jciartcl

LaTeX document class and issue skeleton for typesetting articles for the Journal of Constraint Interaction.

Links

• GitHub: https://github.com/xflr6/jciartcl
• Download: https://github.com/xflr6/jciartcl/releases
• Issue Tracker: https://github.com/xflr6/jciartcl/issues

Quickstart

Copy the class file jciartcl.cls and the bibstyle unified.bst into your document directory. Create your (UTF-8 encoded) <articlename>.tex LaTeX-file using the following basic skeleton:

\documentclass{jciartcl}

\author{}
\title{}
%\acknowledgements{}

\begin{document}

\maketitle

%\begin{abstract}
%\end{abstract}

\bibliographystyle{unified}
%\bibliography{}

\end{document}

To include an asterisk-marked special footnote on the first page, uncomment and fill the \acknowledgements{} command.

To include an abstract, uncomment and fill the abstract-enviroment.

See the knuth_lamport/ directory for a mininal example.

Options

To output proofs with crop marks instead of a plain article, add the proofs class option:

% create A4 output with centered article pages
\documentclass[proofs]{jciartcl}
(...)

jciartcl provides the following class options for setting the meta data (filled by the editors):

option	description	default
year	journal issue year	20XX
volume	jourmal issue volume	X
number	journal issue number	X

The following options are used for combining a collection of articles into an issue:

option	description	default
startpage	first page number of the article	1
last	omit \cleardoublepage at article end	unset
prelims	typeset title/toc instead of article	unset
binding	add bindingoffset for booklet version	0mm

The following options can be used to add information to the journal footline on the first page of each article:

option	description	default
cclicense	add CC BY 4.0	unset
doi	add DOI field	unset
urn	add URN field	unset

Issue preparation

Table of contents creation, setting of page numbers, and compiling and combining the individual articles of an issue can be automatized with latexpages.

Requirements:

• Python 3.8+
• latexpages 0.6 or later (installable via pip install latexpages)
• either TeX Live and latexmk or MikTeX
• either pdfinfo (poppler-utils, miktex-poppler-bin, xpdf) or pdftk (for page number computations)

On Ubuntu, for example, the following should suffice:

$ sudo apt install python python-pip
$ sudo -H pip install latexpages
$ sudo apt install texlive texlive-fonts-extra texlive-humanities latexmk poppler-utils

Download the ZIP-file or tarball of the latest jciartcl release, extract it, rename and enter the main directory.

Put all articles into subdirectories named after the contained .tex file, e.g.:

jci42/
    jciartcl.cls
    latexpages.ini
    unified.bst
    article1/
        article1.tex
        references.bib
    article2/
        article2.tex
        ...

Edit the articles so that they all use the central jciartcl.cls and unified.bst from their parent directory. Add a dummy start page with the startpage class option to be updated by latexpages-paginate:

\documentclass[startpage=1]{../jciartcl}
...
\bibliographystyle{../unified}
...

For the last article, append the last option:

\documentclass[startpage=1,last]{../jciartcl}
...

Edit latexpagex.ini. In the [parts] section, mainmatter defines the article directories for compilation and combination (and their order):

[parts]
mainmatter =
  article1
  article2

On the command line, enter the main directory and execute latexpages. This will compile all articles. In case of errors, try to disable parallel compillation first by executing latexpages --processes 1 instead.

Execute latexpages-paginate to determine the number of pages of each article and update their start pages and the table of contents accordingly. Rerun latexpages once again to update the result, which is written to the _output directory.

See the latexpages documentation for more details on the latexpagex.ini settings and the command line interface.

Bundled files

This bundle contains the following third-party files:

• http://celxj.org/downloads/unified.bst (CELxJ Unified Style Sheet for Linguistics)

Further reading

• https://www.ctan.org/pkg/koma-script
• https://www.ctan.org/pkg/geometry
• https://www.ctan.org/pkg/pdfpages
• https://www.ctan.org/pkg/crop
• https://www.ctan.org/pkg/libertine
• https://www.ctan.org/pkg/microtype
• https://www.ctan.org/pkg/hyperref
• https://www.ctan.org/pkg/textpos
• https://www.ctan.org/pkg/lastpage
• https://www.ctan.org/pkg/doclicense
• https://www.ctan.org/pkg/natbib
• https://www.ctan.org/pkg/linguex

See also

• https://www.ctan.org/topic/journalpub
• https://www.ctan.org/topic/compilation

Changelog

Version 1.1: Bump latexpages dependency to 0.6 favoring poppler over ptftk.

Version 1.0: Initial release.

License

Jciartcl is distributed under the LaTeX Project Public License.