Linköping University Electronic Press
Author instructions for etendu for CIS and APT series
Assuming that you have prepared your article in Latex (either the
old Latex or Latex2e), the
following are step-by-step instructions for how to set it up for
publication by Linköping University E-press.
The easiest way of starting is to take a look at the
source file
of a sample paper. The following are comments which amplify what
you see there.
The documentstyle line (using old Latex)
This line should have the following contents for the E-Press, for
the CIS series:
\documentstyle{11pt, ***/ea-cis]{article}
where *** has to be replaced by the access path which is required
in order to reach the style file ea-cis.sty in the
computer system where you are running. For the APT series, use ea-apt
similarly.
Additional style files e.g. amssymbols or
egapa may also be included.
The documentclass line (using Latex2e)
If you are using the new Latex2e, you put instead the
following lines:
\documentclass[11pt]{article}
\usepackage{ ***/ea-ee}
Additional usepackage commands e.g.
\usepackage{amssymbols}
can of course be accomodated.
The descriptor lines
These are lines that describe the author, title, etc of the paper.
This information will appear on the first three (unnumbered) pages
of the article, and before the body of the text.
\title{...}
The argument to this command shall contain the title of the article.
Latex will split up the title on different lines; if you do not like
how it does it then use \\ commands to get it the way you want.
\author{...}
This command shall specify the author(s) and his/her/their affiliation,
as in the following example:
\author{ John Johnsson \\~ \\
{\large Department of Computer and Information Science} \\
{\large Linköping University} \\
{\large Linköping, Sweden }}
For more than one author, put their names above each other, and an
empty name between names and affiliations. With several authors and
different affiliations, put only the authors here, and include
affiliation on the abstract page.
\tryear{1997}
This command specifies the year when the article is published in the E-Press.
\trdate{November 1}
Specifies the date of actual publication by the E-Press.
(As long as the date has not been defined, please include the
commands but with an invented argument, so you can see how it all comes out).
\trvol{2}
Specifies the publication volume (1996 = 1 for CIS and APT), then
a new number each year).
\sernum{2}
Specifies the article's serial number within the year. This number is
assigned to you by the series editor.
\serznum{002}
Same as sernum but with initial zeroes so that exactly three
digits are obtained. Used for generating the appropriate URL.
\trauthor{John Johnsson}
This operation duplicates the \author field, but without
affiliation. (It is used in the copyright assignment statement on
the second page of the cover).
An article specified like this will appear as "Linköping Electronic
Articles in Computer and Information Science, Vol. 2(1997): nr 2"
and will have the URL
http://www.ep.liu.se/ea/cis/1997/002/
The cover generation lines
After this follow a few commands and environments for actually generating
the first two pages (in the tech report) and the first three pages
(in the E-Press publication). They look as follows:
\maketrtitle
\trtitlepage
\begin{trabstract}
...
\end{trabstract}
\begin{accepted}
...
\end{accepted}
\trabstractpage
The contents indicated by the first ... shall specify the abstract.
Usually it is a good idea to put the abstract in a separate file,
and to just include that file at the point of the first ...
The contents indicated by the second ... (which are optional)
can specify where the article has been published (journal or
conference) or accepted for publication. It can also be used for
specifying the research sponsor.
However, in some cases you will wish to replace one or the other
of these commands with something else. Notice, then, that
maketrtitle has the effect of putting the central
information on the front page (the author and the title);
trtitlepage puts the heading and the footing on the
front page, plus it prints out page 2 containing the copyright
information.
Multiple authors
The first variant is that if you have more than one author, you should
use the command trtitlepagemul instead of trtitlepage.
This has the effect of putting nouns like "author" and (copyright)
"owner" into the plural in the italic text on page 2.
More restricted copyright - no free classroom use
Another variant arises if you wish to restrict copyright to keep
more for yourself. The default (provided by trtitlepage and
trtitlepagemul) states that anyone is allowed to use your article
for classroom use, that is, to make copies for handout in a class.
If you do not like that, use trtitlekeep or
trtitlekeepmul in place of the previous, and you will
get a more restrictive wording.
Reference to IEEE copyright
An additional case arises if you publish an article where the
copyright has been transferred to another publisher. Here, we only
describe the case of the IEEE copyright policies, which require that
the copyrighted material must contain a particular notice
on its first page. This is obtained by changing the first
command, so that the command sequence becomes
\makeieeetitle
\trtitlekeep
Notice, however, that this only applies if you have first
transferred copyright to IEEE, and then publish the article
in the E-Press. We have contacted the IEEE concerning the proper
procedure to be followed if you do it in the opposite order.
Similar commands have also been defined for other copyright statements.
The file
Guide to the Copyright rules of certain professional organisations
contains advise about which variants of these commands to use for
other organisations similar to IEEE.
If you don't like what we give you...
then you are free to arrange the abstract page in any reasonable
way. This means that the segment between trtitlepage and
trabstractpage is up to you. On the other hand, the
front page must not deviate from the norm. This means that everything
down to and including trtitlepage must conform.
The commands trtitlepage and trabstractpage mostly
serve to take a new page and to reset page numbering and the like;
don't forget to include them. The command maketrtitle
generates the front page and the second page (the one with the
administrative information).
Please don't reset textwidth, textheight, and the
like at any point.
The chosen sizes in the standard have been optimized for aesthetic quality.
The body of the paper and the bibliography
The rest of the paper is up to you.
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latest update 16 January 1997.