@reactwright/template-neurips

NeurIPS 2025 single-column conference-paper template for the Reactwright document engine. Matched to the official neurips_2025.sty / neurips_2025.pdf style files: US Letter, a 5.5in × 9in centered text block, Times 10pt justified body, a 17pt bold title bracketed by horizontal rules, a centered multi-author block, a centered indented abstract, Arabic-numbered bold section headings, "Figure N:" / "Table N:" captions, an author-year references list, and the required NeurIPS Paper Checklist.

When to use this over alternatives

• Pick @reactwright/template-neurips for NeurIPS submissions, preprints, or camera-ready papers (Main / Datasets & Benchmarks / Position / Creative AI / Workshop tracks all share this single-column layout).
• Pick @reactwright/template-ieee for the two-column IEEE conference layout.
• Pick @reactwright/template-report / @reactwright/template-essay for non-conference documents.

Format conventions (matched to neurips_2025.pdf)

• US Letter; text block 5.5in wide × 9in tall, centered (margins: 1in top/bottom, 1.5in left/right).
• Body: Times New Roman 10pt, 11pt leading, justified, no first-line indent; paragraphs separated by a 5.5pt skip.
• Title: 17pt bold, centered between a 4pt rule above and a 1pt rule below.
• Authors: centered block(s) below the title — bold name, regular affiliation/address, monospace email. Co-authors sit side by side.
• Abstract: centered bold "Abstract" heading (12pt) with the paragraph indented 0.5in on both margins, 10pt justified.
• Section headings: flush-left, bold, Arabic-numbered. Level 1 is 12pt ("1 Title"); levels 2–3 are 10pt ("1.1", "1.1.1"). References, Acknowledgments, and the Paper Checklist are unnumbered.
• Figure captions: "Figure N: …" 9pt, centered below the figure.
• Table captions: "Table N: …" 9pt, centered above the table; tables use booktabs-style horizontal rules only (no vertical rules).
• References: 9pt, hanging indent, plain text. NeurIPS allows author-year or numeric; this template ships the author-year (APA-style) form. There is no BibTeX step — entries are authored as a role="bibliography" section.
• Footer: page number on pages 2+; the first page carries the conference notice instead (matching the compiled example).

Submission vs. preprint vs. final

The template defaults to the clean final/preprint look (no margin line numbers, no "Submitted to…" banner). The first-page footer notice is configurable via the notice prop:

<Template />                                  {/* default: the NeurIPS 2025 track line */}
<Template notice="Preprint." />               {/* arXiv-style preprint */}
<Template notice="" />                         {/* suppress the notice entirely */}

Margin line numbers (the anonymized submission style) are intentionally not reproduced — Paged.js has no line-number primitive.

Exports

| Export | Purpose | |--------|---------| | Template | The page template. Optional prop { notice?: string }. | | NEURIPS_STYLES | The styling-dialect block, if you want to compose it into your own <styles>. | | NEURIPS_CSS | Empty string, kept for forward-compatibility / parity. | | authorMetas(authors) | Build the <meta name="author"> entries for the multi-author block. | | AuthorCard | The inner card for one author (name / affiliation / address / email). | | NeurIPSChecklist | Emit the required Paper Checklist as a role="checklist" section. | | CHECKLIST_QUESTIONS | The verbatim 2025 checklist questions (16 entries). |

Slot contract

The template fills four slots:

| Slot | Filled by | Notes | |------|-----------|-------| | title | <document title="…"> | Rendered as the bracketed 17pt title. | | author | <meta name="author">…</meta> (one per author) | Use authorMetas(...); the single-string author prop is not used. | | abstract | <section role="abstract" title="Abstract"> | Centered heading + indented paragraph. | | body | everything else | Numbered sections, figures, tables, references, checklist. |

Section roles the template keys off

Set these on back-matter <section>s; anything without a special role is a numbered body section:

| role | Effect | |--------|--------| | "abstract" | Routed to the abstract slot; centered bold heading. | | "bibliography" | References — unnumbered heading, 9pt hanging-indent entries. | | "unnumbered" | Acknowledgments etc. — unnumbered bold heading. | | "appendix" | Appendix — lettered headings (A, B; subsections A.1, B.1). | | "checklist" | Paper Checklist — page break + plain numbered list (see NeurIPSChecklist). |

Usage

import "reactwright/jsx";
import React from "react";
import { Template, authorMetas, NeurIPSChecklist } from "@reactwright/template-neurips";

export { Template };

export default function MyPaper() {
  return (
    <document title="A Faithful NeurIPS Paper">
      {authorMetas([
        { name: "A. Author", affiliation: "Some University", address: "City, Country", email: "[email protected]" },
        { name: "B. Coauthor", affiliation: "Another Lab", address: "City, Country", email: "[email protected]" }
      ])}

      <section role="abstract" title="Abstract">
        <p>One-paragraph abstract, indented on both margins.</p>
      </section>

      <section title="Introduction">
        <p>Body prose. Inline citations are plain author-year text (Author, 2024).</p>
        <section title="Background">
          <p>Depth-2 headings are numbered 1.1, 1.2, …</p>
        </section>
      </section>

      <section title="Conclusion">
        <p>Closing remarks.</p>
      </section>

      <section role="unnumbered" title="Acknowledgments">
        <p>Unnumbered, per NeurIPS convention.</p>
      </section>

      <section role="bibliography" title="References">
        <p>Author, A. (2024). A paper title. Venue.</p>
        <p>Other, B. (2023). Another paper. Venue.</p>
      </section>

      <NeurIPSChecklist
        answers={[
          { answer: "Yes", justification: "…" }
          /* remaining questions fall back to [TODO] */
        ]}
      />
    </document>
  );
}

Supported Markdown

The companion example (examples/neurips-sample) renders a paper straight from Markdown via @reactwright/markdown:

• Headings (#, ##, ###) → numbered sections / subsections.
• Solo-image paragraphs (![alt](src)) → a <figure> with the alt text as the "Figure N:" caption.
• A Table: caption paragraph immediately before a Markdown table → the table's "Table N:" caption.
• Emphasis, inline code, links, ordered/unordered lists, block quotes (indented like LaTeX's quote), inline math ($…$) and block math ($$…$$).
• Front matter supplies title, the structured authors list, and the abstract; the build script injects the author block, the abstract section, and the checklist, and tags back-matter sections by position (everything after References becomes a lettered appendix).

The Paper Checklist

Every NeurIPS paper must end with the Paper Checklist (papers omitting it are desk-rejected; it does not count toward the page limit). NeurIPSChecklist emits the full, verbatim 2025 list of 16 questions as a role="checklist" section — page-broken, with an unnumbered heading and a plain numbered list of Question / Answer / Justification triples. Pass your per-question answers (Yes / No / NA + a 1–2 sentence justification); anything omitted renders as [TODO]. CHECKLIST_QUESTIONS exposes the raw question data if you'd rather lay it out yourself.

Implementation notes

All styling is expressed through the styling dialect (<styles> + <rule>); NEURIPS_CSS is an empty string. Section numbering is wired with dialect counters (nips-sec / nips-sub / nips-subsub), and the back-matter sections are excluded from the counter by role. The references list is authored content (a role="bibliography" section) rather than the template-side <Bibliography> data-source helper, so author-year entries stay plain text and the section orders naturally before the checklist.

Appendix subsection numbering ("A.1") mixes an upper-alpha counter with a decimal one. The numbering dialect concept applies a single counter-style to its whole format, so the mixed case is expressed instead with the prefix concept plus a pass-through counter-increment — no raw customCss needed.

To eyeball rendered output against the official neurips_2025.pdf, the repo ships scripts/pdf-to-images.mjs (wraps poppler's pdftoppm):

node scripts/pdf-to-images.mjs build/examples/neurips-sample.pdf --dpi 150