Springer Nature — Nature, Nature Communications, Nature Climate Change, …¶

Template name: springernature Aliases: springer, nature, naturecomms, natclimchange, natgeoscience, scirep Class file: sn-jnl.cls (Springer Nature v2.1, April 2023) Citation style: \cite{} numbered (default; per-style selectable) Example PDF: build/example-springernature.pdf

Covers¶

A single class for the full Springer Nature catalog:

Nature Portfolio: Nature, Nature Communications, Nature Geoscience, Nature Climate Change, Nature Methods, Nature Physics, Nature Materials, Nature Genetics, …
Scientific Reports
Generic Springer journals (Climatic Change, …)
BMC journals

The journal-specific aliases (naturecomms, natclimchange, …) all resolve to the same template — the journal is selected at submission, not in LaTeX.

YAML setup¶

journal:
    template: nature           # or springer, naturecomms, natclimchange, scirep, ...
    options: [sn-nature, pdflatex, iicol]      # default — Nature, 2-column
    # options: [sn-nature, pdflatex]           # Nature, single-column
    # options: [sn-basic, pdflatex]            # generic Springer numbered style
    # options: [sn-vancouver, Numbered, pdflatex]
    # options: [sn-apa, pdflatex]              # APA author-year (then disable force_cite — see below)
    # options: [sn-chicago, pdflatex]
    # options: [referee, sn-nature, pdflatex]  # double-spaced for review

Reference style options (the first option group)¶

option	description	citation marker
`sn-nature`	Nature Portfolio numbered style	`\cite{}`
`sn-basic`	Generic Springer / Chemistry	`\cite{}` (numbered or namedate)
`sn-mathphys`	Math & Physical Sciences	`\cite{}` (numbered or namedate)
`sn-aps`	American Physical Society	`\cite{}`
`sn-vancouver`	Vancouver-style references	`\cite{}`
`sn-chicago`	Chicago / Humanities	`\cite{}`
`sn-apa`	APA author-year	`\citep{}` / `\citet{}`

Add Numbered (e.g. [sn-vancouver, Numbered, pdflatex]) where supported to switch a namedate-style to its numbered variant.

Other options¶

pdflatex — use pdflatex (default; otherwise xelatex)
referee — double-spaced submission style
lineno — print line numbers in the margin
iicol — two-column layout (default in the template)

Recognised section headings¶

# Abstract
# Keywords
# Acknowledgements
# Funding
# Ethics Approval
# Data Availability
# Author Contributions
# Competing Interests
# Appendix

Declarations are gathered under a single \section*{Declarations} block with \paragraph* sub-headings — the layout Nature expects.

Citation handling¶

The default force_cite filter rewrites all pandoc-emitted citations to plain \cite{} which matches every numbered style.

If you select sn-apa (author-year), disable the filter so \citet and \citep are preserved:

filters: []      # at the top level of the yaml header

Bundled bibliography styles¶

Each reference style has a matching .bst file in the template directory: sn-nature.bst, sn-basic.bst, sn-mathphys.bst, sn-aps.bst, sn-vancouver.bst, sn-chicago.bst, sn-apacite.bst. The class picks the right one automatically from the documentclass option.