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The technical report template.
A structured scaffold for the reports that are not journal papers: deliverables, white papers, and internal findings that still need an executive summary, real references, and a professional export. Numbered sections, a summary up top, and appendices that carry the detail.
What's included
Everything the format demands, seeded.
Executive summary first
A summary block sits at the top for the readers who will not reach the appendices — the sponsors, reviewers, and colleagues who need the finding and the recommendation in a page.
Numbered sections and appendices
Hierarchical numbered headings and self-numbering appendices give the report the navigable structure a long deliverable needs, with cross-references that stay correct as it grows.
Real references, still verified
A report is not exempt from rigor: citations resolve against Crossref by DOI, so a deliverable's evidence base is as checkable as a journal paper's.
Professional, branded export
Export a clean PDF or DOCX with a title page and consistent formatting — the report a funder or client receives looks considered, not assembled the night before.
Structure
The sections this template seeds.
Every section is a structured block: rename, reorder, or remove any of them — the template is where the manuscript starts, not where it must end.
- 01Title pageReport title, authors, sponsor, and reference number
- 02Executive summaryFindings and recommendations in a page
- 03IntroductionBackground, objectives, and scope
- 04Approach / methodsWhat was done and how
- 05Findings / resultsResults with figure and table blocks
- 06RecommendationsConclusions and next steps
- 07AppendicesAuto-numbered supporting detail and data
- 08ReferencesDOI-resolved, consistently styled
Venues it suits
One draft, formatted for the destination.
The format fits funded-project deliverables, institutional report series, and technical notes posted to arXiv — anywhere a document needs a paper's rigor without a journal's house style.
- Funder deliverables
- arXiv (cs/eess reports)
- Institutional report series
- White papers
Who it’s for
Built for this kind of writing.
- Labs producing funder deliverables and milestone reports
- Groups publishing white papers or technical notes outside journals
- Teams that want internal findings written with the same rigor as a paper
Export
Formatted for the destination.
Exports to branded PDF and DOCX with a title page, numbered sections, and appendices — plus LaTeX when the report is destined for a preprint server.
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Journal article
The full IMRaD structure for empirical papers, with journal-accurate citation styles applied at export.
Long-form
Thesis & dissertation
Chapters, front matter, appendices, and a single bibliography — built to stay manageable at 200 pages.
Funding
Grant proposal
Aims, significance, approach, and budget justification — with per-section length budgets for funder limits.
Open the technical report template.
Available on every plan, including Free — sign in with ORCID and the structure is waiting.