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Author’s Guide to AIP Substyles for \revtex 4.2

AIP Journal Program [email protected] American Institute of Physics Publishing Suite 300, 1305 Walk Whitman Road
Melville, New York 11747-4300, USA
(November 2014; December 2014)

I Introduction

This is the author’s guide to the AIP substyles for \revtex 4.2, providing a useful formatting tool for  users submitting papers to journals published by the American Institute of Physics. This guide is intended as an adjunct to the documentation for \revtex itself (published by the American Physical Society), so information contained therein is not repeated here, except as it bears on the specific features of the AIP substyles.

I.1 Prerequisite Documentation

The following documentation should be considered your first source of information on how to prepare your document for use with this format; they are to be found within the APS \revtex 4.2 distribution. Updated versions of these are maintained at the \revtex 4.2 homepage located at http://journals.aps.org/revtex/, are also available at the Comprehensive  Archive Network (CTAN, see http://www.ctan.org/), and form part of the Live distribution of .

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    Author’s Guide to \revtex 4.2

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    \revtex

    4.2 Command and Options Summary

The present guide builds upon these documents, with which you should already be familiar.

The AIP substyles distribution for \revtex 4.2 includes a sample document (\fileaipsamp.tex), a good starting point for the manuscript you are preparing for submission to an AIP journal.

By using \revtex’s Author’s Guide to \revtex 4.2, you can develop your document until it contains all of the content you desire. This guide informs you on document class options, commands, and markup guidelines specific to AIP journals.

I.2 Software Requirements

This guide assumes a working \revtex 4.2 installation including the AIP substyles. Please see the installation guide included with the distribution.[1]

Please note that the AIP substyles work only with \revtex 4.2: the original \revtex 4.0 release does not make the AIP substyle available, nor is it compatible with them.

For your computer to run \revtex 4.2 with the AIP substyles, the following are required:

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    a working installation of

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    \revtex

    4.2 and all packages it requires,

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    the AIP substyles for \revtex 4.2, and

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    any further  packages used in your document.

The easiest way to obtain all of the needed software is to install an up-to-date distribution of , like Live, available on CTAN.

To obtain the most up-to-date version of this software, please see http://publishing.aip.org/authors/preparing-your-manuscript.

I.3 Submitting to AIP Journals

Authors preparing a manuscript for submission to AIP journals should consult the Information for Contributors for the applicable journal, available through links at http://scitation.aip.org/authors. These requirements are not covered systematically in this author’s guide; you are responsible for understanding the requirements of the particular journal to which you will submit your article.

For further information about journal requirements, contact the Editorial Office of the appropriate journal. (Follow links at http://scitation.aip.org/authors.)

I.4 Contact Information

Any bugs, problems, or inconsistencies concerning the AIP journal substyles should be reported to AIP support at [email protected]. Reports should include information on the error and a small sample document that manifests the problem, if possible. (Please don’t send large files!)

Feedback concerning \revtex 4.2 itself should be sent, as usual, to the American Physical Society at
[email protected].

To determine if the problem you are experiencing belongs to \revtex or is specific to the AIP substyles, simply remove aip from your document class options and rerun your document. If the problem goes away, you may assume that it is due to the AIP substyles; if not, it belongs to \revtex.

II Sample  Document

As the \revtex documentation makes clear, your document employs a  document class (specifically revtex4-2.cls), so you should use the  commands and environments familiar to you with, say, the standard article class revtex4-2.cls, and you will be able to employ many of the packages you are used to using with .

Using aipsamp.tex as an example, your document will start with the usual \revtex \cmdstatement, but with a particular document class option aip that specifies the AIP substyle:

\documentclass[aip]{revtex4-2}

You will then invoke the compatible packages your document requires, say:

\usepackage{graphicx}%
\usepackage{dcolumn}%
\usepackage{bm}%

follow up with your document content:

\begin{document}
...

and finish with a statement specifying your Bib database:

\bibliography{aipsamp}
\end{document}

The books in the bibliography of this guide provide extensive coverage of all topics pertaining to preparing documents under   they are highly recommended.

III \revtex Class Options Specific to AIP

III.1 Journal Substyle

To access particular features of the AIP substyle, you will specify an additional document class option: the journal substyle, e.g.,

\documentclass[aip,jcp]{revtex4-2}

in this case, J. Chem. Phys., the default. A complete list of AIP journals with the corresponding journal substyle appears in Table 1.

Table 1: AIP journal substyles
Journal class option
AIP Advances adv
Appl. Phys. Lett. apl
Appl. Phys. Lett. Mater. apm
Biomicrofluidics bmf
Chaos cha
J. Appl. Phys. jap
J. Chem. Phys. jcp111Default journal substyle.
J. Math. Phys. jmp
J. Renewable Sustainable Energy rse
Phys. Fluids pof
Phys. Plasmas pop
Rev. Sci. Instrum. rsi
Structural Dynamics sd

III.2 Options for Citations and Bibliography

The citation style for AIP journals is:

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    numerical (default style),

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    author-year, and

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    numerical author-year,

the latter two styles being only allowed for Chaos or J. Math. Phys.

The familiar numerical citations and numbered bibliography are the default for most journals: citations are superscript numbers, and the (numbered) bibliographic entries appear in the order cited.

Author-year citations are only allowed for Chaos or J. Math. Phys., with citations given in author-and-year format. Bibliographic entries are sorted by alphabetical order of first author’s surname, then by year.

Numerical author-year citations (only allowed for Chaos or J. Math. Phys.) are superscript numbers, just like numerical citations, but the bibliographic entries are sorted like the author-year entries and are numbered. This means that the first citation will not necessarily be 1.

To obtain the numerical style, simply accept the default, or supply a class option of numerical:

\documentclass[aip,numerical]{revtex4-2}

For author-year citations for Chaos or J. Math. Phys., you may specify the author-year option:

\documentclass[aip,author-year]{revtex4-2}

Each of the above two options are part of standard \revtex.

To obtain numerical author-year citations for Chaos or J. Math. Phys., give the author-numerical option:

\documentclass[aip,author-numerical]{revtex4-2}

Note that the author-numerical option is not part of standard \revtex  so use of it outside of the AIP substyles may not have any effect.

III.3 Formatting Options

There are two commonly used formats for an article you may write. One will comply with the manuscript submission formatting requirements of the editorial office of the journal you are submitting to. The other will emulate the format of your article in the published journal itself.

For journal submission, accept the default, or you may specify the preprint option:

\documentclass[aip,preprint]{revtex4-2}

To emulate the formatting of the journal, specify the reprint option:

\documentclass[aip,reprint]{revtex4-2}

Note that emulation is not by any means complete: the fonts used will differ, and therefore the length of the article will not represent an accurate estimate. Other details may also differ.

A summary of class options of interest to AIP authors appears in Table 2.

Table 2: Other class options
Function class option
Citation and References
superscript numbered numerical111Default option.,222Standard
author-year author-year333Only allowed for Chaos or J. Math. Phys.
numbered author-year author-numerical333Only allowed for Chaos or J. Math. Phys.
Format
journal submission preprint111Default option.
journal emulation reprint

IV Useful  Markup

 markup is the preferred way to structure your file. In general, the use of low-level commands like  primitives or Plain  macros is less preferable. Please see the \revtex User’s Guide,[2] the  manual,[3] and the  book[4] for further details.

IV.1 Title and Front Matter

The \revtex User’s Guide has complete information on using \revtex’s special markup for your article’s title, author list, abstract, and other front matter elements. Note that class option superscriptaddress is the default for the AIP substyles, as required by all AIP journals.

IV.2 Lead Paragraph

One AIP journal, Chaos, requires a paragraph of text to precede the first \cmd

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of the article; this is known as a lead paragraph and is formatted boldface. To give your article a lead paragraph, include a quotation environment ahead of the first \cmd

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command:

\documentclass[aip]{revtex4-2}
\begin{document}
 \begin{quotation}
  Here is my lead paragraph!
 \end{quotation}
 \section{Introduction}
...

The quotation environment functions normally after the first \cmd

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command in the document.

VIII Body

For general information on commands used in the body of the document, see the \revtex User’s Guide. Herein are some features specific to the AIP author.

VIII.1 Footnotes

If you are using numbered citations (numerical or numbered author-year), footnotes are by default incorporated into the reference section along with your bibliographic entries. This automated feature is only effective if you use Bib to prepare your bibliography.

Author-year style bibliography does not lend itself to such a treatment, so by default footnotes appear in text as is usual. However, be advised that, if your article is accepted for publication, footnotes may be incorporated into text during the production process.

IX Citations and References

The preparation of your bibliography “by hand” is possible; however, if you do so, you will be entirely responsible for compliance with submission requirements for your bibliographic entries, for incorporating any text footnotes into the references, and for checking bibliographic entries. (In this connection, you may find useful the file reftest.tex, distributed with \revtex.)

There are numerous reasons to use Bib, not least because it automates the first and second of the above checks.

IX.1 Using Bib

Refer to the \revtex User’s Guide, the  manual, and the Bib manual for full information about using Bib.

When using Bib  keep in mind that changing your bibliography style or citation style (via the document class options described above) will require you to rerun Bib. The standard litany (using aipsamp.tex as an example) for this is:

> latex aipsamp
> bibtex aipsamp
> latex aipsamp
> latex aipsamp

Here, the first invocation of latex has the effect of rewriting the aipsamp.aux file, and the invocation of bibtex creates a new aipsamp.bbl file. The next two runs of latex are then required: the first to update the aipsamp.aux file reflecting the new values of your citations and the second to employ those citations correctly. Be sure to check the end of the aipsamp.log file for any message advising you to rerun latex.

IX.2 Multiple References per Citation

In an article using numerical citations, it is not uncommon to encounter the need for a citation that refers to more than one article or other reference. To accommodate such a case, \revtex 4.2 implements markup similar to that of the mcite package for .

Let’s say that two citation keys able and baker need to be combined into a single reference. The syntax for the \cmdcommand is:

word\cite{able,*baker} further text

When you run Bib  the resulting bibliography will contain the two entries, but run together as a single numbered reference. In the \cmdcommand argument, any cite key that starts with the * character signifies that its bibliographic entry is to be joined together with the one preceding it; the * may join together any number of entries into a single reference.

References

  • [1] For help regarding the installation of this software and its use, please send email to [email protected].
  • [2] Available with the \revtex distribution, see http://journals.aps.org/revtex/.
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  • Goossens [1994] M. Goosens, F. Mittelbach, and A. Samarin, The  Companion (Addison-Wesley, Reading, MA, 1994).
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