Imperial College London on Overleaf
Overview
Imperial College London Library is providing Overleaf Professional features for all students, staff and researchers who would like to use a collaborative, online LaTeX editor for their projects. 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 Overleaf Professional upgrade by signing up (or signing in) below. You'll need to link your account to your Imperial College London single sign-on.
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Quick Start
Welcome to your 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 Students
Try out the Overleaf editor with built in tutorial
If you'd like to dive straight into the editor, simply click the button to create a new paper using our quick-start template. A short tutorial will walk you through the main features to quickly get you started.
Browse the Overleaf template gallery
You can find a selection of featured templates , or check out our full template gallery for more ideas and inspiration.
Take our free course to quickly master the LaTeX essentials
If you're new to LaTeX, we've put together a free online course to help you learn the basics. If you have never used LaTeX before, or if it has been a while and you would like a refresher, this is the place to start.
For Researchers
Find a journal template
Through our partnerships within the publishing community, we provide a selection of academic journal templates for articles and papers. These templates automatically format your manuscripts in the style required for submission to that journal.
Edit in Rich Text mode or directly in LaTeX
Overleaf provides an intuitive and easy-to-use manuscript editor (our rich text mode), which is especially useful if you or your co-authors aren't familiar with writing in LaTeX.
If you prefer to edit directly in LaTeX, you can! Overleaf provides a full collaborative online LaTeX editor you can switch to at any time.
Submitting your articles to journals, repositories and more
You can also submit your paper directly to a number of journals and other editorial and review services via the publish menu in the editor. Simply open the publish menu from any document and follow the appropriate 'Submit to ...' link.
For Teachers
Introducing Students to LaTeX
Overleaf has several on-demand webinars available that address a variety of beginner, intermediate, and advanced topics.
Help students understand LaTeX errors
Addressing errors as they happen helps ensure that your LaTeX project continues to compile and look the way it should.
Show your class how to turn on track changes for review
Overleaf offers an impressive collection of collaboration features, and your institutional subscription provides all users with access to the powerful track changes feature.
Featured LaTeX Templates
Official beamer template for Imperial College London. Landscape and portrait formats are supported. These templates, including logo and fonts, are for use of Imperial staff and students only for university business.
Official letter template for Imperial College London. This template, including logo and fonts, is for use of Imperial staff and students only for university business.
Individual Research Report for MS, Business Analytics (2020) Imperial College Business School This is an unofficial template.
This is the LaTeX template for Imperial College London PhD Thesis submissions created by Tamas Suto and William Knottenbelt For more information on preparing your thesis for submission, and to download other forms, please see the Information for Current Full-time DOC Research Students page on the Imperial website.
Official research poster templates for Imperial College London. Landscape and portrait formats are supported. These templates, including logo and fonts, are for use of Imperial staff and students only for university business.
Imperial College London provides a set of Competition Poster Templates with official colour-scheme and branding guidelines. Here we provide LaTeX versions of these templates, which use the beamer poster theme created for Imperial College by Lian Tze Lim (Overleaf). To start working on your poster, simply click the 'Open as Template' button above. You'll be able to set up your template to use any of the four official Imperial College London poster colour-schemes: Black Dark Blue Light Blue White The template also provides the option to toggle between different sizes (e.g. A0, A1) and different orientations (portrait, landscape) as required. The example poster shown on the right uses the White colour-scheme, and is set to be A0, portrait by default.
Obtained from C496
An “unofficial”, not-so-plain thesis template for Imperial College London that meets the list of submission requirements. Each chapter has its own reference section, which is populated exclusively with the citations from that chapter.
Simple latex template for industrial placement and internship reports at Imperial Designed for electrical and electronic engineering primarily
LaTeX template for C240 Models of Computation assessed coursework Contains macros for typesetting operational semantic rules and proof trees and other notation used in the first half of the course. Department of Computing, Imperial College London
Presentation template that follows the branding and style guidelines of Imperial College London as of June 2017. A title frame together with a few popular arrangements for content frames are provided.
FAQ & Help
Who should I contact if I have questions about Overleaf or the Imperial College London license?
If you need technical support while working on any Overleaf projects, please use our contact form and we'll make sure your question gets to the right person in our team. You can also direct Imperial-specific questions to the Library Services: library@imperial.ac.uk.
I'm new to Overleaf, how should I get started?
We've put together a short How do I use Overleaf help page to give you pointers on exactly that :)
You can also check out upcoming and on-demand webinars
How do I upload an existing LaTeX project into Overleaf?
Here's how to import existing LaTeX documents into Overleaf.
What packages does Overleaf support?
Overleaf supports the packages listed here.
More
- Sharing your work with others
- Track changes and comments
- Joining an institutional subscription
- Using the Overleaf history feature
- Helpful how-to guides
Quick links to Overleaf integration guides
- How to use Overleaf with RefWorks to add references to your projects.
- Work offline - how to sync your Overleaf projects using Git.
- How to link your Overleaf account to Mendeley and Zotero
More resources from the Imperial College London Library
Please visit the Library Services website for more information and a list of other useful resources and services.
The photo shown at the top of this page is of the Queen's Lawn at Imperial's South Kensington Campus. It was taken by Dmnk.saman in June 2014 and is reproduced here under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license.
