Medical-research-skills venue-templates

Venue-specific LaTeX templates, formatting requirements, and submission guidelines for journals, conferences, posters, and grants—use when a target venue imposes strict layout, page limits, anonymization, or agency compliance rules.

install

source · Clone the upstream repo

git clone https://github.com/aipoch/medical-research-skills

Claude Code · Install into ~/.claude/skills/

T=$(mktemp -d) && git clone --depth=1 https://github.com/aipoch/medical-research-skills "$T" && mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills && cp -r "$T/scientific-skills/Evidence Insight/venue-templates" ~/.claude/skills/aipoch-medical-research-skills-venue-templates && rm -rf "$T"

manifest: scientific-skills/Evidence Insight/venue-templates/SKILL.md

source content

Source: https://github.com/aipoch/medical-research-skills

When to Use

You are submitting a manuscript to a specific journal (e.g., Nature, Science, PLOS, Cell Press, IEEE, ACM) and must follow its official LaTeX class/style and author instructions.
You are preparing a conference paper (e.g., NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, CVPR, CHI, ACL/EMNLP) with strict page limits, anonymization rules, and required formatting.
You need to produce a conference poster in a standard size (A0/A1/36×48/etc.) using common LaTeX poster packages.
You are drafting a grant proposal (e.g., NSF, NIH, DOE, DARPA) where compliance constraints (page limits, margins, font rules, required sections) are enforced.
You want to validate that a compiled PDF complies with venue requirements (page count, margins, fonts, reference style, figure constraints).

Key Features

Template library for:
- Journal articles (Nature portfolio, Science family, PLOS, Cell Press, IEEE, ACM, Springer/Elsevier/Wiley/BMC/Frontiers, etc.)
- Conference papers (NeurIPS/ICML/ICLR/CVPR/AAAI/CHI/SIGKDD/EMNLP/SIGIR/USENIX, etc.)
- Research posters (A0/A1/US sizes;
```
beamerposter
```
  ,
```
tikzposter
```
  ,
```
baposter
```
  )
- Grant proposals (NSF/NIH/DOE/DARPA + selected foundations)
Venue requirements references (page limits, fonts, margins, spacing, anonymization, file formats, supplementary limits).
Helper scripts to:
- query templates/requirements by venue (
```
scripts/query_template.py
```
  )
- customize templates with metadata (
```
scripts/customize_template.py
```
  )
- validate compiled outputs (
```
scripts/validate_format.py
```
  )
Writing style guides and examples (how the “voice” differs across venues), stored under
```
references/
```
and
```
assets/examples/
```
.

Dependencies

Python
```
>=3.10
```
TeX Live
```
>=2023
```
(or MiKTeX
```
>=23.x
```
)
```
latexmk >=4.80
```
(recommended for reproducible builds)

Example Usage

A minimal end-to-end workflow (query → customize → compile → validate):

# 1) Discover templates and requirements for a venue
python scripts/query_template.py --venue "NeurIPS" --type "article"
python scripts/query_template.py --venue "NeurIPS" --requirements

# 2) Customize a template (example: Nature article)
python scripts/customize_template.py \
  --template assets/journals/nature_article.tex \
  --title "Your Paper Title" \
  --authors "First Author, Second Author" \
  --affiliations "University Name" \
  --output my_nature_paper.tex

# 3) Compile (choose one)
latexmk -pdf my_nature_paper.tex
# or:
pdflatex my_nature_paper.tex
bibtex my_nature_paper
pdflatex my_nature_paper.tex
pdflatex my_nature_paper.tex

# 4) Validate the compiled PDF against venue rules
python scripts/validate_format.py \
  --file my_nature_paper.pdf \
  --venue "Nature" \
  --check-all

Common reference and asset locations used by this skill:

Requirements:

```
references/journals_formatting.md
```
```
references/conferences_formatting.md
```
```
references/posters_guidelines.md
```
```
references/grants_requirements.md
```

Templates:

```
assets/journals/
```
```
assets/posters/
```
```
assets/grants/
```

Writing style guides:

```
references/venue_writing_styles.md
```
```
references/nature_science_style.md
```
```
references/ml_conference_style.md
```
```
references/reviewer_expectations.md
```

Writing examples:
- ```
assets/examples/
```

Implementation Details

Template selection logic
- Use
```
scripts/query_template.py
```
  to map
```
(venue, document type)
```
  to a canonical template path under
```
assets/
```
  and to the corresponding requirements entry under
```
references/
```
  .
- Prefer official venue class/style files when available (e.g., conference
```
.sty
```
  files), and treat local templates as wrappers/examples.
Customization model
- ```
scripts/customize_template.py
```
  replaces placeholders (title/authors/affiliations/email and other metadata) while preserving venue-controlled formatting directives.
- Recommended practice: do not override class options, margins, font settings, or bibliography style unless the venue explicitly allows it.
Validation checks (typical)
- Page count vs. venue limit (e.g., NeurIPS/ICML main text limits; NSF/NIH section limits).
- Margin and font constraints (common in grants; sometimes enforced in conferences).
- Reference/citation style consistency (numeric vs author-year; bracket vs superscript).
- Figure constraints (resolution guidance, allowed formats, color requirements).
- Anonymization requirements for double-blind venues (presence of author-identifying metadata).
Poster sizing and layout
- Poster templates target standard sizes (A0/A1 and common US dimensions) and provide grid/column structures and recommended font scales for distance readability.
- Typical packages supported:
```
beamerposter
```
  ,
```
tikzposter
```
  ,
```
baposter
```
  .
Style guides (beyond formatting)
- Venue writing conventions are documented under
```
references/
```
  (e.g., narrative breadth for Nature/Science vs. contribution-focused structure for ML conferences).
- Examples under
```
assets/examples/
```
  illustrate venue-typical abstracts/introductions/structured sections.