This is a repository of all my latex templates. I've done my best to document every line of code for these themes so that you can understand what it does and delete/modify things as you see fit. You can see a live preview of each one here:

Slides | Article | Referee Report

This latex slide aims for nice typography, minimal aesthetics so the focus is on the content, and a set of helpful commands including easily colored words, full-size image frames, table highlighting, multi-column layouts, and more. The theme is highly customizable with (1) a well commented slides.sty file so you can tweak it and make it your own and (2) by defining the colors in the top of your document:

% Define `accent`/`accent2` colors for theme customization
\definecolor{accent}{HTML}{006896}
\definecolor{accent2}{HTML}{E64173}
\usepackage{slides}

This is how I write my papers. There's not many special bells and whistles, but I think it looks nice and clean.

I have a set of math commands in math.sty that borrow heavily from Pascal Michaillat. See the document for examples of what I've included.

This also includes a very useful way to leave notes in a document. Then, you can comment \kyle{Thoughts here} to leave a comment. Toggling \booltrue to \boolfalse will hide the comments from the document.

% Conditionally display thoughts (hide by switching to `\boolfalse`)
\booltrue{INCLUDECOMMENTS}
\newcommand{\kyle}[1]{\coauthorComment[Kyle]{#1}}

In paper.sty, replace

\usepackage{natbib}
\bibliographystyle{econ-aea}

with

\usepackage[
  style = chicago-authordate,
  doi = true, 
  backend = biber,
  natbib = true
]{biblatex}
\usepackage[authordate, backend = biber]{biblatex-chicago}

2. Add the following

In the main document, do the following:

1. Add \addbibresource{references.bib} before \begin{document}
2. Replace \bibliography{references.bib} with

The goal of this is to make referee reports look nice and make it easy to structure the document. For each referee, use this to create a section with the referee:

\NewRef{Referee 1}{R1}

Then for each comment, wrap the referee's comment with a refcomment environment and it will create a subsection and automatically number the comments

\begin{refcomment}
\end{refcomment}

This is a recommended set of files to include in .gitignore to not commit ugly latex auxiliary files:

*.aux
*.lof
*.log
*.lot
*.fls
*.out
*.toc
*.fmt
*.fot
*.cb
*.cb2
.*.lb
*.bbl
*.bbl-SAVE-ERROR
*.bcf
*.blg
*.fdb_latexmk
*.run.xml
*.synctex.gz
*.nav
*.snm
*.listing
*.vrb