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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=ES-PR link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN>Hi<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN><o:p> </o:p></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?<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN><a href="http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/elsarticle">http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/elsarticle</a><o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN>Directory tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/elsarticle<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN>This is Elsevier's new document class for typeset journal articles,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN>elsarticle.cls. It is now accepted for submitted articles, both in<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN>Elsevier's electronic submission system and elsewhere.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN>Elsevier's previous document class for typeset articles, elsart.cls,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN>is now over 10 years old. It has been replaced with this newly written<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN>document class elsarticle.cls, which has been developed for Elsevier<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN>by the leading TeX developer River Valley Technologies.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN>elsarticle.cls is based upon the standard LaTeX document class<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN>article.cls. It uses natbib.sty for bibliographical references.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN>Bugs and problems with elsarticle.cls may be reported to the<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN>developers of the class via elsarticle@river-valley.com.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN>The file manifest.txt provides a list of the files in the elsarticle<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN>bundle. The following are the main files available:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN>- elsarticle.cls, the class file<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN>- elsdoc.pdf, the user documentation<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN>- elsarticle-template-num.tex, template file for numerical references<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN>- elsarticle-template-harv.tex, template file for name-year references<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN>- elsarticle-num.bst, bibliographic style for numerical references<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN>- elsarticle-harv.bst, bibliographic style for name-year references<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN>- elsarticle-num-names.bst, bibliographic style for numerical references <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN> with author-year citation<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN>To extract all files from *.dtx: latex elsarticle.ins<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN>The documentation file is elsdoc.tex in the contrib directory. To<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN>compile it:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN>1. pdflatex elsdoc<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN>2. pdflatex elsdoc<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN>3. pdflatex elsdoc<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN>or<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN>use the makefile. Use the target `all' (eg: make all).<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN>The above procedure will create a print version, namely elsdoc.pdf.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN>Copyright 2007-2009, Elsevier. Bugs, feature requests, suggestions and<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN>comments may be mailed to elsarticle@river-valley.com. elsarticle.cls,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN>related documentation and supporting packages are released under the<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN>LATEX Project Public Licence, either version 1.3 or any later<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN>version. This work has the LPPL maintenance status<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN>'author-maintained'.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>