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# The LaTeX Lab: The LaTeX Lab is a professional Word to LaTeX and PDF to LaTeX conversion service for researchers and PhD students. We convert manuscripts, theses, and conference papers into submission-ready LaTeX with guaranteed zero compilation errors. Services include journal paper formatting (IEEE, Springer, Elsevier, ACM, MDPI), thesis formatting to university specifications, and LaTeX error fixing. Every file is tested in Overleaf before delivery.

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## Posts
- [Best Word to LaTeX Converter (2026 Compared)](https://thelatexlab.com/blog/best-word-to-latex-converter/): Quick answer: What's the best Word to LaTeX converter for academic papers?
- [LaTeX for Professional Publications](https://thelatexlab.com/blog/latex-for-professional-publications/): If your journal's guidelines say 'LaTeX preferred,' you're probably here for one of two reasons: you need to know which publishers actually require LaTeX for professional publications, or you need to decide whether to learn it or outsource the formatting. This guide answers both.
- [How to Convert Word to LaTeX – The Complete Guide (2026)](https://thelatexlab.com/blog/how-to-convert-word-to-latex/): Whether you call it Word to LaTeX, docx to latex, or Word to TeX, the process is the same fundamental reconstruction. This guide walks you through every practical method for converting a Word document to LaTeX in 2026 - from free command-line tools to professional services. You'll learn what actually converts cleanly, what breaks every time, and how to choose the right approach based on your document's complexity and your deadline.
- [How to Add Footnotes in WordPress](https://thelatexlab.com/blog/footnotes-in-wordpress/): Footnotes in WordPress no longer need a plugin. Since WordPress 6.3 the block editor has a built-in Footnotes block, and on WordPress 7.0 it handles numbering, backlinks, and reordering on its own. It also has real limits, stores your notes somewhere you would not expect, and does nothing at all in the Classic Editor. Here is how to add footnotes in WordPress with the core block, how to do it without a plugin if you are on Classic, and when a footnote plugin is still the right call.
- [Google Scholar BibTeX: How to Get Clean Entries](https://thelatexlab.com/blog/google-scholar-bibtex/): Google Scholar BibTeX export is the quickest way to get a citation into a .bib file, and it is also the reason a lot of reference lists are quietly wrong. Scholar builds its metadata by crawling, so the entry it hands you often has no DOI, no ISSN, a truncated journal name, and sometimes the wrong entry type. This covers how to turn the export on, how to fix the 403 error, what Scholar leaves out, and when to skip it and pull a clean BibTeX entry from the DOI instead.
- [45-Page Springer Project Case Study (delivered within 24hrs)](https://thelatexlab.com/blog/project-story-springer-economics-word-to-latex/): This project is typical of the work, so it is worth being specific about the client.
- [Annotated Bibliography in Google Docs + Template](https://thelatexlab.com/blog/annotated-bibliography-google-docs/): Building an annotated bibliography in Google Docs is two jobs, and only one of them is writing. First you need an accurate, correctly formatted reference list. Then you add an annotation under each entry, indented differently from the reference itself, which is the part Google Docs makes annoying. A citation add-on handles the first job, so you only do the second. Below is the workflow, the exact indent settings for APA and MLA, a template you can copy, and the one mistake that erases everything you typed.
- [How to Cite a Website in LaTeX (BibTeX @misc)](https://thelatexlab.com/blog/how-to-cite-a-website-in-latex/): To cite a website in LaTeX depends on which bibliography system your document uses, and that is why the advice you find is contradictory. With biblatex you use the @online entry type, which has proper url and urldate fields. With classic BibTeX you use @misc, and then you hit the real problem: several common .bst styles silently throw the url field away. This covers both, the fields that actually get printed, and what to do when the URL does not show up.
- [BibTeX vs biblatex vs biber: Which to Use](https://thelatexlab.com/blog/bibtex-vs-biblatex/): The bibtex vs biblatex question is confusing mostly because the two things being compared are not the same kind of thing, and because biber and natbib get thrown into the same list. BibTeX is a program with its own style language. biblatex is a LaTeX package. biber is a backend program that only biblatex uses. natbib is a small package that changes citation commands. Once you see which of those actually compete with each other, the decision takes about a minute, and in most cases your journal template has already made it for you.
- [How to Add Citations in Google Docs](https://thelatexlab.com/blog/how-to-add-citations-in-google-docs/): If you want to know how to add citations in Google Docs without typing out every reference by hand, the fastest way is a free add-on. With our Google Docs citation add-on, you paste a DOI, PubMed ID, ISBN, arXiv ID, or a BibTeX entry, and it inserts a clean in-text citation and builds your reference list at the end, in any of eight styles. No sign-up, no separate reference manager, and you never leave the document. Here is the whole workflow, start to finish.
- [How to Cite in LaTeX: References & Bibliography](https://thelatexlab.com/blog/how-to-cite-in-latex/): Learning how to cite in LaTeX comes down to three pieces: a .bib file that holds your references, a command in the text that cites one, and a command that prints the bibliography. There are two ways to wire those together, the modern biblatex approach and the classic BibTeX approach, and your journal or class template usually decides which. This shows how to add references and a bibliography in LaTeX with both, what a .bib file looks like, and the fastest way to build it without typing every entry by hand.
- [Convert LaTeX to Accessible HTML with Pandoc](https://thelatexlab.com/blog/pandoc-latex-to-accessible-html/): Converting LaTeX to Accessible HTML with Pandoc is one of the better ways to make math-heavy content accessible, because HTML with real MathML is read more reliably by screen readers than math in any PDF. Pandoc is the usual tool for the job. The catch is that Pandoc parses LaTeX itself instead of running a TeX engine, so it converts clean, standard documents well and struggles with custom macros, TikZ, and homegrown class files. This covers the flags that produce accessible HTML, where Pandoc breaks, and what to reach for when it does.
- [How to Make Accessible Chemistry Notation in LaTeX](https://thelatexlab.com/blog/accessible-chemistry-notation/): Guide to make Chemistry Accessible in LaTeX like Formula, Notation, Reactions, etc. Chemistry is the hardest case in document accessibility, and the reason is that "chemistry" is really two different problems wearing one name. Chemical formulas and reactions are linear and behave like math, so they can be made accessible. Chemical structures are 2D drawings, and those mostly cannot be made screen-reader-navigable in a PDF, at least not automatically. Most guides lump them together and leave you stuck. This separates them, shows what actually works for each in 2026, and is honest about where the answer is an accommodation rather than a tag.
- [The European Accessibility Act for Publishers](https://thelatexlab.com/blog/european-accessibility-act-for-publishers/): The European Accessibility Act put publishers on a deadline that has already passed for new content. Since 28 June 2025, e-books and digital publications sold to readers in the EU have to be accessible, and that reaches academic and journal publishers whether or not they are based in the EU. If your titles or articles are sold or distributed to EU readers, this applies to you. Here is what the EAA requires, the two dates that matter, the standard, and the part that trips up publishers who assume a tagged PDF is enough.
- [How to Fix LaTeX Tagging Errors When Your PDF Breaks](https://thelatexlab.com/blog/fix-latex-tagging-errors/): You turned on tagging, and now tagpdf is not working: the PDF comes out scrambled, the log is full of warnings, or nothing seems tagged at all, read this post to Fix LaTeX Tagging Errors. This is almost never a bug in the tagging code itself. It is usually the compiler, an out-of-date TeX Live, or one package in your preamble that does not get along with tagging yet. This walks through the three ways it breaks, the error strings people actually paste, and how to find the package causing it.
- [How to Make LaTeX Table Accessible](https://thelatexlab.com/blog/make-latex-table-accessible/): Making LaTeX table accessible comes down to one thing a screen reader needs that LaTeX does not add on its own: which cells are headers. Turn tagging on and LaTeX will tag a tabular as a table, but it cannot guess that your top row is column headings. Until you tell it, a screen reader reads the header row as if it were ordinary data, and every cell after it loses its label. This is how to mark that up, how to handle row headers, layout tables, and merged cells, and which table packages actually work with tagging in 2026.
- [Which LaTeX Accessibility Package Do You Need in 2026?](https://thelatexlab.com/blog/latex-accessibility-package/): Read this post to know which LaTeX accessibility package to install. People usually install CTAN package literally called accessibility, and that package is abandoned. Its author told people to stop using it in 2020, but it still ships with TeX Live, so people keep finding it and wasting time on it. The modern way to make LaTeX accessible needs almost no package at all. This is what to actually use in 2026, and where the older packages still fit.
- [How to Create Accessible PDF in Overleaf](https://thelatexlab.com/blog/create-accessible-pdf-in-overleaf/): Learn how to create accessible pdf in Overleaf (a tagged PDF a screen reader can actually read). It comes down to two settings and one block of code. Overleaf already ships a recent TeX Live, so you skip the part that makes this painful on a local install: installing and updating TeX yourself. This is the Overleaf-specific version of the setup: which settings to change in the Overleaf menu, the DocumentMetadata block, the rolling TeX Live catch, and how to check the result when Overleaf has no built-in accessibility checker.
- [Which Screen Readers Reads Math in PDFs](https://thelatexlab.com/blog/screen-readers-math-pdf/): Screen reader can now read math in PDFs in 2026, but only in specific combinations of screen reader, PDF viewer, and platform. Get one of those three wrong and a blind reader hears nothing where an equation should be, even when the PDF is correctly tagged. This is the reader-by-reader breakdown: which screen readers actually read math in a PDF today, which ones only read it on the web or in Word, and how to test your own file before you trust the result.
- [How to Add Alt Text in LaTeX](https://thelatexlab.com/blog/add-alt-text-in-latex/): LaTeX alt text used to be a pain to add. It is not anymore. With the current tagging code, you can add alt text in LaTeX and it is a key you pass to \includegraphics, and it goes into the tagged PDF where a screen reader can read it. This guide covers the exact syntax for figures, how to mark decorative images so they are skipped, the difference between alt text and actual text, how to handle TikZ diagrams and equations, what good alt text should say, and how to confirm it actually landed in the PDF.
- [Section 508 PDF Compliance: A Practical Guide](https://thelatexlab.com/blog/section-508-pdf-compliance/): Section 508 PDF compliance means one specific thing: the PDF meets WCAG 2.0 Level AA, which is the technical standard Section 508 adopted. Two things about that surprise people. The standard is WCAG 2.0, not the newer 2.1 that ADA Title II uses. And Section 508 may not be the rule that actually binds you, even if someone told you your document has to be "508 compliant." This guide covers who Section 508 applies to, what it requires of a PDF, how it lines up with WCAG and PDF/UA, and how to check a file.
- [ADA Title II: Accessible Course Materials](https://thelatexlab.com/blog/ada-title-ii-course-materials/): Accessible course materials are now a legal requirement under ADA Title II for faculty at US public colleges. The rule sets WCAG 2.1 AA as the standard for everything you post to Canvas, Blackboard, or a course site. The deadline recently moved, so it is no longer April 2026, but the work is the same. It is harder if you teach a STEM or math-heavy course from LaTeX notes and slides. This guide covers what has to change: PDFs, math, figures, slides, and video.
- [Beamer Accessibility: Why Slides Fail + Fixes](https://thelatexlab.com/blog/beamer-accessibility/): Beamer accessibility is a problem most people find late, when a deadline forces them to check their lecture slides. A Beamer deck can look fine and compile cleanly and still fail an accessibility check, because to a screen reader the PDF is a set of pictures with no structure. The usual "turn on tagging" advice that fixes a LaTeX article does not fix Beamer. This post covers why Beamer slides fail, why you cannot tag your way out of it, what you can improve now, and the two routes to an accessible deck.
- [What Is PDF/UA? The Accessible PDF Standard](https://thelatexlab.com/blog/what-is-pdf-ua/): PDF/UA is the ISO standard that defines how an accessible PDF has to be built. UA stands for Universal Accessibility, and where WCAG describes the outcome a user should get, PDF/UA is the technical rulebook that says exactly how the tags, structure, and metadata inside a PDF must be constructed to deliver it. If you have been told your documents need to be "PDF/UA compliant" and want to know what that actually means, and how it differs from a merely tagged PDF or from WCAG, this is the short version worth reading.
- [Accessible LaTeX Thesis: Meet WCAG 2.1 AA Compliance](https://thelatexlab.com/blog/accessible-latex-thesis-wcag/): Making an accessible LaTeX thesis that meets WCAG 2.1 AA compliance is now a submission requirement at a growing number of graduate schools, not a nice-to-have. Under ADA Title II, universities have moved the WCAG 2.1 AA bar onto electronic theses and dissertations, and the graduate college checks for it. An ADA compliant thesis in LaTeX is very achievable, but ETD accessibility is decided at the source, not patched into the output. The trap is that a thesis is one long document generated from one set of source files, so the accessibility of all 150 pages is decided in a handful of lines at the top of your project. Get those right and every heading, list, table, and equation is tagged on every compile. Get them wrong and you are remediating a 150-page PDF by hand in Acrobat the week before your deadline. This guide is about getting them right the first time.
- [How to Make a PDF WCAG 2.1 AA Compliant](https://thelatexlab.com/blog/make-pdf-wcag-compliant/): To make a PDF WCAG 2.1 AA compliant, you have to satisfy two very different kinds of requirement: the structural ones a tagged PDF handles for you, and the visual and editorial ones that no software can judge and that you have to check by eye. Most guides list the success criteria and stop. This one explains, in plain English, what AA actually asks of a PDF, which half is automatic and which half is on you, and how to verify the whole thing. Making a PDF WCAG compliant means meeting WCAG 2.1 AA, the bar nearly every accessibility law now points to, so it is worth getting right rather than guessing.
- [ltx-talk: The Accessible Beamer Alternative](https://thelatexlab.com/blog/ltx-talk/): ltx-talk is a new LaTeX presentation class built to do the one thing Beamer cannot: produce a tagged, accessible PDF. It comes from Joseph Wright, part of the LaTeX team, and it treats accessibility as a design goal from the start rather than a bolt-on. If you have to hand in slides that pass an accessibility check, and a Beamer deck will not, ltx-talk is the native answer. The catch is that it is still early. This is an honest look at what it is, how it compares to Beamer, whether it is ready for your next talk, and what to do in the meantime if it is not.
- [Tagged PDF: The Complete Guide 2026](https://thelatexlab.com/blog/tagged-pdf/): A tagged PDF is a PDF that carries a hidden structure tree, a layer of tags that label every heading, paragraph, list, table, and figure and fix the order they should be read in. That structure is what a screen reader uses to make sense of the file. Without it, even a perfectly formatted-looking PDF reads as a shapeless stream of text, or as nothing at all. Tagging is the single thing that separates an accessible PDF from an inaccessible one.
- [How to Make Math Accessible in PDFs](https://thelatexlab.com/blog/make-math-accessible-in-pdf/): Math accessibility comes down to one question: when a screen reader reaches an equation, does it read the math, or does it say "image" and move on? In most PDFs it says "image," because the equation was baked in as a picture with no underlying structure. This guide covers what actually makes equations screen-reader accessible in 2026, why MathML is the real answer to make math accessible.
- [Free PDF Accessibility Checkers Compared (2026)](https://thelatexlab.com/blog/free-pdf-accessibility-checkers-compared/): This is a comparison of free PDF accessibility checkers worth using in 2026, what each one is actually good at, and where each one quietly misleads you. Knowing which gaps each one leaves is the difference between a PDF that passes a checker and a PDF a blind reader can actually use.
- [How to Check PDF Accessibility](https://thelatexlab.com/blog/check-pdf-accessibility/): To check PDF accessibility, you run the file through a validator that inspects its tags, structure, and metadata, then you confirm the result with a screen reader. That second half is the part most people skip, and it is the reason people end up with a PDF that "passes" a checker but is still unusable for someone who cannot see the screen.
- [7 Best WordPress Citation Plugins in 2026 (Tested)](https://thelatexlab.com/blog/best-wordpress-citation-plugins/): This post lists the 7 best WordPress citation  and Bibliography plugins that you can use for academic blogging. Easily add citations and a bibliography in your WordPress website: paste a DOI, PubMed ID, ISBN, or arXiv ID and get a clean in-text citation and automatically generate a bibliography in APA, MLA, Chicago, IEEE, Vancouver, and other citation styles.
- [10 IEEE PDF eXpress LaTeX Errors and How to Fix it](https://thelatexlab.com/blog/ieee-pdf-express-latex-errors-fixes/): The most common IEEE PDF eXpress LaTeX error has nothing to do with your .tex file. It comes from your figures. You compiled a clean PDF in Overleaf, uploaded it to PDF eXpress for the Xplore compliance check, and received an email listing font embedding failures across dozens of instances. The fonts in question are Helvetica, Times-Roman, or Arial, and they are not in your LaTeX document. They are inside the PDF or EPS figures you exported from MATLAB, R, or matplotlib.
- [Overleaf Compile Timeout – 8 Fixes That Work](https://thelatexlab.com/blog/overleaf-compile-timeout-fix/): An Overleaf compile timeout means your project took longer to compile than Overleaf's server allows. It is not a LaTeX error. Your code might be perfectly valid, but the server ran out of time before pdflatex finished producing the PDF. The free plan gives you 20 seconds. Paid plans give more, but even paid projects can time out if something in the project is genuinely slow.
- [LaTeX Font Not Embedded – Fix With pdffonts](https://thelatexlab.com/blog/latex-font-not-embedded-fix/): The Latex "font not embedded" error that just rejected your LaTeX PDF has almost nothing to do with your .tex file. pdflatex embeds every font it uses. The unembedded fonts in your PDF are inside the figures you included with \includegraphics{}. They came from MATLAB, R, matplotlib, Visio, PowerPoint, or Inkscape, and they carried their unembedded font references into your final document when pdflatex pulled them in.
- [LaTeX “File Not Found .sty” Fix: tlmgr + MiKTeX](https://thelatexlab.com/blog/latex-file-not-found-sty-fix/): The "File not found" LaTeX error means your document uses a package that is not installed on your system. LaTeX looked for a .sty file, could not find it, and stopped. The fix depends on which LaTeX environment you are using: Overleaf, TeX Live, or MiKTeX.
- [Missing } Inserted LaTeX: Find the Brace Fast](https://thelatexlab.com/blog/missing-brace-inserted-latex-fix/): The "missing } inserted" LaTeX error means LaTeX expected a closing brace but did not find one. The hardest part about this error is that the line number in the error log is almost always wrong. It points to where LaTeX gave up looking for the brace, not where the brace should actually be. The real problem is usually dozens or even hundreds of lines earlier.
- [Missing $ Inserted LaTeX Error: Quick Fix Guide](https://thelatexlab.com/blog/missing-dollar-inserted-latex-fix/): The "missing $ inserted" LaTeX error means you used a character that only works inside math mode, but you used it in regular text. LaTeX is telling you it tried to insert a $ to enter math mode because it had no other way to process the character. The fix is almost always escaping a special character or removing an invisible character from copy-paste.
- [Undefined Control Sequence LaTeX: 3 Causes + Fix](https://thelatexlab.com/blog/undefined-control-sequence-latex-fix/): The "undefined control sequence" error means LaTeX found a command it does not recognize. This is the most common LaTeX error, and it is almost always one of three things: a typo in the command name, a missing package, or invisible characters from copy-paste. The error log tells you the exact line number and the exact command that failed.
- [10 ACM TAPS LaTeX Errors and How to Fix it](https://thelatexlab.com/blog/acm-taps-latex-errors-fixes/): The most common ACM TAPS LaTeX error is a validation failure you cannot debug locally because TAPS enforces rules that go beyond what LaTeX requires to produce a PDF. Your paper compiled cleanly in Overleaf. You zipped it up, uploaded it to the TAPS author dashboard, and received a validation error within hours. The error log mentions missing rights commands, a disallowed package, or a format option that TAPS does not recognize as camera-ready. None of this was visible when you compiled locally.
- [10 Springer LaTeX Submission Errors and How to Fix it](https://thelatexlab.com/blog/springer-latex-submission-errors-fixes/): Every Springer LaTeX submission error comes down to one of about ten causes, and most of them have nothing to do with your actual research. You uploaded your .tex files, the submission system tried to compile them, and instead of a PDF you got an error log or a mangled output. Springer Nature runs three separate submission platforms, each with a different TeX Live version and different file handling rules. A paper that compiles cleanly in Overleaf can fail on all three for entirely different reasons.
- [Elsevier Editorial Manager LaTeX Errors – 9 Fixes (2026)](https://thelatexlab.com/blog/elsevier-editorial-manager-latex-errors/): Every Elsevier Editorial Manager LaTeX error you are staring at right now has a specific cause and a specific fix. You uploaded your .tex files, hit "Build PDF for Approval," and got an error log instead of your paper. The problem is almost never your research. It is your file setup, your upload configuration, or a silent version mismatch between your local TeX installation and Elsevier's server. Researchers across TeX forums and academic communities describe the same experience: a paper that compiled perfectly in Overleaf produces nothing but an error dump when uploaded to EM.
- [How to Submit LaTeX to ACM Conference](https://thelatexlab.com/blog/submit-latex-to-acm-conference/): ACM conference submissions have a two-phase workflow that catches nearly every first-time author off guard. Phase one is submitting your paper for review, which uses the conference's submission system (HotCRP, OpenReview, or similar) and requires a single-column "manuscript" format PDF. Phase two happens after acceptance: you complete an ACM rights form, insert specific LaTeX commands ACM emails you, prepare a camera-ready version, and submit your source files to TAPS (The ACM Publishing System), which generates both a PDF and an HTML5 version of your paper for the ACM Digital Library. If you have searched for how to submit LaTeX to ACM conference or tried to debug an ACM LaTeX submission error in TAPS, you already know that ACM's documentation is scattered across a dozen pages with different instructions for each phase.
- [How to Submit LaTeX to Springer Editorial Manager (2026)](https://thelatexlab.com/blog/submit-latex-to-springer-editorial-manager/): To Submit LaTeX to Springer Editorial Manager sounds like a solved problem until the system shows you an error log instead of your paper. The compilation fails, your references show as question marks, your figures vanish, and the error messages reference a version of TeX Live from 2018. Most researchers discover this the night before a deadline, because nothing in Springer Nature's author guidelines prepares you for the gap between "my paper compiles locally" and "Editorial Manager can build a PDF from my source files." If you have searched for how to submit a LaTeX to Springer Editorial Manager or tried to fix a Springer LaTeX submission error, you already know the documentation is scattered across five different Springer Nature pages with no single walkthrough.
- [How to Submit LaTeX to MDPI (SuSy Walkthrough + Checklist)](https://thelatexlab.com/blog/submit-latex-to-mdpi/): MDPI submissions trip up researchers not because the LaTeX is complex, but because the requirements are scattered across half a dozen different pages. The template has its own rules, the submission portal (called SuSy) has another set, and the mandatory back matter sections that MDPI enforces are buried in grey-text comments inside the .tex file that most people skip entirely. If you have searched for how to submit LaTeX to MDPI or tried to troubleshoot an MDPI LaTeX submission error, you already know that no single page covers the full process end to end.
- [How to Submit LaTeX File to IEEE Conference or Journal (2026)](https://thelatexlab.com/blog/submit-latex-file-to-ieee-conference-journal/): IEEE submissions trip up researchers more than any other publisher's system. Not because the LaTeX is harder - the IEEEtran template is well-documented and straightforward. The problem is everything that happens between "my paper compiles" and "my paper is actually submitted." Conferences and journals use different submission systems. Conferences require PDF eXpress certification that journals don't. Some systems want PDF only, others want PDF plus source files. File naming rules differ between EDAS, CMT, EasyChair, and ScholarOne. If you've searched for how to submit LaTeX file to IEEE conference or how to fix an IEEE LaTeX submission error, you've already discovered that IEEE's own documentation is scattered across dozens of pages with no single walkthrough.
- [How to Submit Your LaTeX File to Elsevier Editorial Manager (Step-by-Step)](https://thelatexlab.com/blog/submit-latex-to-elsevier-editorial-manager/): Your paper compiles perfectly in Overleaf. You download the source files, go to submit LaTeX to Elsevier Editorial Manager, and the PDF build fails. Or it builds, but the figures are missing. Or the bibliography shows everywhere. You spend two hours reclassifying files, rebuilding, and reading cryptic TeX Live error codes. This is one of the most common frustrations in academic publishing, and it happens because Editorial Manager's LaTeX compilation environment works differently from your local setup or Overleaf.
- [PDF to LaTeX Conversion for Research Papers: What Actually Works](https://thelatexlab.com/blog/pdf-to-latex-conversion-for-research-papers/): Sometimes the PDF is all you have. The original Word file was lost in a hard drive crash. A co-author from 2019 isn't responding to emails. Your university requires LaTeX source for a paper you published five years ago in a different format. Or a journal asks for LaTeX source files and all you can find is the final PDF. PDF to LaTeX conversion for research papers is a real need - but it's a fundamentally harder problem than Word-to-LaTeX, and the gap between what automated tools promise and what they deliver is wider here than anywhere else in academic document conversion.
- [How to Convert Thesis From Word to LaTeX](https://thelatexlab.com/blog/convert-thesis-from-word-to-latex/): You have a 200-page thesis in Word. Your university or committee wants it in LaTeX. The thought of retyping six chapters, 80 equations, 15 tables, a 150-entry bibliography, and three appendices from scratch is enough to make you consider dropping out. The good news: you don't have to start over. The bad news: you can't just run Pandoc and get a working thesis. The reality is somewhere in between, and this guide shows you exactly how to convert thesis from Word to LaTeX chapter by chapter without losing your mind or your content.
- [How to Format PhD Thesis in LaTeX (Complete Guide 2026)](https://thelatexlab.com/blog/format-phd-thesis-in-latex/): Quick answer: How to Format PhD Thesis in LaTeX?
- [How to Convert Word to LaTeX With References Intact (2026)](https://thelatexlab.com/blog/convert-word-to-latex-references/): You've converted your Word document to LaTeX. The text looks right, the equations compile, and the tables are rebuilt. Then you scroll down to where the bibliography should be and there's nothing there. Or worse - your citations show up as throughout the entire paper. If you've searched for how to convert Word to LaTeX with references intact, this is probably the exact problem you're facing right now.
- [How to Convert Word to LaTeX Without Losing Tables and Formatting](https://thelatexlab.com/blog/convert-word-to-latex-without-losing-tables/): Tables are the element that breaks most often when you convert Word to LaTeX without losing tables and formatting. Equations get the attention, but tables cause more cleanup hours. A 4-column table with merged header cells, shaded rows, and a footnote in Word becomes a mess of misaligned columns, missing borders, and orphaned text after running through Pandoc or any other automated converter.

## Pages
- [Citation Generator: APA, MLA, Chicago, IEEE](https://thelatexlab.com/citation-generator/): A citation generator online that works from identifiers rather than forms. Paste a DOI, PubMed ID, arXiv ID, or ISBN and get a citation in the style you need, or upload a .bib, .ris, .enw, or .nbib file and convert a whole library at once. Every lookup is resolved against the source record, CrossRef for DOIs, Europe PMC for PubMed IDs, arXiv, and OpenLibrary for ISBNs, so author names and page numbers come from the publisher rather than from something typed in. Output as a single reference, a sorted reference list, in-text citations, or a reference file for your citation manager.
- [Vancouver Citation Generator and Format](https://thelatexlab.com/vancouver-citation-generator/): Paste a PubMed ID or DOI and get a numbered Vancouver reference back. The lookup goes to Europe PMC for PubMed IDs and CrossRef for DOIs, so the author order and the elided page range come straight from the indexed record. Upload a .nbib export from PubMed, or a .ris or .bib file, and this vancouver citation generator converts the batch in one pass. Two fields need a manual check afterwards and the second section says which.
- [MLA Works Cited Generator](https://thelatexlab.com/mla-works-cited-generator/): With an author, it is the surname. Standard, and what this works cited generator does automatically whatever order you paste in.
- [MLA In-Text Citation Generator](https://thelatexlab.com/mla-in-text-citation-generator/): Free. No signup. Runs in your browser.
- [MLA Citation Generator](https://thelatexlab.com/mla-citation-generator/): Page ranges are abbreviated. MLA shortens the second number when both are three digits or more and share their leading digits, so 436 to 444 becomes 436-44, not 436-444. This mla citation generator applies that rule automatically. It looks like a typo if you have not seen it before, which is why it gets "corrected" by hand so often.
- [ISBN to MLA Converter](https://thelatexlab.com/isbn-to-mla/): Free. No signup. Runs in your browser.
- [Accessibility Statement](https://thelatexlab.com/accessibility-statement/): TheLaTeXLab builds tools that assess whether documents are accessible. An inaccessible accessibility tool would be a contradiction, so we hold this sit to the standard we ask of the documents we check.
- [ISBN to APA Converter](https://thelatexlab.com/isbn-to-apa/): Free. No signup. Runs in your browser.
- [IEEE Citation Generator](https://thelatexlab.com/ieee-citation-generator/): Paste a DOI or arXiv ID and get a numbered IEEE reference back, with the bracket citation alongside it. Metadata comes from CrossRef, arXiv, Europe PMC, or OpenLibrary, so author initials and page ranges match the published record. Upload a .bib, .ris, .enw, or .nbib file and this ieee citation generator will convert the whole set in one pass.
- [Harvard Citation Generator](https://thelatexlab.com/harvard-citation-generator/): What this means in practice: run your sources through this harvard citation generator, then compare one entry against your department's handbook before you commit. The differences, where they exist, are usually small and consistent. Fix one entry by hand and you will know exactly what to change in the rest, or whether anything needs changing at all.
- [DOI to MLA Converter](https://thelatexlab.com/doi-to-mla/): Free. No signup. Runs in your browser.
- [DOI to APA Converter](https://thelatexlab.com/doi-to-apa/): To convert a DOI to APA in bulk, paste one per line, up to fifty at a time. For a whole reference page, sorted alphabetically with same-year suffixes resolved across the set, use the APA reference list generator instead, which is the same lookup with the list as its output.
- [Chicago Style Citation Generator](https://thelatexlab.com/chicago-citation-generator/): Paste a DOI, PubMed ID, arXiv ID, or ISBN and get a Chicago author-date reference back, with the in-text citation alongside it. Metadata comes from CrossRef, Europe PMC, arXiv, or OpenLibrary. Upload a .bib, .ris, .enw, or .nbib file to convert a set at once. Read the next section first, because Chicago has two citation systems and this chicago style citation generator only does one of them.
- [APA In-Text Citation Generator](https://thelatexlab.com/apa-in-text-citation-generator/): Free. No signup. Runs in your browser.
- [APA Citation Generator](https://thelatexlab.com/apa-citation-generator/): Note "Deep learning and the future of machine vision" in sentence case and Nature in title case, in the same reference. If a publisher stores the title already title-cased, this apa citation generator lowercases it to APA's rule, but it cannot know that a word like "Bayesian" is a proper noun. Scan the titles after generating and re-capitalise anything that should have stayed capitalised. This is the single most common thing to fix by hand.
- [APA Reference List Generator](https://thelatexlab.com/apa-reference-list-generator/): Free. No signup. Runs in your browser.
- [APA 7 Citation Generator](https://thelatexlab.com/apa-7-citation-generator/): Free. No signup. Runs in your browser.
- [AMA Citation Generator](https://thelatexlab.com/ama-citation-generator/): Paste a PubMed ID or DOI and get an AMA 11th edition reference back, numbered, with the superscript in-text citation alongside it. PubMed IDs resolve through Europe PMC and DOIs through CrossRef, so author lists and page ranges match the indexed record. Upload a .nbib export straight from PubMed, or a .ris or .bib file, and this ama citation generator will convert the batch in one pass.
- [PDF/UA Checker: Is Your PDF Tagged?](https://thelatexlab.com/pdf-ua-checker/)
- [Accessible Beamer Slides: Beamer to ltx-talk Service](https://thelatexlab.com/accessible-beamer-slides/): Accessible Beamer Slides: beamer to ltx-talk Projects
- [Beamer Accessibility Checker for LaTeX Slides](https://thelatexlab.com/latex-beamer-accessibility-checker/)
- [LaTeX Template Service for Journals & Publishers: WCAG & PDF/UA Compliance](https://thelatexlab.com/latex-template-service-for-publishers/): We update journal and conference LaTeX classes so that every article they compile is a tagged, accessible PDF meeting WCAG 2.1 AA and PDF/UA. One engagement at the template level, instead of a remediation invoice on every article you publish from now on.
- [Math Accessibility Checker for LaTeX (MathML)](https://thelatexlab.com/latex-math-accessibility-checker/)
- [University LaTeX Thesis Template Service for ADA Title II and WCAG 2.1 AA Compliance](https://thelatexlab.com/latex-thesis-template-ada-wcag/): We update university LaTeX thesis templates to meet the ADA Title II WCAG 2.1 Level AA requirements. You send the template your office publishes today, in LaTeX or Word; we return it producing accessible, tagged PDFs, student guide with a compiled sample your accessibility office can verify independently. Fixed-fee proposal, agreement outlining all scope of work, terms, and conditions.
- [PDF Accessibility Checker Online](https://thelatexlab.com/pdf-accessibility-checker/)
- [LaTeX Accessibility Checker](https://thelatexlab.com/latex-accessibility-checker/)
- [BibTeX to HTML Converter](https://thelatexlab.com/bibtex-to-html/): Free. No signup. Runs in your browser.
- [Google Docs Add on for Citation, References and Bibliography – BibTeX, DOI](https://thelatexlab.com/google-docs-citation-generator/): Paste a DOI, PubMed ID, ISBN, arXiv ID, or BibTeX and get a clean in-text citation and a formatted bibliography, right inside Google Docs. Eight styles: APA, MLA, Chicago, Harvard, IEEE, Vancouver, Nature, AMA. No account. Free.
- [BibTeX to JSON Converter](https://thelatexlab.com/bibtex-to-json/): Free. No signup. Runs in your browser.
- [BibTeX to Excel Converter](https://thelatexlab.com/bibtex-to-excel/): Free. No signup. Runs in your browser.
- [BibTeX Generator – 19 Free Converters](https://thelatexlab.com/bibtex-generator/): One widget for every BibTeX Generator you need. Resolve identifiers (DOI, PubMed, ISBN, arXiv) into BibTeX, convert reference files (RIS, EndNote, NBIB) into BibTeX, and render BibTeX into the bibliography style or reference format your submission asks for - APA, MLA, Chicago, Harvard, IEEE, AMA, Vancouver, RIS, CSV, Excel, CSL-JSON, or HTML. Pick any From and any To pill below, or jump to a dedicated page for the conversion you need.
- [BibTeX to CSV Converter](https://thelatexlab.com/bibtex-to-csv/): Free. No signup. Runs in your browser.
- [BibTeX to RIS Converter](https://thelatexlab.com/bibtex-to-ris/): Free. No signup. Runs in your browser.
- [BibTeX to Vancouver Converter](https://thelatexlab.com/bibtex-to-vancouver/): Free. No signup. Runs in your browser.
- [BibTeX to AMA Converter](https://thelatexlab.com/bibtex-to-ama/): Free. No signup. Runs in your browser.
- [BibTeX to IEEE Converter](https://thelatexlab.com/bibtex-to-ieee/): Free. No signup. Runs in your browser.
- [BibTeX to Harvard Converter](https://thelatexlab.com/bibtex-to-harvard/): Free. No signup. Runs in your browser.
- [Academic Citation and Bibliography WordPress Plugin (Free)](https://thelatexlab.com/academic-citations-bibliography-wordpress-plugin/): Paste a DOI, PubMed ID, ISBN, or arXiv ID and get a clean citation and a formatted bibliography. No account needed. Works in both Block and Classic Editor. Free.
- [BibTeX to Chicago Converter](https://thelatexlab.com/bibtex-to-chicago/): Free. No signup. Runs in your browser.
- [BibTeX to MLA Converter](https://thelatexlab.com/bibtex-to-mla/): Free. No signup. Runs in your browser.
- [BibTeX to APA Converter](https://thelatexlab.com/bibtex-to-apa/): Free. No signup. Runs in your browser.
- [NBIB to BibTeX Converter](https://thelatexlab.com/nbib-to-bibtex/): Free. No signup. Runs in your browser.
- [EndNote to BibTeX Converter](https://thelatexlab.com/endnote-to-bibtex/): Free. No signup. Runs in your browser.
- [RIS to BibTeX Converter](https://thelatexlab.com/ris-to-bibtex/): Free. No signup. Runs in your browser.
- [arXiv to BibTeX Converter](https://thelatexlab.com/arxiv-to-bibtex/): Free. No signup. Runs in your browser.
- [ISBN to BibTeX Converter](https://thelatexlab.com/isbn-to-bibtex/): Free. No signup. Runs in your browser.
- [PubMed to BibTeX Converter](https://thelatexlab.com/pubmed-to-bibtex/): Free. No signup. Runs in your browser.
- [DOI to BibTeX Converter](https://thelatexlab.com/doi-to-bibtex/): Convert DOI to BibTeX for free. Diacritics escaped, titles brace-protected, ampersands handled, entry types editable - ready to drop into your .bib without breaking the compile.
- [Highlight LaTeX Resubmission Changes for Journal Review](https://thelatexlab.com/latex-resubmission-changes/)
- [Track Changes in LaTeX – Online, Free](https://thelatexlab.com/latex-track-changes/)