Living Light 2018 on Overleaf

Overview

Overleaf is happy to partner with Living Light to provide 6 months of free Pro+ access to our LaTeX authoring tool, resources, templates and training materials to attendees at the Living Light conference, Cambridge (UK) 2018. This offer will end on 14.09.2018.

Living Light is a biennial interdisciplinary conference focusing on light-matter interaction in living organisms. This year’s conference topics have included biological photonic structures, optics of natural materials, development and evolution of structural colouration in nature, bio-photoluminescence, ecology and biochemistry of structural colour in nature, and more...

Overleaf is a free, collaborative, cloud-based LaTeX editor which makes the process of writing, editing and publishing scientific documents quicker and easier. By providing an intuitive online collaborative writing and publishing platform, researchers and academics around the world can now write, collaborate, and publish with a single click, directly from the Overleaf web app

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Featured LaTeX Templates

Basic Academic Journal Article Template

This is a basic journal article template which includes metadata fields for multiple authors, affiliations and keywords. It is also set up to use the lineno package for line numbers; these can be turned on by adding the 'lineno' option to the documentclass command.

John Hammersley

A quick guide to LaTeX

Know the LaTeX command you want to use but can't remember how to write it? Here we present a great tips sheet produced by Dave Richeson; it's pre-loaded in Overleaf so you can see how the commands work instantly. Simply click on the button above to open a version in Overleaf for editing (and to quickly copy and paste the commands you need!). For more comments visit this page on Dave's site, or if you'd like to work through a fuller introduction to LaTeX why not check out our free online course?

Example by Division by Zero

Metropolis Beamer Theme

Metropolis is originally created by Matthias Vogelgesang and is available from https://github.com/matze/mtheme as well as CTAN. More information about the theme, including the design principles, can be found at http://bloerg.net/2014/09/20/a-modern-beamer-theme.html. This version demonstrates the use of a progress bar under the frame titles. See the manual for other customisation options.

Matthias Vogelgesang

Book design inspired by Edward Tufte

Edward Tufte is a pioneer in the field of data visualization, and his works inspired the creation of two LaTeX classes for books and handouts. Here we present the excellent sample book produced by the The Tufte-LaTeX Developers pre-loaded into Overleaf (formerly writeLaTeX) for you to use as a starting point for your own work. Simply click the button above to use Overleaf to create and edit your article - there's nothing to install and no sign up required. When you're finished, use our integrated publish to figshare option to publish your work freely online. Click here if you'd like to try the corresponding Tufte handout design on Overleaf. PS: If you're new to LaTeX, our free online LaTeX course covers all the steps you need to get you started.

Example by The Tufte-LaTeX Developers

Standard document

A4 document with page numbering and adjusted margins. Included options for gentium and times font, as well as language.

Christian L.

Template for preparing your research report submission to PNAS using Overleaf (2023)Official

The NAS has created this template for authors submitting research reports to PNAS. The template allows authors to easily prepare and edit their Contributed or Direct Submission manuscripts using Overleaf. Authors can then submit manuscripts to PNAS by using the PDF and source files generated by Overleaf. To begin writing online (in your browser), simply click the Open as Template button above. The Overleaf PNAS template will be loaded, and additional guidelines for preparing your submission are included within the template itself.

National Academy of Sciences (NAS)

Universal manuscript template for Optica Publishing Group journals

LaTeX manuscripts submitted to Optica Publishing Group journals may use these instructions and this universal template format. The template simplifies manuscript preparation and eases transfer between Optica journals. Applied Optics, Journal of Optical Communications and Networking, JOSA A, JOSA B, Optics Letters, Optica and Photonics Research authors may also use the previous, legacy templates, particularly if a precise length estimate is needed. Authors will still need to adhere to article-length restrictions based on the final, published format. Once your article is complete, you may submit it directly to Prism (Optica's article tracking system) via the 'Submit to Optica' option in the Overleaf editor.

Optica Publishing Group and Overleaf

FAQ & Help

I'm new to Overleaf, how should I get started?

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At the end of the promotion, you may choose to continue as Overleaf Pro+ subscriber, or your account will revert to the Overleaf Free plan. Any data or papers saved in Overleaf will continue to be accessible.

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How do I upload an existing LaTeX project into Overleaf?

Here's an FAQ on how to import existing LaTeX documents into Overleaf.

What packages does Overleaf support?

Overleaf supports the packages listed here.

Who can I contact to learn more about Living Light?

Olimpia Onelli, Cambridge University, odo22@cam.ac.uk.

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