This repository contains a LaTeX template to create an academic paper. The template follows typographical best practices and has a minimalist design. The template is particularly well suited for research papers. It is designed so papers are comfortable to read and easy to scan, both in print and on screen.
The template is documented at https://pascalmichaillat.org/a/.
- The paper produced by the template can be viewed at https://pascalmichaillat.org/a.pdf.
- The online appendix produced by the template can be viewed at https://pascalmichaillat.org/aa.pdf.
- Clone the repository to your local machine.
- Start editing the LaTeX file
paper.texto replace the boilerplate content with the content of your paper. - Replace the figures in the PDF file
figures.pdfwith the figures to be included in your paper (one figure per page). - Replace the references in the BibTeX file
bibliography.bibwith the references to be included in your paper. - Compile
paper.texwith pdfTeX. This will generate a PDF file of your paper namedpaper.pdf. - The LaTeX style file
paper.styformats the paper. It must be included in the same folder aspaper.tex. It can be modified to alter the paper's format. - The BibTeX style file
bibliography.bstformats the bibliography. It must be included in the same folder aspaper.tex. It can be modified to alter the bibliography's format. The style file is based onecon.bst, which was created by Shiro Takeda and is available on GitHub. - The file
paper.pdfis not required to use the template. It only illustrates the output of the template and will be overwritten whenpaper.texis compiled.
The repository also includes files to produce an online appendix—in case the paper's appendix must be carved out into a separate, online appendix upon publication. An online appendix can be produced as follows:
- Start editing the LaTeX file
appendix.texto replace the boilerplate content with the content of your online appendix. - The equation and section labels from
paper.texcan be used inappendix.tex. This requires the following:- The file
appendix.texis in the same folder aspaper.tex. - The file
paper.texis compiled first. - The auxiliary file
paper.auxis available whenappendix.texis compiled.
- The file
- Compile
appendix.texwith pdfTeX. This generates a PDF file of your appendix namedappendix.pdf. - The LaTeX style file
appendix.styformats the online appendix, in conjunction withpaper.sty. Both style files must be included in the same folder asappendix.tex. - The file
appendix.pdfis not required to use the template. It only illustrates the output of the template and will be overwritten whenappendix.texis compiled.
The template is perfectly compatible with arXiv. After being compiled with pdfTeX, a paper based on the template can be submitted to arXiv in three steps:
- Adjust the preamble of
paper.tex. On line 3, replace\bibliographystyle{bibliography}by\pdfoutput=1. The\bibliographystyle{bibliography}command is not needed because arXiv produces the bibliography from thepaper.bblfile. The\pdfoutput=1is required because the paper is compiled with pdfTeX. - Collect the required files into a folder. There should be four files: the source file
paper.tex, the bibliography filepaper.bbl, the style filepaper.sty, and the figure filefigures.pdf. - Zip the folder and upload the zipped folder to arXiv.
The arXiv folder illustrates how the template should be prepared for submission to arXiv. The folder contains the four required files: paper.tex, paper.bbl, paper.sty, and figures.pdf. Furthermore, the preamble of paper.tex is adjusted appropriately. After being zipped, the folder could be uploaded to arXiv and would compile properly.
- The template was developed with TeX Live 2023 on macOS.
- Other LaTeX distributions and operating systems may require minor adjustments. Please report any issues to help improve compatibility.
This repository is licensed under the MIT License.
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