Prepare submission - Authoring Docs

This section guides authors through the steps needed to prepare and submit an Evidence preprint.

Important

This documentation is NOT designed to explain authoring tools of MyST markdown.

🔗 Visit MyST Markdown Docs

Visit the official guide to explore all the powerful tools available for writing a beautiful preprint.

For a quick look at MyST’s capabilities, try it yourself!

You can make changes on the left panel to update the preview on the right in realtime.

Explore typography features, and some authoring tools MyST has to offer!
See how easily your content can be converted between multiple formats.

You can copy paste the following button role after the frontmatter (after the second ---) to begin with.

{button}`Evidence Webpage <https://evidencepub.io>`

Demo adapted from the MyST documentation. You can edit in fullscreen here

Determine the kind of your submission¶

All Evidence preprints are built from a collection of Markdown (and optionally Jupyter Notebook) files organized following a valid MyST layout. To help you get started quickly, we have prepared templates for a streamlined quickstart.

However, it is instrumental to first determine the kind of Evidence you’d like to publish.

Simply follow the decision tree below:

Welcome to Evidence

Preprints with data applications

Welcome to Evidence

Prose-only preprints