Possibly Relevant LaTeX class files
AIAA: http://www-personal.umich.edu/~dalle/codes/aiaa-pretty/ or aiaa
IAS: either standard "article" or elsarticle
American Geophysical Union nostarch ntgclass "european octavo books scholarly articles
Other
\input and \include \input copies raw text into a file, good for chapters and sections
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1963923/adding-full-page-figures-in-latex-how . . . Adding full page figures in Latex, how?
https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/LaTeX/Boxes . . . LaTeX boxes
pgfuserguide.pdf PGF portable graphics format for picture creation . . . not useful now
https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/41476/lengths-and-when-to-use-them#41488 . . . horzontal and vertical spaces
http://latex.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=26204 . . . unwanted blank first page