It is recommended to use conventional LaTeX document structure,
rather than `patterns' [Bau96]. The following template
is provided as a separate file doc.tex [Mos97], for
use with LaTeX2e [Lam94]:
\documentclass[a4paper,11pt]{article}
\usepackage{cofidoc}
\title{TITLE}
\author{AUTHOR\thanks{AFFILIATION}
\and OTHERS\thanks{AFFILIATION}}
\email{CONTACT.AUTHOR@SITE.DOMAIN}
\version{VERSION}
\date{DAY MONTH YEAR}
% DEFINE ANY NEW COMMANDS AND ENVIRONMENTS HERE:
\begin{document}
\maketitle
\begin{abstract}
CONCISE SUMMARY OF PROBLEM AND PROPOSED SOLUTION
\end{abstract}
\section{SECTION TITLE}
ETC.
\bibliography{cofibib,doc}
% N.B. the bibliography style is determined by cofidoc
\appendix
\section{APPENDIX TITLE}
ETC.
\end{document}
For longer documents with chapters, one may use the report
document class.
To create a CoFI document, take a copy of the template and edit the
arguments of the \title, \author, \email,
\version, and \date commands. Provide a concise
abstract, succinctly summarizing the problem addressed in the document
and the proposed solution.