European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) on Overleaf

Overview

CERN is providing Overleaf Professional features for all employees 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 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!

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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Rich Text mode

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.

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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.

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Webinars

Overleaf has several on-demand webinars available that address a variety of beginner, intermediate, and advanced topics.

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Understand LaTeX errors

Addressing errors as they happen helps ensure that your LaTeX project continues to compile and look the way it should.

Learn to recognize errors

Turn on track changes for review

Overleaf offers an impressive collection of collaboration features, and Overleaf Professional provides access to the powerful track changes feature.

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Featured LaTeX Templates

CERN ATLAS Note Template

Template for ATLAS Notes.

ATLAS

JACoW LaTeX template

The Joint Accelerator Conferences Website (JACoW) is an international collaboration that publishes the proceedings of accelerator conferences held around the world. All conferences agree to the policies and requirements for publication. Originally created for the publication of the proceedings of the Asian, European, and North American particle accelerator conferences (which in 2010 became the International Particle Accelerator Conference series, or IPAC), today the site hosts the proceedings of the following JACoW collaboration conferences: ABDW, DIPAC,HB, IPAC, PCaPAC, APAC, ECRIS, HIAT, LINAC, RuPAC, BIW, EPAC, IBIC, MEDSI, SAP, COOL, ERL, ICALEPCS, NA-PAC, SRF, CYCLOTRONS, FEL, ICAP, PAC and eeFACT. This template describes the common requirements for the submission of papers to these conferences. Please consult individual conference information for page limits, method of electronic submission, etc. Template version: 2.2 More information: http://www.jacow.org/Authors/LaTeX

Joint Accelerator Conferences Website (JACoW) collaboration

HiLumi report

This is a template for HiLumi (High Luminosity LHC (HL-LHC)) reports.

High Luminosity LHC (HL-LHC) project

CERN ATS Note

This is a template for CERN Accelerator and Technology Sector (ATS) notes.

CERN Accelerator and Technology Sector (ATS)

CERN Presentation template

This is a template for CERN presentations following the official CERN design guidelines. The CERN logo is legally protected. Please visit http://copyright.web.cern.ch/ for information on the terms of use of CERN content, including the CERN logo.

Jérôme Belleman

CERN Report

This is a template for authors who are preparing their contribution for one of CERN's official publications (CERN Yellow Report series, CERN Proceedings series, etc.). See https://publishing.cern.ch/ for further details.

CERN Publishing

FAQ & Help

Who should I contact if I have questions about Overleaf or the CERN license?

If you need technical support while working on any Overleaf projects, please use our contact form and we'll make sure your question gets to the right person in our team.

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 :)

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How do I upload an existing LaTeX project into Overleaf?

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

What packages does Overleaf support?

Overleaf supports the packages listed here.

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