This is a template for writing an article for The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America in Markdown. The Makefile uses pandoc to convert the markdown source to both a PDF with inline figures (for reviewer use) and a standalone LaTeX source file with integrated bibliography and without figures (JASA requires that figures be submitted separately and replaced by “[INSERT FIGURE XX ABOUT HERE]” in the text). The submittable LaTeX output also pushes all tables to the end of the document, and appends a list of figure captions.

I offer no guarantees of compliance, because JASA’s style and formatting requirements are a moving target; however, if you want to write in markdown and submit to JASA, this may save you some time.

I offer no guarantees of this working on your computer either; for the record it works for me with this setup:

• OS: Linux (Xubuntu 14.04)
• pandoc 1.17.1
• pdfTeX 3.1415926-2.5-1.40.14 (TeX Live 2013/Debian)
• XeTeX 3.1415926-2.5-0.9999.3-2014012222 (TeX Live 2013/Debian)
• GNU Make 3.81

• make submission (the default) builds both a submittable standalone LaTeX source file (submission-no-figs.tex) and a compiled PDF (submission.pdf), as described above. Also generates submission.tex, the file from which the PDF was created.
• make coverletter (replace files pandoc/author-signature.pdf and pandoc/letterhead-banner.pdf before using)
• make response (response to reviewers; not strictly neccessary)
• make clean (delete all generated files except figures)

Note that the makefile directive makesub is where you should add additional dependencies (e.g., for figures) if you want make to monitor the figure-generating scripts. If your figure-generating scripts are not python scripts (or are not named fig-*.py) then you will need to add a new directive or modify the directive for figures/fig-%.eps.