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LaTeX issue with author affiliations and reference title for ACS nano journal.

Open Hoque0091 opened this issue 5 years ago • 4 comments

Hi all,

I am relatively new with overleaf. I am trying to submit a journal to ACS nano. However, I have faced a couple of issues with the provided Tex files:

  1. A have about 15 co-authors and 10 author affiliations. When I try to write them in the Tex file, the author affiliations goes out of margin. Tex is not allowing me to use \newpage, \clearpage. I can't move some of the affiliations to the next page. Screenshot attached.

  2. ACS nano requires the reference titles in title case indicating the first letters of most of the words are capital, but not words like of, and, as, because. The achemso bibliography-style don't seem to do this. Is there nay updated version of this TeX file? Or this needs to be done manually?

Any recommendation you can provide will be greatly appreciated. Capture

Hoque0091 avatar Jan 27 '21 04:01 Hoque0091

That sounds like lot of affiliations, but there should be no issue: can you upload a minimal example?

On bibliography titles, achemso does no special processing. In particular, 'title casing' is very hard to get 'right' programmatically. Typically, database entries should be formatted exactly as given in the original literature: I would imagine it is this format that ACS Nano have asked you for. Again, an example of your input would be useful.

josephwright avatar Jan 27 '21 08:01 josephwright

Thank you for your quick response.

Below is an example when I use 11 affiliations: The 1st page becomes blank, the TeX file starts from the second page. The last of the affiliations and email of the corresponding author goes beyond the page number. Is there any way I can force some of the affiliations to go the next page or reduce the spacing between the affiliations so I can make them appear in one page.

Also, I have three authors of three different departments of the same university. Is there any way I can appear with university name appearing just once: For example:

+Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, and ++ Department of Materials science and Engineering, University of Arizona, Tuson, 85721, USA.

I have also attached the Tex file I have used to the affi 1 2 Capture

As for title case: This is the title of nature material paper, "Dislocation-induced thermal transport anisotropy in single-crystal group-III nitride films"

However, If I want to cite it, ACS nano requires I cite this as,"Dislocation-Induced Thermal Transport Anisotropy in Sngle-Crystal Group-III Nitride Films" all the first letters becoming capitalized except for in.

I was wondering if the achemso style can make this capilalized or if I need to do this manually.

Thanks in advance.

liations.

Hoque0091 avatar Jan 27 '21 19:01 Hoque0091

Probably too late for this, but just in case someone else runs into the same issue.

I faced the same problem when having a long list of author's affiliations (we have 13 authors). In my case, the last few affiliations where cut off and not showing up when reaching the bottom of the page. As @Hoque0091 described, my first page was also blank and the title and author list would begin in the second page.

I found a workaround by redefining the the font size of the affiliations by adding the following line before defining the authors: \renewcommand{\affilsize}{\scriptsize}

This also solved the issue with the first page being blank.

hugo-pH avatar Feb 17 '23 15:02 hugo-pH

\renewcommand{\affilsize}{\scriptsize}

I am writing a paper with about 40 authors and 40 affiliations; even with this line, it's still not enough to show everything. Finally, I have to use

\renewcommand{\titlesize}{\normalsize}
\renewcommand{\affilsize}{\tiny}
\renewcommand{\authorsize}{\tiny}
\renewcommand{\emailsize}{\footnotesize}

Now it is okay, though it looks very funny.

njzjz avatar Jan 19 '25 16:01 njzjz