A latex template for writing an technical article

\documentclass[8pt,onecolumn,letterpaper]{article}
\usepackage[top=0.5in, bottom=0.5in, left=1.0in, right=1.0in]{geometry}
\setlength{\columnseprule}{0.25pt}
\usepackage[utf8x]{inputenc}
\usepackage{ucs}
\usepackage{amsmath}
\usepackage{amsfonts}
\usepackage{amssymb}
\usepackage{bm}

\setlength{\parindent}{0in}
\setlength\parskip{0.1in}
\linespread{1.25}

\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage{color}
\usepackage[colorlinks=true, pdfstartview=FitV, linkcolor=blue, citecolor=blue, urlcolor=blue]{hyperref}

%\usepackage{fancyhdr}
%\pagestyle{fancy}
%\renewcommand{\headrulewidth}{0.0pt}
%\fancyhead{}
%\fancyfoot[CF]{\thesection - \thepage}

\author{Quant Lego}
\title{This is an article template}

\begin{document}
\maketitle

\tableofcontents
\pagenumbering{roman}

\newpage
\pagenumbering{arabic}

\section{Introduction}

\section{Methods}

\section{Results}

\section{Discussions}

\section{Conclusions}

\end{document}