Tips & Tricks

Organizing Citations in LaTeX

By default, LaTeX orders bibliographic citations in the order in which they are typed in source (e.g., [3, 1, 2]). The cite package (https://www.ctan.org/pkg/cite) provides some functionality to put them in numerical order (e.g., [1, 2, 3], no matter the order specified). Simply add \usepackage{cite}[nocondense] to the start of your source document. (If you leave off the [nocondense] argument, three or more consecutive citation numbers will be condensed together (e.g., [1–3]). This is likely fine for the standard template, but the Extended Abstracts format makes citation numbers into clickable hyperlinks.)

Full-width figures on page 1

To insert a two-column figure at the start of the paper, the normal \figure*{} command doesn't work. Instead, do the following:

% before \begin{document} 
\usepackage{cuted}
\usepackage{capt-of}

% before \begin{abstract}
\begin{strip}\centering
\includegraphics[width=\textwidth]{feature-graphic.pdf}
\captionof{figure}{Feature graphic caption.
\label{fig:feature-graphic}}
\end{strip}