The SVJour document class users guide supplement for The European Physical Journal

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10 December 1997

1 Introduction

This document describes the epj option for the SVJour L^{A}TEX 2ε document class. For details on manuscript handling and the review process we refer to the Instructions for authors in the printed journal. For style matters please consult previous issues of the journal.

2 Initializing the class

As explained in the main Users guide you can begin a document for The European Physical Journal by including

   \documentclass[epj]{svjour}

as the first line in your text. For the journal part “C” (i.e. Particles and Fields) you should use the option nopacs in addition – for more, see below. All other options are also described in the main User guide.

3 Changes to the SVJour class standard

As the abstract of your article is to appear in the header section, it must be coded before the \maketitle command. Do not use the \begin{abstract} … \end{abstract} environment of standard L^{A}TEX. Instead proceed as you do for the other front matter declarations:

\abstract {⟨Text of your abstract⟩}

The standard key words are replaced by the Physics and Astronomy Classifi-

cation Scheme numbers. See http://www.aip.org/pacs/pacs.html for more

info about this; you can also download the scheme from there.

Code the PACS numbers with

\PACS{

{⟨PACS code⟩}{⟨describing text⟩}

}

at the end of (but still inside) the abstract declaration. If there is more than one PACS code the pairs of number and describing text should be separated by \and. Please make sure every PACS code is followed by the corresponding text. An example of two PACS codes is:

   \PACS{
      {47.27.Jv}{High-Reynolds-number turbulence} \and
      {02.50.Ey}{Stochastic processes}
   }

Another example can be found in the demonstration file.

3.1 Fonts

This journal will be typeset with the standard CM Fonts. Hence the inclusion of the times package – as described in the Users guide – is not necessary.

4 Changes to the SVJour class standard for particular journal parts

As mentioned above the journal part C – Particles and Fields does not use any PACS numbers. Specify the additional option nopacs in your \documentclass command to skip the mandatory PACS coding in your frontmatter section:

   \documentclass[epj,nopacs]{svjour}

There may also be articles from collaborations with a great number of authors and addresses. The page makeup for the two-column version will fail if the front matter part exeeds a whole page. To cope whith that a command \hugehead has been introduced to temporarily switch back to one-column processing of the front matter (typeset by the \maketitle command). Code \hugehead directly after the \begin{document} line for such articles.

For the time being two pages with identical page number are produced that contain the end of the one-column front matter and the start of the two-column article text that are merged at the printers. The automatic generation of running heads is also suppressed by \hugehead. If a running title is needed you have to supply it by using the \markboth command of L^{A}TEX.