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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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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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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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27 To extract all files from *.dtx: latex elsarticle.ins |
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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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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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39 The above procedure will create a print version, namely elsdoc.pdf. |
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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'. |