4.1 introduces support for more journals, several new commands, and some new syntax. This section outlines these changes. A document using these new features will not process under 4. See Sec. \ref{sec:additional} for more details about these items.
Added support for APS journal Physical Review Special Topics – Physics Education Research.
Added support for AIP journals. There is now an explicit aip society option along with support for AIP journals. Please see the Author’s Guide to AIP Substyles for 4.1. In addition, 4.1 provides an extensible system for the easy addition of new collections of journals.
Endnotes now ordered correctly. Endnotes in the bibliography now appear in the correct order, interleaved with citations.
Multiple references in a single citation supported using a special starred (*) argument to the command. One of the major new features in 4.1 made possible by the joint work on natbib 8.3. Multiple BibTeX entries can be combined into a single command.
BibTeX style files can now display journal article titles in the bibliography. Use the longbibliography class option.
Free form text can be prepended and appended to a bibliographic entry using the special starred (*) argument to the command. Often a citation in the bibliography will have explanatory text such as See also or and references therein before and after the actual citation. The new 4.1 command allows the specification of both text to precede and follow a citation.
Structured Abstracts. Use of the description environment in abstracts now provides for “structured" abstracts.
Figures referring to videos now supported. A “figure" may now be labeled as a Video by using the video environment. A frame from the video may be included in the figure and a URL to link the caption’s label to the online video also may be included. There is also a command.
Better support for arXiv.org in BibTeX Three more BibTeX fields have been added: SLACcitation, archivePrefix, and primaryClass in addition to the existing field eprint.
One of the main goals of 4.1 is, of course, to fix the bugs that were released in 4. The following is a list of bugs that have been fixed.
Improved BibTeX bst files. In addition to the new features above, numerous other improvements to the APS bst files have been made, including support for displaying journal article titles and many fixes for Reviews of Modern Physics. Also, long author lists are no longer automatically truncated.
in and table* environments improved. s in the or table* environments are now correctly placed and formatted.
Email addresses no longer print twice on papers less than one page long.
eqnarray alignment improved.
can be used with the groupedaddress option now.
letterpaper now ensured as default paper size.
Table of Contents formatting improved.
Support for longtable and lscape packages improved.
reftest restored.
Compatibility with the geometry, lineno, and colortbl packages improved. For line numbering, rather than using lineno.sty directly, the linenumbers class option should be used (this will call in lineno.sty with a proper set of default parameters).
hyperref fixes. Improved compatibility between footnotes and the hyperref package. In particular, table footnotes were fixed. More anchors for hyperref were also added (titlepage, abstract, and acknowledgements).
Documents can have more than 256 commands now.
and fixed.
Figure and table labels in captions now reflect proper APS style.
RMP style files conform better to RMP style guidelines.
Section heading upper-casing improved.
Repeated characters at start of affiliation no longer disappear when using groupedaddress option.
There have been many other bug fixes and improvements to the internal ltxgrid package as well.
The vast majority of documents prepared under 4 should process correctly under 4.1. However, the formatting of the pages and, if using BibTeX, the references may change. Also, the behavior of some macros may be different. For instance, the title macro now requires the use of protect for fragile arguments. This may cause some documents prepared under 4 to fail under 4.1. Some macro packages that depend on the internals of 4 may also no longer work. Documents using those packages will, of course, also will not process under 4.1.
One of the most frequently requested features since the release of 4 has been to allow more than one reference to appear in a single bibliography entry when using BibTeX. This can now be done in 4.1 by using a starred (*) argument to the command. This requires the latest version of natbib, developed in conjunction with 4.1, and the new bst files that come with 4.1. To combine multiple references into a single , precede the second, third, etc. citation keys in the command with an asterisk (*). For example \cite{bethe,*feynman,*bohr} will combine the s with keys bethe, feynman, and bohr into a single entry in the bibliography separated by semicolons.
The expanded syntax for the command argument can also be used to specify text before and/or after a citation. For instance, a citation such as:
[19] A similar expression was derived in
A. V. Andreev, Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 247204
(2007) in the context of carbon nanotube
p-n junctions. The only difference is that no
integration over ky is present there.
may be created by the following command:
\cite{*[{A similar expression was derived
in }] [{ in the context of carbon nanotube
p-n junctions. The only difference is that no
integration over ky is present there.}]andreev2007]
Please note the use of curly braces to enclose the text within the square brackets.
A “structured" abstract is an abstract divided into labeled sections. For instance, Physical Review C would like authors to provide abstracts with sections summarizing the paper’s Background, Purpose, Method, Results, and Conclusions. This can be accomplished by using the description environment within the abstract environment. For example:
\begin{abstract}
\begin{description}
\item[Background] This part would describe the
context needed to understand what the paper
is about.
\item[Purpose] This part would state the purpose
of the present paper.
\item[Method] This part describe the methods
used in the paper.
\item[Results] This part would summarize the
results.
\item[Conclusions] This part would state the
conclusions of the paper.
\end{description}
\end{abstract}
Papers often refer to multimedia videos. The video environment is identical to the figure environment, but the caption will be labeled as a Video (with its own counter independent of figures). A URL can also be specified so that the caption label can be linked to the online video (if using the hyperref package). The included graphic (using from the graphics or graphicx package) would be a representation frame from the video. A is also provided. For example:
\begin{video}
\includegraphics{videoframe.jpg}
\setfloatlink{http://some.video.com/fun.mov}
\caption{\label{vid:interest}This is a video of
something fun.}
\end{video}
There have been substantial improvements in the BibTeX style files. For instance, the .bib entry
@Unpublished{Ginsparg:1988ui,
author = "Ginsparg, Paul H.",
title = "{APPLIED CONFORMAL FIELD THEORY}",
year = "1988",
eprint = "hep-th/9108028",
archivePrefix = "arXiv",
SLACcitation = "%%CITATION = HEP-TH/9108028;%%"
}
will include the arXiv.org e-print identifier as arXiv:hep-th/9108028 and hyperlink it (if using hyperref). The newer format for arXiv identifiers with primary classificiations will produce output such as arXiv:0905.1949 [hep-ph].
The development of 4.1 was managed by Mark Doyle (APS). The development of the new AIP style files and their accompanying documentation was managed by Susan Joy (AIP) with the help of Chris McMahon (AIP) and Rich O’Keeffe (AIP). Testing and evaluation were done by Michele Hake (APS), Liz Belmont (AIP), Brian Goss (AIP), Alison Waldron (AIP), and Phil Robertson (AIP). Additional detailed testing and feedback were provided by Lev Bishop (Yale).