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A skeleton academic manuscript in markdown. With this repository I want to create the perfect template for academic writing.

What I envision to do here is create a document template that has the following

  1. Flexible; many formats, many OS, one master source for analysis and reporting
  2. Reproducible; from data cleaning and analysis to final statements
  3. Open source; everything using open source "free as in free speech" software.

The ms should include standards for academic work

  1. Bibliography citations and references
  2. Captions for figures and tables
  3. References to a figure or table
  4. Double space
  5. An easy way to switch journal styles
  6. and more!

what you need

  1. R packages "knitr", "markdown", "xtable", "knitcitations" installed
  2. pandoc installed

How to use (unix):

Just unpack the zip file run the makefile. The makefile should render the ms in MD, pdf and docx format.

How to use (windows):

Unpack the zipfile and run "knit" on manuscript_template.Rmd in R, and output the ms to your format of preference.

Contribute

This repro is at a very early stage of development. Do you have any ideas on how I can improve it? I'll be happy to hear them so please contribute! You make suggestion here, or just fork the repro and make a pull request!