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