An Effective LaTeX Template

EDIT: There was an error with the lineno package call in this template, it has been fixed.

I wrote a guest post for HackCollege about why students (or anyone, profs, ect.) should switch to using LaTeX to write documents. I'd like to include in this post my go-to template for almost every document I write (including my undergrad thesis). It's adapted from a template my undergrad thesis adviser, Christie Rowe, used, with a couple extra bells and whistles. It's primarily set up for writing science papers, but will work great for any research paper. It's set up to use bibtex citations. Click this link to download the template.

Install it wherever your LaTeX software requires. For TeXworks, install it to the specified user directory when you first opened TeXworks.

Now that I'm thinking about LaTeX, the hardest, most frustrating part for me was getting tables to work nicely. It's a pain in the ass, especially if you're trying it for the first time. Coming soon in a future article: LaTeX tables primer.

If you get stuck and aren't sure what code you need, I highly recommend the LaTeX wikibook. Especially the chapter on bibilography management.

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