Articles

SDSS 2023: Reproducible Documents, Websites,
and Books with Quarto

Dr. Mine Çetinkaya-Rundel

Duke University + Posit

2023-05-23

Anatomy of a Quarto journal article

Components

1. Metadata: YAML

2. Text: Markdown

3. Code: Executed via knitr or jupyter

Weave it all together, and you have a beautiful, reproducible journal article!

Journal articles

Quarto supports

• a standardized schema for authors and affiliations that can be expressed once int the source document,

• the use of Citation Style Language (CSL) to automate the formatting of citations and bibliographies, and

• outputting to pdf, html, and docx with custom formatting,

according to the styles required for various journals,

and creating the LaTeX required for submission to multiple journals.

Journal formats

github.com/quarto-journals

Journal / Publisher	Name
Association of Computing Machinery	acm
American Chemical Society	acs
American Geophysical Union	agu
Biophysical journal	biophysical-journal
Elsevier Journals	elsevier
American Statistical Association Journals	jasa
Journal of Statistical Software	jss
Public Library of Science	plos

Getting started with a journal article

The quarto use template command can be used to create an article from one these formats, e.g. for JASA:

Terminal

quarto use template quarto-journals/jasa

Our turn

Let’s write an article together for JASA and showcase the following features of Quarto journal articles:

• PDF output

• Extended YAML fields

• Citations

Your turn

Pick up where we left off and

• Add co-authors

• Add another citation from a DOI

• Add a cross reference to a figure, table, or section

10:00

Wrap up

Learn more

quarto.org/docs/journals/index.html

Questions

Any questions / anything you’d like to review or learn before we wrap up the workshop?