lihu8918 / cyanobacteriabloom

2-D modeling of cyanobacteria blooms over time

Tips on writing biology manuscripts in LaTeX

1. Compress figure PDFs (in Preview on Mac) to speed up compilation.

2. Create a supplementary information section where the numbering of all tables and figures has an "S" prefix:

\setcounter{table}{0}
\renewcommand{\thetable}{S\arabic{table}}
\setcounter{figure}{0}
\renewcommand{\thefigure}{S\arabic{figure}}

3. Use the textgreek package for upright greek letters in text.

4. Follow specific font setting rules in chemistry:

\textsc{l}-glutamine
% use small capital L and D as chirality prefixes

puromycin \textit{N}-acetyltransferase
% use italic chemical element symbols in names

5. BibLaTeX option setting: \usepackage[backend=biber,sortcites,sorting=none,uniquename=false]{biblatex}. The sortcites option enables sorting of numbers associated with multiple citations within a single citing bracket. The sorting=none option assigns number to citations based on the order in which they appear in the text. The uniquename=false option guarantees that authors are referred to their last names only (when a citation is referred not by a number but rather a name-year pair in the text), even if multiple authors in the list of all citations share the same last name.