In this post, I share a LaTeX template for a journal publication.

The template is from a paper I wrote as the corresponding author for the journal Nuclear Instruments and Methods.

The LaTeX template I share here should hopefully make the process of typesetting your paper easier and faster.
I wrote this paper for Nuclear Instruments and Methods (NIM) which uses the Elsevier class for LaTeX.
So this template should work if you are submitting to a journal that uses the Elsevier class. Lots of them do.

ACTION ITEM 5

Open up a new document using your LaTeX editor. Copy and paste the lines below into the document. Save the file as something like filenameofpaper.tex

Right now, the template is set to make a preprint version for the NIM journal.

Change the name of the journal to the one you are submitting to.

Edit the paper title, author names, and author affiliations.

If you are submitting as the corresponding author, you will need the extra lines that are shown below along with your author name.

documentclass[preprint,12pt]{elsarticle}
usepackage{epsfig}
usepackage{amssymb}
journal{NIM Section A}
usepackage{subfigure}
usepackage{lineno}
usepackage{float}
usepackage{bm}
usepackage{graphicx,epstopdf}
usepackage{titlesec}
titleformat{paragraph}[runin]
{bfseriesscshape}{theparagraph}{1em}{}
setcitestyle{square} 

begin{document}
begin{frontmatter} 
date{today} 
title{Dynamic tunable notch filters for the Antarctic Impulsive Transient Antenna (ANITA)} 
author[OSU] {F.~Lastname} 
author[OSU] {F.~Lastnamecorref{cor1}} 
ead{oindreeb@gmail.com} 
cortext[cor1]{Corresponding author} 
address[OSU] {Dept. of Physics, The Ohio State Univ., Columbus, OH 43210}

begin{abstract}
Note the syntax for the following. They keep coming up. 
Number with units: $>10^{18},mbox{eV}$ 
To avoid separating unit from its number: 45~dB 
Typeset the symbol ~: $sim,mumbox{V-level}$
Angles and degrees: $90^{circ}$
end{abstract}
begin{keyword}
neutrino radio detection sep ultra-high-energy sep notch filtering sep military communications satellites 
end{keyword}
end{frontmatter}
linenumbers
section{Introduction}
subsection{Continuous-wave interference}
section{ANITA Payload}
label{payload} 

begin{figure}[H]
centering
includegraphics[width=1.0textwidth]{anita.pdf}
caption{The ANITA-IV payload just prior to launch at the NASA LDB Facility near McMurdo Station, Antarctica. The red box encloses three antennas that make up a single phi sector.}
label{anita}
end{figure}

begin{figure}[H]
centering
includegraphics[width=1.0textwidth]{anita4systemdiagram.pdf}
caption{The ANITA-IV signal processing chain for a single RF channel.}
label{system}
end{figure}

begin{figure}[H]
centering
subfigure{
includegraphics[width=0.93textwidth]{anita3_threshold_time20_2.pdf}
label{anita3thresholds}
}
>subfigure{
>includegraphics[width=0.93textwidth]{anita4_threshold_time_2.pdf}
label{anita4thresholds}
}
caption[]{SURF DAC thresholds in arbitrary units of DAC counts for a single channel for the ANITA-III (top) and ANITA-IV (bottom) flights. 
}
label{thresholds}
end{figure}

begin{figure}[H]
centering
subfigure{
includegraphics[width=0.93textwidth]{anita3_phimasking.pdf}
label{}
}
subfigure{
includegraphics[width=0.93textwidth]{anita4_phimasking.pdf}
label{}
}
caption[]{Masking in the ANITA-III (top) and ANITA-IV (bottom) flights. 
}
label{phimasking}
end{figure}

Here is a short table I had in the paper:

begin{center}
begin{tabular}{ c c c c c}
 Amplifier & Part name & Gain & Power consumed & Noise figure\
 AMP~1  &  BGA2851 &  $24.8,mathrm{dB}$  & $35,mathrm{mW}$ & $3.2,mathrm{dB}$\ 
 AMP~2  & ADL5545  &  $24.1,mathrm{dB}$ &  $300,mathrm{mW}$ & $2.9,mathrm{dB}$\  
end{tabular}
end{center}

At the end of the document, you want something like the following lines:

section{Future plans}

section{Acknowledgments}
We are grateful to NASA for their support for ANITA through 
Grant NNX15AC20G.....

section{References}
bibliography{references} 
bibliographystyle{elsarticle-num-names.bst}
end{document}

@article{instrPaper,
      author         = "Gorham, P. W. and others",
      title          = "{The Antarctic Impulsive Transient Antenna Ultra-high
                        Energy Neutrino Detector Design, Performance, and
                        Sensitivity for 2006-2007 Balloon Flight}",
      collaboration  = "ANITA",
      journal        = "Astropart. Phys.",
      volume         = "32",
      year           = "2009",
      pages          = "10-41",
      doi            = "10.1016/j.astropartphys.2009.05.003",
      eprint         = "0812.1920",
      archivePrefix  = "arXiv",
      primaryClass   = "astro-ph",
      SLACcitation   = "%%CITATION = ARXIV:0812.1920;%%"
}

 @article{wu,
      author         = { Zhengzheng Wu and Yonghyun Shim and Mina Rais-Zadeh},
      title          =  {Switchable wide tuning range bandstop filters for frequency-agile radios},
      journal        = {IEEE Xplore},
      year           = {2012},
}

 @article{askaryan,
      author         = "Askar'yan, G. A.",
      title          = "{Excess negative charge of an electron-photon shower and
                        its coherent radio emission}",
      journal        = "Sov. Phys. JETP",
      volume         = "14",
      year           = "1962",
      number         = "2",
      pages          = "441-443",
      note           = "[Zh. Eksp. Teor. Fiz.41,616(1961)]",
      SLACcitation   = "%%CITATION = SPHJA,14,441;%%"
}

 @mastersthesis{milsat,
  title = {Comparing the capabilities and performance of the ultra high frequency follow-on system with the mobile user objective system},
  author = {Matassa, C. K.},
  year = {2011},
  school = "Naval Postgraduate School",
  URL = {https://calhoun.nps.edu/handle/10945/5711},
  publisher = {Calhoun}
}

 {labrador,
      author         = "Varner, G. S. and Ruckman, L. L. and Gorham, P. W. and
                        Nam, J. W. and Nichol, R. J. and Cao, J. and Wilcox, M.",
      title          = "{The large analog bandwidth recorder and digitizer with
                        ordered readout (LABRADOR) ASIC}",
      journal        = "Nucl. Instrum. Meth.",
      volume         = "A583",
      year           = "2007",
      pages          = "447-460",
      doi            = "10.1016/j.nima.2007.09.013",
      eprint         = "physics/0509023",
      archivePrefix  = "arXiv",
      primaryClass   = "physics",
      SLACcitation   = "%%CITATION = PHYSICS/0509023;%%"
}

@article{lab4d,
      author         = "Roberts, J. and Oberla, E. and Allison, P. and Varner, G.S. and  Spack, S. and Fox, B. and Rotter, Ben",
      title          = "{LAB4D: A Low Power, Multi-GSa/s, Transient
Digitizer with Sampling Timebase Trimming
Capabilities}",
      journal        = "Nucl. Instrum. Meth.",
      volume         = "1",
      year           = "2017",
      pages          = "12",
      archivePrefix  = "arXiv",
      primaryClass   = "physics",
      SLACcitation   = "%%CITATION = PHYSICS/0509023;%%"
}

 @ARTICLE{ritc,
   author = {{Nishimura}, K. and {Andrew}, M. and {Cao}, Z. and {Cooney}, M. and 
{Gorham}, P. and {Macchiarulo}, L. and {Ritter}, L. and {Romero-Wolf}, A. and 
{Varner}, G.},
    title = "{A low-resolution, GSa/s streaming digitizer for a correlation-based trigger system}",
  journal = "ArXiv e-prints 1203.4178"
  }