How to change the Text Wrap default in Pages

Is there a good alternative that is commonly used in academia,

Most of academia does not need a formal test for checking the quality of sources, so no, there is not.

that won't make people assume this is some form of immaturity on my part?

Just leave the acronym out. Acronyms are rarely useful and even less likely to be necessary.

As of 2017, ModSecurity does not support and does not plan to support WebSockets, as stated by Spiderlabs development team:

Currently ModSecurity is not capable to inspect WebSockets. It is only capable to understand the http requests.

So, not only it will not be helpful, but it may even have unexpected side effects making your application unreliable.