California Institute of Technology (Caltech) on Overleaf

Overview

Caltech Library is providing Overleaf Professional features for all students, faculty and staff who would like to use a collaborative, online LaTeX editor for their projects. Overleaf Professional features include real-time track changes, unlimited collaborators, and full document history.

Overleaf is designed to make the process of writing, editing and producing your research papers and project reports much quicker for both you and your collaborators. Overleaf can also be linked to other services to best fit into your workflow.

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Quick Start

Welcome to the Caltech quick start guide to Overleaf. We've put together some useful resources and links in the sections below, and if you have any questions about how to get started please let us know and we'll be happy to help!

For Students

Try out the Overleaf editor with built in tutorial

If you'd like to dive straight into the editor, simply click the button to create a new paper using our quick-start template. A short tutorial will walk you through the main features to quickly get you started.

Create a new paper

Browse the Overleaf template gallery

You can find a selection of featured templates, or check out our full template gallery for more ideas and inspiration.

Go to the template gallery

Take our free course to quickly master the LaTeX essentials

If you're new to LaTeX, we've put together a free online course to help you learn the basics. If you have never used LaTeX before, or if it has been a while and you would like a refresher, this is the place to start.

Teach me LaTeX!

For Researchers

Find a journal template

Through our partnerships within the publishing community, we provide a selection of academic journal templates for articles and papers. These templates automatically format your manuscripts in the style required for submission to that journal.

View the academic journal templates

Edit in Rich Text mode or directly in LaTeX

Overleaf provides an intuitive and easy-to-use manuscript editor (our rich text mode), which is especially useful if you or your co-authors aren't familiar with writing in LaTeX.

Open editor in
Rich Text mode

If you prefer to edit directly in LaTeX, you can! Overleaf provides a full collaborative online LaTeX editor you can switch to at any time.

Open in LaTeX mode

Submitting your articles to journals, repositories and more

You can also submit your paper directly to a number of journals and other editorial and review services via the publish menu in the editor. Simply open the publish menu from any document and follow the appropriate 'Submit to ...' link.

View the article submission guide

For Teachers

Introducing Students to LaTeX

Overleaf has several on-demand webinars available that address a variety of beginner, intermediate, and advanced topics.

Watch our webinars

Help students understand LaTeX errors

Addressing errors as they happen helps ensure that your LaTeX project continues to compile and look the way it should.

Learn to recognize errors

Show your class how to turn on track changes for review

Overleaf offers an impressive collection of collaboration features, and your institutional subscription provides all users with access to the powerful track changes feature.

Find out more

Featured LaTeX Templates

Caltech Thesis LaTeX Template (with logo) Official

This is the official Caltech Thesis LaTeX Template for 2016, provided by Overleaf and the Caltech Library. To start writing your thesis, simply click the 'Open as Template' button above. If you have any questions before starting your thesis, it is recommended to read the Caltech Library thesis guide. This version of the template includes the Caltech logo on the title page. If you wish to remove this logo, you may do so within the template, or by starting from this version. To download this template for use offline, please click here and save the zip file to your computer. For more information on using Overleaf, and to claim your free upgrade to Overleaf Pro through the Caltech institutional license, please visit the Caltech portal on Overleaf.

Kathy Johnson (Caltech) and Lian Tze Lim (Overleaf)

Caltech Thesis LaTeX Template (without logo) Official

Kathy Johnson (Caltech) and Lian Tze Lim (Overleaf)

Caltech Beamer Template (NEW)

This is the new version of Caltech Beamer Template. The old version used the Caltech Seal, which was not permitted for non-official use any more.

Jian Shi

A quick guide to LaTeX

Know the LaTeX command you want to use but can't remember how to write it? Here we present a great tips sheet produced by Dave Richeson; it's pre-loaded in Overleaf so you can see how the commands work instantly. Simply click on the button above to open a version in Overleaf for editing (and to quickly copy and paste the commands you need!). For more comments visit this page on Dave's site, or if you'd like to work through a fuller introduction to LaTeX why not check out our free online course?

Example by Division by Zero

The Comprehensive LaTeX Symbol List

Source: https://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/info/symbols/comprehensive This has been uploaded to Overleaf by Lian Tze Lim To search the document for the desired symbol, it is easiest to download the PDF from Overleaf and use a local PDF viewer, or to visit: http://texdoc.net/texmf-dist/doc/latex/comprehensive/symbols-a4.pdf

Scott Packin (uploaded by LianTze Lim)

FAQ & Help

Who should I contact if I have questions about Overleaf or the Caltech license?

Please use our contact form and we'll make sure your question gets to the right person in our team. You can direct Caltech-specific questions to research librarians at library@caltech.edu.

I'm new to Overleaf, how should I get started?

We've put together a short How do I use Overleaf help page to give you pointers on exactly that :)

You can also check out upcoming and on-demand webinars

I downloaded the Caltech thesis template from Overleaf but when I try to compile it gives me an error. How can I fix this?

The first thing to try is updating your LaTeX packages, in case you're running older versions. We've tested the template on MikTeX 2.9, TeX Live 2015 and newer on our local computers, and the compilation went through without errors for both.

If that doesn't resolve the problem, please let us know your LaTeX distribution's versions and send us your .log file via our contact form and we'll take a look for you.

How do I upload an existing LaTeX project into Overleaf?

Here's how to import existing LaTeX documents into Overleaf.

What packages does Overleaf support?

Overleaf supports the packages listed here.

Search our FAQ for more help

Resources from Caltech Library

Caltech Library main site: http://library.caltech.edu
Caltech Thesis LibGuide: