Macquarie University on Overleaf
Overview
Macquarie University is providing Overleaf Professional features for all students, faculty and staff who would like to use a collaborative, online LaTeX editor for their projects. Overleaf Professional features include real-time track changes, unlimited collaborators, and full document history.
Overleaf is designed to make the process of writing, editing and producing your research papers and project reports much quicker for both you and your collaborators. Overleaf can also be linked to other services to best fit into your workflow.
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Quick Start
Welcome to the Macquarie University quick start guide to Overleaf. We've put together some useful resources and links in the sections below, and if you have any questions about how to get started please let us know and we'll be happy to help!
For Students
Try out the Overleaf editor with built in tutorial
If you'd like to dive straight into the editor, simply click the button to create a new paper using our quick-start template. A short tutorial will walk you through the main features to quickly get you started.
Browse the Overleaf template gallery
You can find a selection of featured templates, or check out our full template gallery for more ideas and inspiration.
Take our free course to quickly master the LaTeX essentials
If you're new to LaTeX, we've put together a free online course to help you learn the basics. If you have never used LaTeX before, or if it has been a while and you would like a refresher, this is the place to start.
For Researchers
Find a journal template
Through our partnerships within the publishing community, we provide a selection of academic journal templates for articles and papers. These templates automatically format your manuscripts in the style required for submission to that journal.
Edit in Rich Text mode or directly in LaTeX
Overleaf provides an intuitive and easy-to-use manuscript editor (our rich text mode), which is especially useful if you or your co-authors aren't familiar with writing in LaTeX.
If you prefer to edit directly in LaTeX, you can! Overleaf provides a full collaborative online LaTeX editor you can switch to at any time.
Submitting your articles to journals, repositories and more
You can also submit your paper directly to a number of journals and other editorial and review services via the publish menu in the editor. Simply open the publish menu from any document and follow the appropriate 'Submit to ...' link.
For Teachers
Introducing Students to LaTeX
Overleaf has several on-demand webinars available that address a variety of beginner, intermediate, and advanced topics.
Help students understand LaTeX errors
Addressing errors as they happen helps ensure that your LaTeX project continues to compile and look the way it should.
Show your class how to turn on track changes for review
Overleaf offers an impressive collection of collaboration features, and your institutional subscription provides all users with access to the powerful track changes feature.
Featured LaTeX Templates
This thesis template was created by Dr Kelly Williams, NHMRC Early Career Fellow with the Department of Biomedical Sciences at Macquarie University. Feedback on this template is welcome and can be submitted by emailing kelly.williams@mq.edu.au.
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.
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?
This template shows how you can use the apa6 package to write a manuscript in the style of the sixth edition of the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association, which is widely used in the social sciences. The template includes an example bibliography that shows how to automatically generate APA-style citations and bibliography entries. Please see the apa6 package documentation for more information.
This is a skeleton file demonstrating the use of the IEEEtran.cls style with an IEEE journal paper, and with example bibliography files included. These bibliography files are includes to provide one example of how to set up a bibliography for your IEEE paper. For more information on using bibtex for references in your IEEE journal papers, see this FAQ. IEEEtran.cls version: 1.8b
Template for submissions to Elsevier journals using the elsarticle.cls (v3.4c) document class. Please use and set your project's main document to one of the following, depending on the citation scheme you need: elsarticle-template-num.tex, template file for numerical citations elsarticle-template-harv.tex, template file for name-year citations elsarticle-template-num-names.tex, template file for numerical citations + new natbib option. Eg. Jones et al. [21]
This example shows how to create citations in footnotes using biblatex. Biblatex automatically formats references and citations, much like BibTeX, but biblatex is more robust and more powerful. You can (almost certainly) use your existing .bib databases with biblatex, it comes with a wide variety of styles built in, and it's much easier to write your own custom styles. In this example, we use the verbose-ibid style to generate footnotes with automatic “ibid.” abbreviations. For a full list of styles, see the user guide in the biblatex manual.
The following examples show how to produce Harvard style references using biblatex. See this post on TeX StackExchange for further discussion on the Harvard referencing style, and this post for more details on switching to biblatex if you're more familiar with e.g. natbib.
This paper describes the use of the LaTeX2e sagej.cls class file for setting papers to be submitted to a SAGE Publications journal. The template can be downloaded here. v1.2, 14 Jan 2017
This sample is a guideline for preparing technical papers using LaTeX for manuscript submission for all Journals of OUP*. This sample article uses a class file named ouparticle.cls that authors should use for their manuscript preparation. It is similar in use to the article class file of LaTeX, but has some extra fields in the preamble and some extended commands for other parts of the article. *Note: this template is from 2009, and we recommend checking the latest author guidelines for your intended target OUP journal before starting to prepare your manuscript. OUP’s official template is available at https://www.overleaf.com/latex/templates/oup-general-template/ybpypwncdxyb
This is the general template file for the LaTeX package SVJour3 for Springer journals, downloaded from the Springer website on May 4th 2018. This template includes a few options for different layouts and content for various journals. Please consult a previous issue of your journal as needed.
FAQ & Help
Who should I contact if I have questions about Overleaf or the Macquarie license?
Please use our contact form and we'll make sure your question gets to the right person in our team. You can also direct Macquarie-specific questions to your Research or Clinical Librarian.
I'm new to Overleaf, how should I get started?
We've put together a short How do I use Overleaf help page to give you pointers on exactly that :)
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.
How should Macquarie University Theses be formatted?
Information for Macquarie University HDR candidates can be found on the Higher Degree Research website.
Included are general instructions for thesis presentation. Please discuss the particulars of format and referencing style with your Supervisor.
You may find this template suitable but as requirements differ between disciplines you should check its suitability with your supervisor.
How do I know what referencing style and presentation I should use for my assignment?
Follow the instructions of your Unit Convenor when preparing assignments. Information about the format and referencing style required will be available in iLearn. For more information about referencing styles see our Referencing Guide.
Can I use BibTeX for referencing in Overleaf?
See this short instructional video to get you started with bibliographies using BibTex.