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# LaTeX Academic Writing

Generate publication-ready LaTeX documents, equations, tables, and bibliography entries for academic journals across all disciplines.

## When to Use

- "Write this section in LaTeX for Nature"
- "Format this equation in LaTeX"
- "Create a BibTeX entry for this paper"
- "Generate a LaTeX table from this data"
- "Set up a LaTeX document for IEEE conference"
- "Help me with natbib citation commands"

## When NOT to Use

- General paper writing advice (use paper-writing)
- Literature searching (use literature-search)
- Statistical analysis (use statsmodels-stats or scipy-analysis)
- Figure generation (use matplotlib-viz)

## Journal Templates

### Nature / Nature Communications
```latex
\documentclass[12pt]{article}
\usepackage{times}
\usepackage[margin=2.5cm]{geometry}
\usepackage{amsmath,graphicx,hyperref}
\usepackage[numbers,sort&compress]{natbib}

% Nature: Title, Authors, Affiliations, Abstract (150 words max),
% Main text (2500 words), Methods, References (max 30), Figures (max 6)
\title{Title (max 90 characters)}
\author{Author One$^{1,*}$, Author Two$^{2}$}
\date{}
\begin{document}
\maketitle
\begin{abstract}
% 150 words max. No references. No abbreviations.
\end{abstract}
\section*{Introduction}
\section*{Results}
\section*{Discussion}
\section*{Methods}
\bibliographystyle{naturemag}
\bibliography{refs}
\end{document}
```

### IEEE Conference (IEEEtran)
```latex
\documentclass[conference]{IEEEtran}
\usepackage{amsmath,graphicx,cite}
\title{Paper Title}
\author{\IEEEauthorblockN{First Author}
\IEEEauthorblockA{Affiliation\\Email}}
\begin{document}
\maketitle
\begin{abstract}
% 150-200 words
\end{abstract}
\begin{IEEEkeywords}
keyword1, keyword2
\end{IEEEkeywords}
\section{Introduction}
\section{Related Work}
\section{Methodology}
\section{Experiments}
\section{Conclusion}
\bibliographystyle{IEEEtran}
\bibliography{refs}
\end{document}
```

### ACM (acmart)
```latex
\documentclass[sigconf,review]{acmart}
\title{Paper Title}
\author{Name}{Affiliation}{email}{orcid}{}
\begin{document}
\begin{abstract}
\end{abstract}
\begin{CCSXML}
% ACM CCS concepts
\end{CCSXML}
\keywords{keyword1, keyword2}
\maketitle
\section{Introduction}
\bibliographystyle{ACM-Reference-Format}
\bibliography{refs}
\end{document}
```

### PNAS
```latex
\documentclass[9pt,twocolumn,twoside]{pnas-new}
% 6 pages max, abstract 250 words, significance 120 words
```

### Social Science (APA 7th - apa7)
```latex
\documentclass[man,12pt]{apa7}
\usepackage[english]{babel}
\usepackage{csquotes}
\usepackage[style=apa,backend=biber]{biblatex}
\addbibresource{refs.bib}
\title{Title}
\authorsnames{Author Name}
\authorsaffiliations{University}
\abstract{Abstract text}
\keywords{keyword1, keyword2}
\begin{document}
\maketitle
\section{Introduction}
\printbibliography
\end{document}
```

## Equation Formatting

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