In order to build the PDF, you will need to install

• pandoc
• The pandoc filter pandoc-crossref
• A TeX distribution such as TeX Live (pdflatex is used to convert tex to PDF)
• The biber package

I hacked this template together for my ICASSP 2018 paper, so I am using the content of that work as an example (see this repo if you are interested).

• paper.md: The paper content, written in Markdown
• metadata.yaml: Authors, abstract, and some configuration settings
• icassp_template.latex: The latex template used by pandoc to generate the tex file
• refs.bib: bibtex formatted references
• images: Directory with three images corresponding to Figures 1-3 in the paper

You can either replace refs.bib with your own bibtex file, or specify the path to your own file for the value of bibliography in metadata.yaml (in which case ignore refs.bib).

Then enter make, which calls pandoc to run paper.md and metadata.yaml through the latex template icassp_template.latex, generating build/paper.tex, where build is the output directory. In build you will find various intermediate files generated by the pdflatex and biber commands, in addition to the built PDF file paper.pdf and a copy of all cited bibtex entries paper_biber.bib.

Enter make clean to remove the build directory.

ieee-pandoc-template was used as a starting point.

Note that the bibliography is not correctly formatted when using the ieee CSL file, hence why I use the --biblatex flag when calling pandoc.