Make an academic CV using LaTeX and Biber with LaTeX +
Biber. Rather than adding new
publications, working papers, or presentations by hand over time,
store your work products in a .bib
file---just as you would a
bibliography of references for a paper---and compile your CV to
update.
Through selective use of the Keywords
field in your .bib
file
(e.g., article
, presentation
, working
, submitted
) and
corresponding reference sections in your .tex
file, automagically
compile and update your CV in a consistent manner.
Using an entry in the .bib
file that looks like this:
# cv.bib
@article{me2016paper_one,
Author = {Last, First M.},
Journal = {Journal of Academic Studies and Work},
Keywords = {article}, <!-- KEYWORD TO FILTER BY -->
Number = {2},
Pages = {30--45},
Title = {Paper one},
Url = {https://github.com/btskinner/tex_cv/blob/master/papers/last_paper_one.pdf},
Volume = {45},
Year = {2016}}
And a section in the .tex
file that looks like this:
# cv.tex
\begin{refsection}
\section*{Publications}
\nocite{*} % cite everything
\printbibliography[heading = none, % no heading (e.g., "References")
keyword = article, % FILTER BY < article > KEYWORD
env = mybib] % Use mybib style
\end{refsection}
You can get an entry in the complied .pdf
file that looks like this
(note the link color: the title in the compiled CV links to the paper):
Feel free to use and modify this template to suit your needs and/or the norms of your field. Move sections around, add or delete them. Regardless of the specific style, hopefully the core setup will be useful and save you time as you update your CV in the future.
For reference, I don't edit my .bib
by hand, but instead use
BibDesk, which comes with the MacTeX
distribution. JabRef is another one that
works across platforms.
Url
field (and Doi
and ISBN
) to
linked titles in citation. Put links to your publications or working
papers here and anyone with a digital copy of your CV will be able
to click on the title to access them. \recentyear{}
macro in the top of the file. cv.tex
to help you know what to change in order to
personalize. If you want numbered entries, you can switch to the numbered
branch. The changes noted in issue
1 have been made to
cv.tex
in this branch. Just switch to the other branch first using:
git checkout numbered
Compile the example using the following commands in the terminal:
pdflatex cv.tex
biber cv
pdflatex cv.tex
pdflatex cv.tex
You can also build this example CV using make.
make all
or simply
make
You can clean up the auxilary files made by pdflatex and biber using
make clean
To clean these files and delete the compiled pdf file, use
make cleanall
An added benefit of building your CV this way is that you can reuse
your .bib
file to build your academic website and keep everything in
sync. For example, if you use GitHub Pages +
Jekyll to build your site, you can use the
jekyll-scholar extension
to build a similar CV on your site (it's how I do
it).