Preparing a manuscript for...

Preparing a manuscript for AIS Conferences...

International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS)
ICIS 2020 Hyderabad, India, December 13-16 (link) - see github for a latex template
2 in UCD OBRSS listing 2018 (2-1)
Not included in Harzing (2017)

Hawaii International Conference on Systems Sciences (HICSS)
HICSS 2019 (link) - overleaf for a latex template
1 in UCD OBRSS listing 2018 (2-1)
Not included in Harzing (2017)

Preparing a manuscript for Emerald

The Learning Organization: The International Journal of Critical Studies in Organizational Learning (link)
2 in UCD OBRSS listing 2018 (2-1)
Not included in Harzing (2016)

Preparing a manuscript for Springer Palgrave MacMillan

Journal of Information Technology (link)
2 in UCD OBRSS listing (2-1)
Position in Harzing (2016): 3 in Ejis 2007 (4-1); 2 in EjisCI 2007 (4-1); 4 in UQ 2007 (1-5); 3 in Ast 2008 (4-1); A in Wie 2008 (A+-A); 2 in Den 2011 (2-1); B+ in HEC 2011 (A-C+); 1 in UQ 2011 (1-4); B in Aeres 2012 (A-C); 3 in Cra 2012 (4-1); A* in Abdc 2013 (A*-C); 2 in Fneg 2013 (1*-4); 3 in ABS 2015 (4*-1); 3 in Cnrs 2015 (1*-4); A in Vhb 2015 (A+-E); 1 in Ess 2016 (0+-3); p* in EJL 2016 (P*-S);

Journal of Information Technology Teaching Cases (JIT's associated case journal) (link)
1 in UCD OBRSS listing (2-1)
Not included in Harzing (2016)

International Journal of Technology and Design Education (link)
2 in UCD OBRSS listing (2-1)
Not included in Harzing (2016)

Preparing a Manuscript for Routledge Taylor & Francis

**European Journal of Information Systems (link)
1 in UCD OBRSS listing (2-1)
Position in Harzing (2017): 3 in Ejis 2007 4-1; 2 in EjisCI 2007 4-1; A in Wie 2008 A+-A; A in HEC 2011 A-C+; 1 in UQ 2011 1-4; 3 in ABS 2015 4*-1; A in Vhb 2015 A+-D; A* in Abdc 2016 A*-C; 1 in Ess 2016 0+-3; P in EJL 2016 P*-S; 1 in Fnege 2016 1*-4; 1 in Cnrs 2017 1*-4; 2 in Den 2017 2-1; A in Hceres 2017 A-C; 

Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research (link)
2 in UCD OBRSS listing (2-1)
Not included in Harzing (2016)

Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education (link)
2 in UCD OBRSS listing (2-1)
Not included in Harzing (2016)

Teaching in Higher Education (link)
1 in UCD OBRSS listing (2-1)
Not included in Harzing (2016)

The Curriculum Journal (link)
2 in UCD OBRSS listing (2-1)
Not included in Harzing (2016)

Preparing a Manuscript for Elsevier

First, read the author guidelines.
Next, review Elsevier's "LaTeX instructions" pages (link)
For reference you will need to consult Elsevier's guide to elsarticle.cls

Journal of Information Systems Education (link)
1 in UCD OBRSS listing (2-1)
Position in Harzing (2016): 4 in UQ 2007 (1-5); 1 in Den 2011 (2-1); 4 in UQ 2011 (1-4); B in Abdc 2013 (A*-C); 1 in ABS 2015 (4*-1); 3 in Ess 2016 (0+-3)

British Journal of Educational Technology (link)
2 in UCD OBRSS listing (2-1)
Position in Harzing (2016): 2 in Ejis 2007 (4-1); 2 in EjisCI 2007 (4-1); 3 in Ast 2008 (4-1), 1 in Den 2011 (2-1); A in Abdc 2013 (A*-C); 2 in ABS 2015 (4*-1)

Computers and Education (link)
2 in UCD OBRSS listing (2-1)
Not included in Harzing (2016)

International Journal of Educational Research (link)
2 in UCD OBRSS listing (2-1)
Not included in Harzing (2016)

**Design Studies (link)
2 in UCD OBRSS listing (2-1)
Not included in Harzing (2017)

Preparing a manuscript for Sage

Ethnography (link)
2 in UCD OBRSS listing (2-1)
Not included in Harzing (2016)

Journal of Management Education (link)

1 in UCD OBRSS listing (2-1)
Position in Harzing (2017): 3 in UQ 2011 (1-4); 2 in ABS 2015 (4*-1); B in Vhb 2015 (A+-D); B in Abdc 2016 (A*-C)
Position in Harzing (2016): 4 in UQ 2007 (1-5); 1 in Den 2011 (2-1); 3 in UQ 2011 (1-4); 2 in Cra 2012 (4-1); B in Abdc 2013 (A*-C); 2 in ABS 2015 (4*-1); B in Vhb 2015 (A+-E)

Simulation & Gaming (link)
1 in UCD OBRSS listing (2-1)
Not included in Harzing (2016)

**Organization (link)
2 in UCD OBRSS listing (2-1)
Position in Harzing (2017) Ejis 2007 4-1 (3), EjisCI 2007 4-1 (3), Wie 2008 A+-A (A), HEC 2011 A-C+ (nil), UQ 2011 1-4 (2), ABS 2015 4*-1 (3), Vhb 2015 A+-D (B), Abdc 2016 A*-C (A), Ess 2016 0+-3 (1), EJL 2016 P*-S (S), Fnege 2016 1*-4 (2), Cnrs 2017 1*-4 (1), Den 2017 2-1 (2), Hceres 2017 A-C (A)

**Organization Studies (link)
2 in UCD OBRSS listing (2-1)

Position in Harzing (2017) 3 in Ejis 2007 4-1; 3 in EjisCI 2007 4-1; A in Wie 2008 A+-A; B+ in HEC 2011 A-C+; 1 in UQ 2011 1-4; 4 in ABS 2015 4*-1; A in Vhb 2015 A+-D; A* in Abdc 2016 A*-C; 0 in Ess 2016 0+-3; P* in EJL 2016 P*-S; 1 in Fnege 2016 1*-4; 1 in Cnrs 2017 1*-4; 2 in Den 2017 2-1; A in Hceres 2017 A-C;

Management Learning (link)
2 in UCD OBRSS listing (2-1)
Position in Harzing (2017) Ejis 2007 4-1 (2), EjisCI 2007 4-1 (2), Wie 2008 A+-A (nil), HEC 2011 A-C+ (B), UQ 2011 1-4 (3), ABS 2015 4*-1 (3), Vhb 2015 A+-D (B), Abdc 2016 A*-C (A), Ess 2016 0+-3 (2), EJL 2016 P*-S (S), Fnege 2016 1*-4 (2), Cnrs 2017 1*-4 (3), Den 2017 2-1 (2), Hceres 2017 A-C (A)

Preparing a manuscript for MIT Press

**Design Issues (link)
2 in UCD OBRSS listing (2-1)
Not included in Harzing (2017)

References

• [Harzing, 2016] Harzing, A. (2016). Journal quality list. Technical report.
• The UCD OBRSS Channel_list.xls

Writing a graphic element: exercise

Simulating hand-drawn elements topic on StackExchange
Writing a graphic element using TikZ and PGF:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{tikz}
\usetikzlibrary{arrows.meta} %to get different arrow tips
%%%<
\usepackage{verbatim}
\usepackage[active,tightpage]{preview}
\PreviewEnvironment{tikzpicture}
\setlength\PreviewBorder{5pt}%
%%%>
\begin{comment}
:Title: LearningTikz
:Tags: examples
:Author: Me
:Slug: Tutorials
Following Crémer_MinimalTikz_2011.pdf
Note default units are centimetres - scale command overrides for output.
Alternatively go to the command line window and type texdoc pgf and choose pgfmanual.pdf if needed from list if it appears.
\end{comment}
\usetikzlibrary{positioning}

\begin{document}
\begin{tikzpicture}[scale=1]
%\begin{tikzpicture}[xscale=2.5,yscale=0.5] % alternate scaling options.
\draw[help lines] (0,0) grid (2,3);
\draw (0,0) -- (1,2) -- (2,3) -- (1,0);
\draw (0,3) -- (1.5, 0.5);
%axes decorations
\draw [<->] (0,3) -- (0,0) -- (2,0);
%decorations on line ends
%can also use thickness commands
%ultra thin, very thin, thin, semithick, thick, very thick and ultra thick 
%and [help lines] to highlight special points
%and [line width= 0.2cm] or [line width= 12] for pt or point widths
%and [dashed], or dotted
%and colours like [red] etc.
\draw [->, ultra thick, red] (0, -0.1) -- (2, -0.1);
\draw [ultra thin, dotted, <-] (0, -0.2) -- (2, -0.2); 
\draw [|->, dashed] (0, -0.3) -- (2, -0.3);
\draw [yellow, line width=6]   (0,0) -- (.5,0);

\end{tikzpicture}

\begin{tikzpicture} 
\draw [yellow, line width=6]   (0,0) -- (.5,0);  
\draw [blue] (0.1,0.1) rectangle (1.6,1.1);
\draw [red, ultra thick] (2.2,0.6) circle [radius=0.5];;
\draw [gray] (4,0.1) arc [radius=1, start angle=45, end angle= 120];
\draw [<->, rounded corners, thick, purple] (0,2) -- (0,0) -- (3,0);
\end{tikzpicture}

\begin{tikzpicture}[xscale=1,yscale=1]
\draw [help lines] (0.6,1.34) -- (0.6,1) -- (1.05,1);
\draw[help lines] (0,0) grid (2,2);
\draw[orange] (0.6, 1.0385) --
(0.61, 1.06372) -- (0.62, 1.08756) -- (0.63, 1.11012) -- (0.64,
1.13147) -- (0.65, 1.15166) -- (0.66, 1.17074) -- (0.67, 1.18874) -- (0.68,
1.20568) -- (0.69, 1.22157) -- (0.7, 1.23643) -- (0.71, 1.25026) -- (0.72,
1.26307) -- (0.73, 1.27486) -- (0.74, 1.28561) -- (0.75, 1.29534) -- (0.76,
1.30402) -- (0.77, 1.31165) -- (0.78, 1.31821) -- (0.79, 1.32369) -- (0.8,
1.32806) -- (0.81, 1.33131) -- (0.82, 1.3334) -- (0.83, 1.33431) -- (0.84,
1.334) -- (0.85, 1.33244) -- (0.86, 1.32956) -- (0.87, 1.32533) -- (0.88,
1.31966) -- (0.89, 1.3125) -- (0.9, 1.30373) -- (0.91, 1.29325) -- (0.92,
1.2809) -- (0.93, 1.26649) -- (0.94, 1.24976) -- (0.95, 1.23032) -- (0.96,
1.2076) -- (0.97, 1.18065) -- (0.98, 1.14763) -- (0.99, 1.1038) -- (0.991,
1.09836) -- (0.992, 1.09261) -- (0.993, 1.0865) -- (0.994, 1.07994) -- (0.995,
1.07282) -- (0.996, 1.06497) -- (0.997, 1.0561) -- (0.998, 1.04563) -- (0.999,
1.03209) -- (0.9991, 1.03042) -- (0.9992, 1.02866) -- (0.9993,
1.02679) -- (0.9994, 1.02478) -- (0.9995, 1.0226) -- (0.9996, 1.02019) -- (0.9997,
1.01747) -- (0.9998, 1.01424) -- (0.9999, 1.01005) -- (0.9999,
1.01005) -- (0.99991, 1.00953) -- (0.99992, 1.00898) -- (0.99993,
1.0084) -- (0.99994, 1.00778) -- (0.99995, 1.0071) -- (0.99996,
1.00634) -- (0.99997, 1.00549) -- (0.99998, 1.00448) -- (0.99999, 1.00317) -- (1,
1) ;
\end{tikzpicture}

\begin{tikzpicture}
\draw[help lines] (0,0) grid (2,2);
\draw[very thick] (0,0) to [out=90,in=195] (2,1.5);
\end{tikzpicture}

\begin{tikzpicture}
\draw[help lines] (0, -0.1) grid (4,1.1);
\draw [<->,thick, cyan] (0,0) to [out=90,in=180] (1,1)
        to [out=0,in=180] (2.5,0) to [out=0,in=-135] (4,1) ;
\end{tikzpicture}

\begin{tikzpicture}[xscale=2,yscale=2]
\draw [<->] (0,0.8) -- (0,0) -- (0.5,0);
\draw[green, ultra thick, domain=0:0.5] plot (\x, {0.025+\x+\x*\x});
\end{tikzpicture}

\begin{tikzpicture}[yscale=1.5]
\draw [help lines, <->] (0,0) -- (6.5,0);
\draw [help lines, ->] (0,-1.1) -- (0,1.1);
\draw [green,domain=0:2*pi] plot (\x, {(sin(\x r)* ln(\x+1))/2});
\draw [red,domain=0:pi] plot (\x, {sin(\x r)});
\draw [blue, domain=pi:2*pi] plot (\x, {cos(\x r)*exp(\x/exp(2*pi))}); 
\end{tikzpicture}

\begin{tikzpicture}[scale=0.5]
\draw [fill=red,ultra thick] (0,0) rectangle (1,1);
\draw [fill=red,ultra thick,red] (2,0) rectangle (3,1);
\draw [blue, fill=blue] (4,0) -- (5,1) -- (4.75,0.15) -- (4,0);
\draw [fill] (7,0.5) circle [radius=0.1];
\draw [fill=orange] (9,0) rectangle (11,1);
\draw [fill=white] (9.25,0.25) rectangle (10,1.5);
\end{tikzpicture}

\begin{tikzpicture}[>=stealth] %see Reference: Arrow Tips in pgfmanual.pdf
\draw [thick, <->] (0,2) -- (0,0) -- (2,0);
\node at (1,1) {yes};
\end{tikzpicture}

\tikz {
\shade [left color=white, right color=red!50] (0,0) rectangle (4,1);
  \draw [ultra thick,-{Circle[open]}] (0,4/5) -- ++ (3.5,0);
  \draw [ultra thick,-{Triangle[open]}] (0,3/5) -- ++ (3,0);
  \draw [ultra thick,-{Triangle[fill=white]}] (0,2/5) -- ++ (3,0);
  \draw [ultra thick, -{Arc Barb[reversed] }] (0,1/5) -- ++ (3,0);
  \draw [ultra thick, -{Rays[n=9]}] (0,0) -- ++ (2.5,0);
}

\begin{tikzpicture}
\draw [thick, <->] (0,2) -- (0,0) -- (2,0);
\draw[fill] (1,1) circle [radius=0.025];
\node [below] at (1,1) {below};
\node [above] at (1,1) {above};
\node [left] at (1,1) {left};
\node [right] at (1,1) {right};
\end{tikzpicture}

\end{document}

Springer manuscript preparation for editors

In this example I will configure the templates for a "contributed book", that is, a book comprised of individually authored chapters or sections, compiled by a small editorial team whose names will be attributed to the book itself. A "contributed book" is a kind of collection. Various copyright situations can arise: the simplest where the authors retain copyright of their personal contributions and the editors copyright pertains to the arrangement of the collection; through to a book in which the copyright for the whole and its parts are 'assigned' to the publisher.

First, your authors will prepare individual manuscripts conforming with the specified guidelines.
Second, incorporate the authors' contributions into the book structure.
Typeset/compile and forward to Springer.

The defined templates, for both Word and LaTeX work pretty much as documented!

In order to compile separate bibliographies chapter by chapter I used chapterbib which allows typesetting of separate chapter level references.

\usepackage{chapterbib}

Using the Springer template the following example assumes editor.tex is the organising structure:

\mainmatter %%%%%%%%%
\include{part}
\include{author_01}
\include{author_02}

Run typesetting from the commandline for each chapter as in the controlling editor.tex; you will need to introduce additional bibtex commands to the usual process e.g.:

latex editor
bibtex author_01
bibtex author_02
latex editor
latex editor

Just to note, ensure each author uses different label names for figures, tables, crossrefs etc. to avoid name clashes on typesetting the entire book. Similarly they should use unique bibliography filenames so that these files can coexist in a shared folder. Subfolders for figures etc will need to be accessible at the level of editor.tex.

Further reading
The Springer guidelines

Efficient way to anonymise interviewee identities for academic research

The question was discussed on tex.stackexchange.com

I'm looking for an efficient way to anonymise interviewee identities using a pseudonym list.
Case studies often use direct quotation from interviews and observational data.
In these cases it is usual to identify the speakers using a pseudonym and/or role label.
Anonymisation attempts to preserve the privacy of research subjects, following the 'do no harm' principle of social and human sciences research ethics.
Using a pseudonym preserves source attribution (i.e. justifies that the quote is an example of actual empirical evidence).

I expect that this requirement is a bit like creating a glossary, a register of names or list keywords used in a document (i.e. create-a-register-of-persons-with-biblatex or create-a-register-of-persons-with-references)

I imagine writing the quotes with correct attribution in my latex document, and they will be replaced when typesetting.
Something like \person{joe} and \personrole{ceo} and a catalogue command like \dramatispersonae that produces a register of the pseudonyms and their roles in a section, somewhat like a glossary, or characters of a play, the dramatis personae.

Perhaps I could do this with bibtex, but I need to the dramatis personae to be separate from the bibliography.

Notes:
I'm not referring to approaches for censoring, redacting or 'blinding' text (i.e. efficient-ways-to-anonymize-a-document)

{best-practices} {journal-publishing} {bibliography}

Fonts on Mac

Use Font Book to install, view and manage fonts.
Located in the applications folder.
Open Font Book, or double-click a font file.

Q: How to make a MS Word document look like it has been typeset in LaTeX?

Mac Instructions only Based on James Lingard's MS Word template page.
Lingard's template file (LaTeX.dot) can be used to produce documents that look a lot like they've been typeset in TeX/LaTeX but you'll need to install the Computer Modern TrueType versions of fonts used by LaTeX to make them available in MS Word.

Installing the fonts:

1. Download the minimum set: cmr10.ttf, cmbx12.ttf and cmbx10.ttf and other suggested tt files (e.g. bakoma true type fonts) Other examples: https://guides.lib.jmu.edu/freemedia/font and  https://www.1001fonts.com/ and more... 
2. Once downloaded on the Mac, go to the download location and open the files by double-clicking. This starts Font Book which opens the tt (TrueType) font file. Font Book is included with OS/X. Basic instructions on using Font Book from Apple.
3. Font Book provides a small display of the font and gives an option to "Install Font" via the button at bottom right of the window. 
4. Click Install Font; Font Book then checks/validates the font. You might need to review warnings, all trivial as far as I make it, after which the font is now available for Mac applications to use. 
5. The next time you open MS Word it will spend 30s or so updating its font listing. 

User installed fonts view in Font Book

Installing the Template:
Mac instructions only: You add Lindgard's LaTeX.dot file to the appropriate templates folder:
MS Word template location. From the Finder menu; Finder>Go>Go to Folder...

~/Library/Application Support/Microsoft/Office/User Templates/My Templates

Then create a new MS Word document based on the template via:

1. From the MS Word menu bar: File > New from Template... 
2. The MS Word "Document Gallery" window opens... 
3. Select "My Templates" in the navigation pane... 
4. Select the template named "LaTeX" 

Word Document Gallery: New from Template. Chose LaTeX

Your new document is now using Lindgard's stylesheet in MS Word, which should also be using the bakoma TrueType fonts. The screen and output should now mimic a LaTeX typeset document very closely.

Why use referencing standards when citing others' work?

The question, of referencing standards, now a commonplace in all University level scholarship, is rarely posed. Usually students and scholars accept unquestioningly that papers must use Numbered or Harvard or APA style referencing conventions when writing and citing other work. But why? Why are we compelled to use tools like EndNote,  Zotero, LaTex and BibTex And how did the standards they use come together? Before getting too deeply into referencing for your own writing you might be interested in a brief history of online reference catalogs.

Libraries were the first organisations to grapple with the opportunities and issues of managing large volumes of semi-structured information management. Stewardship of art, books, manuscripts, maps, recordings, and other textual, graphic and sensory artefacts ultimately necessitates setting up some means of identification and storage of such things.

Lists give way to card indexes, indexes become catalogues, catalogues become databases and databases become collections of databases continuously changing in scope and temporal fixity. 

Ultimately the catalogue or database becomes an information artefact needing organisation and management itself. Libraries were therefore early adopters of computing technology, shifting indexes and catalogs to electronic form thereby reducing the cost and effort of searching for and retrieving details of publications held in the library. Electronic access reduced search and catalog errors in details like the correct title, author and publisher names; plus they provided information on the physical storage location of the title.

However, no library has the resources available to carry a copy of each and every book ever printed (or journal, publication, recording etc), so libraries naturally started to share catalog information. As libraries shared catalog information they generated a dynamic for standardising the representation of the very same catalog index information. Publishers too, with their own catalogues of respected books, journals and proceedings, discovered that they could sell or distribute this information to libraries too; ultimately for use by students, academics and researchers who in turn would order publications of interest to them. Professional organisations also found there was value to be got from providing their catalogs electronically, which in turn allowed readers to search through selectively order journal articles, books or other publications.

Initially each database was organised as its creator saw fit, suiting their own narrow needs, then those of other end-users. Eventually the means of referencing, organising, or cataloging was recognised as a kind of intellectual property in its own right, conferring competitive advantage and thus a way of controlling access, and possibly charge (high) fees (or rents?) for the right to use it. Complicating this somewhat, particular ways of organising formation for one group might not make sense to another group, thus different standards were proposed (and are still used) for referencing Medical, Geological, Physics, Maths, Sociology, Business etc. Over time the benefits of standardisation became compelling as librarians and end users struggled to access, and accumulate information straddling a variety of sources in a variety of formats with differing levels of detail. Even so there remains a degree of resistance to standardisation as organisations sought markets for the catalogues they had gathered and organised. "What would happen to their market share if anyone could use their format! Catalogues were initially distributed via floppy disk, CDROM and via networks".

The subsequent history of online library catalogues is in many ways a history of the Internet. The Z39.50 protocol was devised for searching and retrieving publication reference information from remote catalogs (also see oclc.org). The first network service and catalogue tools were Telnet, Gopher and WAIS. Most likely you have never heard of these technologies but they were the precursors to the Internet. Tools, used by librarians and academics, they supported academic communication, research, writing and publication. In the current age of commercial and open source co-existence, technology groups like #BibLibre continue the development of open library catalogue and circulation software http://shar.es/1XZvBT while generating revenues through consulting.

Writing articles: LaTeX and BibTex mechanics

(CTAN, a meta-level resource for all things TeX www.ctan.org/)
Step 1:
MacTeX packages for Mac. Install MacTeX, after which do the following (this is a synopsis of the Read Me First file).

• Add shortcut to /Applications/Tex/TeXShop
• Select 'Templates' (top right pulldown menu) and select 'LaTeX Template'.
• Select 'Tyepset' button to compile your first pdf file. The console will display messages as the document is compiled. Then the Typeset window appears with your shiny new pdf file. Nice.
• Update the edit window with content and re-Typeset your document.
• Repeat until finished.
• Housekeeping: Use the Tex Live Utility to keep Tex up to date.
• Next steps: Organise your writing by structuring the source document(s).

Step 2:

Test your ability to display and typeset extended (double byte) characters... 

\newfontfamily{\A}{Geeza Pro}
\newfontfamily{\H}[Scale=0.9]{Lucida Grande}
\newfontfamily{\J}[Scale=0.85]{Osaka}

Here are some multilingual Unicode fonts: this is Arabic text: {\A السلام عليكم}, this is Hebrew: {\H שלום}, \& here's some Japanese: {\J 今日は}, \& “Allen’s” good idea of; “a quote of “a quote””. And for some European extended characters in words like Sé, Münster, agøn.

Step 3:

Use BibDesk, (included in MacTeX) a BibTeX compliant reference/citation manager for Mac.
LaTeX/Bibliography Management for instructions and background. My preferred cite key format is %a23%y%u2. Some quick points below...

• MIT's 'knowledge base' has the basic examples.
• The 'embedded' system is the use of very basic 'hand-rolled' references generated by including a section in the same file you write the article in i.e. \begin{thebibliography}{1}...
• BibTeX is the more sensible approach. A text file flat database. A text file designated *.bib file and containing BibTeX standard compliant references. Start by adding references to a .bib file in the same directory/folder as your .tex file.
• Direct the .tex file to use a .bib file in another directory/folder, e.g. directory\bibliography{../BibDesk/FooBar}
• Don't forget, to compile the citations in TexShop requires generating intermediate files so you have to run 4 typesetting commands in sequence...
1. Run <Typeset> LaTeX 
2. Run <Typeset> BibTeX 
3. Run <Typeset> LaTeX 
4. Run <Typeset> LaTeX

Step 4:
Organise your document architecture by putting this in a chapter or subsection document, and typesetting/compiling the book. Use something like...

\chapter{Introduction}
You would usually put the main content in separate files.
\input ../chapters.sections/intro.tex

Learnings

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Q: What happens when you start seeing Error messages in the console like...

Fatal fontspec error: "cannot-use-pdftex" 

A: You're probably using unicode or extended characters in words like "li stop using ("latex" or "pdflatex") and switch to XeTeX or LuaTeX for the typesetting engine (i.e. "xelatex" or "lualatex" from the command line or Typeset button.
A: I had a problem where when I save the file the unicode characters were corrupted. The problem was resolved within TeXShop Preferences by selecting Encoding>Unicode (UTF-8) rather than ISO Latin.

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Q: What happens if you see...

! Misplaced alignment tab character &.l.29 And now for an ampersand &

A: You should look for and replace & with \& in the text or in the BibTeX file (which injects title text into your processed typeset files).

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Q: I'm seeing problems with accents, apostrophes and quotation marks being replaced by ? in the generated files.

A: Check first that you've got a problem, enter the text below and compile the document to PDF to verify that quotation marks and apostrophes in your edit environment are recognised...

"Alice laughed: "There's no use trying," she said; "one can't believe impossible things."
"I daresay you haven't had much practice," said the Queen. "When I was younger, I always did it for half an hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast."

Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland.

When LaTeX produces ? where you expected quotation marks then change the preferences for representing special text characters. On a Mac you configure this via System Preferences>Keyboard>Text, select Use smart quotes and dashes, choose the appropriate substitution, usually the more vertical looking characters.
The more usual means of producing quote marks in LaTeX is to use the ` and ' (or pairs of them as per `` and '') characters (see TCD Maths dept. link for more detail). A reason for using this approach is that other less complex LaTex renderers will understand the command -- such as that used for generating previews in BibDesk.

Q: My latex .tex files appear to be corrupted by strange characters where I expect to see " or ' even though the generated PDF file seems fine.
A: Another complication due to copy/paste from MS Word and Powerpoint. MS has it's own internal non-standard approach for handling quotation characters, apostrophes etc.; using for example "â\x{80}\x{98}" to represent inverted quotes.
I don't like seeing this in my tex. The way to clear it up is to post process the text or manually clean it using TextWrangler or similar editing environment.

Q: Apostrophes aren't being displayed in the typeset pdf?
This is a problem on the Mac. An nice explanation and solution from Richard Koch via Andy Ruina (link)

"Apple turns “Smart Quotes” on by default. So the code to remember settings has the side effect that “Smart Quotes” are now on unless the user turns them off. Many of these items in the “Substitutions” menu make little sense for TeX. For example, Smart Quotes inserts non-ascii characters into the source which looks correct on the screen by aren’t recognized by TeX. So the addition of this menu wasn’t really necessary except for a few of the most obscure items, which a few users requested. OK: So here’s the solution. Turn “Smart Quotes” off."

If using CSQUOTES

\usepackage{csquotes}

Use \enquote{text} to place quotation marks around the directly quoted text.

Use

\begin{displayquote}

\end{displayquote}

---

Further reading and useful resources

• ShareLaTeX has nearly everything, instructions, templates, hints etc. (e.g. Tufte-style template)
• A nice introduction to the elements, markup and commands in manage figures and graphics within a document.
• Extra commentary and tips on TeX at howtoTeX
• MiKTeX (one of the packages for PC)
• The basic conventions of LaTeX markup (assumes command line use)
• MIT library videos on using citation managers: EndNote, Mendely, and Zotero
• Eduardo Marisca on the tools and mechanics for writing a thesis document.
• MIT thesis templates for LaTex
• Additional information on Zotero, LaTex and BibTex from the MIT library
• Zotero.org for managing references, notes on the references, and generating citation style stub markup for BibTex (and maybe other citation generator tools too).
• The LaTeX Font Catalogue (for font inspiration!)
• John Owens' very good tips on citation
• Use CiteSeerX for title, author academic article searches

ICIS Template

Ryan Schuetzler's excellent template for ICIS 2015 on GitHub

ECIS Template

The Latex templates for submissions for ECIS 2015 - European Conference on Information Systems.

If you need to troubleshoot your configuration use the command line, for example run the 4 typesetting commands in sequence...

pdflatex
biber
pdflatex
pdflatex

Citation examples from the ECIS template copied below. Important bits in bold to emphasise the convention...

This is a normal text paragraph. This is a complementary sentence. This is a complementary sentence. Here is a footnote.\footnote{Footnotes are not recommended, but if used, look like this.} Citations should be in Harvard style. For example: \citet{markus.1988} is used often, and these two refs for information systems development \citep{avison.1995,Delfmann2007a} are used more commonly. \citet[p.~275]{kautz.1994} is an important paper, too. citet{Delfmann2007a} is also good, Geron, too \citep{Geron2013}. Please, let's not forget \citet{Mendling2005}! And with the page reference \citep[pp. 3]{Off2001aa}

With the appropriate bibliography file this snippet should produce text formatted as below...

This is a normal text paragraph. This is a complementary sentence. This is a complementary sentence. Here is a footnote.1 Citations should be in Harvard style. For example: Markus and Robey (1988) is used often, and these two refs for information systems development(Avison and Fitzgerald, 1995; Delfmann, 2007) are used more commonly. Kautz and McMaster (1994, p. 275) is an important paper, too. Delfmann (2007) is also good, Geron, too (Geron, 2013). Please, let’s not forget Mendling and Nüttgens (2005)! And with the page reference (OTDR, 2001, pp.3)
1 Footnotes are not recommended but if used look like this.

Q: endnotes and footnotes
\usepackage{endnotes} % to add endnotes at the end of the document or sections

"Should I add my endnote/footnote at the end of the sentence or after the quote mark?"\endnote{The endnote/footnote mark should be placed outside the punctuation if it relates to the whole sentence or statement}

\theendnotes

Q: A quick correct way to make a bold or italic (or bold italic)?
Use \textit{for text italic} and \textbf{for text bold} and something like \textit{for some italic and \textbf{bold italic}}.

Q: @misc is your default catch-all type in BibTeX (link).
Note, this is also an example of using an organisation name as author using single or double curly braces...

@misc{dg,
    author = {{Detroit Gazette}},
    note = {1817--1830. Microfilm edition, Detroit Gazette Collection,
 c.~123, XYZ University Library, University Town, State},
}

Q: How to make a multi-paragraph block of text render in italic? (link)
The following is just one of many approaches possible...

{\em
Think of the essay as presenting an extended introduction to an area rather than presenting an entire research project.  

Have you identified similar analyses?
}

Q: How to force a new page or page break?

\newpage

Q: How to turn off or supress suppress first page number for an article?
Just after \maketitle command

\maketitle
\thispagestyle{empty} %suppresses page number on this page (the first page)

Q: How to align page numbers in article left or right hand side for an article?
In the preamble...

\usepackage{fancyhdr} % to customize the footer/header
% Turn on the style
\pagestyle{fancy}
% Clear the header and footer
\fancyhead{}
\fancyfoot{}
% Set the right side of the footer to be the page number
\fancyfoot[R]{\thepage}

Q: A way to handle quotation and quote marks?
Most simple (no quote marks) is

\begin{quote} Some basic quote I want in an inline indented paragraph \end{quote}

If you have package csquotes (context sensitive quotation package) in the style sheet... (see pdf of csquotes guide) then you can use additional commands to also handle quotation marks and formatting.

\usepackage[threshold=5,thresholdtype=words]{csquotes} % e.g. use smart quotes with a threshold level of 5 words before block indentation kicks in

\enquote{some arbitrary text I want enclosed in quotation marks}

\blockquote{For automatically setting off \emph{and} indenting a formal quotation that exceeds a standard length e.g. 40 characters, accompanied by a citation. The bill of 1657 provided an extensive framework for a postal service’s necessary rights and obligations, while also accounting for misuse. A sentence to bring the quotation size up to the threshold. \cite[67]{EngWal1657aa}} 

\textquote{For formal quotations accompanied by a citation. \cite[67]{EngWal1657aa}} 

Q: Changes to my TexShop Settings?

I've used the following default settings for recent TexShop updates.

defaults write TeXShop FixLineNumberScroll NO

defaults write TeXShop SourceScrollElasticity NO

defaults write TeXShop FixPreviewBlur YES

Note, if you want to see the full list of defaults, from a console enter...

defaults read TeXShop

Q: I want to typeset URLs and emails in the text?

\usepackage{hyperref} % To create hyerlinks/crosslinks, used by other packages
\usepackage{url} % To display messy character strings usual for web and email addresses

Then use, for example \url{http:\\www.apple.com} for URLs, emails etc within the body of the text.
Or can use \href{https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/3568/how-does-one-typeset-a-url}{tex.stackexchange.com link}} - this example associates the link with the specified text in brackets.

Q: The bibliography doesn't display web references or URLs in the way I wanted? -or the way UCD wants (link)?
A general solution to the problem when using BibDesk is to use the custom Note field for BibTeX. You add it in BibDesk via the preferences>default fields>advanced edit> and by adding Note as an optional field for all Types. So, enter the reference as 'misc' in bibdesk, with Howpublished as 'web page'. Then add something like as follows in the Note field...

Title: Healthcare associated infections  

Howpublished: web page

Author: {Health Service Executive} 

Year: 2013

Note: Retrieved from http://www.hse.ie/go/hcai/ (Accessed on 23rd Nov. 2015)

Then the generated bibliography typesets it as expected for Harvard style using 'agsm', thus...

Health Service Executive (2013), ‘Healthcare associated infections’, web page. Retrieved from http://www.hse.ie/go/hcai/ (Accessed on 23rd Nov. 2015). 

Q: Underscores in URLs messing up bibliography generation?
Sometimes you'll get the following when you typeset

"latex entry type isn't style-file defined web url" or even worse, underscores producing strange error messages at the bbl stage like Missing $ inserted?

A workaround using BibDesk is via the preferences>Opening and Saving>Custom Character Conversions Edit>Unicode to Tex conversion> and add underscore "_" as a unicode character to be converted to Tex "\_"
May also need...

\usepackage{url}  % needed for urls in references…

And can use the Note field in BibDesk for the URL if needed

In utter desperation you can escape text to force it to typeset as entered...
{\url{http://www.quit.ie/en/1_in_every_2_smokers}}

Q: Writing accents in bibliography entries? 
See How to write “ä” and other umlauts and accented letters in bibliography?

Q: Online collaborative TeX/LaTeX/BibTeX services?

• Overleaf
• writeLaTeX
• ShareLaTeX
• Authorea

Q: A beautiful template for a timeline?
See How can you create a vertical timeline? on tex.stackexchange.com

Q: Superscripts and Subscripts in text?
_{4} for a subscript, and ^{2} for a superscript.

Q: Special symbols like trademark and copyright? see http://www.tex.ac.uk/FAQ-tradesyms.html
They are: \textcopyright, \textregistered and \texttrademark
But to get superscript displaying well use math mode \textsuperscript rather than ^.

\textsuperscript{\textregistered}

But you will need \usepackage{amsmath} in the preamble.

Q: Write a math symbol or expression in-line with normal TeX?
The example below:
\begin{document}
4,000 words $ \pm $ 10\%
\end{document}

Q: Dashes might 'do my head in', but here's the short version from tex.stackexchange.com.
In (La)TeX, (1) - gives you a hyphen, (2) -- an en dash, and (3) --- an em dash.

Q: Adding graphics and figures? I ended up using basic figure and floatrow for more control e.g. side by side figures (see tex.stackexchange.com)
Examples as follows

\begin{figure}[H]
\includegraphics[width=\textwidth]{data/timelines/posttimeline_1400-1700.pdf}
  \caption{Postal innovations 1400-1700}
\label{fig:timeline1400}
\end{figure}

and...

\usepackage{floatrow}
...
  \begin{figure}[!ht]
    \centering
    \begin{floatrow}
      \ffigbox[\FBwidth]{\caption{Dummy figure}\label{fig:dummy-1}}{%
        \includegraphics[width=.48\textwidth]{image1.jpg}
      }
      \ffigbox[\FBwidth]{\caption{Dummy figure}\label{fig:dummy-2}}{%
        \includegraphics[width=.48\textwidth]{image2.jpg}
      }
    \end{floatrow}
  \end{figure}

Q: I want to compile or include another pdf page as a page within my typeset document?

\usepackage{pdfpages}
.... % then later in the document...
\includepdf[pages=-]{filename.pdf} % or use [pages=1,3,5] to specify the pages included

Q: How do I cross reference the tables and figures, in text, that I've labelled like the one above? (n.b. needs \usepackage{hyperref})

This first timeline (\nameref{fig:timeline1400}) commences as illustrated (see figure~\ref{fig:timeline1400}, page~\pageref{fig:timeline1400}). The timeline \nameref{fig:timeline1400} provides a summary view of the entire period. 

To produce...

This first timeline (Postal innovations 1400-1700) commences as illustrated (see figure 5.2, page 17)

Q: Itemized lists of things?
Example Copied from the ECIS template. Note you gain some control over appearance of itemize icons (see question on tex.stackexchange.com).

\usepackage{enumitem} % to change itemize bullet icons 

You can use lists, both unnumbered and numbered. They can also be nested. Here is an unnumbered list:

\begin{itemize}
\item This is an item in the first level list.
\item This is another item.
  \begin{itemize}
  \item Here we are in the second level.
  \item This is another item.
  \end{itemize}
\item And a third item on the first level.
\end{itemize}

Here is a numbered list:

\begin{enumerate}
\item This is an item in the first level list.
\item This is another item.
  \begin{enumerate}
  \item Here we are in the second level.
  \item This is another item.
  \end{enumerate}
\item And a third item on the first level.
\end{enumerate}

And the following is a description sequence. And this case shows \setlength{itemsep}{0} being used to control the line separation distance (default appears to be double or 1.5 line?):

\begin{description}
 \setlength{\itemsep}{0pt}
 \item[First] When counting go to ‘on’ (or ‘off’)
 \item[Second] When finished go to ‘on’ (or ‘off’)
 \item[Third] Hold finished state for ‘count’\dots
\end{description}

And the following is useful for multi-line code snippets or other textual statements you want to set off from the paragraph format...

\begin{verbatim}
When counting go to ‘on’ (or ‘off’)
When finished go to ‘on’ (or ‘off’)
Hold finished state for ‘count’
\end{verbatim} 

And the \verb command does the same in-line. Any text between a pair of your chosen marker characters is rendered like a small snippet of code. Of course your selected marker character cannot be in the actual text or you won't achieve the desired effect. Try reading the source code for the documentation for \verb; head-wrecking!).

\verb#some arbitrary text#

Q: Using tables?
Review the LaTeX/Tables page on wikibooks.org
Here's an example, partially generated at http://www.tablesgenerator.com/#  with modifications suggested from the LaTeX/Tables guide.

\begin{table}[h]
\begin{tabular}{  | p{4cm}| p{8cm} |}
\hline
\textbf{Data gathered} & \textbf{Volume/quantity} \\ \hline
Observation (video and audio recordings) & 36 episodes, approximately 113 hours (partially\\ transcribed and coded) \\ \hline
Observation (personal notes) & 7 research log books, handwritten \\ \hline
Interviews & 25 (partially transcribed) \\ \hline
Corporate documentation and artefacts & Extensive document archive and database access \\ \hline
\end{tabular}
\caption{Summary of field data gathered at the case site}
\label{tab:research-data}
\end{table}

Q: Can I draw a table more like a graphic than a spreadsheet?
Using TikZ you can place coloured boxes with text at defined coordinates on a page. It requires you to have an idea of the dimensions and desired layout. This template by Laurent Dutriaux is a good example (http://www.texample.net/tikz/examples/timetable/).

Q: I want section of text to flow in columns (not the whole document)
This instruction on ShareLatex was useful (link).
In the preamble put

\usepackage{multicol} % To introduce a multicolumn section
% \setlength{\columnsep}{1cm} % If needed to control column characteristics

In the document use

\begin{multicols}{2}
Some text etc.
\end{multicols}

Q: Adding an Index?
A very basic version explained at ShareLaTeX (link); also see Cambridge University's AuthorNet.

% the following are the index configuration commands,
usepackage{imakeidx} % this package is for generating an index;
% config in 2 column format, a vertical rule, and index entry in the toc.
\makeindex[columns=2, title=Alphabetical Index, intoc, columnseprule] 
\begin{document} 

In your text use the following motif to mark index entries: \index{keyword}, a complex phrase\index{a complex phrase} or \index{keyword.qualifier}. For example the index\index{index} and a indices\index{index.plural}.
Finally include the following before the end of the document.

\printindex % before the end of the document.
\end{document}

Q: Adding a Glossary?
Two ways: 1) hand roll a glossary using an \item[Term]This is a standard term motif or 2) include \usepackage{glossaries} etc.

Q: Enabling hyperlinking in the PDF file. See explanation at ShareLaTeX (link).
In other words cross reference links between instances of marked words or objects and their indices like toc, lists of figures etc

\usepackage{hyperref} % note should usually be the last package to be imported.

Q: I want an un-numbered (non numbered) section title
Use \section*{Abstract} (for example)

Q: I want to start section numbering at an arbitrary number?
In the preamble include the commands

\usepackage{tocloft}
\setcounter{section}{-1}

Q: Problem with double surname which doesn't wrap properly (overhangs) page justification. 
A: This is the bibtex two part surname page justification problem. Take the example of Knorr Cetina, K. (1999). Epistemic Cultures: How the Sciences Make Knowledge. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Use curly braces to fix the typesetting overhang problem in my bibtex entry (reminder, I use BibDesk). Change Author field from Knorr Cetina, Karin to {Knorr Cetina}, Karin.

Q: How do I make a long dash or hyphen to separate parenthetical sentence clauses?
- : hyphen, to hyphenate or make a compound word; in common use.
-- : en-dash, to make a mid-sized dash, for ranges e.g. pages 5--23, might also be used to link a prefix with a compound word, or to identify a speaker of a quotation that isn't included in a bibliography; infrequently used.
--- : em-dash, to make a long dash, might be used to set off a sentence or paragraph from an in-sentence heading, or it might be used to indicate dramatic pause; rarely used.

Q: I want to change the default line spacing setting for my document.
A: For example, in the preamble use

\linespread{value}

Where values range: 1.0 (single spacing), 1.3 (one-and-a-half spacing) 1.6 (double spacing)

A: Alternatively, in the preamble you can add the command

\doublespacing % or \onehalfspacing % comment out both to keep single spacing

Q: I want to configure how first and following paragraphs start (indent or not)
A: By default LaTeX typesets documents with first paragraph on newline, following paragraph in section on indent. To change... add or uncomment the following config commands in the preamble (see the related discussion on http://tex.stackexchange.com/)

%\usepackage[parfill]{parskip} % typeset all paragraphs on new lines not indents.
%\usepackage{indentfirst} % to indent first paragraphs of sections

Q: I want to change the font size for some text in my document?
A: (from http://texblog.org/)LaTeX knows several font size modifier-commands (from biggest to smallest):

\Huge
\huge
\LARGE
\Large
\large
\normalsize (default)
\small
\footnotesize
\scriptsize
\tiny

 And use the following for a sentence or paragraph

\begin{footnotesize}
For a paragraph you wanted in smaller sized text.
\end{footnotesize}

Q: I have an article without a defined keyword command, how can I add keywords?
A: (from http://tex.stackexchange.com/) Werner wrote: use \providecommand instead of \newcommand to accommodate the possibility that the document class you're using has defined \keywords already. \providecommand will only define it if not already defined.

\providecommand{\keywords}[1]{\textbf{\textit{Keywords ---}} #1} 

Then within the {document} section, after \end{abstract} use

\begin{keywords}
Postal Service, Ireland, Address, social history
\end{keywords} 

A: This example (from http://tex.stackexchange.com/) shows how to change the abstract title word, from Abstract to something else.
In the preamble include

\renewcommand{\abstractname}{Overview}

Q: How do I indent a whole paragraph within the document without messing around with the environment?
A: (from http://tex.stackexchange.com/) Use either minipage or \narrower or various other approaches.

Q: How do I change the colour of some words?

\usepackage{color} % in the preamble
and \textcolor{blue}{easily} in the body

(see using colours tips on the ShareLatex page)

Q: I want to move text to the bottom of a page leaving space between the paragraphs at the top and those at the bottom?
For this you need to use the vertical placement commands (see the StackExchange article)
Vertical spaces:

\smallskip, \medskip, \bigskip and \vfill

Q: Copying text from pdf can't copy some character combinations (ff, fl, fi)
Can I generate pdf without using ligatures?
Damn, I have to turn off all the fancy font stuff to stop ligatures, which also ends up killing extended character sets. Might not work, but from StackExchange...

\usepackage{fontspec}
\defaultfontfeatures{Ligatures=NoCommon} 

The fontspec package (documentation p. 29) keeps sticking its nose into the generated text with settings \defaultfontfeatures{Mapping=tex-text} or [Mapping=tex-text] on specific fonts...

Bibliography Stuff

Important! There are two main approaches to handling bibliography commands in LaTeX, natbib and biblatex. They are different, they have different complementary packages, and use different commands. Choose and use one for any particular paper and then stick with it!

Q: I want to compile separate bibliographies chapter by chapter?
Use chapterbib for separate chapter level references.

\usepackage{chapterbib}

Then for each chapter included in the controlling document.tex you will need to issue a separate command during the usual process e.g.

latex book
bibtex chapter_01
bibtex chapter_02
latex book
latex book

Natbib relevant material: (read background on stackexchange)

Q: I want to change the style of the generated bibliography? 
\bibliographystyle{apalike}% or plainnat or apalike or agsm (both Harvard style kinds)

Q: I want textual and parenthetical citations
Natbib offers two basic citation commands \citet and \citep, for textual and parenthetical citations respectively.

Q: What is the minimal preamble for natbib?

\usepackage[round]{natbib} % needed for Harvard style of references.
\bibliographystyle{agsm} % Set your referencing style, in this case agsm and apalike are both Harvard like.
\bibliography{../bibtex/my_ref_file} % path to the .bib file, just don't add .bib

 Q: What does \nocite{} do?
Use before \bibliography{../bibtex/my_ref_file}
\nocite{*} % adds all references in the database into the bibliography, not advisable but sometimes useful
If used with a specific \nocite{citekey} it includes the reference in the bibliography even though not actually cited in the article.

 Q: message when typesetting a tex file when using TeXShop.

"Cannot find control file something.bcf did you pass the "backend=biber" option to BibLaTeX?"

The message occurs when the tex file or other configuration files specify one BibTeX engine while TeXShop specifies another.

For example if the Engine settings in TeXShop prefs specify 'biber' rather than 'bibtex' while the tex file includes...

\usepackage[round]{natbib}

Conversely another tex file might use a class file to manage styles (.cls), specifying biber like so...

\RequirePackage[backend=biber]{biblatex}

In order to typeset from within TexShop, your prefs need to be changed to achieve agreement between the typesetting environment and the parameter in your file, e.g.:biber rather than bibtex, or bibtex rather than biber.

The problem does not occur when compiling from the command line using the desired BibTex engine.

Q: Bibliography showing “and” instead of “&”
Use the following command after loading natbib and agsm to get the citations and bibliography to display '&' instead of 'and'. \newcommand\harvardand{\&}

Q: Change the title for the References section if using \printbibliography

\printbibliography[title={REFERENCES}]

Q: Change the title for the References section if using \bibliography?
Alternatively (if using natbib) renew the bibname command in the preamble

\renewcommand\bibname{Reference}

Q: I want to change the line spacing and the spacing between references in the bibliography?
In the preamble

\usepackage[round]{natbib}                    %! needed for Harvard style of references.
\setlength{\bibsep}{40pt} % an option for natbib, separation between references.

 And towards the end of your document, for single spaced references (this one starts on a newpage)...

\newpage
 \begin{singlespace}
\bibliography{../path_to_references} % Your .bib file
\end{singlespace}

Biblatex relevant material:

Q: Can I expand a citation entry midway through my document to display the full reference to the book or article?
A: Use the bibentry package as mentioned in http://stefaanlippens.net/bibentry (p.s. I think this utilises the \defbibentry commands described in the biblatex package documentation).
Example; in the preamble use

\usepackage{bibentry} % what it says
\nobibliography* % tells bibentry to (re)use the bibliographic data from the standard BibTeX

Then later use

\bibentry{foo} % for an inline bibliographic entry

And I found that I needed to revert to plainnat.

\bibliographystyle{plainnat} % Set your referencing style
\bibliography{*.bib} % Your .bib file
\end{document}   

Q: Can I present selected citations in the body of a document while excluding them from being included the  bibliography? 
A: See this link on http://texblog.org/ and the biblatex package documentation (search for Multiple Bibliographies and Subdivided Bibliographies).

Q: That annoying biber error?

See http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/140814/biblatex-biber-fails-with-a-strange-error-about-missing-recode-data-xml-file, i.e. clear the biber cache with

rm -rf `biber --cache`

Q: BibDesk preview spinning on some imported citations (Taylor and Francis)?
There may corrupt spa space characters, check the abstract text for double spaces and remove them.

Q: I want to use superscripts and special symbols for titles and text in BibTeX
Use $ stuff here $ to encapsulate latex syntax enables it to be processed in LaTeX see http://www.bibtex.org/SpecialSymbols/

Q: I want to subsequent (close) citations of the same immediate reference to display using the ibidem (ibid) convention
?

Graphics in TeX Resources for graphics and visualisations for Tex:

TeXample.net for great TikZ examples of graphs and visualisations.

Also see tex.stackexchange.com on starting out with TikZ and link to the very excellent PGFPlots manual.

Some others (non TeX) for inspiration http://www.improving-visualisation.org/visuals


Q: Changing font size for text?
How to override font sizes? Answered in this useful tip on overriding default font sizes for pgfplots elements (link).

Q: Can I precompile TikZ/PGFPlots elements?
Typesetting with TikZ/PGFPlots elements is slow. Solve by including the following in the preamble to enable smart compile of tikzpicture elements.

\usepgfplotslibrary{external}
\tikzexternalize

This is really useful because it speeds up document typesetting, only typesetting tikzpicture elements if they have changed. I needed to edit TeXShop Prefs>Engine>pdfTeX Latex setting, to enable the system call thus:

pdflatex --shell-escape --synctex=1

Q: Rotate text? 
Is it possible to rotate node text? Yes by using this (link)

every node near coord/.append style={rotate=45, font=\footnotesize, yshift=3},

Q: Matrices?
How to use matrix rather than table or tabular? Well to do so requires using TikZ, so you'll need to look at the TikZ and PGFPlot manual. Some useful examples on TexStackExchange (link1, link2, link3)

\usepackage{tikz}
\usetikzlibrary{matrix}

Q: I want to turn off hyphenation (sometimes).
A: If you need a textually 'clean' way to cut-and-paste to other editing environments. For example I cut-and-paste text from the typeset PDF that LaTeX generates into other editing packages when I work with colleagues who do not use LaTeX (and aren't likely to either).
In the preamble add...

\raggedright % To typeset the document with minimal hyphenation 

Q: I want something like a Voronoi diagram (link and axiomatic.neophilus.net)
A: Steps to follow

sudo easy_install Pygments