PLOS LaTeX template
PLOS ONE, PLOS Biology, PLOS Computational Biology, ...
Start a paper with this template
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What it is
- Class
- article + plos2025.bst
- Version tested
- plos2025.bst version 1.0 (package of 2026-04)
- Licence of the class
- LPPL 1.3 (plos2025.bst header); PLOS has no class
- Licence of our starter
- CC0-1.0 (written by Sapience from the class documentation; use it freely)
- Official source
- journals.plos.org/plosone/s/latex
How the files arrive
The class files are kept by Papers under their own licence (named above) and copied into your paper with our starter files.
Format
Article class with PLOS's margins, line numbers and reference style
The venue's own instructions are the rule: journals.plos.org/plosone/s/latex.
ACS journals (achemso)
ACS (JACS layout)