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elsarticle.cls

A better way to format your submission

1. Introduction
elsarticle.cls is a thoroughly re-written document class for formatting LATEX sub-

missions to Elsevier journals. The class uses the environments and commands
defined in LATEX kernel without any change in the signature so that clashes with
other contributed LATEX packages such as hyperref.sty, preview-latex.sty, etc., will
be minimal. elsarticle.cls is primarily built upon the default article.cls. The class
depends on the following packages for its proper functionality:
1.
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6.

pifont.sty for openstar in the title footnotes;
natbib.sty for citation processing;
geometry.sty for margin settings;
fleqn.clo for left aligned equations;
graphicx.sty for graphics inclusion;

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txfonts.sty optional font package, if document is to be formatted with Times

and compatible math fonts;
7. hyperref.sty optional packages if hyperlinking is required in the document.
All the above packages are part of any standard LATEX installation. Therefore, the users need not be bothered about downloading any extra packages.
Furthermore, users are free to make use of AMS math packages such as, amsmath.sty, amsthm.sty, amssymb.sty, amsfonts.sty, etc., if they want to. All these
packages work in tandem with elsarticle.cls without any problems.

2. Major Differences
Following are the major differences between elsarticle.cls and its predecessor
package, elsart.cls:

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• elsarticle.cls is built upon article.cls while elsart.cls is not. elsart.cls redefines
many of the commands in the LATEX classes/kernel, which can possibly
cause surprising clashes with other contributed LATEX packages;
• provides preprint document formatting by default, and optionally formats
the document as per the final style of models 1+, 3+ and 5+ of Elsevier
journals;
• some easier ways for formatting list and theorem environments are provided while people can still use amsthm.sty package;
• natbib.sty is the main citation processing package which can comprehensively handle all kinds of citations and works perfectly with hyperref.sty in
combination with hypernat.sty.
• Long title pages are processed correctly in preprint and final formats.

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3. Installation
The package is available at author resources page at Elsevier (http://www.
It can also be found in any of the nodes of the
Comprehensive TEX Archive Network (CTAN), one of the primary nodes being
http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/elsarticle/ Please
download the elsarticle.dtx which is the composite class with documentation and
elsarticle.ins which is the LATEX installer file. When we compile the elsarticle.ins
with LATEX it provides the class file, elsarticle.cls by stripping off all the documentation from the *.dtx file. The class may be moved or copied to a place, usually,
$TEXMF/tex/latex/elsevier/, or a folder which will be read by LATEX during document compilation. The TEX file database needs updation after moving/copying
class file. Usually, we use commands like mktexlsr or texhash depending upon
the distribution and operating system.
elsevier.com/locate/latex).

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4. Usage
The class should be loaded with the command:
\documentclass[]{elsarticle}

where the options can be the following:
(1) preprint — default options which formats the document for submission to
Elsevier journals.
(2) review — similar to preprint option, but increases the baselineskip to facilitate easier review process.
(3) 1p — formats the article to the look and feel of the final format of model
1+ journals. This is always single column style.

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(4) 3p — formats the article to the look and feel of the final format of model
3+ journals. If the journal is a two column model, use twocolumn option in
combination.
(5) 5p — formats for model 5+ journals. This is always two column style.
(6) authoryear — author-year citation style of natbib.sty. If you want to add
extra options of natbib.sty, you may use the options as a comma delimited
strings as argument to \biboptions command. An example would be:
\biboptions{longnamesfirst,angle,semicolon}

(7) number — numbered citation style.
\biboptions command.

Extra options can be loaded with

(8) sort&compress sorts and compresses the numbered citations. For example,
citation [1,2,3] will become [1–3].

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(9) longtitle — if front matter is unusually long, use this option to split the
title page across pages with the correct placement of title and author footnotes in the first page.
(10) times — loads txfonts.sty if available in the system to use Times and compatible math fonts.
(11) All options of article.cls can be used with this document class.
(12) The default options loaded are a4paper, 10pt, oneside, onecolumn
and preprint.

5. Frontmatter
There are two types of frontmatter coding:

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(1) each author is connected to an affiliation with a footnote marker; hence all
authors are grouped together and affiliations follow;
(2) authors of same affiliations are grouped together and the relevant affiliation follows this group. An example coding of the first type is provided in
the next page.
\title{This is a specimen title\tnoteref{t1,t2}}
\tnotetext[t1]{This document is a collaborative effort.}
\tnotetext[t2]{The second title footnote which is a longer
longer than the first one and with an intention to fill
in up more than one line while formatting.}

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\author[rvt]{C.V.˜Radhakrishnan\corref{cor1}\fnref{fn1}}
This is a specimen titleI,II

\ead{cvr@river-valley.com}

C.V. Radhakrishnana,∗,1 , K. Bazargana,b,2 , S. Peppingc,∗∗,1,3

\author[rvt,focal]{K.˜Bazargan\fnref{fn2}}
\ead{kaveh@river-valley.com}

a River

Valley Technologies, SJP Building, Cotton Hills, Trivandrum, Kerala, India 695014
Valley Technologies, 9, Browns Court, Kennford, Exeter, United Kingdom
c Central Application Management, Elsevier, Radarweg 29, 1043 NX
Amsterdam, Netherlands

b River

\author[els]{S.˜Pepping\corref{cor2}\fnref{fn1,fn3}}
\ead[url]{http://www.elsevier.com}

\cortext[cor1]{Corresponding author}
\cortext[cor2]{Principal corresponding author}
\fntext[fn1]{This is the specimen author footnote.}
\fntext[fn2]{Another author footnote, but a little more longer.}
\fntext[fn3]{Yet another author footnote. Indeed, you can have

Abstract
In this work we demonstrate the formation of a new type of polariton on the
interface between a cuprous oxide slab and a polystyrene micro-sphere placed on
the slab. The evanescent field of the resonant whispering gallery mode (WGM)
of the micro sphere has a substantial gradient, and therefore effectively couples
with the quadrupole 1S excitons in cuprous oxide. This evanescent polariton has
a long life-time, which is determined only by its excitonic and WGM component.
The polariton lower branch has a well pronounced minimum. This suggests that
this excitation is localized and can be utilized for possible BEC. The spatial
coherence of the polariton can be improved by assembling the micro-spheres
into a linear chain.
Key words: quadrupole exciton, polariton, WGM, BEC

any number of author footnotes.}
1. Introduction

\address[rvt]{River Valley Technologies, SJP Building,
Cotton Hills, Trivandrum, Kerala, India 695014}
\address[focal]{River Valley Technologies, 9, Browns Court,
Kennford, Exeter, United Kingdom}
\address[els]{Central Application Management,
Elsevier, Radarweg 29, 1043 NX\\
Amsterdam, Netherlands}

You can see the output in the panel to the right.
Most of the commands like \title, \author, \address are self explanatory.
Various components are linked to each other by a label–reference mechanism;

Although quadrupole excitons (QE) in cuprous oxide crystals are good candidates for BEC due to their narrow line-width and long life-time there are
some factors impeding BEC Kavoulakis and Baym (1996); Roslyak and Birman
(2007). One of these factors is that due to the small but non negligible coupling
I This

document is a collaborative effort.
second title footnote which is a longer longer than the first one and with an intention
to fill in up more than one line while formatting.
∗ Corresponding author
∗∗ Principal corresponding author
Email addresses: cvr@river-valley.com (C.V. Radhakrishnan),
kaveh@river-valley.com (K. Bazargan)
URL: http://www.elsevier.com (S. Pepping)
1 This is the specimen author footnote.
2 Another author footnote, but a little more longer.
3 Yet another author footnote. Indeed, you can have any number of author footnotes.
II The

Preprint submitted to Elsevier

February 14, 2008

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for instance, title footnote is linked to the title with a footnote mark generated by referring to the \label string of the \tnotetext. We have used similar
commands such as \tnoteref (to link title note to title); \corref (to link corresponding author text to corresponding author); \fnref (to link footnote text to
the relevant author names). TEX needs two compilations to resolve the footnote
marks in the frontmatter part. Given below are the syntax of various note marks
and note texts.

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This is a specimen titleI,II
C.V. Radhakrishnan∗,1
River Valley Technologies, SJP Building, Cotton Hills, Trivandrum, Kerala, India 695014

K. Bazargan2
River Valley Technologies, 9, Browns Court, Kennford, Exeter, United Kingdom

S. Pepping1,3
Central Application Management, Elsevier, Radarweg 29, 1043 NX
Amsterdam, Netherlands

\tnoteref{}
\corref{}
\fnref{}
\tnotetext[