Frontiers in Vancouver-Style Quarto Template

Creating a New Article

To create a new article using this format:

quarto use template mikewolfe/front-van

This will create a new directory with an example document that uses this format.

Using with an Existing Document

To add this format to an existing document:

quarto add mikewolfe/front-van

Then, add the format to your document options:

format:
  front-van-pdf: default

Options

The default setting for class options follows the frontiers.tex file that comes from the journal, that is:

classoption: utf8

The Frontiers-Vancouver.cls appears to support support several other options including draft, final, a4paper etc. but they have not been tested so use at your own risk.

A runningauthor: must be specified or the LaTex file will fail to build. This is the first author that is put at the head of each page with et al.

runningtitle: likewise gives the header for the title on the right of each page. This is not required.

In order for the author affiliations to be properly formatted, each affiliation must use a number 1, 2, etc. as the id field.

The corresponding authors is set with

attributes:
  corresponding: true

However, multiple corresponding authors is not currently supported for the pdf format.

This template supports pdf, word, and html output. Both pdf and word are based on the files from the journal. The html output is a quarto default output but with the Vancouver citation style.

The word output does not format the authors properly and must be edited by hand after generating.

Example

Here is the source code for a minimal sample document: template.qmd.

Which renders to this:

License

This modifies the Frontiers in Template LaTeX and Word templates, available at https://www.frontiersin.org/guidelines/author-guidelines#writing-and-formatting.

This template was created following the excellent guide by Christopher Kenny:

T. Kenny, Christopher. 2023. “Creating Quarto Journal Article Templates.” July 1, 2023. https://christophertkenny.com/posts/2023-07-01-creating-quarto-journal-articles.

The wordcount.lua function for getting wordcount tables while rendering was adapted from https://github.com/CoryMcCartan/cmc-article/blob/main/_extensions/cmc-article/wordcount.lua.