my seminar paper template (studying Theology at http://www.tf.jcu.cz/)

paper.tex

\documentclass[12pt, a4paper, twoside]{article}

% To compile:
%
% $ xelatex filename
% $ biber filename
% $ xelatex filename

\usepackage{fontspec}
\setmainfont[Ligatures={TeX}]{TeX Gyre Pagella}

\usepackage[czech]{babel}
\usepackage{csquotes}
\usepackage[left=2.5cm, right=2.5cm, top=2.5cm, bottom=2.5cm, marginparsep=3mm]{geometry}

\usepackage[
  backend=biber,
  style=iso-authoryear,
  sortlocale=cs_CZ,
  maxnames=3,
  firstinits=true,
]{biblatex}

\usepackage[show]{ed} % editorial annotations
\usepackage{color}
\usepackage{xcolor}
\usepackage[hidelinks]{hyperref}
\usepackage{changepage}
\usepackage{filecontents}


\setcounter{secnumdepth}{3}
\setcounter{tocdepth}{3}

% bibliography is usually short and can be inlined:
\begin{filecontents}{biblio.bib}
  @book{ dulles,
    author = "Avery Dulles",
    title = "Models of the Church",
    publisher = "Image Books",
    location = "New York",
    year = "1974",
    isbn = "0-385-13368-5"
  }
\end{filecontents}
\bibliography{biblio}

\author{Jakub Pavlík}
\title{Title of the paper}

\begin{document}

\setlength{\parindent}{0.5cm}

\maketitle

\section*{Introduction}

Lorem ipsum\cite[5]{dulles}

\section{Foo}

dolor sit amet

\printbibliography

\end{document}

Rakefile

deps = Dir["*.tex"] + Dir["*.*bx"] + Dir['*.bib']

main = Dir['*.tex'].first # only one expected
main_noext = main.sub '.tex', ''
main_pdf = main.sub '.tex', '.pdf'

file main_pdf => deps do |t|
  sh "xelatex #{main_noext}"
  sh "biber #{main_noext}"
  sh "xelatex #{main_noext}"
end

task :default => [main_pdf]

task :clean do
  %w{aux bbl dvi bcf blg log out pdf run.xml *~}.each do |s|
    unless Dir['*.'+s].empty? 
      sh "rm *."+s
    end
  end
end