[texhax] Problem with \begin{abstract} and \begin{keyword}

Philip G. Ratcliffe philip.ratcliffe at uninsubria.it
Wed Oct 22 11:12:46 CEST 2008


> I'm a beginner with LaTex, and I'm preparing an article to 
> submit to Elsevier. So I'm using the elsarticle document 
> class. Well when I include the \begin{abstract}, and 
> \begin{keyword} nothing happens, nor even an error, but 
> nothing different appears were it should be. Something 
> similar occurs with the e-mail addresses of the preamble, 
> they don't appear in footnote. I've already consulted the 
> general and specific documentations. Furthermore the elsdoc 
> (the specific documentation) says that the \begin{abstract} 
> and \begin{keywords} must be in the preamble, it seems wrong 
> to me, ad when I do that I get an error.

Why didn't you use the templates they provide?  If you do that, you get the
following, which works.

\documentclass[1p,review,authoryear]{elsarticle}

\usepackage{natbib}
\usepackage[brazil]{babel}
\usepackage[latin1]{inputenc}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}

\begin{document}

\begin{frontmatter}

\date{}

\title{My Title)}

\author[focal]{R.~Aluizio\corref{cor1}}
\ead{e-mail address}

\author[focal]{C.A.~Borzone\corref{cor2}}
\ead{e-mail address}

\cortext[cor1]{Principal Corresponding Author}
\cortext[cor2]{Corresponding Author}
\address[focal]{My Address}

\begin{abstract}
My article abstract
\end{abstract}

\begin{keyword}
my \sep keywords
\end{keyword}

\end{frontmatter}

\section{Introduction}
...



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