04 Scholarly articles

Notebooks for Academics

YAML metadata keys for scholarly articles

Create a copy of the 03 Quarto Document using plamerpenguins project

• In Your Workspace, click on the copy icon associated with the existing project
• Rename the newly created project
• Open the notebook-qmd file to explore the basic YAML options for academic articles

YAML header: basic metadata keys

---
title: "Notebook using `palmerpenguins`"
author: "Carlos Granell"
description: "`palmerpenguins` is a great dataset for data exploration & visualization"
date: "04/20/2024"
---

Add authoring keys for academic articles

• Check scholarly articles to the YAML header

Customise title & anexes

• Title block: Add options title-block-style and title-block-banner to the YAML header
• Appendices: References, Citation, Licence (Reuse), etc.

Quarto journal extensions

• Quarto Extensions:
• Install the Elsevier Journal Format (a Quarto extension) using the following command:

Terminal

quarto add quarto-journals/elsevier

• Render the pdf

Terminal

quarto render notebook.qmd --to elsevier-pdf

• Add YAML key sto customise the PDF output

YAML header: basic metadata for academic articles

---
format: 
  elsevier-pdf:
    keep-tex: true
    journal:
      name: Environmental Modelling and Software
      formatting: preprint
      model: 3p
      cite-style: number
---

References