IMAC

LaTeX style and template for the International Modal Analysis Conference (IMAC).

The IMAC Package for generating International Modal Analysis Conference formatted papers in LaTeX. As of the 2026-10-07 release, the formatting (fonts, page layout, heading style, and citation style) matches the official IMAC Word Template distributed in the conference's Author Toolkit, so LaTeX and Word submissions produce consistent results.

All documentation can be found in the file imac.pdf, generated by imac.tex.

Files

• imac.sty – the package itself; put this on your $TEXINPUTS (or in the same directory as your document) and load it with \usepackage{imac}.
• imac.bst – the BibTeX style file for IMAC-format bibliographies; needed alongside imac.sty if you use BibTeX.
• imac.tex – an example/template document showing how to use the package, and the source of the imac.pdf documentation.
• imac.bib – a sample bibliography used by the example document.
• imac.dtx / imac.ins – the docstrip sources that generate imac.sty (and this documentation); most users do not need these directly unless building the package from source.

Installation

Manual install: copy imac.sty and imac.bst into the same directory as your .tex document, or into a directory on your TEXMFHOME tree (e.g. ~/texmf/tex/latex/imac/ and ~/texmf/bibtex/bst/imac/), then run texhash/mktexlsr if needed.

If building from the .dtx/.ins sources instead, run:

latex imac.ins

which will extract imac.sty.

Requirements

imac.sty requires the following standard LaTeX packages, all of which are part of any complete TeX distribution (e.g. TeX Live, MiKTeX): ifthen, amsmath, cite, mathptmx, and geometry.

License

This work is distributed under the LaTeX Project Public License (LPPL), version 1.3c or later. See the LICENSE file for the full text.

Copyright (C) 2026, Joseph C. Slater

Contact / Support

For feedback, bug reports, or support, please open an issue on the IMAC GitHub repository.