Version1.2a (2025-07-24) Release notes

The package cjs-rcs-article provides the LaTeX document class cjs-rcs-article to typeset articles for The Canadian Journal of Statistics. The package also contains the Author guidelines for The Canadian Journal of Statistics.

Using cjs-rcs-article requires an up-to-date TeX distribution. We recommmend TeX Live — or its variant for macOS MacTeX — and MiKTeX. You may also use an online LaTeX editor such as Overleaf.

To take full advantage of the characteristics of the class, we recommend that you compile using LuaLaTeX. The class remains nonetheless largely compatible with the traditional engine pdfLaTeX.

Author

Vincent Goulet for the Statistical Society of Canada.

Obtaining and installing the class

The class is distributed as the package cjs-rcs-article through CTAN. It is part of the standard TeX distributions. If your distribution is up-to-date, you should be able to use the class without any special intervention.

We strongly recommend that you install or update the package using the package manager of your TeX distribution.

If you need or prefer an installation of the class limited in scope to your project, download the archive below and uncompress it in the directory of the project. You will then have access to all the essential files of the class within this project.

Download cjs-rcs-article-project-install.zip

TeX experts may also download the package from CTAN and follow the installation instructions in the README.md file.

Usage with Overleaf  You should be able to use the class without any special intervention with online editors such as Overleaf. If the package cjs-rcs-article is not up-to-date, install the package in your project as explained above.

Templates

Don’t start your manuscript from scratch. The class ships with templates for articles in English and French. They are usually located with the documentation of the class in your TeX distribution. You may also obtain them from CTAN.

Get the templates from CTAN

Author guidelines

The Author guidelines for The Canadian Journal of Statistics, in English and French, are included in the package. As an author, this document should be your first stop. You may easily open the guidelines using Texdoc, either through your LaTeX editor, or from a command line using

texdoc cjs-rcs-authguide

or

texdoc cjs-rcs-authguide-fr

You may also download the author guidelines from CTAN.

Get the author guidelines from CTAN

Documentation

The package also contains the complete documentation of the class. To open the documentation using Texdoc, use

texdoc cjs-rcs-article

or

texdoc cjs-rcs-article-fr

The documentation is also available directly from CTAN.

Get the class documentation from CTAN

Comments or suggestions

The GitLab project repository is the best place to report bugs or to propose improvements to the class.

License

LaTeX Project Public License, version 1.3c or (at your option) any later version. The documentation is also licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0 International.

Journal bibliographies

Nelson Beebe maintains complete bibliographies in BIBTeX format for many scientific journals, including The Canadian Journal of Statistics.