Michael L. Balogh
University of Waterloo

Astrophysics and Gravitation Group
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LaTex Help

This page describes an example Latex file, which includes tables, figures and the Bibtex bibliography format. This document can easily be reformatted for different bibliography and document styles; in particular, for MNRAS and ApJ journal styles. There are links to postscript files of the example in each style.

example.texThis is the basic example Latex file. There are three options shown for the documentclass. The first is the basic Latex article style, which is single-column, double spaced. The second option allows you to format the article like the Astrophysical Journal. Finally, the third option is to format the article like the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.
example.bibThe bibliography database file
example_apalike.tex
example_apalike.ps
The example article, using default article class and the apalike bibliography style.
Includes table of contents and list of figures. References are author-year style.
example_plain.tex
example_plain.ps
The example article, using default article class and the plain bibliography style.
References are numerical, sorted by author name.
example_unsrt.tex
example_unsrt.ps
The example article, using default article class and the unsrt bibliography style.
References are numerical, and in order of appearnce.
example_cite.tex
example_cite.ps
The example article, using the cite package instead of natbib.
This allow more sophisticated usage of numerical references; for example compressing a long list of sequential numerical references (like 1-5).
example_aastex.tex
example_aastex.ps
The example article, using the aastex class and the apalike bibliography style.
Enables use of common astrophysical symbols, and uses common referencing style
example_report.tex
example_report.ps
The example article, using the report class and the apalike bibliography style.
apj.tex
apj.ps
The example article, using the aastex file with the emulateapj class file and the apj bibliography style. The table of contents page has been removed.
mnras.tex
mnras.ps
The example article, using the mn2e file and bibliography style. (The mn2e bibilography file doesn't work with long author lists, so the bibliography file has been editted). The table of contents page has been removed.

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