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Formatting your CV in LaTeX

Academics in all stages need a CV, from prospective graduate students to postdocs, to faculty applying for promotion. As you gain experience, change roles, and apply for new positions or grants, your CV should change to reflect this. In this post I’ll share my thoughts on how best to format your CV in LaTeX so that it does its job while requiring minimal effort to update and maintain. I’ll also share my own LaTeX CV template for you to use — or modify to make your own!

What’s in a CV

The main point of this post is to discuss how to TeX up and maintain a CV you already have, but if you’re starting from scratch, the goal of the CV is to communicate your academic credentials and professional history. A good place to begin is by looking at CVs of other people, perhaps starting with your advisor(s), other faculty members you know, and other graduate students. Ask lots of people what they think is important in a CV, then take the average of the advice you receive — they might even share their own templates! Advice on thi

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The solution, using biblatex

… in which we discuss how to format your bibliography in tex.

One thing which surprised me as an assistant professor was the constant demand for an updated CV. And when you write this CV you may want to include details on students, joint authorship etc. I am imputing reasons, but I am sure this is behand the cry for help from Davis:

The end result of this post will look like

Here we have

  1. Different lists of publications
  2. Highlighting names using both boldface, dagger and asterix.

This post will detail a solution to this problem using Latex and biblatex. Historically, Bibtex was developed to handle bibliographies. In the bibtex-workflow, you have a file which details the biblographic entry, and additional code for specifying the layout of the entry. We now have an alternative called biblatex which is easier to customize. Because you might end up using Google a bit, here is a quick description of the operational difference between Bibtex and biblatex:

Bibtex: here you use a few commands inside your file together with something called

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Professional CV/Resume Template with BibLaTeX This LaTeX document is designed to help you create a professional CV or resume with ease. It uses as little fancy LaTeX functionality or custom functions as possible to maximize its long-term durability and flexibility. The document is structured into multiple sections, each loaded from separate subfiles for modularity and ease of maintenance. Key Features: Easy to use: designed to use minimal fancy LaTeX functionality or custom functions to maximize long-term durability, flexibility, and ease of use. Easy to customize: Swap fonts, color of links, etc. easily. Links to LaTeX fonts, colors, etc. provided within the document. Modular Sections: Easily customize and update sections by editing separate files. Styled Bibliography: Manage and format your publications with BibLaTeX. Hyperlinked Content: Includes hyperlinked email and website for easy access. Professional Formatting: Clean and consistent formatting with support for FontAwesome PDF Bookmarks: Automatically generated bookmarks for easy navigation within the PDF. Getting Started:

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