asmeconf: A LaTeX template for ASME conference papers

Reporting Issues

This GitHub site is for reporting issues (bugs, feature requests) for the asmeconf LaTeX template.

For general questions about LaTeX (or Tex Live, Overleaf, etc.), tex-stackexchange is an excellent source of advice.

Downloading the code

The asmeconf files may be downloaded from CTAN: ctan.org/pkg/asmeconf.

This class is also included in standard distributions such as TeX Live, MikTeX, and Overleaf.

Overview

This LaTeX class and BibTeX style provide a template to format ASME Conference papers according to the current requirements on ASME's web pages: www.asme.org/publications-submissions/proceedings/formatting-the-paper

The asmeconf class provides access to many features not available in older LaTeX templates for ASME papers. It is designed to approach the following aims:

• match ASME's font current specifications and layout

• match ASME's current reference formats, and add support for DOI and URL fields (asmeconf.bst replaces asmems4.bst)

• support hyperlinks to figures, tables, equations, references, and external URLs

• support pdf bookmarks and metadata

• set author names and addresses in either the traditional grid or the more recent inline style

• provide line numbers for editing and review

• support balancing of columns on last page

• support PDF/A (archival) standards if desired

• support copyright footer for federal employees and contractors

• enable various math and text features with newtxmath and newtxtext packages

• support bold face, sans serif math in section headings

• support footnotes in section headings

• enable passages in other languages, e.g., for a translation of the abstract or a quotation

• support for many scripts: Latin, Arabic, Bengali, Chinese, Cyrillic, Devanagari, Greek, Hangul, Japanese, Tamil

  The .tex and .cls files are commented and should be self-explanatory.

  The files in this distribution are:

      README.md              --  this file
      asmeconf.cls           --  the class file
      asmeconf.bst           --  bibtex style for current ASME conference format
      asmeconf-template.tex  --  a latex template/example for this class
      asmeconf-template.pdf  --  documentation/sample paper
      asmeconf-sample.bib    --  a sample bibliography file
      *
      sample-figure-1.pdf, 
      sample-figure-2a.pdf, 
      sample-figure-2b.pdf   -- figures for the sample paper
      *
      examples/              -- a directory of examples: 
                                  -- nonlinear ode integration within LaTeX using Lua code
                                  -- fontspec for abstracts in 25 languages in one paper
                                  -- grid-style layout of author names/addresses
                                  -- footers for government employees
                                  -- asmewide.sty and example of use, for two-column equations
  

Author

John H. Lienhard V, Department of Mechanical Engineering, MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA