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LaTeX

• Dr. Herman's LaTeX page - http://people.uncw.edu/hermanr/latex/

• Sources

  • Overleaf.com - Online LaTeX Editor

  • For offline work see MikTeX - https://miktex.org/ or http://tug.org/mactex/

  • Honors Thesis Template

  • Underleaf - AI-powered platform for academic writing,enhancing the Overleaf

• Getting Started

  • Documentstyle

  • Quick tutorial for formatting, sections, etc.

• Editing Mathematics, Figures, Tables, Bibliography

  • Introduction

  • Tables

  • Figures

  • LaTeX/Floats, Figures and Captions

  • Bibliography

    • J. Phys A, AIP Style Manual

  • LaTeX/Advanced Mathematics

  • Mathematical Expressions HW: PDF

• Packages

  • CTAN The Comprehensive TeX Archive Network

  • The physics package PDF

  • revtex Styles for Physics Journals

  • Other Physics packages

• Proposal Template: tex file, PDF - Use for Project Proposal!

• Help and Tutorials

• LaTeX Tutorials - PDF

• LaTeX Graphics Companion or another version
• More Math into LaTeX
• A Tufte-Style Book - Who was Edward Tufte?
• QuickLaTeX - quick rendering of code to png.

Other Resources

• MAT 495 Mathematics Seminar A similar Dr. H. course

• Evaluation Rubrics for Papers, Talks, Posters - Expectations

• Undergraduate Research Papers - U. Alberta

In the Beginning - Early Journals

• The (mostly true) origins of the scientific journal, 2012 Sci. Am.

• The Commerce of Letters: Networks and "Invisible Colleges" in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Europe
• The Birth and Early Days of the Philosophical Transactions

• 350 Years of Scientific Journals

• Philosophical Transactions, March 1665

• Mathematical and physical papers, by George Gabriel Stokes

• An Essay on the Application of mathematical Analysis to the theories of Electricity and Magnetism by George Green

• Physics Journals

• American Journal of Physics

• American Physical Society

• Institute of Physics

Growth rates of modern science - Oct 2021

• A century of physics

• Global number of publications over time - StackExchange

• Number of Academic Papers Published Per Year - 2023
• The Paradox of Proof - about  Mochizuki's papers
  • ABC Still a Conjecture - 2021, 2022 update, 2024 Update, and video
• The importance of stupidity in scientific research
• 1953-nature-papers-watson-crick-wilkins-franklin
• Sokal Affair, the paper
• Bogdanov Affair, Baez's Physics bitten by reverse Alan Sokal hoax?

Paper Generators - Pre-AI boom

• Math Paper Generator
• http://snarxiv.org/ - Play arXiv vs. snarXiv
• SCIgen - An Automatic CS Paper Generator
• Fake Scientific Papers
• The fight against fake-paper factories that churn out sham science
• Fake Star Trek Paper

AI in Physics - Also see Links Page

• AI in Math Book - PDF
• AI Literacy - Presentation
• Nonlinear Quantum Mechanics and Artificial Intelligence - Dec 8, 2025

Writing

• Guide for Writing in Physics
• Reviews of Modern Physics Style Guide
• Writing Physics Papers
• Physical Review tutorial for authors: How to write a great scientific paper - Webinar
• Abstracts
  • What is an Abstract?
  • Effective Abstracts  - Elliot
  • APS Tips for writing title and abstract
  • UNC Guide
  • Examples
    • UConn
  • Common Mistakes
• Introductions
  •  How to write a compelling research paper introduction Video
  • Introductions - UNC
• UW Madison Handbook
• No one Writes Alone - Peer Review - Video
• Guide to Writing Mathematics
• Effective Technical Writing - Penn State

Talking

• Pointer on giving a talk
• How to Do a Presentation in Class
• Tips for scientific presentations
• MathDL on Presentations
• Technically Speaking - Class Examples
• Videos from YouTube
  • Life after Death by Powerpoint (4 min) or 9 min version
  • Killer Presentations (7 min) and Conquering Death by PowerPoint (4 min)
  • How to avoid death By PowerPoint (20:31)
  • How to Give Good Presentations (3 min)
  • How to Give a Bad Presentation (6 min)
  • Don't Read From Your Slides (4 min)
  • What Do I Do With My Hands? (1 min)
  • Walk, Stop, Talk (2 min)
• Advice on Giving Good Talk (pdf)
• The Secret to Great Public Speaking (8:19)
• How To Present Mathematics To Non-Mathematicians?
• How to talk to a non-specialist
• Essential Presentation Skills
• Find TED Talks on Physics to emulate.

Posters

• Physics Poster Examples and LaTeX Restricted
• Scientific Poster Design - Cornell
• Guide to Effective Poster Design - Argonne National Laboratory
• How to Create a Research Poster: Poster Basics -NYU Libraries
• Creating Research Posters - Wayne State
• SPS Posters
• Effective Posters - Physics at UIIUC the Planetary Society
• CSURF Poster Workshops
• Templates
• Overleaf
• Gemini
• Conference Posters
• Poster Styles
  • beamerposter - CTAN, tutorial
  • baposter - Now in Overleaf
  • tikzposter video (15:52), Style Guide
  • Jacobs Landscape Poster
  • tcolorbox package
  • Minimal poster
  • Better Poster Template at GitHub, (pptx verson)
• Poster Examples
  • tikzposter Example
  • Johnston example
  • Stack Exchange - LaTeX Poster for a Beginner
  • Stack Exchange - How to Create Posters
  • tcolorbox - PDF
  • LaTeX, R, and knitr
• Poster Templates
  • Minimal Poster.doc, Minimal Poster Template - zip file, Minimal Style file
  • TikzPoster Template - zip file
  • Beamer Poster Template - zip file
• Poster Presentations
• Before Your Poster Presentation
• Giving an Effective Poster Presentation (11:55)
• How to Prepare for a Scientific Poster Presentation
• One Minute Presentation of Your Poster
• UNCW Logos
• UNCW Colors

Paper Body

• Need help?
• Physics Writing Guide
• Top 10 Papers from Physical Review's first 125 years

• Guideline to Scientific Writing - Georgetown Physics

• Writing Physics Papers

• Avoiding Plagiarism

• Literature Review

• Reports on Experimental Work

• How to write a conclusion

Citations and Bibliography

• Plagiarism.org - What is plagiarism?
• Randall Library Help
• Monash University Citing and Referencing
• How to create bibliographies in LaTeX
• Overleaf on Biliography Management
• How to cite a webiste
• Citing Internet Sources - Yale
• AIP: Style Manual, Referencing
• BibTeX Style Examples - at Verbosus
• BibTeX Styles - Reed College, More Examples

Using Graphics

• Graphical Excellence
• Top Ten Worst Graphs
• How to Display Data Badly
• Celia's Effective Science Talks
• Figures, Tables, and Graphs - Durham Univ. Physics
  [See their Graphical Excellence Prizes]
• How to write figure captions
• Ten Simple Rules for Better Figures
• Online Drawing
• Online Drawing Software
• Physics Drawing Online
• Publication Quality Figures
• For MATLAB
• Publication Quality Graphs Using MATLAB
• Maple Help
• Figures and Tables in Python
• Publication Quality Figures in R
• Python matplotlib plots in LaTeX
• Convert Images to LaTeX with Mathpix
• Tikz for drawing LaTeX Figures:
  • A Very Minimal Introduction to Tikz
  • Tikz Examples
  • TikZ on Overleaf
  • TikZ online Manual - 2023, version 3.1.10
  • Visual Tikz
  • Tikz Editors
    • QTikz
    • TikZiT
    • Online Editor
  • How to draw a Bloch Sphere
  • Block Diagram in LaTeX
  • Tpx - Drawing tool for TeX
  • PGFPlots Gallery
  tikzplotlib, a Python tool for converting matplotlib figures into PGFPlots (PGF/TikZ) figures https://pypi.org/project/tikzplotlib/
  • matlba2tikz
• Creating Figures and Graphs with LaTeX
• Unlocking LaTeX Graphics Book, Video 1, Old Version
• The LaTeX Graphics Companion, and other books or some excerpts

Peer Review

• How to Distinguish a Good Poster Design ...
• Critique
• Peer critique for presentations at MathDL Communications
• Critique of Presentation
• No One Writes Alone: Peer Review in the Classroom - A Guide For Students - MIT Video on Peer Review (6:33 min)

Project Ideas

• Old PHY 495 topics
• Dr. H's Student Projects