Preparing your manuscript in an overleaf project

💬 “AI is not replacing researchers — it’s empowering them to think deeper, move faster, and communicate better.”

Step 1: To start

1. Start with a tentatitve title
2. Correct and identify authors in alphabetic orders at the moment.

Step 2: Introduction

Section 1 should include:

• (a) A literature review covering 3–5 relevant introductory topics
• (b) A clear statement of the study’s goals and its significance to society

The goal is to convince your readers why your research matters — not only in academia, but also in the real world.

Before proposing your research objectives, explore the broader context thoroughly with the help of both traditional methods and AI tools.

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📌 Literature Review Workflow Step-by-Step Process

1. Identify Key Topics

Select 3 to 5 core themes relevant to your research area.

2. Use one AI for Discovery

We have Soft AI (自然語言與生成型 AI), that may provide you fake literature, but still useful to some extent.

• ChatGPT
• GROK
• Claude
• Gemini
• Perplexity

We have hard AI（資料庫導向、學術支援型 AI), usually expensive and would be paid by our university, NYCU 圖書館的 AI 研究助理平台

• ALMA
• WOS
• Scite.AI

For each topic:

• Ask your favorite AI (e.g., ChatGPT or Claude or hard AI) to generate a list of relevant academic papers
• Request BibTeX citations from the AI
• Use Google Scholar or publisher sites to fact-check and validate each paper

3. Structure Findings in Slides

• Summarize findings in a clear table or matrix
• Structure the information into presentation-ready slides for communicating to a general audience

4. Manage Writing in Overleaf

• Compile sources into a BibTeX file
• Upload to Overleaf for easy reference management

5. Iterate with Other AI Tools

• Repeat the process using different AI tools, transit from Soft AI to Hard AI.
• Refine until your review is comprehensive and well-structured

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Step 3: Building literature using bibtex format

1. bibkeys have to be of a consistant format: firstauthor+yyyy+first word, all in lowercase.
2. In ‘title’, use \textsc{xxx} to enforce words in uppper case.
3. Don’t cite a master thesis. (It is a hurt to cite a master thesis in your paper. No offense, but this is a fact.)
4. Need to double check every information with google scholar. Add a note, ex: “% confirmed by Teng on 20250409”

A wrong example

@mastersthesis{btcHeston, author = {Chang, Yung-Chi}, title = {Pricing and Hedging Inverse BTC Options with Heston’s Stochastic Volatility Model}, school = {National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University}, year = {2022}, note = {Master’s thesis} }

A corrected example

% confirmed by Teng on 20250409 @article{chang2023stochastic, author = {Yung-Chi Chang and Huei-Wen Teng and Wolfgang H{"{a}}rdle}, title = {Stochastic volatility dynamic hedging of the inverse \textsc{BTC} option}, volume = {16}, number = {2}, pages = {1–48}, month = {August}, year = {2023}, journal = {Journal of Futures and Options}, note = {(TSSCI)}, }