<div dir="ltr">On the right-hand column of <a href="http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/elsarticle">http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/elsarticle</a> click on <a href="http://www.ctan.org/pkg/elsarticle" style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;font-size:medium;line-height:20.799999237060547px;background-color:rgb(238,238,238)">elsarticle</a> opposite package details. This leads to <a href="http://www.ctan.org/pkg/elsarticle">http://www.ctan.org/pkg/elsarticle</a>. There you can click on <a href="http://mirrors.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/elsarticle/doc/elsdoc.pdf" class="" style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;font-size:medium;line-height:20.799999237060547px;background-color:rgb(238,238,238)">Package documentation</a> which will lead you to a pdf file giving more detailed instructions. The class is somewhat complicated as it covers options for a variety of publications.<div>
<br></div><div>I should note that the elsarticle class and documentation are installed on my tex-live 2014 distribution and I would assume that they are installed on earlier tex-live and other distributions. </div><div><br>
</div><div>John</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div dir="ltr"><div>John C Frain<br></div>3 Aranleigh Park<br><div><div>Rathfarnham<br>Dublin 14<br>Ireland<br><a href="http://www.tcd.ie/Economics/staff/frainj/home.html" target="_blank">www.tcd.ie/Economics/staff/frainj/home.html</a><br>
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<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 6 August 2014 14:08, Jose A Norat Ramirez <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:josenorat@onelinkpr.net" target="_blank">josenorat@onelinkpr.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div lang="ES-PR" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN">Hi<u></u><u></u></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN"><u></u> <u></u></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN">When visiting the website (below) I found the following information on how to use a Latex template for Marine Pollution Bulletin manuscript. I don</span></b><b><span lang="EN-US">’t understand any of the computer language used Can somebody explain in plain language how to use the template?<u></u><u></u></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN"><u></u> <u></u></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN"><a href="http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/elsarticle" target="_blank">http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/elsarticle</a><u></u><u></u></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN"><u></u> <u></u></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN">Directory tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/elsarticle<u></u><u></u></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN">This is Elsevier's new document class for typeset journal articles,<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN">elsarticle.cls. It is now accepted for submitted articles, both in<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN">Elsevier's electronic submission system and elsewhere.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN">Elsevier's previous document class for typeset articles, elsart.cls,<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN">is now over 10 years old. It has been replaced with this newly written<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN">document class elsarticle.cls, which has been developed for Elsevier<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN">by the leading TeX developer River Valley Technologies.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN">elsarticle.cls is based upon the standard LaTeX document class<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN">article.cls. It uses natbib.sty for bibliographical references.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN">Bugs and problems with elsarticle.cls may be reported to the<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN">developers of the class via <a href="mailto:elsarticle@river-valley.com" target="_blank">elsarticle@river-valley.com</a>.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN">The file manifest.txt provides a list of the files in the elsarticle<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN">bundle. The following are the main files available:<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN">- elsarticle.cls, the class file<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN">- elsdoc.pdf, the user documentation<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN">- elsarticle-template-num.tex, template file for numerical references<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN">- elsarticle-template-harv.tex, template file for name-year references<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN">- elsarticle-num.bst, bibliographic style for numerical references<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN">- elsarticle-harv.bst, bibliographic style for name-year references<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN">- elsarticle-num-names.bst, bibliographic style for numerical references <u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN"> with author-year citation<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN">To extract all files from *.dtx: latex elsarticle.ins<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN">The documentation file is elsdoc.tex in the contrib directory. To<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN">compile it:<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN">1. pdflatex elsdoc<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN">2. pdflatex elsdoc<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN">3. pdflatex elsdoc<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN">or<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN">use the makefile. Use the target `all' (eg: make all).<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN">The above procedure will create a print version, namely elsdoc.pdf.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN"><u></u> <u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN">Copyright 2007-2009, Elsevier. Bugs, feature requests, suggestions and<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN">comments may be mailed to <a href="mailto:elsarticle@river-valley.com" target="_blank">elsarticle@river-valley.com</a>. elsarticle.cls,<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN">related documentation and supporting packages are released under the<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN">LATEX Project Public Licence, either version 1.3 or any later<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN">version. This work has the LPPL maintenance status<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN">'author-maintained'.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal">
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