IEEEtran compliant LaTeX template. This document follows the official documentation provided at the IEEE and the documentation developed by Michael Shell, the IEEEtran original author that provided a guide IEEEtran_HOWTO.pdf with all information needed to produce an IEEE compliant article in LateX.

The default configurations for this template are:

\documentclass[journal,twocolumn,letterpaper,10pt]{IEEEtran}

• LateX: This will depend on your Operating System. You have to check how to install all Latex packages for your OS.
• Any text editor that supports LateX (e.g. Atom, Sublime Text, Emacs, etc.)
• LaTeX plugins for your text editor (this is optional, but it will make your life easier). I you use Atom (that is my case) the following ones are available:
  • language-latex
  • latex
  • latexer

To use this template, you can simply fork or copy this repository and start working on it.

The first thing that you need to do is to update the article's title and author information at the variables.tex file.

% Article Title
\def \ArticleTitle{Your Article Title}
% Author name
\def \AuthorA{Your Name}
% Author email
\def \AuthorAemail{Your email}
% Institution
\def \InstitutionA{Your Institution}

If you article has multiple authors and/or institutions, you must edit this information at variables.tex file by defining new variables and updating the respective commands. The information regarding how to have multiple authors/institutions is available at IEEEtran_HOWTO.pdf.

The file for the article abstract are located in abstract/abstract.tex. To define your abstract just edit that file.

The file for the article keywords are located in keywords/keywords.tex. To define your keywords just edit that file.

Sections are located at sectionsfolder. To create a new section, you first need to create a file in this folder. The easiest way to do this, is to create a new file file:

$ touch sections/your_section_name.tex

In the new file, change the section's title and label.

Now you just need to include this new section in the main file in section folder. Open section/main.tex file and add the include for the new section:

\input{sections/your_section_name}

Now get to work and start writing your article.

Image files go to figures directory. Place your files here and include them in the body of your document.

The bibliography is in a .bib file located at bibliography/article.bib.

The IEEEtran specification requires that to print the article bibliography you must have at least one citation in you document, otherwise you will get a compilation error. To fix that issue we define the hasBibliography variable that us located at the variables file:

\def \hasBibliography{1}

The default value specifies that the bibliography must be generated. If you don't want, just that change the variable value to 0.

To cite a bibliography entry in your document you can use the following command, as demonstrated in sections/introduction.tex:

\cite{johndoe}

The list of acronyms is located at acronyms/acronyms.tex. To define a new acronym in your document you must define the new entry in that file:

\newacronym{<label>}{<abbreviation>}{<full>}

To reference an acronym you can use:

\gls{<label>}

If you are referring the acronym for the first time it will show in you document the <abbreviation> and <full> tags. At the remaining references it will show only the <abbreviation> tag.

To reference an acronym in the plural form you can use the following command:

\glspl{<label>}

The full documentation of the acronyms package is available at LaTeX Glossary Wiki

You have some ways to create the final pdf:

It depends on the text editor you are using. If you are using Atom and the LaTeX plugin, just press Ctrl + Alt + B

If you have the complete LateX environment installed, you can run the toPDF.sh script to generate the PDF (article.pdf):

$ sh toPDF.sh

To clean the files generated at the compilation process, you can run clean.sh script:

$ sh clean.sh

Using Grunt is optional, but if you choose to use these option you will make the development of you document much more efficient, since that each time that a .tex file is saved, the whole document is compiled again. The requirements to use Grunt are:

• NodeJS
• NPM
• Grunt-CLI

After install this components you need to change to the project's root directory and install the project dependencies by running:

$ npm install

And then you already can run Grunt:

$ grunt

Now you can edit you LateX document. When you save the changes, your document will be compiled automatically.

NOTE: If you are using grunt you must not delete the toPDF.sh and clean.sh because it uses those scripts.

There is a Makefile in the project's root. If you have pdflatex and bibtex executables available on your 'Path' you can use this make file. Simply run:

$ make

To clean all the mess generated by the compilation process you can run:

$ make clean

If you don't want to install anything and just want to use an online editor you can also use this template.

For instance, Overleaf is a LateX online editor. You just need to create an account and import the files on this template to it, or use one of the IEEE templates that Overleaf provides.

NOTE: If you chose to use a template already provided by Overleaf, the template structure will be a little different. If you want to keep your article document structure more organized, we recommend that you use this template.

This an open-source template and you can help to improve them.

If you detected some error(s) or have some suggestions to improve the document feel free to open an issue and make a pull request.

Thanks to @samfcmc who did most of the work. The scripts and general structure of this template were based oh his llns-article-template.