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# Templating Quick Guide

This is a recommended order of steps for templating.
Items in **bold** are strongly recommended to be done in the order they are presented here.

## Anchoring
1. **Anchors**
2. Taxonomic Names

## Licenses and QC
3. **Zenodo (License)**
4. Document Error Checking

## Layout
5. **General Page Layout**
    5.1 Page Layout
    6.2 Caption Layout & Positioning 
    7.3 Table Layout and Footnote Layout (not really needed)
    * Does not include Block Layout
6. Bibliographic References in General

## Metadata
7. Document Metadata
    7.1 **Journal**
    7.2 ISSN
    7.3 **DOI**
    7.4 Year of Publication
    7.5 Exact Date of Publication
    7.6 Volume
    7.7 Issue
    7.8 Pagination
    7.9 Title
    7.10 **Authors**
    7.11 **Author Details**

## Defining Treatment Boundaries
8. **Style**
9. General Page Layout (Block Layout)
10. Taxonomic Keys
11. Treatments