title	author	date of start	tags
A Markdown template for writing papers	Jorge Langa	2016-04-19	markdown, academic, paper, pandoc, citation, shell

What's this?

This repo is a template for writing papers in Markdown. You should edit the corresponding .md files with your text and the citations in the .bib file to then use pandoc to compile the final document. As I work in Biology, most of my workmates prefer to use .docx instead of .pdf or .tex.

File and folder conventions

• XX_section.md: The markdown files to be edited. You should put your text here.

• bibliography.bib: The Bibtex file with all the citations or only the one you are going to need to be used in the paper.

• style.csl: This is the style in which the text is going to be formatted. Here it is plos.csl, but you can find more at the editor.citationstyles.org.

• run_pandoc.sh: a simple bash script to put together all the .md documents to then render both the final .pdf and .docx documents.

Requirements

• pandoc for the hard workmates.

• pandoc-citeproc to manage citationstyles.

• pdflatex to render the pdf.

• Any kind of flat text editor, from Sublime Text 2/3 to gedit or pluma.

Running it

./run_pandoc.sh or bash run_pandoc.sh