A simple Science Template

John Smith,1∗ Jane Doe,1 Joe Scientist2

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Department of Chemistry, University of Wherever,
An Unknown Address, Wherever, ST 00000, USA
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Another Unknown Address, Palookaville, ST 99999, USA

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To whom correspondence should be addressed; E-mail: [email protected].

This document presents a number of hints about how to set up your Science

paper in LATEX . We provide a template file, scifile.tex, that you can use
to set up the LATEX source for your article. An example of the style is the special
{sciabstract} environment used to set up the abstract you see here.

Introduction

In this file, we present some tips and sample mark-up to assure your LATEX file of the smoothest
possible journey from review manuscript to published Science paper. We focus here particularly
on issues related to style files, citation, and math, tables, and figures, as those tend to be the

biggest sticking points. Please use the source file for this document, scifile.tex, as a
template for your manuscript, cutting and pasting your content into the file at the appropriate
places.

Science’s publication workflow relies on Microsoft Word. To translate LATEX files into Word,
we use an intermediate MS-DOS routine (1) that converts the TEX source into HTML. The
routine is generally robust, but it works best if the source document is clean LATEX without a

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significant freight of local macros or .sty files. Use of the source file scifile.tex as a

template, and calling only the .sty and .bst files specifically mentioned here, will generate
a manuscript that should be eminently reviewable, and yet will allow your paper to proceed
quickly into our production flow upon acceptance (2).

Formatting Citations

Citations can be handled in one of three ways. The most straightforward (albeit labor-intensive)

would be to hardwire your citations into your LATEX source, as you would if you were using an
ordinary word processor. Thus, your code might look something like this:

However, this record of the solar nebula may have been

thermal metamorphism, and aqueous alteration

Compiled, the last two lines of the code above, of course, would give notecalls in Science style:

. . . thermal metamorphism, and aqueous alteration (1, 2, 5–7).

Under the same logic, the author could set up his or her reference list as a simple enumera-

tion,

{\bf References and Notes}

\begin{enumerate}

\item G. Gamow, {\it The Constitution of Atomic Nuclei

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 and Radioactivity\/} (Oxford Univ. Press, New York, 1931).

\item W. Heisenberg and W. Pauli, {\it Zeitschr.\ f.\

yielding

References and Notes

1. G. Gamow, The Constitution of Atomic Nuclei and Radioactivity (Oxford

2. W. Heisenberg and W. Pauli, Zeitschr. f. Physik 56, 1 (1929).

That’s not a solution that’s likely to appeal to everyone, however — especially not to users

of BIBTEX (3). If you are a BIBTEX user, we suggest that you use the Science.bst bibli-
ography style file and the scicite.sty package, both of which are downloadable from our
author help site. While you can use BIBTEX to generate the reference list, please don’t sub-

mit your .bib and .bbl files; instead, paste the generated .bbl file into the .tex file, creating
{thebibliography} environment. You can also generate your reference lists directly by
using {thebibliography} at the end of your source document; here again, you may find

the scicite.sty file useful.

1. Please follow the style for references outlined at our author help site and embodied in
recent issues of Science. Each citation number should refer to a single reference; please

do not concatenate several references under a single number.

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 2. The reference numbering continues from the main text to the Supplementary Materials

(e.g. this main text has references 1-3; the numbering of references in the Supplementary
Materials should start with 4).

3. Please cite your references and notes in text only using the standard LATEX \cite com-
mand, not another command driven by outside macros.

4. Please separate multiple citations within a single \cite command using commas only;

there should be no space between reference keynames. That is, if you are citing two
papers whose bibliography keys are keyname1 and keyname2, the in-text cite should
read \cite{keyname1,keyname2}, not \cite{keyname1, keyname2}.

Failure to follow these guidelines could lead to the omission of the references in an accepted
paper when the source file is translated to Word via HTML.

Handling Math, Tables, and Figures

Following are a few things to keep in mind in coding equations, tables, and figures for submis-

sion to Science.

In-line math. The utility that we use for converting from LATEX to HTML handles in-line

math relatively well. It is best to avoid using built-up fractions in in-line equations, and going
for the more boring “slash” presentation whenever possible — that is, for $a/b$ (which comes
out as a/b) rather than $\frac{a}{b}$ (which compiles as ab ). Please do not code arrays

or matrices as in-line math; display them instead. And please keep your coding as TEX-y as
possible — avoid using specialized math macro packages like amstex.sty.

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Tables. The HTML converter that we use seems to handle reasonably well simple tables gen-

erated using the LATEX {tabular} environment. For very complicated tables, you may want
to consider generating them in a word processing program and including them as a separate file.

Figures. Figure callouts within the text should not be in the form of LATEX references, but
should simply be typed in — that is, (Fig. 1) rather than \ref{fig1}. For the figures
themselves, treatment can differ depending on whether the manuscript is an initial submission

or a final revision for acceptance and publication. For an initial submission and review copy,
you can use the LATEX {figure} environment and the \includegraphics command to
include your PostScript figures at the end of the compiled file. For the final revision, however,

the {figure} environment should not be used; instead, the figure captions themselves should
be typed in as regular text at the end of the source file (an example is included here), and the
figures should be uploaded separately according to the Art Department’s instructions.

What to Send In

What you should send to Science will depend on the stage your manuscript is in:

• Important: If you’re sending in the initial submission of your manuscript (that is, the

copy for evaluation and peer review), please send in only a PDF version of the compiled
file (including figures). Please do not send in the TEX source, .sty, .bbl, or other
associated files with your initial submission. (For more information, please see the in-

structions at our Web submission site.)

• When the time comes for you to send in your revised final manuscript (i.e., after peer
review), we require that you include source files and generated files in your upload. The
.tex file should include the reference list as an itemized list (see ”Formatting cita-

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 tions” for the various options). The bibliography should not be in a separate file.

Thus, if the name of your main source document is ltxfile.tex, you need to include:

– ltxfile.tex.

– ltxfile.aux, the auxilliary file generated by the compilation.

– A PDF file generated from ltxfile.tex.

References

1. The package is TTH, available at http://hutchinson.belmont.ma.us/tth/ .

2. As the mark-up of the TEX source for this document makes clear, your file should be coded
in LATEX2ε, not LATEX 2.09 or an earlier release. Also, please use the article document

class.

3. Among whom are the author of this document. The “real” references and notes contained
herein were compiled using BIBTEX from the sample .bib file scibib.bib, the style pack-
age scicite.sty, and the bibliography style file Science.bst.

Acknowledgments

Include acknowledgments of funding, any patents pending, where raw data for the paper are

deposited, etc.

Supplementary materials

Materials and Methods

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Tables S1 to S4

References (4-10)

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Fig. 1. Please do not use figure environments to set up your figures in the final (post-peer-

review) draft, do not include graphics in your source code, and do not cite figures in the text
using LATEX \ref commands. Instead, simply refer to the figure numbers in the text per Science
style, and include the list of captions at the end of the document, coded as ordinary paragraphs

as shown in the scifile.tex template file. Your actual figure files should be submitted
separately.