Introduction to Quarto – Educational resources for teaching Open Research to novices

Introduction to Quarto

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> Create, cite, and publish your research with Quarto.

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## About these materials

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## Citation statement
Please cite these materials as: Waterfield, E., Ihle, M., Schönbrodt, F., & Von Grebmer Zu Wolfsthurn, S. (2026). *Introduction to Quarto* [Quarto slides]. [LMU Open Science Center](https://www.osc.lmu.de/). [https://lmu-osc.github.io/teaching-material-for-novices/open-research-tools/quarto](https://lmu-osc.github.io/teaching-material-for-novices/open-research-tools/quarto)
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**Welcome!** This workshop is intended to **introduce Quarto**, an open-source publishing system that allows users to **combine text, code, and other outputs** to create **reproducible reports**, **presentations**, and **websites**. Learners will experience the basic **workflow of creating and editing Quarto documents**, **rendering** them into different formats, and using Quarto within an R-based research workflow. Learners will focus on practicing different Quarto elements to structure documents, include analysis results, and control the appearance of their outputs. In addition, the session demonstrates **how to add citations** and automatically generate a bibliography using Zotero. Through this guided, hands-on tutorial, learners will **create their own Quarto document**, render it into a finished output, and learn how to **publish and share** their work online using **GitHub Pages**. 

### Who are these materials for?

- **Educators** in higher education with or without familiarity with open research planning to **teach open research** to **novices**
- **Self-learners** with no or limited familiarity with open research planning to **develop and build** up on their open research skills

### Prerequisites

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| Prerequisite   |  Description  | Where to find it   |
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| R and RStudio installed | Latest versions of both R and RStudio | [Download RStudio](https://posit.co/download/rstudio-desktop/) |
| Basic R skills | Introduction to R - Part I | [Access here](https://lmu-osc.github.io/teaching-material-for-novices/open-research-tools/r-part-I/)|
| Advanced R skills | Introduction to R - Part II | [Access here](https://lmu-osc.github.io/teaching-material-for-novices/open-research-tools/r-part-II/) |
| Basic Git skills | Introduction to version control with Git in RStudio | [Access here](https://lmu-osc.github.io/teaching-material-for-novices/open-research-tools/git/) |
| Collaborating on GitHub | Introduction to collaborative coding with GitHub |  [Access here](https://lmu-osc.github.io/teaching-material-for-novices/open-research-tools/github/) |
| Zotero | Reference Management Tool | [Download Link](https://www.zotero.org/) |
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### Learning objectives

At the end of this session, you or your learners will be able to ...

- **Create**, **edit**, and **render** Quarto documents
- **Use key Quarto features** like code chunks, YAML headers, citations, and output formatting
- **Insert citations** and **generate a bibliography** with Zotero directly into the Quarto document
- **Publish** and **share** your work using GitHub Pages 

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## Contributors and licence details

**Creator**: Waterfield, Elizabeth (![](images/ORCID-iD_icon_16x16.png){fig-alt="orcid logo"} [0009-0006-3725-6730](https://orcid.org/my-orcid?orcid=0009-0006-3725-6730))

**Reviewer**: Schönbrodt, Felix (![](images/ORCID-iD_icon_16x16.png){fig-alt="orcid logo"}[0000-0002-8282-3910](https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8282-3910))

**Reviewer**: von Grebmer zu Wolfsthurn, Sarah (![](images/ORCID-iD_icon_16x16.png){fig-alt="orcid logo"} [0000-0002-6413-3895](https://orcid.org/my-orcid?orcid=0000-0002-6413-3895))

**Consultant**: Ihle, Malika (![](images/ORCID-iD_icon_16x16.png){fig-alt="orcid logo"} [0000-0002-3242-5981](https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3242-5981))

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This work was originally created by Florian Pargent, Florian Kohrt, and Phillip Sckopke from the [Faculty of Psychology at LMU Munich](https://www.lmu.de/psy/de/lehrstuehle/methoden/). This current work by Elizabeth Waterfield, Malika Ihle, Felix Schönbrodt and Sarah von Grebmer zu Wolfsthurn is licensed under a [Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International SA License](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/deed.en) (CC-BY-SA-4.0). Code snippets are dedicated to the public domain and licensed under a [Creative Commons Universal License](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) (CC0 1.0).
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