working_paper: Working Paper Format

In duckmayr/draft: Provides R Markdown formats and templates for political science journals

Description

This format is a basic format for general purpose use in drafting working papers, perhaps before you have a journal you're going to send it to. It is based very closely on the default R Mardown PDF document format, with some defaults changed to comport with many common choices for working papers in political science:

Usage

working_paper(...)

Arguments

...	Arguments passed to pdf_document2

Details

• One inch margins with double spacing and 12 point font

• A title page with the abstract and word count

• Using biblatex for reference management

• Appendices after the references, with figure and table numbering by appendix, in the style A.1, B.1, B.2, etc., and roman page numbering for appendix pages (starting with i). To take advantage of this automatic formatting of the appendices, they must be placed in one or more separate R Markdown files whose names are given in the YAML front matter option appendices, as in

      \code{appendices: "appendix.Rmd"}
  
      for a single file, whether that be a single appendix or multiple
      appendices in a single file, or
  
      \code{appendices: ["data-appendix.Rmd", "methods-appendix.Rmd"]}
  
      for multiple file The important thing is that each file name must
      be in quotation marks (either single (') or double (") quotes are
      fine). Additionally, you must use the YAML front matter option
      \code{knit: draft::knit_with_appendices} (which is included by
      default in the \code{working_paper} format skeleton).
  

You can use the word_count function to obtain a word count for the document, which you can then place in the wordcount YAML front matter option for it to be displayed on the title page.

Appendices should be drafted

duckmayr/draft documentation built on Dec. 20, 2021, 2:14 a.m.