Documentation for iidtitlepage package

TODO: what is it

Package usage

The process of adding the title page to your manuscript is following:

1. Create the PDF file of title page with all the information.
2. Include the title page into your manuscript.

Creating the title page PDF

First, either download the whole iidtitlepage project or clone its git. To change the information on the title page (such as name of the authors, title etc.), edit the file title_page.tex using your favorite editor and follow the LaTeX comments to include the necessary info. Build the title page PDF using pdflatex command.

Including the title page into your manuscript

Copy the generated title page title_page.pdf to directory with your manuscript LaTeX project. Include a pdfpages package into your project

\usepackage{pdfpages}

The following action depends on the journal publisher.

Elsevier

Locate \begin{frontmatter} command and replace it with the following

\begin{frontmatter}
\includepdf[pages=1,fitpaper,noautoscale]{title_page.pdf}

IEEE

Locate \maketitle command and replace it with the following

\null
\includepdf[pages=1,fitpaper,noautoscale]{title_page.pdf}
\maketitle

Springer

If your manuscript is two-column, then locate \maketitle command and replace it with the following

\null
\includepdf[pages=1,fitpaper,noautoscale]{title_page.pdf}
\maketitle

For a single column manuscript, locate \maketitle command and replace it with the following

\pagenumbering{gobble}
\includepdf[pages=1,fitpaper,noautoscale]{title_page.pdf}
\pagenumbering{arabic}
\maketitle