LaTeX report template

A LaTeX report template for a project report, an internship report or any assignment long enough to need chapters.

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Engine: pdfLaTeX
Bibliography: none
License: Public domain, use freely.

Files:

main.tex

\documentclass[11pt]{report}

\title{A Report Template}
\author{Your Name}
\date{\today}

\begin{document}
\maketitle
\tableofcontents

\chapter{Introduction}
The \texttt{report} class gives you a dedicated title page, a table of
contents, and chapter-level sectioning. Each chapter starts on a new page.

\section{Background}
Set the context for the work here.

\chapter{Method}
Describe the approach, the data, and the setup.

\section{Data}
Summarise where the data came from and how it was prepared.

\chapter{Results}
Present the findings and discuss what they mean.

\chapter{Conclusion}
Wrap up and note directions for future work.

\end{document}

How to use this template

Everything runs in your browser: nothing to install, no login, no compile timeout.

Click Open in LaTeX.to. The template opens as a project in the Projects pane, with main.tex in the editor and its finished PDF in the preview.
Replace the placeholders, such as Your Name, with your own text. The % comments in the files mark the places to edit.
Click Preview, or press Ctrl+Enter (Cmd+Enter on a Mac), to compile. The preview shows the new PDF; you do not need to save first.
If the compile fails, the Console pane opens with the LaTeX log. The first error in it says what went wrong and on which line.
To add an image, a .bib file or another .tex file, open the project's menu (the three dots next to its name in the Projects pane) and choose Upload file or New file.
The arrow next to Preview has Download PDF. Ctrl+S saves your edits, and the project stays in your browser on this device.

How to add a chapter

Chapters and sections number themselves, and the table of contents follows.

Add \chapter{Title} where the chapter belongs, then \section{...} for its sections.
Each chapter starts on a new page, and the table of contents picks it up on the next compile.

How to add references

The file has no bibliography yet, and adding one takes a new file and two lines.

In the Projects pane, open the project's menu, choose New file and name it references.bib.
Add an entry to it, for example @book{knuth1984, author = {Donald E. Knuth}, title = {The {TeX}book}, publisher = {Addison-Wesley}, year = {1984}}.
Before \end{document} in main.tex, add \bibliographystyle{plain} and \bibliography{references}.
Cite the entry with \cite{knuth1984}; BibTeX runs by itself once the \bibliography line is there.

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