goose-article

A customised article class for LaTeX.

Contents

• Usage

• Options

  • article class options
  • font
  • layout
  • bibliography
  • headers

• Natbib: doi and arXiv

• Examples

• Tips

Disclaimer

This library is free to use. Any additions are very much appreciated, in terms of suggested functionality, code, documentation, testimonials, word-of-mouth advertisement, etc. Bug reports or feature requests can be filed on GitHub. As always, the code comes with no guarantee. None of the developers can be held responsible for possible mistakes.

Usage

goose-article is a customised class designed for scientific articles. The class is based on the default article class, but with some additional formatting and options. Usage:

• Copy goose-article.cls (from src/) to to main directory of your project.
• Optionally, copy unsrtnat.bst that includes doi links and a arXiv-id if present.

By default, most of the standard LaTeX packages are loaded. Any of these packages can be reloaded without problems (possibly using other options). In addition, the title, the authors and their affiliations, and optionally a header can be specified.

This results in the following structure:

\documentclass[...]{goose-article}

% The title (also used as PDF-title).
\title{...}

% The different authors. The optional number(s) correspond(s) to the affiliations.
% N.B. the authblk-package is used, see that package for more information.
\author[1,2]{...}
\author[2]{...}

% The different affiliations. Use "\nl" to enforce a line break.
\affil[1]{...}
\affil[2]{...}

% Suggestion: set the proper author in the PDF information.
\hypersetup{pdfauthor={...}}

% Optional: add a page-header.
\header{...}

% =============================

\begin{document}

\maketitle

\begin{abstract}
...
\end{abstract}

...

% If you have references in "library.bib"
\bibliographystyle{unsrtnat}
\bibliography{library}

\end{document}

Options

article class options

• Any option for the article class, such as 12pt, fleqn, etc.

font

• font=[default], garamond, times, verdana

  Choose a font.

  • default: the default LaTeX font (computer-modern).
  • garamond: the Garamond font, required xelatex.
  • times: the Times New Roman font, required xelatex.
  • verdana: the Verdana font, required xelatex.

layout

• left=25mm, ...

  Left margin. Passed to the geometry package.

• right=25mm, ...

  Right margin. Passed to the geometry package.

• top=30mm, ...

  Top margin. Passed to the geometry package.

• bottom=30mm, ...

  Bottom margin. Passed to the geometry package.

• pagenumbers=[true], false

  Show page numbers.

• doublespacing

  Set the line spacing to double, useful during the review process.

• linenumbers

  Add line numbers, useful during the review process.

bibliography

• bibpackage=[natbib], biblatex, none

  Choose the bibliography package. In both cases citations are with compressed numbers.

• bibsize=[scriptsize], ...

  The font-size of the bibliography.

• bibcols=[1], ...

  Number of (additional) columns in the bibliography. Warning: this option is only implemented for natbib.

headers

• paragraphshape=[runin], ...

  The shape of the paragraph header.

• paragraphafter=[.], ...

  The character after the paragraph header.

Natbib: doi and arXiv

If you use natbib to handle your bibliography, you can select your \bibliographystyle{...} of preference before calling \bibliography{...}. An extended unsrtnat.bst is available that includes hyperlinks to the doi and arXiv-id.

Examples

• Basic example, see PDF.

• Basic example with biblatex, see PDF.

• Two-column example, see PDF.

Tips

• Dummy subfigure label, see PDF.

• Dummy subfigure label, upper-case, see PDF.