myst-templates / springer

A template for easily creating pretty, nicely formatted Springer Journal articles using Myst Markdown

Springer

Official template for Springer journals

• Author: Springer Nature (Springer Nature Group)
• Author Website: https://www.springernature.com/
• Submission Guidelines

Steps to creating your own template!

• 🆕 Create this repository. Nailed it. 🚀
• 📑 Replace the template.tex with your existing LaTeX template/article
• 👯‍♀️ Copy in any other style, definitions or images necessary for the template
• 👩‍🔬 Add the files necessary into files list in the template.yml (documentation)
• 🧙‍♀️ Start replacing template values with [-options.my_value-] and put in [# if parts.abstract #] conditions to toggle sections on and off (documentation)
• 👩🏿‍💻 Install jtex (npm install -g jtex) and run jtex check (documentation)
• 🪄 Continue to improve the options in your template for parts and options (documentation)
• 💾 When ready, save your template.yml and run jtex check --fix, this will add various packages that are auto detected and fix document options (documentation)
• 🧪 Test with real content: myst build my-document.md --template ../path/to/template (documentation)
• 📸 Create a thumbnail.png with an accurate screenshot of the template
• 🧭 Update this README, and check all values in the template.yml
• 🚀 Push to GitHub, and contribute to the community templates repository

Options provided by Springer myst-Template

The Springer documentation used to setup this template can be found here:

• LaTeX Author Support

• User Manual

This is a table of options the template provides based on the above information (release 2.1):

Option	Type	Default	Required	Functionality
reference_style	choice	default	false	Defines the bibliograhy style used by the templated. The following options are available Bibliography style Citation style Option to be used LaTex Default Style numbered default Basic Springer Nature Nature/Chemistry Reference Style authoryear basic Math and Physical Sciences Reference Style numbered mathphys American Physical Society (APS) Reference Style numbered aps Vancouver Reference Style numbered vancouver APA-based Social Sciences/Psychology Reference Style authoryear apa Chicago-based Humanities Reference Style authoryear chicago Nature Portfolio Reference Style numbered nature
pdf_latex	boolean	true	false	Enables pdflatex option to compile the file with “pdflatex/xelatex”.
line_numbers	boolean	false	false	Enables line numbers in the margin.
referee	boolean	false	false	Enables double-line spacing requested for the peer review and editoral stages.
formatting	choice	onecolumn	false	twocolumn enables double column layout to suit journal-level submission requirements.