A Typst template for working papers in the social sciences, especially economics, finance, and accounting.

Main features:

• Clean, visual style
• Endfloat mode for conference submissions
• Appendix and Internet Appendix sections with automatic numbering
• Anonymized title page for blind review
• No external dependencies

The package features many options to customize and we’re open to suggestions.

Example:

Quick start

typst init @preview/econ-working-paper
typst compile main.typ

Or copy directly into an existing document:

#import "@preview/econ-working-paper:0.6.0": *

#show: paper.with(
  title: "Your Paper Title",
  authors: (
    (name: "Author One", affiliation: "University A", email: "one@a.edu"),
    (name: "Author Two", affiliation: "University B"),
    (name: "Author Three", affiliation: "University A"),
  ),
  date: "2026-01-01", // the only correct date format
  abstract: [Your abstract here.],
  keywords: [keyword one, keyword two, keyword three],
  // jel: [G14, G38],
  acknowledgments: [We thank ...],
  bibliography: bibliography("refs.bib", title: "References"), 
)

= Introduction
Your text here.

Key features

• Endfloat mode for journal submissions (figures and tables moved out of the text, placeholders inline).
• Anonymized mode for blind review
• Draft watermark (“DO NOT CITE” or custom string)
• Internet Appendix with IA.1, IA.2, … numbering and IA-prefixed figure/table counters
• Chicago author-date citations by default (override in your bibliography() call)

Other features

• Superscript author affiliations, deduplicated automatically
• Table captions on top, figure captions on bottom
• note and source helpers for explanatory lines under tables and figures
• Black hyperlinks for unintrusive print
• Use textcite for in-text citations where the author name is part of the sentence:

#textcite(<coffee2024>) finds that decaf has no effect.
// renders as: Coffee (2024) finds that decaf has no effect.

This is equivalent to \textcite in biblatex or \citet in natbib. A shorter alias c is also available: #c(<coffee2024>).

• Use note (and source) for the explanatory line under a table or figure. It renders left-aligned and single-spaced at 10pt by default. Because table captions sit on top, put it at the end of the #figure body so it lands under the table (and travels with it in endfloat mode):

#figure(
  [
    #include "tables/tbl-summary.typ"
    #note[Standard errors in parentheses. #sym.star p < 0.05.]
  ],
  kind: table,
  caption: [Summary statistics.],
)

The 10pt default matches the table-fontsize default. If you change table-fontsize, pass a matching size: (e.g. #note(size: 9pt)[...]), or size: auto to match the body font size.

Parameters

All options

The template file shows every parameter with its default value:

#import "@preview/econ-working-paper:0.6.0": *

#show: paper.with(
  // -- metadata -----------------------------------------------------------
  title: "Your Paper Title",
  status: none,                     // e.g., "WORK IN PROGRESS"
  authors: (
    (
      name: "Author One",
      affiliation: "University A",
      email: "one@a.edu",
      note: "ORCID: 0000-0001-2345-6789",
    ),
    (
      name: "Author Two",
      affiliation: "University B",
    ),
  ),
  date: "2026-01-01",              // date string shown on title page
  abstract: [Your abstract here.],
  keywords: [keyword one, keyword two],
  // jel: [G14, G38],               // optional JEL classification codes
  acknowledgments: [We thank ...], // footnote on the Abstract heading
  // epigraph: (                    // optional opening quotation
  //   quote: [Your quote here.],
  //   attribution: [Author, _Source_],
  // ),

  // -- bibliography -------------------------------------------------------
  bibliography: bibliography("refs.bib", title: "References"),
  citation-style: "chicago-author-date", // any CSL style name

  // -- appendix -----------------------------------------------------------
  appendix: none,                  // content block; headings numbered A.1, A.2, ...
  internet-appendix: none,         // content block; IA.1, IA.2, ...; IA-prefixed figures/tables

  // -- typography ---------------------------------------------------------
  font: ("Linux Libertine", "Times New Roman", "New Computer Modern"),
  fontsize: 12pt,                   // body text size
  table-fontsize: 10pt,             // table body text size
  math-fontsize: 1em,               // inline math size, e.g. 0.9em

  // -- layout -------------------------------------------------------------
  margin: 1in,                      // page margins (default: 1in)
  paper: "us-letter",               // "us-letter" or "a4"
  anonymize: false,                 // suppress authors, affiliations, date, acknowledgments
  draft: false,                     // false, true ("DO NOT CITE"), or custom string
  endfloat: false,                  // false, true/"both", "tables", or "figures"
  endfloat-position: "end",         // "end", "after-references", or "after-appendix"

  // -- spacing ------------------------------------------------------------
  line-spacing: "double",           // "double", "onehalf", or "single"
  par-spacing: auto,                // paragraph spacing (auto = matches line spacing)
  first-line-indent: 1.5em,        // paragraph indent

  // -- title-page styling -------------------------------------------------
  title-size: 20pt,                 // title font size
  status-size: 14pt,               // status banner font size
  author-name-size: 14pt,          // author name font size
  cover-text-width: 90%,           // width of abstract/keywords/JEL block
  frontmatter-gap: 12pt,           // vertical gap between cover page sections
)

= Introduction
Your text here.

Gallery

Anonymized mode

Endfloat mode

License

MIT