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This package provides a template for writing journal articles to organise authors, institutions, and information of corresponding authors.

Usage

Run the following command to use this template

typst init @preview/starter-journal-article

Documentation

article

The template for creating journal articles. It needs the following arguments.

Arguments:

  • title: The title of this article. Default: "Article Title".
  • authors: A dictionary of authors. Dictionary keys are authors’ names. Dictionary values are meta data of every author, including label(s) of affiliation(s), email, contact address, or a self-defined name (to avoid name conflicts). The label(s) of affiliation(s) must be those claimed in the argument affiliations. Once the email or address exists, the author(s) will be labelled as the corresponding author(s), and their address will show in footnotes. Function author-meta() is useful in creating information for each author. Default: ("Author Name": author-meta("affiliation-label")).
  • affiliations: A dictionary of affiliation. Dictionary keys are affiliations’ labels. These labels show be constent with those used in authors’ meta data. Dictionary values are addresses of every affiliation. Default: ("affiliation-label": "Affiliation address").
  • abstract: The paper’s abstract. Default: [].
  • keywords: The paper’s keywords. Default: [].
  • bib: The bibliography. Accept value from the built-in bibliography function. Default: none.

author-meta

A helper to create meta information for an author.

Arguments:

  • ..affiliation: Capture the positioned arguments as label(s) of affiliation(s). Mandatory.
  • email: The email address of the author. Default: none.
  • alias: The display name of the author. Default: none.
  • address: The address of the author. Default: none.
  • cofirst: Whether the author is the co-first author. Default: false.

Example

See the template for full example.

#show: article.with(
    title: "Artile Title",
    authors: (
      "Author One": author-meta(
        "UCL", "TSU",
        email: "author.one@inst.ac.uk",
      ),
      "Author Two": author-meta(
        "TSU",
        cofirst: true
      ),
      "Author Three": author-meta(
        "TSU"
      )
    ),
    affiliations: (
      "UCL": "UCL Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis, First Floor, 90 Tottenham Court Road, London W1T 4TJ, United Kingdom",
      "TSU": "Haidian  District, Beijing, 100084, P. R. China"
    ),
    abstract: [#lorem(100)],
    keywords: ("Typst", "Template", "Journal Article"),
    bib: bibliography("./ref.bib")
)