Springer Journal Markdown Template

Template for writing a Springer journal article entirely in Markdown.

The template is set up to follow International Journal of Computer Vision submission guidelines.

[source], [pdf]

Dependencies

• LaTex
• Pandoc
• pandoc-citeproc
• pandoc-crossref
• Make

Installation on Fedora

sudo dnf install pandoc pandoc-citeproc make texlive-scheme-basic texlive-lm texlive-ec

and place the pandoc-citeproc binary of the same version as pandoc somewhere in PATH

Usage

• make builds pdfs from all .md files
• make article.pdf builds article.pdf from article.md

First time:

• download citation style for your journal from https://www.zotero.org/styles/ and fix the filename in default.yml
• fix the journal name in header.tex

Customization:

• for single column layout remove twocolumn in default.yml and -F table-filter.py \ from PANDOC_FLAGS in Makefile

Credits

• Makefile: Jake Zimmerman, source: https://github.com/jez/pandoc-starter/blob/master/article/src/Makefile
• table-filter.py: Wagner Macedo, source: https://pastebin.com/s8wLQSJW
• Latex template: Springer, source: http://static.springer.com/sgw/documents/468198/application/zip/LaTeX_DL_468198_240419.zip
• international-journal-of-computer-vision.csl Zotero Style Repository
• Thanks Mort Yao for an excellent article Boilerplating Pandoc for Academic Writing.

TODO

• fix newlines in institute / authors
• keywords are currently added to pdf metadata only