REVTeX 4 Home Page
Current version: REVTeX 4.1 (released October 13, 2009)
Please send all comments to revtex@aps.org.
Bugs in REVTeX 4.1
October 20, 2009: Unfortunately, we have found several bugs in REVTeX 4.1. We hope to have a patched release addressing these issues soon. You may want to hold off on downloading and installing REVTeX 4.1 until then. We regret the inconvenience.
- Using the same \affiliation more than once results in some authors not getting any affiliation at all.
- reftest was left out of the distribution
- For RMP, the \cite command doesn't enclose the citation in parentheses properly.
- For RMP, the .bst files don't properly handle several cases including a book with editors, but no authors
REVTeX 4.1 is a set of macro packages designed to be used with
LaTeX2e and is well-suited for preparing manuscripts for submission to
the journals of the American Physical Society (APS) and American
Institute of Physics (AIP). The changes from REVTeX 4 include bug
fixes, improved functionality, and support for a wider range of
journals, including those of the American Institute of Physics
(AIP). REVTEX 4.1 was developed jointly by APS, AIP, and Arthur
Ogawa. Additional work was done by Patrick Daly to incorporate our
suggested improvements into natbib 8.3 to address many new features
concerning bibliographies. natbib 8.3 or later is required to run
REVTEX 4.1.
Major changes in REVTeX 4.1 include:
- 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 REVTeX 4.1. In addition, REVTeX 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 \cite 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 \bibitem command.
- Free form text can be prepended and appended to a bibliographic entry using the special starred (*) argument to the \cite 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 REVTeX 4.1 \cite 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 \listofvideos 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".
Authors submitting to APS or AIP journals using TeX should use
REVTeX 4.1. Proper use of the commands provided by REVTeX greatly
aids the peer-review and the publication process, reducing the chances
for the introduction of errors.
The documentation is included in the full REVTeX 4.1 distribution
However, for convenience it is also available from here.
| REVTeX 4.1 Author's Guide | PDF |
| APS Author Guide for REVTeX 4.1 | PDF |
| Author's Guide to AIP Substyles for REVTeX 4.1 | PDF |
| What's New in REVTeX 4.1 | PDF |
| REVTeX 4.1 Command Options Summary | PDF |
The REVTeX 4.1 may be downloaded directly from here as revtex4-1.zip. REVTeX 4.1 is also available on CTAN.
To install REVTeX 4.1, unzip the revtex4-1.zip file. This will unpack a README file as well
as an additional zip file, revtex4-1-tds.zip. The README file contains information about how to unpack and install the revtex4-1-tds.zip file. Briefly, this zip file contains all of the files
in the REVTeX 4.1 distribution in the standard "TeX Directory Structure" (TDS) layout. Usually the file can be unzipped directly in the local tree of your TeX distribution (for TeX Live, this would be in the texmf-local directory).
Here are some problems which are likely to crop up if you don't have
a complete LaTeX 2e installation (as you might get with the teTeX or
TeX Live distributions, for instance).
Missing (or outdated) required packages
You will need the natbib package (version 8.3 or higher), url.sty, and textcase.sty files at the very least. They are available from CTAN. If you are missing any of these files, then you may want to update your TeX/LaTeX2e distribution. TeX Live is a particularly good distribution.
If you are missing bm.sty, you have a very incomplete or outdated LaTeX2e distribution and you should upgrade your distribution.
An up-to-date installation of AMS-LaTeX is also required for certain documentclass options.
Version 2.0 or higher is needed. It is available from http://www.ams.org/tex/.
Contact us
Please consult the Frequently Asked Questions below first. Email revtex@aps.org if you need more help with REVTeX 4.1 or with submissions to APS journals (Physical Review Letters, Physical Review A-E, Reviews of Modern Physics, or the Physical Review Special Topics journals). For issues concerning AIP's journals, please contact tex@aip.org instead.
Frequently Asked Questions
REVTeX FAQ:
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