Pandoc APA Template

This is a template project for Pandoc designed to help write papers which follow the APA style.

Requirements

• Python 3.8
• Docker
• Make
• Fonts as needed. See more info about fonts below.

Getting started

Use Cookiecutter to quickly scaffold a Pandoc project.

$ pip install --user cookiecutter

$ cookiecutter git@github.com:cg433n/pandoc-apa-template.git

Follow the prompts.

Pull the Docker image.

$ make install

Optional: Copy the fonts which you want to use to fonts/.

Build the PDF.

$ make build

Fonts

Times New Roman is not distributed with this repository as it is copyrighted. It is installed by default with many operating systems.

Times Newer Roman is a nice alternative. APA actually allows you to use several fonts including Computer Modern which is included with LaTeX

References

Add BibTeX style references to references/references.bib. ZoteroBib is a nice tool for generating references which can be downloaded as BibTeX files. I copy and paste the references in BibTeX files to references.bib and use them in main.md by writing [@reference_name, page_number] in your content.