Publication List using BibTeX and BibTeX-js

Sometimes it is useful to display a list of publications on a personal website.

There are many ways to do that, with the easiest being to write down each one by hand. While it is quite simple, it is also quite annoying and probably would leave the list not updated after few days (not a big issue for my few publications, but this is a different story).

One of the ways to deal with references is using BibTeX and the associated .bib files, which are the standard for \(\LaTeX\) and used also by JabRef as the default database format.

There is a nice Javascript library, BibTeX-js, which is able to parse and display .bib files, with the rendering done on the client side when the page is loaded. The only thing to do is to keep an updated .bib file, which is not too demanding, since it is also used for references in the papers.

I therefore decided to share my template, which I personally feel quite clean and nice and would be maybe useful to someone else. It is responsive and the bib link acts as a button to show the bibtex code of the single entry. The books, journal papers and conference papers are separated automatically and ordered by the year, with the newest being first. The clickable link on the DOI is automatically added using the doi value, while the link on the publication title is retrieved from the url value.

As an example see my publication list (Alex Pacini’s Publications).

Peer review template based on IEEEtran and pandoc

When you start to be involved in scientific publishing, one of the side-effects is to become a reviewer for some journals. This side-effect is an extremely important part of the scientific publishing process, which should ensure the quality of the published papers. It has also some other advantages, as to be able to view the papers few months before they would be published. The major downside is the time required for a good review, even days.

To simplify the writing process I decided to create a simple workflow which is based on \(\LaTeX\), IEEEtran and pandoc. The final output will be made up of a .pdf file, formatted as an IEEEtran journal, and a .rst file, formatted as a reStructuredText. The .pdf is ideal for viewing the math, figures, etc., while the .rst file is ideal to be pasted in the comments part, which is the part that will be sent in the email to the authors.

Long titles with math in LaTeX

Recently, while writing my dissertation I stumbled upon some difficulties with chapter and section titles.
The first problem was caused by too long headings, while the second by mathematics inside the pdf bookmarks when using hyperref .

Template Tesi e Frontespizio LaTeX UNIBO - Versione 2

Fresco fresco dalla laurea magistrale ho deciso di pubblicare il template che ho utilizzato per preparare la tesi in \( \LaTeX \).

Appunti del corso "Equazioni Differenziali LM"

Durante il corso di "Equazioni Differenziali LM" nell'ambito del corso di laurea in "Ingegneria Elettronica e Telecomunicazioni per lo Sviluppo Sostenibile" ho scritto una versione \( LaTeX \) degli appunti e delle dispense fornite dal docente Prof. Massimo Cicognani.
Sono disponibili su GitHub.
Nel caso si trovassero errori o typos vari, la cosa migliore sarebbe fare una fork del repository, fare i fix vari e pull request a seguire. Per i meno scaltri, anche aprire una issue potrebbe essere sufficiente e provvederò successivamente io al fix.

Frontespizio LaTeX UNIBO

In piccolo aiuto a chi dovesse scrivere la tesi; nel caso in cui, come me, vi trovaste in difficoltà nell'ottenere un bel frontespizio, potete provare questo template LaTeX.
Aggiornamento: a questo link ho pubblicato il template LaTeX completo, non solo di frontespizio, che ho usato per la tesi di laurea magistrale. Enjoy!

Dissertation Beamer template

A simple LaTeX Beamer template is shown (I used it for my dissertation's slides):