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WZL Latex

Template, requirements, tools & tricks

Contact: Amon Göppert (gpp)

Info
This is an examplary LaTeX project with .tex and .bib files as a template for writing final reports, theses or dissertations in WZL style. The formatting rules and parameters are located in the WZLtemplate.cls file, which is designed according to the WZL Word template from this Handbuch page. Also, the RWTH/WZL-Deckblatt and the Themenstellung are integrated as PDF and .tex file, respectively.

Getting started

Requirements

Online TeX-System & IDE

For a fully integrated web-based TeX and IDE system check-out: Overleaf
The master branch of this repository is pushed to this public Overleaf project: wzl-latex project
Disadvantages of overleaf are the necessary figure and literature uploads.
Advantages are the out-of-the-box usage withouth required software installations described in the following.

TeX system

For compiling .tex-files locally, a TeX-System is required. Install one of the following, based on your OS:

IDE

For proper .tex-files editing an IDE is needed. Install one of the following:

  • Texstudio (recommended)
  • Texmaker Make sure that in the configurations of the IDE 'biber' is selected as backend.

First steps

When working with a local TeX System and IDE, download or clone this repository to your empty project directory:
Clone with tls/https (requires your Gitlab login):
git clone https://git-ce.rwth-aachen.de/wzl-mq-ms/forschung-lehre/wzl-latex.git
Clone with tls/https (requires an ssh-configuration for the connection of your local machine and Gitlab. Explanation here):
git clone git@git-ce.rwth-aachen.de:wzl-mq-ms/forschung-lehre/wzl-latex.git

The Deckblattundformularlogoverwendung PDF might not be included properly, due to the PDF input fields. Please fill in your data in a PDF editor, then print as PDF (this will remove the input fields). Then you can add the new PDF, containing your information, in 02_documents under the filename deckblattundformularlogoverwendung.pdf.

Document options

In main.tex, several different options can be selected:

  • Language: the options are de or en
  • Font: choosing sans will result in a Sans serif font (like Arial), not putting any option results in a Serif font.
  • Citation style - this influences how citations will appear in the text. When citing, please use \autocite{citation} for best results. The bibliography style is alphabetic.
    • wzlcite: WZL-style citation, "[HEVN04]".
    • alphanumcite: Citation of the form "[1]".
    • authoryearcite: Citation of the form "(Hevner, March, Park and Ram 2004)".
    • footnotecite: Citation in a footnote, includes the author, year and title, e.g. "Hevner, March, Park and Ram, Design Science in Information Systems Research, 2004."

Further possibilities

Compile the main.tex-file with your IDE and consider the resulting PDF for further explanations.

Helpful tools

Literature management

For managing your bibliography this tool is recommended:

  • JabRef It works directly on your .bib-database and comes with useful features such as DOI-import, integrated Google Scholar search and discovery of related articles with Mr. DLib. For the automatic Bibtexkey generation according to the WZL style (e.g. MUST13) change the following:
    Options > Preferences > BibTeX key generator > Change the key pattern of the default pattern to:
    [auth4:upper][shortyear]

Fonts

CMU Serif can be installed and used e.g. for creating figures in ppt with a font that is very similar to the standard Tex font, if the serif font is used. https://fontlibrary.org/en/font/cmu-serif