User contributed templates

General

• A simple latex.template with comments (MichaelT)
• LaTeX template that removes "Figure #" automatic labels from caption (rwst quoting jgm)
• [How to add a "Table of Contents" title in the HTML template]
• Customizing the appearance of pandoc tables with booktabs (requires 1.12.2)

Everyday

• A simple letter template for Pandoc
• Template for making Tufte-style handouts
• The Markdown Resume
• PDF slides and handouts using Pandoc and Beamer

Professional/Academic

• A template for creating a PhD thesis in markdown + pandoc
• Alternative template for creating a PhD thesis in markdown + pandoc
• Simple example on how to write a thesis in markdown with Pandoc
• Boilerplate for writing a paper with Markdown/Latex and Pandoc
• md2latex is a collection of templates and scripts which are designed to allow you to write in APA 6 style using Markdown and to convert to APA 6 Style in LaTeX.
• Pandoc Project Boilerplate This is the boilerplate to produce a book and an ebook with Pandoc.
• A skeleton template and generator for creating academic papers and targeting common formats, with SVG support.

E-books

• Pandoc Markdown ebook template
• Opening Science, an example of using Pandoc to create both a printed and electronic book with academic citations (see also the blog post by Martin Fenner)
• Advanced R Programming, combining pandoc with Jekyll and knitr

Notable forks of pandoc-templates, for ~/.pandoc/templates

• claes / pandoc-templates is a good illustration of a template with many user-defined variables, e.g for margins, language, papersize, orientation, etc. Because this makes command line specification a bit unwieldy, he includes simple shell script with unused options commented out to instruct markdown2pdf how to fill in all the blanks.
• dsanson / pandoc-templates
• kjhealy / pandoc-templates. Note that it calls a special .sty file from kjhealy / latex-custom-kjh.
• smile / pandoc-templates, including a German-language article template.
• wcaleb / pandoc-templates