General ⇒ Page formatting

[rdhody]

Hi
I'm extremely new to LaTeX and am trying to learn it myself. I recently wrote my medical research using latex which actually turned out pretty well. However, for publication in the Medical Journal of Australia, it has to be a certain format.

I've uploaded a pdf of how they want me to submit my research and I have absolutely no idea how to go about building a latex template for this. Not even sure how to start. Whether an article would be a better option for document class or a report. How to put the abstract in a box in columns 2 and 3 (as shown in the pdf.

It would be really helpful if someone can help me create a template in latex or guide me in the right direction.

Thank you soooo much in advance.

[Johannes_B]

Hi and welcome to our community.

Journals often provide some sort of template and you send in your tex-files. They are doing stuff with it anyway. Some journals except printable pdf-files, those get published as they are.

Some journals want to have a simple word-processor document (.doc). Browsing the MJA author specifications, i think that is what they want.
They use the raw text and feed it to an commercial Adobe product. Sorry, but i think they don't like to get a pdf and will be more than confused receiving a tex-file.

[rdhody]

Thanks for the reply Johannes.

So you reckon sending a normal .doc file will suffice? Because I was told by my supervisor that I need to format my research the way the researches on MJA are formatted.

Nonetheless, it'll be a good reason for me to learn more latex. Regardless of whether I use this for submission or not, would you be able to help/guide me on how to create a pdf with the same format as the one I uploaded please.

[Johannes_B]

I wouldn't trust your supervisor on that and politely ask the journal for the requirements. There are some requirements given, i didn't read it all, but you should prior to asking.


You can do a part of the stuff done by the magazine and mimick
the layout using a note-column. But putting stuff (like a
tablebox) in two out of three columns, is impossible to be done
with (standard) LaTeX. Stuff like that needs manual labour. You
could have a look at LuaTeX tough, i don't think all of that is
possible, but a part seems doable. Will need some computing time
tough.

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\documentclass[twoside]{scrartcl}
\usepackage{geometry}
\geometry{inner=2cm,top=2cm,bottom=2cm,outer=4cm,marginparwidth=3cm}
\usepackage{scrlayer-scrpage}
\setheadwidth{textwithmarginpar}
\ohead{Research}
\ihead{\color{green!20!white}\rule{1.1\textwidth}{.5\headheight}}
\addtokomafont{pagehead}{\sffamily\upshape}
\setkomafont{disposition}{\sffamily\normalsize}
\addtokomafont{section}{\color{blue!40!white}\large}
\usepackage{xcolor}
\usepackage{tgtermes}
\usepackage{multicol}
\usepackage{blindtext}
\begin{document}
\begin{center}\LARGE\sffamily Outcomes of Australian Overseas somthing stuff
\end{center}
\marginpar{\small\textbf{Some Author}\newline some fancy degree \par
\textbf{Another Author}\newline some fancy degree}
\begin{multicols}{3}
\blinddocument
\blinddocument
\blinddocument
\end{multicols}
\end{document}