United States Military Academy on Overleaf

United States Military Academy is providing free Overleaf Professional accounts for all students, faculty and staff who would like to use a collaborative, online LaTeX editor for their projects. These 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.

Claim your free Overleaf professional upgrade by signing up (or signing in) below. You'll need to verify a USMA email address in order to participate.

IMPORTANT: Overleaf should not be used for sharing or storing high-impact Controlled Unclassified Information (CUI). Overleaf makes no contractual assurances to users of the security of material you place in their cloud servers. USMA expects and authorizes use of Overleaf for collaborating on low-impact CUI material prior to your department's public release review processes.

If you are unsure, or require guidance, USMA encourages you communicate with your research sponsor (as applicable), your department's public release review process administrator, the USMA PAO, or the USMA Security Office. For further information, see also the applicable USMA policies and DOD policies.

Welcome to the 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 Cadets

Try out the Overleaf editor with built in tutorial

Browse the Overleaf template gallery

Take our free course to quickly master the LaTeX essentials

For Staff

Learn more about LaTeX and Overleaf

View our on-demand and live webinars

Edit in Rich Text mode or directly in LaTeX

For Faculty

Find a journal template

Submitting your articles to journals, repositories and more

Collaboration Features

Featured LaTeX Templates

Basic Academic Journal Article Template

This is a basic journal article template which includes metadata fields for multiple authors, affiliations and keywords. It is also set up to use the lineno package for line numbers; these can be turned on by adding the 'lineno' option to the documentclass command.

John Hammersley

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

Book design inspired by Edward Tufte

Edward Tufte is a pioneer in the field of data visualization, and his works inspired the creation of two LaTeX classes for books and handouts. Here we present the excellent sample book produced by the The Tufte-LaTeX Developers pre-loaded into Overleaf (formerly writeLaTeX) for you to use as a starting point for your own work. Simply click the button above to use Overleaf to create and edit your article - there's nothing to install and no sign up required. When you're finished, use our integrated publish to figshare option to publish your work freely online. Click here if you'd like to try the corresponding Tufte handout design on Overleaf. PS: If you're new to LaTeX, our free online LaTeX course covers all the steps you need to get you started.

Example by The Tufte-LaTeX Developers

Standard document

A4 document with page numbering and adjusted margins. Included options for gentium and times font, as well as language.

Christian L.

Metropolis Beamer Theme

Metropolis is originally created by Matthias Vogelgesang and is available from https://github.com/matze/mtheme as well as CTAN. More information about the theme, including the design principles, can be found at http://bloerg.net/2014/09/20/a-modern-beamer-theme.html. This version demonstrates the use of a progress bar under the frame titles. See the manual for other customisation options.

Matthias Vogelgesang