Writing scientific academic Articles
How to Write a Scientific Journal Article Using Overleaf – Academic Writing Tutorial
This is an excellent short video on the advantages of using Overleaf for Academic writing.
There are several abrupt stops for adverts, but the video is well worth watching.
Writing
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Electronic Structures of Atoms
In Chemistry is important to know how electrons are arranged in their orbitals. The guide below is a really good explanation of this.
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Typesetting
If you are using LaTeX to write up reports, then it may be useful to be able to confidently type set how electrons are arranged in their shells and subshells.
if we take an example for Boron from the above website, we can type set this in $\LaTeX$ using math mode:-
$1s^22s^22p_x^1$
The result is a nicely typeset electron configuration.
This is not perfect as it should display the final x as a subscript (below) the the 1 as a superscript next to this. But it should be possible to fix.
This tutorial is sort of related but may be useful for drawing diagrams.
To draw the orbital diagrams you need to use :-
\usepackage{ amssymb }
Then in the document use
\upharpoonleft and \upharpoonright
$\upharpoonleft$ and $\upharpoonright$
For this article I used detexify to figure out the \LaTeX code for the graphics.
Update : 25/2/2022
Having asked on the OU forum about this, in this thread reply I have been advised to use the mhchem package and this will type set the orbitals much better.
\usepackage[version=3]{mhchem} % you may prefer the spacing using version=4
...
$\ce{1s^2 2s^2 2p_x^1}$
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LaTeX – Customising the Overleaf / Scismic CV
I made some modification to the Scismic CV template to make it suitable for my needs, however some of these modifications may be useful to others.
Firstly the sectioning on this is excellent, especially if combined with lists
\section{Education: The Open University}
\begin{itemize}
\item Certificate in Contemporary Science, Open University, 2012
\end{itemize}
What is also useful is being able to comment out individual entries. This is good if a specific course is not applicable to the post you are applying for. To do this just place a % at the start of the line.
%\item Planets: an introduction, (S196), 2006
This is fine, but what about whole sections such as a specific job or volunteer entry?
Firstly add this to your preamble
\usepackage{comment} % allow comments
Then add this before and after the section you want to remove
\begin{comment}
\end{comment}
The nice thing about this, is that by commenting these out
%\begin{comment}
%\end{comment}
The entry is restored.
While not strictly needed you can add clickable urls in to your CV
\usepackage{hyperref} % allow urls in document
\hypersetup{
colorlinks,
citecolor=black,
filecolor=black,
linkcolor=black,
urlcolor=black
} % set up hyperref
Goes in your preamble, while using the following makes a line of text a url which people can click, use sparingly though.
\url{http://your-url.co.uk/}
I have also added page numbers, which can be useful.
\usepackage{fancyhdr}
\usepackage{datetime}
\fancyhf{}
\fancyfoot[R]{}
\fancyfoot[L]{\thepage}
\pagestyle{fancy}
This is not perfect, but does work.
Hopefully these tips are helpful to people. This template is really flexible and overleaf have quite a few very professional looking templates. [6] along with cover letter templates [7].
I have added a section on jobs and employment to my forum [8].
Links
1 LaTeX Project 2 Learn LaTeX 3 Scismic 4 Overleaf 5 Scismic's Recommended CV Template for Biotech and Pharma Jobs 6 Overleaf CV Templates 7 Overleaf cover letter templates 8 Tuxiversity Forum
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#LaTeX,#CV,#Overleaf,#Scismic,#Customisation
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Overleaf pgfplots
Overleaf have updated their pgfplots documentation and you can now open example code directly in Overleaf.
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#LaTeX,#Overleaf,#pgfplots,#TypeSetting,#Maths,#Graphics
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Bullseye Presentation
A few years ago, I found that there was not an up-to-date presentation for the upcoming release of Debian at the time. I therefore set about creating one.
This is now an ongoing project, my personal remit is to keep this updated by researching information about the upcoming release(s) of Debian. The next release is Debian 11 (Bullseye) as this is now frozen then I am working on the update.
Presentation is in Beamer, which is a LaTeX package for creating presentations. I am however using Overleaf to create the document.
I am on IRC (oftc) as zleap if anyone wants to discuss further. I will also be at the DebConf Planning meeting on the 24th.
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#Debian,#Release,#Update,#Presentation,#LaTeX,#Beamer,#Overleaf,#CTAN
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Tex Live 2021
TeX live 2021 is currently available.
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#LaTeX,#TeXLive,#Release,#TypeSetting,#CTAN,#Overleaf, #TeXStudio,#Forum
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Tex Live 2021
TeX live 2021 is currently available. I am downloading the iso file via torrent. This also, hopefully helps with distribution.
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#LaTeX,#TeXLive,#Release,#TypeSetting,#CTAN,#Overleaf, #TeXStudio,#Forum
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LibrePlanet 2021
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There is a poster designed by Garulfo Azules for the event below
LaTeX source code files on Debian Salsa
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#FreeSoftware,#FSF,#LibrePlanet,#EmpoweringUsers,#LaTeX,#Poster,#Promotion
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Avoiding Interview mistakes
Last night, I attended a webinar on avoiding interview mistakes. This was presented by Scismic [1], who specialise in Biotechnology. However the tips and advice given are applicable across a wide range of industries.
This was really good, and lots of really useful advice which I will be using going forward in my job search.
As I first learned about Scismic, from a CV webinar, they presented in collaboration with Overleaf. I have included a link to the Overleaf webinar page. It should be possible to view a recording of this.
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1 Scismic 2 Create a winning CV Webinar
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#Jobs,#Recruitment,#Applications,#Interview,#Avoiding, #Mistakes,#Scismic,#Webinar,#BioTechnology,#CV,#Resume,#Overleaf,#LaTeX
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LaTeX : Flowcharts
Another useful resource and tutorial from LaTeX Draw for drawing flowcharts.
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#YearOfTheFediverse,#LaTeX,#LaTeXDraw,#Flowchart,#Tutorial
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