Use the template library

Find a LaTeX starter, check its official source, create a project, and adapt it to your venue.

Use the Template library to start a paper, report, book, letter, or Beamer talk from editable LaTeX files. For a journal or conference submission, compare the starter with the venue's current author instructions before writing. A matching appearance alone does not establish the correct submission format.

Find a starting format#

1. Sign in and choose New project in the home screen’s Projects section. Enter a specific Project name, such as Transport Model — Conference Review.
2. Under What are you writing?, choose Template library.
3. Enter a venue acronym, publisher, or format in Search templates. For example, search NeurIPS, ACL, IEEE, or article.
4. Use Filter template categories to narrow the results. General formats includes Blank Article, Book, Technical Report, Letter, and Beamer Slides; Publisher formats includes ACM and IEEE starters. Conference categories include NLP conferences, AI & machine learning, and Vision & robotics.
5. Read the result row’s description and format badge, then select it. Confirm the Selected template name below the list before creating the project.

Search matches text in template names, descriptions, badges, document classes, and source labels without regard to letter case. It searches this catalogue, not the web. Search and category filters apply together. If no result appears, clear the search and choose All categories, then try the venue acronym or publisher name. A selected template can remain selected when a new filter hides its row; always check the selected summary before choosing Create project.

The Template library contains starter files, not reading material. The separate personal Library collects papers, PDFs, and citation records in your signed-in account. A project's bibliography files remain ordinary files that coauthors and external LaTeX tools can use.

Check the source and submission stage#

Open Official author kit or Official format source in the selected summary when the link is available. It opens the source in another tab.

An author-kit entry uses a particular venue kit. A format-source entry may use a shared publisher format for several conferences. For example, a year-specific NeurIPS starter and a general IEEE conference starter do not make the same claim about the target venue. Check the venue, year or release, review versus camera-ready mode, anonymity requirements, document class, bibliography system, and required engine against the current author instructions.

If the exact format is missing or outdated, download the current official kit from the venue and import its ZIP. Do not choose a visually similar template from an old paper without verifying it. A generic starter can compile correctly while using the wrong margins, metadata, or submission mode.

Create and compile an untouched baseline#

1. Expand TeX Live version to check the compilation snapshot, confirm the project name and selected template, then choose Create project.
2. In the workspace, inspect the source, bibliography, figures, and any bundled README. Open the root .tex file that contains \documentclass.
3. Check the engine required by the kit using the compile guide. The TeX Live snapshot is pinned to the project; it is separate from the template files you copied.
4. Wait for PDF updated and inspect the untouched title, layout, references, and Problems. Fix a baseline failure before adding manuscript content.
5. Save a named Template baseline in Version history.

Creating from the Template library copies the selected starter's files into a new project. It does not change an existing paper, subscribe the project to template updates, or synchronize later venue changes. Keep supplied class and style files, and do not switch bibliography systems merely to remove an error.

Replace sample content while keeping the format#

Replace the sample title, authors, abstract, sections, figures, tables, and bibliography entries. Keep the class, required headings, author commands, and submission options unless the venue permits a change. Put your own macros in one documented preamble location rather than editing the venue class.

Add a package only when the manuscript needs it and the venue accepts it. Compile after changing a class option, package, engine, bibliography setup, or file structure. Inspect warnings, page count, figures, and references after each structural change. If you change the pinned TeX Live snapshot, compare the new PDF with the baseline and record why the change was needed.

Adapt an existing paper or reuse a lab format#

For a paper already in progress, create the new template as a separate project and compare its setup with your manuscript. Transfer approved content in stages; CorTeX does not automatically convert a paper to another venue format. Save a named version before changing the existing paper's setup.

To reuse a reviewed lab project, copy a saved version to a new project. To bring its files into an existing workspace, use Import a project here…. Both routes create independent files; later changes to the source project do not update the copy, and comments, access rules, and history are not copied with those files.

Your starter is ready for drafting when a fresh compile uses the intended class, engine, and venue mode with no unexplained baseline errors. Continue with Write and submit a paper, then use the submission-package checklist before the deadline.