Submitting journal articles in Typst is something many of our users wish to be possible. Together with IJIMAI, we're taking the first step in making this a reality: Meet the first journal with an official template on Typst Universe.
by Martin Haug and Mustafa DemirThe more people are using Typst, the more use cases for automatic writing we see in the wild: From consultancies using Typst for reports to brokers like Zerodha using it for compliance documentation, Typst is used anywhere where experts write. But our roots are with scientific writing: Articles, theses, tech reports, and teaching material at universities and colleges. Our users in academia love Typst but have always raised one glaring issue: The journals they submit to only accept articles formatted using the incumbents, LaTeX and Word.
We are happy to announce that we’ve partnered up with someone who’s eager to change this: Dr. Alberto Corbi Bellot and the International Journal of Interactive Multimedia and Artificial Intelligence (IJIMAI) are leading the charge by becoming the first journal to not only accept Typst, but maintain their official template on Typst Universe. IJIMAI is a prominent Q2 journal focusing on Artificial Intelligence, Data Mining, Knowledge Management, Semantic Web, and Interactive Multimedia.
IJIMAI has an interdisciplinary bent — Dr. Bellot himself is a physicist, teaching at the Universidad Internacional de La Rioja (UNIR). With remote-first teams composed of researchers whose publication in IJIMAI might be their first point of contact with an automated writing system, lowering the barrier of entry is instrumental in facilitating their work.
In the end, this is what Typst is all about: The Typst language streamlines and simplifies automated writing and brings its benefits to a wider audience. Meanwhile, the Typst web app brings out the best in Typst with features like instant preview, while providing a familiar collaboration environment that's easy to dive into.
We want to thank Dr. Bellot from the bottom of our heart for supporting Typst by spearheading its introduction at IJIMAI, the first JCR-indexed journal to accept submissions authored in Typst. We also extend our gratitude to Dr. Elena Verdú Pérez, Editor-in-Chief of IJIMAI, who has also been instrumental in the introduction of Typst at the journal.
We'd like to encourage you to submit to IJIMAI if you work on AI, multimedia, or interactive systems. For technical support on the template, contact Associate Professor Alberto Corbi Bellot at alberto.corbi (at) unir.net or consult the project’s GitHub repository.
