%% Class nature %% Written by Peter Czoschke, czoschke@mrl.uiuc.edu %% v1.0 24 Feb. 2004 %% %% A document class for Nature letters and articles that (should) %% conform to the Nature preprint style as defined by their Word template. %% %% I created this class for personal purposes and without any connection %% to the Nature Publishing Group. I in no way claim that documents generated %% with this file fully comply with their current style requirements. %% I disclaim any responsibility for the use of this file heretofore. %% %% ------------------------------------ %% %% See the accompanying file nature-template.tex for an example. %% %% Use with naturemag.bst if using BibTeX. %% %% Nature wants things in the order: %% title, text, methods, references, Supplementary Information line (if any), %% acknowledgements, interest declaration, corresponding author line, %% tables, figure legends %% %% This class provides the following non-standard features: %% %% 1 "affiliations" environment for listing the authors' institutions %% %% 2 "methods" environment for the Methods section %% %% 3 "addendum" environment for the Acknowledgements, etc. at the end %% %% In addition, the abstract, figure and table environments are redefined. See below. %% \ProvidesClass{nature}[24/2/2004 v1.0] \typeout{A class for writing preprints for the journal Nature} \typeout{Written by Peter Czoschke} \typeout{ } \LoadClass[12pt]{article} \RequirePackage{cite} \RequirePackage{times} \RequirePackage{fullpage} \RequirePackage{ifthen} %% make labels in bibliobraphy be #. \renewcommand\@biblabel[1]{#1.} %% make citations be superscripts, taken from citesupernumber.sty \def\@cite#1#2{$^{\mbox{\scriptsize #1\if@tempswa , #2\fi}}$} %% Some style parameters \setlength{\parindent}{0.39in} \setlength{\parskip}{18pt} \newcommand{\spacing}[1]{\renewcommand{\baselinestretch}{#1}\large\normalsize} \spacing{2} %% Redefine \maketitle for Nature style \def\@maketitle{% \newpage\spacing{1}\setlength{\parskip}{12pt}% {\Large\bfseries\noindent\sloppy \textsf{\@title} \par}% {\noindent\sloppy \@author}% } %% Define the affiliations environment, list each institution as an \item %% Put after \maketitle \newenvironment{affiliations}{% \setcounter{enumi}{1}% \setlength{\parindent}{0in}% \slshape\sloppy% \begin{list}{\upshape$^{\arabic{enumi}}$}{% \usecounter{enumi}% \setlength{\leftmargin}{0in}% \setlength{\topsep}{0in}% \setlength{\labelsep}{0in}% \setlength{\labelwidth}{0in}% \setlength{\listparindent}{0in}% \setlength{\itemsep}{0ex}% \setlength{\parsep}{0in}% } }{\end{list}\par\vspace{12pt}} %% Redefine the abstract environment to be the first bold paragraph \renewenvironment{abstract}{% \setlength{\parindent}{0in}% \setlength{\parskip}{0in}% \bfseries% }{\par\vspace{-6pt}} %% Redefine the \section command. \renewcommand{\section}{\@startsection {section}{1}{0pt}% {-6pt}{1pt}% {\bfseries}% } \renewcommand{\subsection}{\@startsection {subsection}{2}{0pt}% {-0pt}{-0.5em}% {\bfseries}*% } %% Define the methods environment. Use \subsection to separate. \newenvironment{methods}{% \section*{Methods}% \setlength{\parskip}{12pt}% }{} %% No heading for References section, but eat up the extra space from \section command \renewcommand\refname{\vspace{-48pt}\setlength{\parskip}{12pt}} %% Define the addendum environment for Supplementary Info, Acknowledgements, etc. \newenvironment{addendum}{% \setlength{\parindent}{0in}% \small% \begin{list}{Acknowledgements}{% \setlength{\leftmargin}{0in}% \setlength{\listparindent}{0in}% \setlength{\labelsep}{0em}% \setlength{\labelwidth}{0in}% \setlength{\itemsep}{12pt}% \let\makelabel\addendumlabel} } {\end{list}\normalsize} \newcommand*{\addendumlabel}[1]{\textbf{#1}\hspace{1em}} %% Redefine the figure and table environments. %% The new figure environment defers printing of all figure captions %% until the end of the document and prints them in sans serif font. %% The \includegraphics command is ignored since Nature wants figures %% as separate files. %% The table environment was just changed to print on a separate page in %% sans serif font. Tables should all be moved to the end of the document %% manually. \renewenvironment{figure}{\let\caption\NAT@figcaption}{} \newcommand{\NAT@figcaption}[2][]{\AtEndDocument{% \refstepcounter{figure} \ifthenelse{\value{figure}=1}{ \newpage\noindent% % \rule{\textwidth}{1pt} }{ \par\vfill } \sffamily\noindent\textbf{Figure \arabic{figure}}\hspace{1em}#2} } \renewenvironment{table}{\@float{table}[p]\sffamily}{\end@float} %% ignore all \includegraphics commands in the document \AtBeginDocument{\let\includegraphics\NAT@ignore} \newcommand{\NAT@ignore}[2][]{}