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LaTeX Journal Article Templates for R Markdown
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Is there a way to use apa instead och Chicago in Taylor & Francis template? #321

Open frankbach opened 4 years ago

frankbach commented 4 years ago

Is there a way to use apa instead och Chicago in Taylor & Francis template? Or, does a new template have to be developed

cderv commented 4 years ago

Currently I believe this is hard coded https://github.com/rstudio/rticles/blob/47771dd0c64f3c352db8e0b459d1eb1fa880ccee/inst/rmarkdown/templates/tf/resources/template.tex#L75-L78

We could add a biblio-style variable in the pandoc template to provide in the YAML header. But was does the Taylor & Francis template advice officially ?

@dleutnant as you contributed the template, what is your advice on this one ? I believe it is based on Taylor & Francis LATEX template for authors (Interact layout + Chicago author-date reference style), hence the style you put with it.

Or, does a new template have to be developed

@frankbach do you have a variant template of this one ? Some adjustment to the current one could be made easily to support several articles from taylor and francis I believe. We even have some format for two journals similar journal template with variations in the R output format. see joss_article

frankbach commented 4 years ago

I'm new to this. I hope that my answer is in the right direction.

https://www.tandfonline.com/action/authorSubmission?show=instructions&journalCode=tsed20#formatting

http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/authors/InteractAPALaTeX.zip

Best

Frank

cderv commented 4 years ago

Yes it is completly relevant. It seems that the International Journal of Science Education from taylor & francis is using a variation of the template. It is called Taylor & Francis LATEX template for authors (Interact layout + American Psychological Association reference style so them layout but different reference style.

From ?tf_article, we have the link of the Tex template the format is based on: https://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/authors/InteractCADLaTeX.zip It seems there are just a small variation regarding reference style.

If you are interested by rtciles support for Taylor & Francis LATEX template for authors (Interact layout + American Psychological Association reference style , you can submit a PR to suggest some adpatation. Now worry we can guide you.

  1. First I would compare the two Tex templates from the journal to see the differences. I don't think there is much

  2. Then some adaptations can be made in thetf_article() template.

You'll find advice about submitting PR in the README: https://github.com/rstudio/rticles#contribute-a-new-template-format-opening-a-pull-request

Contributing a template in rticles is a great opportunity to practice various skills :) You can submit the PR as draft as soon as you want, that way it is easier to help if you have question along the way, but most of all it will help the community help you on this.

If you don't want to submit a PR that is fine, I'll just mark this issue with the help wanted tag for someone else to help.

Thanks a lot for the idea by the way, and for pointing out that Taylor and Francis have other template !

frankbach commented 4 years ago

Thank you!

Since I'm new I'm afraid to do more harm than good, but it is alway interesting to learn something new. For now I would be most grateful for the help wanted tag.

Best Frank

cderv commented 4 years ago

Do not hesitate to try - we are here to help and all the previous contribrution are great example of what to do. I added the label.