table-to-title

Live tool: https://www.vollgerlab.com/table-to-title/

Paste or upload the biorxiv author submission table and get a formatted title-page author line with superscripted affiliations, equal-contribution (*) and corresponding-author (†) markers, a numbered affiliation list, and optional ORCiDs. Output can be downloaded as .docx or .txt.

Usage

Go to https://www.vollgerlab.com/table-to-title/, paste your TSV or upload the file directly from biorxiv's author submission spreadsheet, and click Download .docx.

Expected columns

The tool expects the standard biorxiv author table columns:

Column	Notes
Email
First Name
Middle Name(s)/Initial(s)
Last Name
Suffix
Institution	Separate multiple affiliations with ;
Corresponding Author	Any non-empty value = yes
Home Page URL	Optional, ignored
Collaborative Group/Consortium	Optional, ignored
ORCiD	Optional
Equal Contribution	Any non-empty value = yes

Options

• Show * for equal contribution — adds * superscript and legend line
• Show † for corresponding authors — adds † superscript and legend line
• Include ORCiD list — appends a linked ORCiD list below the affiliations

Output format

Jane A. Doe1*, Bob T. Smith1,2*, Mitchell R. Vollger3†

1. Department of Genome Sciences, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, WA, USA
2. Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA
3. Department of Human Genetics, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, USA

* These authors contributed equally to this work.
†Corresponding author(s).

Building locally

Requires Rust and wasm-pack.

# Install wasm-pack (if needed)
curl https://rustwasm.github.io/wasm-pack/installer/init.sh -sSf | sh

# Build WASM and serve
wasm-pack build --target web --no-default-features --features wasm
cp -r pkg/* web/pkg/
python3 -m http.server 8080 --directory web/
open http://localhost:8080

The WASM build runs entirely in the browser — no server process required at runtime.

Running tests

cargo test

Deployment

Pushes to main automatically build and deploy to GitHub Pages via the workflow in .github/workflows/deploy.yml.