Tips and tricks for formatting while submitting to various conferences and journals for LaTeX typesetting only.

arXiv is immesely popular as most of the papers are submitted as preprints. Submitting a paper/article can be quite irritating if you're doing it for the first time.

These rules especially are going to discourage you submit your article on arXiv.

1. A PDF file created from a TeX/LaTeX file will be rejected.
2. Bibliography doesn't work with .bib file, you'll need a .bbl file.
3. .tex source with images, bibliography is preferred.

Anything is fine as long they compile.

• Create your document, eg. chickenregression.tex in a folder, say arxiv priori
• Add all images, chickenregression.bib file, anything extra such as .sty into this folder, arxiv priori.
• Run pdflatex chickenregression.tex once. This won't generate table of contents, etc but will give you .aux, .toc, etc
• Run bibtex chickenregression.bib, once. This will generate the coveted, .bbl file.
• Run pdflatex chickenregression.tex twice.

Done, your PDF is ready.

• Upload ONLY chickenregression.tex, accompanying figures, prefarable in .png/.jpg and chickenregression.bbl. The name of bibliography (.bbl) and article (.tex) need to be same!
• Submit! Follow the steps to check and fill the metadata.

That's all.

Caveats:

• For pdflatex processing by set the flag \pdfoutput=1 within the first 5 lines of the preamble of the main .tex file to ensure it works fine.

Template Download

• Use default IEEEtran.cls class file and copy it in the same directory as your draft .tex file.
• Use \documentclass[conference, a4paper]{IEEEtran} or \documentclass[journal, a4paper]{IEEEtran} as the first line of your LaTeX file.
• Fill your names in \author sections.
• Make a copy and edit HOW-TO barebones example inside the template.

That's it!

Bibliography is sorta weird in this and was also the reason I made this repository.

Here's the no frills quickstarter.

• Get your citations/bibliography and put everything inside sample.bib file.

Eg, sample.bib

@article{sample,
 author = {sudoankit},
 title = {Academic Formats},
 journal = {Self Pubs},
 issue_date = {July 2018},
 volume = {1},
 number = {1},
 month = jul,
 year = {2018},
 issn = {0001-0002},
 pages = {1-2},
 numpages = {3},
 url = {sudoankit.xyz},
 doi = {root of i},
 acmid = {3.14},
 publisher = {bicycle},
 address = {India},
}

• Copy this .bib file to your working directory.
• If you haven't already/ if it's not already present add usepackage{cite}.
• Next, at the end ( where you want your bibliography to be) add

\bibliographystyle{IEEEtran}
\bibliography{sample}

Note:

The IEEEtran package provides these styles:

• IEEEtran: the standard, default IEEEtran BibTeX style file. Just use this.
• IEEEtranS: IEEEtran + sorting the entries. Normally NOT used.
• IEEEtranSA: IEEEtranS + alphanumeric citations tags.
• IEEEtranN: like IEEEtran but based on plainmat. Also compatible with natbib.
• IEEEtranSN: IEEEtranN + sorting

Q. Confused what to use?

A: IEEEtran

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