Inserting an abstract in a main document

Question

Im doing a paper where I have the main.tex with the content of the entire paper and I want to insert another .tex with my abstract within the main.tex. The abstract has its own .cls with code for the setup. How do I do this?

I have tried to use \include and \import but it doesn't seem to work. I have tried making a folder with the abstract.tex and its .cls and then import the abstract.tex to the main. It only gives me the text content of the abstract and not the setup.

The template for the abstract and .cls is one from overleaf: WPCCG - Abstract - Template - Final Version

Can anyone tell me how to insert the abstract in my main.tex with its own setup? If there is an easier way of doing this I am all ears.

Answer 1

The template you mention (WPCCG - Abstract - Template - Final Version) will produce not only the abstract, but also the title, authors, affiliations, ... that's the first page of an article, using the elsarticle class.

The template sets the margins using the geometry package with these settings

\usepackage[left=2.5cm, right=2.5cm, top=4cm, bottom=3cm, footskip=0.5cm]{geometry}

Option 1

If you produced your main.tex article with another class a procedure would be:

1. Compile FirstPage.tex to produce FirstPage.pdf in same directory of main.tex, where FirstPage.tex is the template file with your own inputs.
2. Add the first page using includepdf[pages=1]{FirstPage.pdf} . Requires the package pdfpages.

Important: You must use the same geometry settings in both files.

Note that the "abstract" generated is to submit a conference paper and does not follow the standard format used in journal articles: to begin with, the title Abstract is missing (See figure of option 2)

This is an example of main.tex.

\documentclass[12pt,a4paper]{article}

%%%margin settings >>>    THE SAME of FirstPage.tex
\usepackage[left=2.5cm, right=2.5cm, top=4cm, bottom=3cm, footskip=0.5cm]{geometry}

\usepackage{kantlipsum} % dummy text
\usepackage{showframe} % show margins

\usepackage[final]{pdfpages}% added <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
\begin{document}
    
    \includepdf[pages=1]{FirstPage.pdf}% add the first page with title and abstract <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
    
    \section{Introduction}
    \kant[1]
    
    \section{The work done}
    \kant[2]
    
\end{document}

Option 2: write your article using elsarticle

\documentclass[preprint,12pt]{elsarticle}

\usepackage{amssymb}

\journal{Nuclear Physics B}

\begin{document}

\begin{frontmatter}

\title{Title of Your Manuscript}

\author[inst1]{Author One}

\affiliation[inst1]{organization={Department One},%Department and Organization
            addressline={Address One}, 
            city={City One},
            postcode={00000}, 
            state={State One},
            country={Country One}}

\author[inst2]{Author Two}
\author[inst1,inst2]{Author Three}

\affiliation[inst2]{organization={Department Two},%Department and Organization
            addressline={Address Two}, 
            city={City Two},
            postcode={22222}, 
            state={State Two},
            country={Country Two}}

\begin{abstract}
%% Text of abstract
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\end{abstract}
\begin{keyword}

keyword one \sep keyword two
\PACS 0000 \sep 1111
\MSC 0000 \sep 1111
\end{keyword}

\end{frontmatter}


%% main text
\section{Sample Section Title}
\label{sec:sample1}

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\appendix

\section{Sample Appendix Section}
\label{sec:sample:appendix}
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\end{document}