AlterLab Venue Templates
Skill Verified ActivePart of the AlterLab Academic Skills suite. Access comprehensive LaTeX templates, formatting requirements, and submission guidelines for major scientific publication venues (Nature, Science, PLOS, IEEE, ACM), academic conferences (NeurIPS, ICML, CVPR, CHI), research posters, and grant proposals (NSF, NIH, DOE, DARPA). This skill should be used when preparing manuscripts for journal submission, conference papers, research posters, or grant proposals and need venue-specific formatting requirements and templates.
To streamline academic publishing by providing ready-to-use LaTeX templates and formatting guidelines for a wide array of journals, conferences, and grant applications.
Features
- Access to 50+ journal templates
- Templates for 20+ major conferences
- Grant proposal templates for NSF, NIH, DOE, DARPA
- Research poster templates
- Helper scripts for template discovery and customization
- Format validation guidance
Use Cases
- Preparing manuscripts for journal submission
- Writing conference papers with specific formatting
- Creating academic research posters
- Drafting grant proposals for funding agencies
- Ensuring compliance with venue-specific style guides
Non-Goals
- Generating the actual content of academic papers
- Performing LaTeX compilation or error checking
- Providing templates for non-academic document types
Practices
- Academic publishing
- LaTeX template usage
- Formatting compliance
Trust
- info:Issues AttentionThere are 2 open issues and 0 closed issues in the last 90 days, indicating low recent activity but no critical backlog.
Installation
npx skills add AlterLab-IEU/AlterLab-Academic-SkillsRuns the Vercel skills CLI (skills.sh) via npx — needs Node.js locally and at least one installed skills-compatible agent (Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, …). Assumes the repo follows the agentskills.io format.
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