The research paper shell used here is Control of Complex, Physically Simulated Robot Groups (text version) by David Brogan for SPIE 2001 (UVa Graphics Group papers)
SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering proceedings vol. 4512
Proceedings of SPIE Volume: 4512; Complex Adaptive Structures; Editor(s): William B. Spillman, Jr. ISBN: 0-8194-4227-5; Publication Date: Oct 2001; 282 pages; 27 papers; Softcover.

Example LaTeX research paper shell to use as a model:
- samplepaper.tex - LaTeX source code
- samplepaper.pdf - resulting pdf file from the LaTeX source code
- Image files necessary to compile the above LaTeX sample paper fig1.pdf, fig2.pdf, fig3.pdf, myimage.pdf
To compile: pdflatex samplepaper.tex (make sure the image files are in the same folder as the paper source .tex file)
To make your own pdf images for your paper (the process I used)
1. Use Gimp (File/Acquire Screenshot) to make a screenshot of the window with the image you're copying
2. Use the "Select rectangular areas" tool to select the image
3. Copy/Paste this into a new gimp file
4. Save this file as Postscript .ps
5. In an xterm, convert this .ps image to .pdf using ps2pdf: ps2pdf image.ps
Bibliography formats
- MLA format from Purdue
LaTeX tutorial links:
- LaTeX table of contents from NASA help with LaTeX,
  Math symbols such as binary operators, delimiters, Greek letters, math functions, sums and integrals.
  Math formulas and math environments such as math and equation.
  Bibliographies (thebibliography) and bibitem.
- Art of Problem Solving LaTeX help, also see Overall guide, Basics, Manipulating images
- Getting Started With LaTeX
- Beginning LaTeX
- Images into LaTeX
- Word Processing Using LaTeX and Text Processing using LaTeX
- LaTeX Tricks
- Mr. Hyatt's LaTeX Help,
  (Note that he has the source code also listed)
- Latex with an image - produces this pdf, 2 column with an image - produces this pdf

Compile and generate a pdf from the latex file: pdflatex myfile.tex
(or latex myfile.tex to generate a .dvi file)
xpdf will view the pdf file (also gv, gpdf, kpdf, evince can view pdf's)
To view a .dvi file using xdvi filename.dvi
dvi file to pdf: dvipdf myfile.dvi (our current image doesn't support dvipdf, use pdflatex)
To convert the latex file to html:
"latex2html filename.tex"
This creates a directory "filename" with an index.html file
To convert to ".ps" (postscript) format, use dvips myfile.dvi
To see the postscript (".ps") file, use Ghostview: gv myfile.ps