Basic LaTex template

template.tex

\documentclass[11pt,letterpaper]{article}

%DOCUMENT INFORMATION
\title{Document Title}
\author{First Author Name \and Second Author Name}
\date{\today}

%PACKAGES
\usepackage{graphicx} % for images
\usepackage{fullpage} % 1" margins
\usepackage[breaklinks=true,colorlinks=true,linkcolor=black,urlcolor=blue]{hyperref} % for clickable links
\usepackage{amsmath}  % for equations
\usepackage{embedfile} % for attaching the .tex file to the PDF
\embedfile{\jobname.tex} % embed the source

%NOTES
% To generate the table of contents, compile the document TWICE 
% without deleting the temporary .aux files

% DOCUMENT
\begin{document}

\maketitle
\tableofcontents % Compile TWICE without deleting .aux file!

\section{Section Name}
Paragraph text. Link to \url{http://www.cornell.edu} using \verb+\url+.

\subsection{Subsection Name}
Paragraph text. Link to \href{http://www.cornell.edu}{www.cornell.edu} using \verb+\href+.

\subsubsection{SubSubSection Name}
Paragraph text with footnote\footnote{This is is a footnote.}.

\paragraph{Paragraph Name}
Paragraph text.

\section{Including Images and Text}
\subsection{Images}
Since we want to keep this to one file, we'll wrap the command to include 
an external image in a code (``verbatim") environment. To actually include 
the image, get rid of the \verb+begin{verbatim}+ and \verb+end{verbatim}+. 
Make sure the images are in the same folder as the .tex file, or specify a 
path.

\begin{verbatim}
\begin{figure}[t]
\centering
\includegraphics[width=.5\textwidth]{filename.jpg}
\caption{This is a caption.}
\label{imagelabel}
\end{figure}
\end{verbatim}

\subsection{Other LaTeX files}

You can break up the document into multiple files and combine the documents 
with \verb+\input{filename.tex}+. This is useful if multiple people are 
contributing to a paper and are each in charge of a section.

\section{Further Reference}
\url{http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/LaTeX/}

\end{document}