Templates
LaTeX templates by venue.
A minimal skeleton for each common class, the options that matter, and the mistakes that get papers returned. The IEEEtran, acmart, elsarticle and apa7 skeletons compile as written with a current TeX Live. The NeurIPS one needs that year's style file next to it. Each page has a starter zip and can email you once, a week before your deadline.
Classes
Pick the class your venue names
The call for papers or the journal's guide for authors names the class. When the venue publishes its own copy of the template, start from that copy. These pages explain what is in it and link to the official source.
IEEE conference paper
The conference option, author blocks, the IEEEtran bibliography style, and the font embedding that IEEE PDF eXpress checks at camera-ready.
Open the template → acmartACM conferences and journals
sigconf for proceedings, acmsmall for journals, and the review and anonymous options for a double-blind submission.
Open the template → neurips_20XX.styNeurIPS
The style file that changes every year, its anonymized default, and the preprint and final options.
Open the template → elsarticleElsevier journals
The frontmatter block, preprint and review modes, and the 1p, 3p and 5p layouts for estimating printed length.
Open the template → apa7APA 7th edition
The man, jou, doc and stu modes, biblatex-apa with Biber, masked review, and why figures move to the end.
Open the template →Not tied to a venue
An academic CV
A plain article-class CV with sample data, released under CC0.
Not tied to a venue
A thesis or a plain article
Two projects in the standard classes, for when no venue or university class is required, or as a clean start before you move to one. Both are released under CC0 and compile with pdfLaTeX and BibTeX.
Thesis or dissertation
A multi-file project with title page, abstract, lists of figures and tables, five chapters, appendices and BibTeX, and notes on margins, spacing and your university's own class.
Open the template → articleJournal or working-paper article
One file plus a .bib: authors and affiliations, abstract, keywords, a figure, a table, an equation, natbib citations and an appendix.
Open the template →Venue kits
Venues that publish their own template
Some venues ship a yearly kit instead of naming a general class. Each of these pages links the official files and gives the bibliography setup, checked on 2026-10-01: ICML, ICLR, ACL and ACL Rolling Review, AAAI, Springer LNCS, PLOS ONE, Nature, Science, PNAS and HICSS. CHI, KDD and The Web Conference use acmart. See the ACM template and the CHI, KDD and WWW pages for each venue's class options.
Before you submit
Check the finished paper
Compile the project on a clean machine with LaTeX to PDF and check the .bib file with the BibTeX validator. Scan a double-blind copy with Anonymity Check ($2), and get a reviewer's read with Paper Review (from $9). For reference-list formats by venue, see Reference formats.