About Writing Academic Paper

Keep calm and write on

Basics

• Notes on writing papers by Prof. Alexie Leauthaud

Examples

• Good example of papers with good reproducibility:
  • STARRY: Analytic Occultation Light Curves
  • Format, equation, figure, open source code, and awesomefont links.

English

• Grammarly
• Linguee - Good place to search for example usage of a word
• Linggle 10^12 - Another place to search for real world usage of a word

Useful Tools

• adstex - manage your bibtex entries
  • By Yao-Yuan Mao; Automated generation of NASA ADS bibtex entries directly from citation keys in your TeX source files
• The Astronomy Acknowledgement Generator
  • This is very useful! The data are kept here
• PDF Compressor
  • This is useful when you want to compress the quality of a figure.
• Tabula - Tool for liberating data tables locked inside PDF files

LaTeX

Online LaTeX Editor

• Overleaf
  • The most commonly used one. The free service is already very good.
• Authorea
  • A powerful publishing platform for articles, data, figures, preprints. More than just a LaTeX editor.

LaTeX resources

• Complete list of LaTeX symbols (PDF)
• List of LaTeX mathematical symbols
• LaTeX open book on WikiBooks
  • Very good place to search for basic usage.
• List of color names in LaTeX along with other useful tips about color

Useful LaTeX tips

• Link to aribitary part of text
  • Using \hypertarget and \hyperlink

Figure

Flowchart

• mermaid - Generation of diagram and flowchart from text in a similar manner as markdown
  • mermaid, a simple markdown-like script language for generating charts from text via javascript.