Manuscript Modern LaTeX Class

manuscript_modern.cls is a flexible and elegant LaTeX class for writing scientific papers, preprints, and journal submissions with a focus on clarity, modularity, and customisation.

✨ Key Features

• Clean, modern typographic style
• Automatic handling of authors, ORCID, affiliations
• Optional anonymous submission mode (double-blind friendly)
• Custom colour themes for title, headings, captions, etc.
• Line numbering toggle
• Configurable front/title page
• Embedded abstract, keywords, and summary block
• Customisable reference and caption styles
• Automated personal pronouns for single/multiple authors

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🛠️ Getting Started

1. Set up your document

\documentclass{manuscript_modern}

2. Add Metadata

\title{A Modern Template for Scientific Manuscripts}
\setheaderlabel{Preprint}
\date{2 June 2025}

3. Bibliography

% Use biblatex (recommended)
\addbibresource{references.bib}
% Or load your own style
%\usepackage[style=nature]{biblatex}

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👥 Author & Affiliation Management

Use \addauthor and \addaffiliation:

\addauthor[*]{Ravi Umadi}{0000-0003-XXXX-XXXX}{1}{[email protected]}
\addauthor{Alex Smith}{}{2}{[email protected]}
\addaffiliation{1}{Institute of Applied Ideas, Munich}
\addaffiliation{2}{School of Physics, TUM}

Use [*] to mark corresponding author. You can add any number of authors/affiliations.

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🕶️ Anonymous Submission

Use \anonymousauthor to hide author info on the first page while keeping it on the front/title page (for journal office use):

\anonymousauthor

All information will still appear on \includefrontpage.

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📄 Title Page (Optional)

To generate a clean title/front page for submissions:

\includefrontpage

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🧾 Abstract, Summary & Keywords

\setabstract{This is the abstract. Keep it short and informative.}
\setsummary{A non-technical summary to help broader readership.}
\setkeywords{template, latex, manuscript, modern, style}

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🎨 Custom Colour Themes

Use provided colour macros or define your own using xcolor.

Predefined Colors:

• manuscriptblue
• manuscriptmaroon
• manuscriptteal
• manuscriptbrown
• manuscriptgrey
• manuscriptgolden
• manuscriptmagenta
• manuscriptplum

Change Theme:

\settitlecolor{manuscriptteal}
\setmaintextcolor{manuscriptblue}
\setheadercolor{manuscriptgolden}
\setcaptioncolor{manuscriptbrown}
\setkeywordscolor{manuscriptplum}

These change section headings, main body, header/footer, captions, and keyword block respectively.

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🔠 Personal Pronoun Auto-Handling

• If 1 author: text like “we show…” is auto-converted to “I show…”
• If 2 or more: remains “we”, “our”, etc.

→ Uses \we{}, \our{}, \ours{}, \We{}, \Our{} in your text. These commands automatically adapt.

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📐 Formatting Options

Line Numbering

\linenumbersOn  % Enable
%\linenumbersOff % Disable

Main Text Block

Wrap main sections in maintext for better alignment:

\begin{maintext}
Your text here.
\end{maintext}

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📊 Figures & Tables

Use tabularx and booktabs for tables:

\begin{table}
  \centering
  \caption{Example Table}
  \begin{tabularx}{0.9\textwidth}{lXr}
    \toprule
    \textbf{ID} & \textbf{Description} & \textbf{Score} \\
    \midrule
    A1 & Initial version & 8.4 \\
    B2 & Revised version & 9.2 \\
    \bottomrule
  \end{tabularx}
\end{table}

Use standard \includegraphics, \caption for figures. Captions automatically inherit captioncolor.

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🧾 Footer Info & Manuscript Metadata

\setmanuscriptinfo{%
Version: Draft 1\\
Last updated: June 2, 2025\\
Git repo: \url{https://github.com/example/repo}
}

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📚 References

\printbibliography

All cross-references, citations, and links inherit title color (\@titlecolor).

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🏁 Example Usage

\maketitleblock
\begin{maintext}
\section{Introduction}
This is our project.
We used \we{} and \our{} to indicate collective authorship.
\end{maintext}

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📦 Install Class System-Wide

To install globally (e.g., /usr/local/texlive/texmf-local/tex/latex/manuscript_modern/):

sudo mkdir -p /usr/local/texlive/texmf-local/tex/latex/manuscript_modern
sudo cp manuscript_modern.cls /usr/local/texlive/texmf-local/tex/latex/manuscript_modern/
sudo mktexlsr

To update, just overwrite the .cls and run mktexlsr again.

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📄 License

Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0)

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💬 Feedback / Contributions

Feel free to fork and contribute on GitHub or raise an issue. If you use the template in a published/preprint work, I’d love to know!

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Enjoy writing beautifully 🌿