Articles on using Overleaf for authoring and publishing books.

Overleaf for Book Authors

Overleaf for Book Production

Taming LaTeX’s Page Layout: A Visual Template and Toolset for Book Authors

Video tutorials - a series of 21 short videos by Dr. Vincent Knight of Cardiff University.

Topics 1-5:

1. How to create a very basic hello world document using LaTeX
2. Including titles in your LaTeX document
3. Including an abstract in your article
4. How to create lists (bullet points and enumerations) in LaTeX
5. How to include tables in a LaTeX document

       More. . .

Link your ORCiD account to your Overleaf account.

A huge range of OpenType fonts are available on the Overleaf platform for use with modern TeX engines (XeTeX and LuaTeX).

Real-time collaboration in your browser!

The convenience of an easy-to-use manuscript editor, with real-time collaboration and structured, fully typeset output produced automatically in the background as you type. Prefer to edit directly in LaTeX? Overleaf provides a full collaborative online LaTeX editor you can switch to at any time.

Short Video Introduction to Overleaf

Interactive Online Introduction to LaTeX

Overleaf offers the following features that ease collaborative research, writing and publishing workflows:

• Real-time preview of projects to review your document while editing and writing - type on the left and see your finished document on the right.

• Integrated, streamlined publishing allows you to submit immediately and directly to the journal of your choice with an integrated submission system to dozens of publishing partners.

• Overleaf for Teaching - provide interactive demonstrations in class and easily create templated assignments on Overleaf for students, there's nothing to install for them to get started!

Collaboration tools

• One version of your project accessible to collaborators via a shared link or email invitation
• Easily select the level of access for collaborators (view, edit, or owner access)
• Real-time commenting speeds up the review process
• Tracked changes and full history view help to see contributions from collaborators
• Labels help to organize and compare different versions
• Chat in real time with collaborators right within the project



Read more about Overleaf and ShareLaTeX joining forces here

Publishers, Journals and Repositories linked on Overleaf

Tip of the Week: Try Out Official Publisher Templates 

Preprints are on the rise, and they're gaining in popularity on Overleaf! Here's how it works...

ArXiv.org

BioRxiv.org

engrXiv.org

Figshare

SocArXiv

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