wtf is ieee-access-modular-template?

This repository is a LaTeX template for writing a paper for the IEEE Access journal, organized so that every part of the paper, the title, the abstract, each section, the references, and the author biographies, lives in its own separate file inside a sections folder. The main file just pulls all of these pieces together, which keeps it short and makes the paper easier to navigate and to track changes on with version control, compared to one long file with everything in it. The template includes the official IEEE Access document class and all the fonts it needs, so it should compile without downloading anything extra. It works on Overleaf by simply uploading the folder, on a full TeX Live installation, or on MiKTeX, which can install any missing packages automatically the first time you compile. To build the paper you compile the main file, called access.tex, twice in a row so that references and page numbers settle correctly, either by running pdflatex twice or by using a single latexmk command. Adding a new section means creating a new file in the sections folder and pointing to it from the main file. The template includes worked examples for figures that span one or both columns, and for tables that stretch to the full width of the column or the page. References can be listed by hand in a dedicated file, or the project can be switched over to use BibTeX instead. A few things are preconfigured out of the box, including clickable colored links for citations and cross references, and tighter spacing between author biography entries than the default. For an initial submission, publication details like the date, the DOI, and the volume number should be left as placeholders, since IEEE fills those in later during production. The IEEE class files and fonts belong to IEEE and are included only for convenience, while the example content and this README are free to reuse and modify.