Every researcher needs a Cur­ricu­lum Vitae (Latin for “course of life”) or CV. You will need it for job appli­ca­tions, for annual per­for­mance appraisal, and just for keep­ing track of your pub­li­ca­tions. A CV typ­i­cally con­tains lists of achieve­ments includ­ing qual­i­fi­ca­tions, pub­li­ca­tions, pre­sen­ta­tions, awards, plus teach­ing experience.

I’ve cre­ated a LaTeX style for a CV to make it easy to pro­duce some­thing that looks good and is easy to main­tain. You will need an up-​​to-​​date imple­men­ta­tion of LaTeX because I’m using the won­der­ful bibla­tex pack­age (more on that in another post) which has only just become avail­able as part of Mik­TeX and TeXLive.

The pre­am­ble of your CV should look some­thing like this:

\documentclass[a4paper,11pt]{article}
\usepackage{cv}
\name{Rob J Hyndman}
\info{Address: & Department of Econometrics \& Business Statistics, Monash University, VIC 3800, Australia.\\
      Phone: & +61 3 9905 2358\\
      Email: & Rob.Hyndman@monash.edu\\
      WWW: & robjhyndman.com}
 
\bibliography{rjhpubs}
 
\addtocategory{books}{MWH3,ITSM91,ITSM94,expsmooth08}
\addtocategory{papers}{BHG91,BH92,YW93,Hyndman94,HDRF95}
\addtocategory{papers}{HDR96,HBG96,HF96,GHH97,HW97,LFSH97,GH98}

• Include your name in the \name command.
• The \info com­mand con­tains infor­ma­tion to go in the header box on the first page. This is struc­tured as for a tab­u­lar envi­ron­ment. You can include any infor­ma­tion you like in the \info com­mand includ­ing addi­tional rows. Some peo­ple include their date of birth, cit­i­zen­ship, fam­ily details, etc.
• All your pub­li­ca­tions should be in a bib file (mine is called rjhpubs.bib) loaded with the \bibliography command.
• The final three lines allo­cate items from the bib file to cat­e­gories. These will appear in sep­a­rate sec­tions in the CV. My real CV has sev­eral more lines like these so that all my pub­li­ca­tions are added to cat­e­gories. Each of the codes is the key for a bib item.
• The style file has the fol­low­ing pre-​​defined cat­e­gories:
  

  books	Books
  papers	Ref­er­eed research papers
  chap­ters	Book chap­ters
  con­fer­ences	Papers in con­fer­ence proceedings
  techre­ports	Unpub­lished work­ing papers
  bookre­views	Book reviews
  edi­to­ri­als	Edi­to­ri­als
  phd	PhD the­sis
  sub­pa­pers	Sub­mit­ted papers
  cur­pa­pers	Cur­rent projects

  It is easy to add your own cat­e­gories and titles if these are not suit­able. For exam­ple, if you want to include posters in your CV, put the fol­low­ing in the preamble:

  \makebibcategory{posters}{Conference posters}

• After the pre­am­ble, my CV looks like this:

  \begin{document} \maketitle   \section{Education and Qualifications} \begin{tabular}{lll} 1988 & B.Sc.(Hons) & University of Melbourne\\ 1992 & Ph.D. & University of Melbourne\\ 2000 & A.Stat. & Statistical Society of Australia. \end{tabular}

  The \maketitle puts in the header box. After that it is a nor­mal LaTeX doc­u­ment with \section com­mands for each section.

• It is com­mon to have sec­tions list­ing qual­i­fi­ca­tions, employ­ment his­tory, awards, research grants, teach­ing expe­ri­ence and pub­li­ca­tions. The order of these varies depend­ing on what you want to empha­sise. Have a look at sev­eral CVs to see what other peo­ple do. Here are some exam­ples from some well-​​known sta­tis­ti­cians: Andrew Gel­man, Rob Tib­shi­rani, Matt Wand.
• To add my pub­li­ca­tions, I have the fol­low­ing lines:

  \begin{publications} \printbib{books} \printbib{papers} \printbib{chapters} \printbib{conferences} \printbib{techreports} \printbib{bookreviews} \printbib{editorials} \end{publications}

  Each \printbib com­mand will add a sec­tion with all the pub­li­ca­tions in that cat­e­gory, listed in chrono­log­i­cal order and sorted by name within each year.

• The total num­ber of pub­li­ca­tions listed inside the publications envi­ron­ment is cal­cu­lated and the page num­bers for the pub­li­ca­tions sec­tions are stored. So I have the fol­low­ing line in the Research sec­tion of my CV:

  I have authored \ref{sumpapers} papers, chapters or books on statistical topics. A list of these appears on pages \pageref{papersstart}--\pageref{papersend}.

  You can have addi­tional \printbib com­mands out­side the pub­li­ca­tions envi­ron­ment, but the asso­ci­ated bib items will not be counted in the sumpapers value.

Here is my CV using this style file (although I use dif­fer­ent fonts from those loaded in the style file).

Down­load the style file and use it your­self. Feel free to mod­ify it as you want.

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