Some journals provide class files and article templates for prospective authors, so possibly a good place to start would be to have a look at the submission guidelines pages for various journals. Geometry & Topology, for example, provides a public class file (which gives very similar results to the ones we use internally for producing the published versions) and an article template along with a page of LaTeX good practice advice and recommendations (more detailed documentation here). The template file is probably a good place to start, but will probably need a little alteration if you're using it for a different class file. (Alternatively, a web search for "LaTeX article template" should turn up something.)
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