Technical Guidelines

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The Living Reviews technical guidelines

In the technical guidelines (PDF, HTML) you will find information on how to include

  • Equations
  • Tables
  • Verbatim files (e.g. source code)
  • Images
  • Movies
  • Lists
  • Cross references

First steps – new review article

You should compose your article in LaTeX, using the Living Reviews style file epubtk.sty (this is included in the LaTeX template). The Living Reviews LaTeX template describes the article skeleton, i.e. the essential parts each review article should contain. You should use its LaTeX source as a template to start your own article from. If you have never used LaTeX before, please, contact the managing editor at editorlr<at>aei.mpg.de. Preferably submit your references in BibTeX format.

For details on formatting references, see “Citation guidelines”.

Downloading the LaTeX template and the style files

  • Download the LaTeX template LivRevRelTemplate.tar.gz. (The Living Reviews style files are included.)
  • If you prefer you can download the Living Reviews style files separatly.

First steps – article update

  • You need your latest edited source files to start work from. If you haven’t received them yet, ask the editorial office at editorlr<at>aei.mpg.de to send them to you.
  • How to mark an update in your LaTeX source, see chapter 10 of the technical guidelines.
  • What kind of an update it is, whether a ‘fast-track’ revision or a major update can be decided at a later stage.

See also, “What the word ‘living’ stands for”.

Adding keywords

Please, provide keywords for your article and each of the references. The keyword list is expected to evolve over time based on the suggestions by authors. See the keywords already existing in the reference database.

List the keywords for the article itself underneath the abstract:

\end{abstract}

\epubtkKeywords{Gravitational waves, Gravitational wave sources,
 Gravitational wave detectors, Data analysis}

For information on how to insert keywords into the references, see “Example citations in BibTeX”.

Giving your article wider visibility – arXiv and ADS

We encourage you to post your article prior to publication on arXiv with a comment that it will be published in Living Reviews in Relativity.

We announce all publications in LRR on “MacCallum’s list” and do our best to make the full text articles accessible via the Astronomical Data Service (ADS) as soon as possible.

See also “Additional LRR services”.

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