1 | This is Elsevier's new document class for typeset journal articles, |
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2 | elsarticle.cls. It is now accepted for submitted articles, both in |
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3 | Elsevier's electronic submission system and elsewhere. |
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5 | Elsevier's previous document class for typeset articles, elsart.cls, |
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6 | is now over 10 years old. It has been replaced with this newly written |
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7 | document class elsarticle.cls, which has been developed for Elsevier |
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8 | by the leading TeX developer River Valley Technologies. |
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9 | |
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10 | elsarticle.cls is based upon the standard LaTeX document class |
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11 | article.cls. It uses natbib.sty for bibliographical references. |
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12 | |
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13 | Bugs and problems with elsarticle.cls may be reported to the |
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14 | developers of the class via elsarticle@river-valley.com. |
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16 | The file manifest.txt provides a list of the files in the elsarticle |
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17 | bundle. The following are the main files available: |
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18 | - elsarticle.cls, the class file |
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19 | - elsdoc.pdf, the user documentation |
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20 | - elsarticle-template-num.tex, template file for numerical references |
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21 | - elsarticle-template-harv.tex, template file for name-year references |
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22 | - elsarticle-num.bst, bibliographic style for numerical references |
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23 | - elsarticle-harv.bst, bibliographic style for name-year references |
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24 | - elsarticle-num-names.bst, bibliographic style for numerical references |
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25 | with author-year citation |
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26 | |
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27 | To extract all files from *.dtx: latex elsarticle.ins |
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28 | |
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29 | The documentation file is elsdoc.tex in the contrib directory. To |
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30 | compile it: |
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31 | 1. pdflatex elsdoc |
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32 | 2. pdflatex elsdoc |
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33 | 3. pdflatex elsdoc |
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34 | |
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35 | or |
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36 | |
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37 | use the makefile. Use the target `all' (eg: make all). |
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38 | |
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39 | The above procedure will create a print version, namely elsdoc.pdf. |
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40 | |
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41 | Copyright 2007-2009, Elsevier. Bugs, feature requests, suggestions and |
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42 | comments may be mailed to elsarticle@river-valley.com. elsarticle.cls, |
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43 | related documentation and supporting packages are released under the |
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44 | LATEX Project Public Licence, either version 1.3 or any later |
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45 | version. This work has the LPPL maintenance status |
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46 | 'author-maintained'. |
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