PhilosopherZ/scientific-paper-markdown-template

Writing a scientific paper in Markdown

Writing a scientific paper in Markdown

Compiling the paper

By default, a PDF version will be produced. Simply run

make

This will produce paper.pdf. To build a DOCX file, run

make docx

Prerequisites

• pandoc: converting Markdown to PDF via LaTeX
• pandoc-citeproc: reference/citation support
• pandoc-fignos: numbering and referencing of figures
• pandoc-tablenos: numbering and referencing of tables
• pandoc-eqnos: numbering and referencing of equations
• make (optional)

Installation

One way, using stack and pip:

stack install pandoc
stack install pandoc-citeproc
sudo pip install pandoc-fignos pandoc-tablenos pandoc-eqnos

Attribution

• nature.csl obtained from https://github.com/citation-style-language/styles
• figure taken from https://xkcd.com/688/