venue-templates_skill

Overview

This skill provides comprehensive LaTeX templates, formatting requirements, and submission guidelines for major journals, conferences, research posters, and grant agencies. It delivers ready-to-use templates, validation scripts, and step-by-step workflow to prepare compliant manuscripts, posters, and proposals. Use it to speed up formatting, avoid desk rejections, and ensure submission compliance.

How this skill works

The skill stores venue-specific LaTeX templates, checklists, and metadata for journals (Nature, Science, PLOS, IEEE, ACM), conferences (NeurIPS, ICML, CVPR, CHI), posters, and grant agencies (NSF, NIH, DOE, DARPA). Query by venue or document type to retrieve templates, run helper scripts to customize author details, and validate compiled PDFs against venue rules. It also integrates with diagram and writing skills to add schematics and refine content before final submission.

When to use it

• Preparing a manuscript for journal submission (Nature, Science, PLOS, IEEE, ACM)
• Formatting a conference paper to NeurIPS, ICML, CVPR, CHI specifications
• Designing an academic poster in A0/A1 or common US sizes
• Drafting or formatting grant proposals for NSF, NIH, DOE, DARPA
• Verifying page limits, margins, fonts, and anonymization before submission
• Automating template customization with author and affiliation metadata

Best practices

• Verify the template date against the official venue author guidelines before use
• Compile the template immediately to ensure dependencies and packages are available
• Preserve required document structure and don't override venue-specific class files or styles
• Use the provided validation script to check page count, margins, fonts, and reference style
• Keep an unmodified backup of the original template and track edits under version control
• Integrate publication-quality figures and colorblind-safe schematics for clarity

Example use cases

• Retrieve and customize the Nature article LaTeX template and validate PDF for submission
• Format a NeurIPS paper, apply anonymous review settings, and run page-count checks
• Generate an A0 research poster with beamerposter and export high-resolution figures
• Prepare an NSF proposal with correct Project Summary, biosketches, and budget justification
• Use the validate_format script to produce a compliance report before upload