University of Waterloo on Overleaf

The University of Waterloo has a site agreement with Overleaf to provide full-featured Overleaf Professional accounts, which are free of charge for all faculty, staff and graduate students.

We are sorry, but UW undergraduate students are not eligible for Professional accounts under the current site agreement. However, undergraduate students may still sign up individually for free or paid accounts from Overleaf at https://www.overleaf.com/signup. Undergraduates signing up for individual accounts should use their edu.uwaterloo.ca email addresses so that we can track interest among our undergraduates. This may allow us to expand our site agreement in the future.

For ShareLatex users who wish to upgrade, users need to use their email address associated with Waterloo. They can either sign up as a new account, or use their current account (and keep all existing projects) by changing their email associated with their ShareLaTeX account to their institutional email address at https://www.sharelatex.com/user/settings. They will be presented with an invite into the premium account where they will be required to verify their email address. Any personal subscriptions can be cancelled at that point.

Overleaf is designed to make the process of writing, editing and producing research papers and reports much quicker, easier and more convenient for both single-author and collaborative documents. Overleaf Professional accounts provide real-time track changes, unlimited collaborators, and full document history. Documents can be edited from anywhere through a browser without installing LaTeX on your devices. Overleaf can also be linked to other services such as reference managers to best fit into your workflow.

Eligible Waterloo graduate students, faculty and staff should claim their free Professional account on Overleaf by signing up (or signing in) below. You'll need to verify a uwaterloo.ca email address in order to receive your free Professional account.

Welcome to the 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!

Featured LaTeX Templates

University of Waterloo Thesis Template

University of Waterloo Thesis Template for LaTeX Last Updated August 21, 2018 by Stephen Carr, IST Client Services, University of Waterloo, 200 University Ave. W., Waterloo, Ontario, Canada FOR ASSISTANCE, please send mail to rt-IST-CSmathsci@rt.uwaterloo.ca

Stephen Carr

Basic Academic Journal Article Template

This is a basic journal article template which includes metadata fields for multiple authors, affiliations and keywords. It is also set up to use the lineno package for line numbers; these can be turned on by adding the 'lineno' option to the documentclass command.

John Hammersley

A quick guide to LaTeX

Know the LaTeX command you want to use but can't remember how to write it? Here we present a great tips sheet produced by Dave Richeson; it's pre-loaded in Overleaf so you can see how the commands work instantly. Simply click on the button above to open a version in Overleaf for editing (and to quickly copy and paste the commands you need!). For more comments visit this page on Dave's site, or if you'd like to work through a fuller introduction to LaTeX why not check out our free online course?

Example by Division by Zero

Metropolis Beamer Theme

Metropolis is originally created by Matthias Vogelgesang and is available from https://github.com/matze/mtheme as well as CTAN. More information about the theme, including the design principles, can be found at http://bloerg.net/2014/09/20/a-modern-beamer-theme.html. This version demonstrates the use of a progress bar under the frame titles. See the manual for other customisation options.

Matthias Vogelgesang

Book design inspired by Edward Tufte

Edward Tufte is a pioneer in the field of data visualization, and his works inspired the creation of two LaTeX classes for books and handouts. Here we present the excellent sample book produced by the The Tufte-LaTeX Developers pre-loaded into Overleaf (formerly writeLaTeX) for you to use as a starting point for your own work. Simply click the button above to use Overleaf to create and edit your article - there's nothing to install and no sign up required. When you're finished, use our integrated publish to figshare option to publish your work freely online. Click here if you'd like to try the corresponding Tufte handout design on Overleaf. PS: If you're new to LaTeX, our free online LaTeX course covers all the steps you need to get you started.

Example by The Tufte-LaTeX Developers

Standard document

A4 document with page numbering and adjusted margins. Included options for gentium and times font, as well as language.

Christian L.