8  Document Creation

8.1 Alaska

The Alaska ESR uses a LaTeX template to produce the final documents. We have a standard Word Document template for each indicator/contribution that contributing authors email to the ESR team. These Word docs and any corresponding Excel data files are stored in a shared Google Drive, edited, and transferred to the Latex Document

8.2 California Current

8.3 Gulf/Southeast

The Gulf IEA has used the NMFS Open Science Quarto Book Template to create Ecosystem Status Reports in the standard report format. We created [directions)](https://html-preview.github.io/?url=https://github.com/Gulf-IEA/Caribbean-ESR-2/blob/main/METHODS_DOC.html for using the NMFS Quarto book template to create an ESR report for our region.

An example of a report that was created for the Gulf IEA using these methods is the Caribbean ESR.

8.4 Hawai’i

8.5 Northeast

The Northeast SOE team uses an Rmarkdown system to create their reports. Figures are created outside of the Rmarkdown in a script and are read into the report where needed. Conditional knitting of child documents from a core parent document creates separate reports for the New England and Mid Atlantic regions. The report can also be knit in draft mode, which creates a single report that contains all content for both regions, making text edits more straightforward and less repetitive. All code is available on our github repository.