steedalion / ieee-pandoc-template

IEEE paper template for pandoc

IEEE Paper Template for Pandoc

Requirements

• Pandoc
• Texlive

Ubuntu

sudo apt update
sudo apt install pandoc pandoc-citeproc texlive-full

Fedora

sudo dnf install pandoc pandoc-citeproc texlive-scheme-full

Quick Start Guide

• Clone or download this repo.
• Put all your paper content in paper.md.
• Change the title and author in metadata.yaml.
• Run make in a terminal.
• The pdf will be on build/paper.pdf.

Files

File	Description
metadata.yml	On this file put all your metadata (author, title, abstract, etc) that will be use for rendering the final pdf.
paper.md	Here you put all your paper content, if you wish, you could put your content on separate files, but you must edit the makefile.
bibliography.bib	Here put all the bibliography that is used in the paper.
bibliography.csl	This file is for specify to pandoc how to display the cites (ieee format).
template.latex	It is used to tell pandoc how to render the paper using the metadata and content of your paper.
makefile	It is used to compile the pdf, usually the default options are fine.
build/	On this directory will be final pdf. Make sure to add this to your .gitignore file if you are using git.

Recommended Tools

Editors

• Vim/Neovim + vim-pandoc extension
• Atom + language-pfm extension + autocomplete-bibtex extension

Bibliography manager

• Zotero + Better Bibtext extension