# LaTex Guidelines

Most reputable journals and conference proceedings recommend LaTex for scientific writing. This chapter helps you keep consistent formatting in your writings, which has the following benefits:

* Readers can easily follow your content since they do not need to learn a new formatting style.
* You will spend less time writing since you already know what formatting you want to use to present the content.
* Your writings will look professional since the guidelines suggested here have been used to publish numerous papers.

## Contents

* [Getting Started](/ai-research-practicum/supplementary/latex-guidelines/getting-started.md)
* [File Structure](/ai-research-practicum/supplementary/latex-guidelines/file-structure.md)
* [Packages](/ai-research-practicum/supplementary/latex-guidelines/packages.md)
* [References](/ai-research-practicum/supplementary/latex-guidelines/references.md)
* [Paragraphs](/ai-research-practicum/supplementary/latex-guidelines/paragraphs.md)
* [Labels](/ai-research-practicum/supplementary/latex-guidelines/labels.md)
* [Tables](/ai-research-practicum/supplementary/latex-guidelines/tables.md)
* [Figures](/ai-research-practicum/supplementary/latex-guidelines/figures.md)
* [Lists](/ai-research-practicum/supplementary/latex-guidelines/lists.md)


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