RJournal_template.tex

\documentclass[a4paper]{report}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage{etex}
\usepackage{RJournal}
\usepackage[round]{natbib}
\usepackage{hyperref}
\usepackage{booktabs}
\let\equation\gather % equation env can cause issues with hyperref
\let\endequation\endgather
\usepackage{amsmath,amssymb,array}
\usepackage{multicol}
\usepackage{import} % to get files from article directories

%%% packages, etc., for particular articles 

\begin{document}

\sectionhead{}
\volume{8}
\volnumber{2}
\year{2016}
\month{December}

\titlepage

\vspace*{1in}
\begin{center}
\begin{minipage}{0.65\textwidth}
    \begin{center}
    The \R{} Journal is a peer-reviewed publication of
    the \R{} Foundation for Statistical Computing. Communications
    regarding this publication should be addressed to the editors. All
    articles are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0
    International license (CC BY 4.0, \url{http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/}).
    \bigskip

    Prospective authors will find detailed and up-to-date submission
    instructions on the Journal's homepage.

    \bigskip
      \textbf{Editor-in-Chief:}\\
      Roger Bivand, Norwegian School of Economics, Bergen, Norway

    \bigskip
      \textbf{Executive editors:}\\
      Michael Lawrence, Genentech, Inc., San Francisco, USA\\
      John Verzani, City University of New York, USA\\
      Norman Matloff, University of California, Davis, USA

    \bigskip
    \textbf{Email:}\\
    \texttt{r-journal@R-project.org}

    \bigskip
    \textbf{\R{} Journal Homepage:}\\
    \url{https://journal.r-project.org/}

    \bigskip
      \textbf{Editorial advisory board:}\\
      Bettina Gruen, Johannes Kepler Universität Linz, Austria\\
      Deepayan Sarkar, Indian Statistical Institute, Delhi, India\\
      Friedrich Leisch, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences,
      Vienna, Austria\\
      Hadley Wickham, RStudio, Houston, Texas, USA\\
      Heather Turner, University of Warwick, Coventry, UK\\
      John Fox, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada\\
      Kurt Hornik, WU Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien, Vienna, Austria\\
      Paul Murrell, University of Auckland, New Zealand\\
      Peter Dalgaard, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark\\
      Martyn Plummer, International Agency for Research on Cancer, Lyon, France\\
      Vincent Carey, Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA\\
      Torsten Hothorn, University of Zurich, Switzerland

    \bigskip The R Journal is indexed/abstracted by EBSCO and Thomson Reuters.
      
  \end{center}
    
  \end{minipage}
\end{center}

\newpage

\begin{article}
  \input{editorial}
\end{article}
\cleardoublepage

\sectionhead{Contributed Research Articles}
\addtocontents{toc}{\protect\subsection*{Contributed Research Articles}\protect}

% include import stanzas here

\sectionhead{News and Notes}
\addtocontents{toc}{\protect\subsection*{News and Notes}\protect}

\begin{article}
  \subimport{news/}{foundation.tex}
\end{article}
\newpage

\begin{article}
  \subimport{news/}{cran.tex}
\end{article}
\newpage

\begin{article}
  \subimport{news/}{bioc.tex}
\end{article}
\newpage

\begin{article}
  \subimport{news/}{ch.tex}
\end{article}
\newpage

\end{document}