In 1987, the Council of The American Physical Society authorized acceptance of TeX-formatted author-prepared compuscripts to be submitted to Physical Review A, B, C, and D in machine-readable form.
It is essential that author-prepared input be consistent and standardized so that the compuscripts can become part of the normal production procedures. It is only by routinely handling author-prepared files that this method of production will be economically feasible.
This input guide contains basic instructions for keyboarding compuscripts using the REVTeX macro package, which works in a LaTeX environment. This guide is part of the ``REVTeX compuscript toolbox;'' other items in the toolbox are the REVTeX macro package (several style files), bibliography tools, a test file, a README file (which contains details regarding installation and copying of the style files), and a file for the Physical Review Style and Notation Guide . For correct notation and style practices, authors should read the Physical Review Style and Notation Guide , furnished with the toolbox; authors also should be guided by recent issues of the journals.
Compuscripts that do not comply closely with these instructions will not be used directly in the production process.
You may need to supplement this input guide with the standard documentation
available for LaTeX: namely, the LaTeX User's Guide & Reference Manual , by Leslie Lamport, published by
Addison Wesley. This manual assumes some familiarity with LaTeX;
specifically the article style. REVTeX version 3.0 is based on article
style. The notations #1, #2, etc. are used throughout this
manual to denote user-supplied arguments. Commands will be shown in their
full form; i.e., with their mandatory arguments.
The electronic submission and compuscript production programs were extended
to Physical Review Letters in 1992. The toolbox, including this
input guide and the Physical Review Style and Notation Guide , apply to PRL; additional details of the PRL
program can be found in an information booklet that appears at the back of
some issues of the journal, and which is available electronically from the
Editorial Offices (inquire at prltex@aps.org).
Contents of this Guide. In Sec. ii we describe procedures for making an original submission to the Editorial Offices.
Section iii discusses the specifications for file submittal (electronic mail or floppy disk).
Section iv briefly describes author proofs.
In Sec. v we describe in detail several aspects of compuscript creation: the input of front matter and how to switch from galley to preprint style; paragraph formatting, hyphenation, quotes, and text-width issues; section headings; basic input for in-text math and displayed equations; special character issues; footnotes and references; figure captions; and tables.
In Sec. vi we have described the various numbering and cross-referencing features of REVTeX using the available commands; these features can be used to label and cross-reference equations, figures, tables, references, and section heads.
Section vii discusses font selection schemes, support for AMSFonts, and extra symbols available in REVTeX 3.0
Section viii itemizes the differences between v2.x and v3.0 of REVTeX , for current users of v2.x, along with differences between LaTeX article style and REVTeX 3.0.
Authors who have never participated in the author-prepared program may wish to read Sec. ix and Sec. x at this point. There we give a brief overview of the author-prepared program and answer some frequently asked author questions.
Section xii lists the people and places to contact if you have questions about any services described herein. To obtain the most proper and expedient answer to your question, please consult this section before calling or e-mailing the APS.
Appendix A gives a complete listing of symbols and characters available with REVTeX v3.0.
Appendix B is a handy list of some necessary commands that will be found in a REVTeX compuscript. This command list supplements the LaTeX User's Guide & Reference Manual .
Output for Appendixes A and B can be obtained by running the file manend.tex through LaTeX.
Unless specified in Section xii, questions regarding this input guide should be directed to Christopher B. Hamlin, APS Publications Liaison Office, 500 Sunnyside Blvd., Woodbury, NY 11797.
Note on participating journals. The compuscript program is open to all authors in Physical Review A, B, C, D, E, and Physical Review Letters.