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1. Instructions for RS L
A
T
E
X Template
This latex class file is available for authors to prepare the manuscript for the Royal Society
journals. It is assumed that the authors are familiar with either plain TEX, L
ATEX, A
M
S-TEX or a
standard latex set-up, hence only the essential points are described in this document. For more
details please see the L
ATEX User’s Guide or The not so short introduction to L
ATEX2ε.
2. Installation
Within the supplied set of files, rsos.cls need to be copied into a directory where tex looks
for input files. The other files need to be kept as a reference while preparing your manuscript.
Please use pre-defined commands from Author_tex.tex for title, authors, address, abstract,
keywords, body etc.
3. How to start using rsos.cls
Before you type anything that actually appears in the paper you need to include a
\documentclass{rsos} command at the very beginning and then, the two commands
that have to be part of any latex document, \begin{document} at the start and the
\end{document} at the end of your paper. The main structure of your document should be
as follows:
\documentclass{rsos}
\begin{document}
\title{...}
\author{....}
\address{...}
\subject{...}
\keywords{...}
\corres{...}
\begin{abstract}
..........
..........
\end{abstract}
\begin{fmtext}
............
\end{fmtext}
\maketitle
....
\section{....}
...
\subsection{....}
....
\end{document}
Note:Inorderto insert few lines on first page use the command \begin{fmtext}....\end{fmtext}
before \maketitle command. Please look into sample.tex for more clarification.
4. Preamble
In the preamble portion i.e. before \begin{document} insert the respective journal name:
\jname{rspa} and \Journal{Proc R Soc A\ } to get journal name in running heads.
5. Packages used by the class file
There are some packages that are essential when using the class file:
amsmath amssymb amsfonts amsthm graphicx endfloat endnotes setspace
verbatim geometry times helvet courier mathtime bm url babel dcolumn
Some commonly-used packages are already used by this class file:
xspace amscd rotating latexsym multicol array algorithm subfigure
Note: For the acknowledgement section use the command \ack{}.
The rsos file is intended as a guide only. Article lengths based on this estimation may be subject
to change when the article is prepared for publication. Authors whose article is estimated close to
the page charge limit should contact the office regarding page charges.
