alpar@0: This is Elsevier's new document class for typeset journal articles,
alpar@0: elsarticle.cls.  It is now accepted for submitted articles, both in
alpar@0: Elsevier's electronic submission system and elsewhere.
alpar@0: 
alpar@0: Elsevier's previous document class for typeset articles, elsart.cls,
alpar@0: is now over 10 years old. It has been replaced with this newly written
alpar@0: document class elsarticle.cls, which has been developed for Elsevier
alpar@0: by the leading TeX developer River Valley Technologies.
alpar@0: 
alpar@0: elsarticle.cls is based upon the standard LaTeX document class
alpar@0: article.cls. It uses natbib.sty for bibliographical references.
alpar@0: 
alpar@0: Bugs and problems with elsarticle.cls may be reported to the
alpar@0: developers of the class via elsarticle@river-valley.com.
alpar@0: 
alpar@0: The file manifest.txt provides a list of the files in the elsarticle
alpar@0: bundle.  The following are the main files available:
alpar@0: - elsarticle.cls, the class file
alpar@0: - elsdoc.pdf, the user documentation
alpar@0: - elsarticle-template-num.tex, template file for numerical references
alpar@0: - elsarticle-template-harv.tex, template file for name-year references
alpar@0: - elsarticle-num.bst, bibliographic style for numerical references
alpar@0: - elsarticle-harv.bst, bibliographic style for name-year references
alpar@0: - elsarticle-num-names.bst, bibliographic style for numerical references 
alpar@0:   with author-year citation
alpar@0: 
alpar@0: To extract all files from *.dtx: latex elsarticle.ins
alpar@0: 
alpar@0: The documentation file is elsdoc.tex in the contrib directory.  To
alpar@0: compile it:
alpar@0: 1. pdflatex elsdoc
alpar@0: 2. pdflatex elsdoc
alpar@0: 3. pdflatex elsdoc
alpar@0: 
alpar@0: or
alpar@0: 
alpar@0: use the makefile. Use the target `all' (eg: make all).
alpar@0: 
alpar@0: The above procedure will create a print version, namely elsdoc.pdf.
alpar@0: 
alpar@0: Copyright 2007-2009, Elsevier. Bugs, feature requests, suggestions and
alpar@0: comments may be mailed to elsarticle@river-valley.com. elsarticle.cls,
alpar@0: related documentation and supporting packages are released under the
alpar@0: LATEX Project Public Licence, either version 1.3 or any later
alpar@0: version. This work has the LPPL maintenance status
alpar@0: 'author-maintained'.