Steve's Quarto Templates

This is my repository for Quarto templates. Installing Quarto templates, as I understand it, works a bit different than my familiar approach with R Markdown templates. In the latter case, a single copy can live in an R package the user would install. In Quarto, you have to do something different that amounts to different copies of the template by particular project. That at least has value for co-authored projects, though.

Quarto is popular among researchers in part because it's not limited to the R programming language, like R Markdown is. Be advised the basic formatting of my templates does not lean on the use of the R programming language, though my templates often come with R examples in the document. You can scrub the R code and use the programming language of your choice.

You can see some example documents in the examples directory in this Github repository.

What's Included

Template	Directory	Installation
2nd Article/Manuscript Template	qarticle2	quarto use template svmiller/quarto-templates/qarticle2
3rd Article/Manuscript Template	qarticle3	quarto use template svmiller/quarto-templates/qarticle3
2nd Syllabus Template	qsyllabus2	quarto use template svmiller/quarto-templates/qsyllabus2
Stockholm University EKOHIST Thesis Template	qekohist-thesis	quarto use template svmiller/quarto-templates/qekohist-thesis

You could alternatively do something like quarto add svmiller/quarto-templates/qarticle3, but that would download just the contents of the _extensions directory. My templates tend to have a lot of moving pieces and seeing them in the .qmd file can help the user make sense of them.

Article 2's Important YAML Parameters

In addition to the standard fare in document YAML and other things unique to Quarto, the following YAML arguments are unique to my templates and/or this particular template.

Argument	Description
anonymous:	Defaults to FALSE. If TRUE, suppresses identifying author information for presentation. Also moves tables and figures to back of the document.
removetitleabstract:	Default to FALSE. If TRUE, removes title and abstract. Some journals want this for peer review. Will also anonymize document presentation, if not document information on the PDF side of things.
title-subtitle:	Defaults to FALSE. If TRUE, a subtitle is displayed on same line as title. If FALSE, an optional subtitle (if supplied) is on the line below the title
acmsans:	Defaults to FALSE. If TRUE, invokes use of a sans serif font to mimic ACM template.1
paper-info:	Optional stuff to include for your paper (e.g. funding information? DOI? JEL codes?). See YAML of example document for how to use.
endnotes:	Defaults to FALSE. If TRUE, footnotes become endnotes. I hate it too, but some journals want that for peer review.
pandocparas:	Defaults to FALSE. If TRUE, default paragraph style by Pandoc is used (i.e. no paragraph indents, spaces between paragraphs). If FALSE, default LaTeX paragraphs are used (i.e. no indent on first paragraph in a section, small indent on ensuing paragraphs)
endfloat:	Defaults to FALSE. If TRUE, figure and table replacement moved to back with "[Figure/Table N] about here" placeholder text in the document using the LaTeX endfloat package. Observed only when anonymous: TRUE.

Article 3's Important YAML Parameters

In addition to the standard fare in document YAML and other things unique to Quarto, the following YAML arguments are unique to my templates and/or this particular template. Many of the formatting quirks I built into my second article/manuscript template also appear in the one I created in 2023 and extend here for Quarto.

solo-author, two-authors, and n-authors

Behavior in this template changes contingent on the number of authors. However, this needs to be declared by the user as in an argument in the YAML. If there are two authors, declare two-authors: TRUE in the YAML. If there are more than two authors, declare n-authors: TRUE in the YAML. The default formatting assumes there is just one author. You don't need to declare solo-author: TRUE in the YAML for just one author as this is the fallback in the absence of two-authors: TRUE or n-authors: TRUE.

alternate-layout

Defaults to FALSE, but when set to TRUE, this adjusts where the author and contact info should be. When FALSE, the author(s) affiliation information and contact information is placed adjacent to the abstract and above (optional) paper information. When TRUE, the author(s) affiliation information is underneath the listing of the authors while the contact information (i.e. emails) remain adjacent to the abstract. I recommend setting alternate-layout: TRUE for manuscripts when n-authors: TRUE. Adjust to your heart's content.

remove-emails

Defaults to FALSE. If TRUE, author emails are scrubbed from the document. This is perhaps useful for multi-author documents and/or when a corresponding email in the acknowledgement underneath the title is sufficient.

Syllabus 2's Important YAML Parameters

This is a fairly straightforward template, but two YAML parameters are unique in this template.

two-teachers, and n-teachers

Behavior in this template changes contingent on the number of teachers in the course. However, this needs to be declared by the user as in an argument in the YAML. If there are two teachers, declare two-authors: TRUE in the YAML. If there are more than two teachers, declare n-teachers: TRUE in the YAML. The default formatting assumes there is just one teacher.

Some other arguments:

Argument	Description
title	Title of the class
author	Name(s) of the professor(s)
term	The term of the class (e.g. Fall 2024, Spring 2025, Summer 2025)
dates	A basic date range for the course (e.g. Feb. 20 - March 21)
fontawesome	Logical, defaults to TRUE, for use of Font Awesome icons
email	The email for the "course responsible" professor. It's a thing here.
web	Class website. Technically optional, but you really should use it.
office	Your office location. Technically optional, but you really should use it.

EKOHIST Thesis's Important YAML Parameters

This is a boutique template of potential use for MA students in the Department of Economic History and International Relations, where I currently work. I advise students to not change much in the YAML for the .qmd file. There is no option to anonymize the document. It wouldn't make sense in this context. If the student does not have figures and/or tables---as odd as that seems for a thesis---you can change lof and/or lot to be FALSE. Both arguments control whether a list of figures and a list of tables, respectively, are generated in the document after the table of contents.

Footnotes

1. If you use this, I recommend you keep fontsize: at 11 and specify "Libertinus Sans" or "Linux Biolinum O" in the sansfont: argument. ↩