Every Evidence preprint is written in MyST and built from a collection of Markdown files and (optionally) Jupyter Notebooks stored in a GitHub repository.
What is MyST?
MyST is a flavor of Markdown designed for scientific communication and publication. It is actively maintained by Executable Books and is part of the Project Jupyter ecosystem.
Beyond the basic markup, MyST provides powerful tools to manage bibliographies, embed computational outputs as figures, and enhance document metadata. It also enables visually engaging elements such as cards, tables, admonitions, tabs, and many other interactive or styled components to make your documents more readable and informative.
Minimum Requirements
To prepare an Evidence submission, authors should have:
A GitHub account
Basic familiarity with creating a repository from a template
The ability to commit changes and push them to the repository
Basic familiarity with Markdown and/or Jupyter Notebooks
To submit a preprint to Evidence, authors should have:
An ORCID ID
Determine the kind of your submission¶
This is the first key step in preparing an Evidence preprint!
Complementary documentation¶
✍️ MyST Markdown
Visit the official MyST guide to explore the full set of tools available for creating a beautiful preprint.
⚡️ Binder
Visit the official Binder documentation to create a reproducible computing environment for your preprint.
Haven’t written in MyST before? Try it out here!
What is MyST?
MyST extends Markdown for technical, scientific communication and publication. Beyond the basic markup, MyST provides powerful tools to manage bibliographies, embed computational outputs as figures, and enhance document metadata. It also enables visually engaging elements such as cards, tables, admonitions, tabs, and many other interactive or styled components to make your documents more readable and informative.
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