Introduce yourselves and answer the question: if you were a tree, what sort of tree would you be? Here are some options if you need inspiration: birch tree, fruit tree, oak tree, palm tree, pine tree, willow tree.
Create an Overleaf document and share this with the group by pasting the edit link in the chat.
Hint: If you're having trouble navigating Overleaf, please refer to our visual cheat sheet: Overleaf layout diagram.
Don't know how to share your LaTeX project on Overleaf? Watch our short video to learn how: https://youtu.be/VnBf68Rho2warrow-up-right.
Bonus challenge: Add a sentence to your shared document explaining why you chose your tree.
Research and find one article about your chosen tree on Google Scholar.
Add a bibliography item of the article you found to a bibtex file (.bib) in your shared Overleaf document.
.bib
Add the list of references into your main.tex file using the plain bibliography style.
main.tex
plain
Each person should add a sentence explaining which tree they selected, and include an in-text citation using the \cite{ } command.
\cite{ }
Bonus challenges:
Find and add article, book and misc entry types.
article
book
misc
Change the referencing style to APA using the apacite package (or choose another bibliography style).
apacite
Consider other referencing styles and figure out how to implement another one in LaTeX --- use an online search to help with this.
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