an actual graph of success chances with a given DCS for abilities checks.