Anyone has a template of the journal of 'The Lacent'

[Leo.Chen]

Hi everyone,

Anyone has a template of the journal of 'The Lacent'?

thanks,

Leo

[Werner Grundlingh]

How about a link to the journal? Even if no templates exist, having a visual representation might encourage someone to help you. 

[Peter Flynn]

On Sun, Jan 15, 2012 at 1:23 AM, Leo.Chen <leo.c...@live.co.uk> wrote:

Hi everyone,

Anyone has a template of the journal of 'The Lacent'?

Do you mean The Lancet? Getting the name right is the first step.

The Lancet uses the Elsevier EE submission system, but the documentation carefully omits all information about file formats. Without creating an ID and logging in to see what they expect, I would assume they only accept Word or PDF, but as there is a well-established Elsevier Article document class for LaTeX (elsart), you could try that.

Elsevier screwed up the whole document format thing when they migrated off the old ART300 series DTD, and left it to the typesetters to create the XML (SGML still, in those days) but the excellent Pandora editor (a customised version of WordPerfect 5 famous for its robust tables model) was abandoned, leaving production people to fend for themselves. I have no idea what they use these days. Probably Word, hopefully with Named Styles, which converts rather well to LaTeX.

I have CC'd this to edit...@lancet.com in the hope that they will reply to this mailing list with an authoritative answer.

///Peter

 

[Peter Flynn]

I had this reply:

On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 3:15 PM, Lancet, Editorial (ELS) <edit...@lancet.com> wrote:

Dear all,

 

I’m afraid the origin and purposes of this discussion was absent from the email I received, so apologies if this doesn’t answer your question.

I think Google must have stripped the CC header, so they didn't understand where the question had come from. I apologised for this.
 

The Lancet (as well as other Elsevier publications using EES) asks that manuscript text is submitted in MS Word format or similar. EES then converts all submitted documents (including image files for figures, etc.) into a single, flat PDF for review purposes (though the system holds on to the original documents as well).

There's your answer. There is no LaTeX class file for The Lancet.

///Peter
 

[Pete Davidson]

Elsevier's current 'elsarticle' class is available here: http://www.elsevier.com/author-schemas/latex-instructions

The page also states that for all Elsevier journals (including The Lancet):

"When the Elsevier Editorial System EES asks you to submit your manuscript source files, do the following:

1. Build a PDF of your manuscript source files and attach it with item type 'Manuscript'.
2. Bundle all manuscript source files in a single archive and attach it with item type 'LaTeX source files'. Source files include LaTeX files, BibTeX files, figures, tables, all LaTeX classes and packages that are not included in TeX Live and any other material that belongs to your manuscript.

Please note the following technical requirements for the submission of source files:

• The source files should compile without errors with pdflatex or latex.
• The PDF should be generated from the source files you submit.
• All classes and packages that are not contained in TeX Live should be submitted along with the source files. You can check in the CTAN database whether your class or package is contained in TeX Live.
• Figures should be submitted in one of the following formats: EPS, JPG, PDF or PNG. For quality standards, please see the artwork & media instructions.

If the journal does not have the item type 'LaTeX source files', please contact sup...@elsevier.com."

I should add that I found this thread while searching for the right class file to use with The Lancet because I'm planning to submit a manuscript there in the next month.  I'll post again with a definitive 'this is what happened' when I submit.

[Peter Flynn]

Thanks for posting the extract from the Elsevier site. I'm quite impressed: there are few publishers who go to the trouble of making it so clear and plain. 

The only thing I'm unclear about is what "attach it with item type 'LaTeX source files'. " means. Does this refer to some submission web form they provide? (in which case the "item type" is presumably some kind of tab or selector); or does "attach" refer to an email attachment (in which case what does "item type" mean? since there is no such thing in email attachments).

///Peter

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[Bruno Lopes]

Hi, Peter!

It depends on which journal/conference/book serie you are submitting. I already sealed with systems and with email.

PS: check carefully the proofs before accepting as a final result; I had some problems with the final version modified by Springer typesetters in a book I was helping in the editorial process.

Bests,

Bruno.

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