[[!meta  title="Elsevier and LaTeX"]]
[[!meta  date="2009-10-05 13:01:49"]]

Recently I've been writing up an article for one of the [Elsevier][]
journals using their [elsarticle][] [[LaTeX]] package.  Unfortunately,
their [[BibTeX]] style file, `elsarticle-num.bst` (version 1.1,
2008-10-13), is a bit broken.  With the help of Nicolas Markey's
excellent [Tame the BeaST][tbst], I've [[fixed it
up|elsarticle-num.bst]] so it runs without errors (!), works with
[natbib][]'s `\citet{}`, and conforms with the examples posted in the
[International Journal of Biological Macromolecules' author
guide][ijbmm].

Update: Oct. 6.  Turns out [the code linked from Elsevier][elsarticle]
is out of date.  Rishi over at [River-Valley][] (writers of the
`elsarticle` package) pointed me to some [more up to date
documentation and source][elsarticle.cls].  Version 1.2 fixes most of
my problems (with `elsarticle-num-names.bst`), but I'm still not sure
why it doesn't replace `elsarticle-num.bst` entirely...

[Elsevier]: http://www.elsevier.com/
[elsarticle]: http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/authorsview.authors/elsarticle
[tbst]: http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/info/bibtex/tamethebeast/
[natbib]: http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/natbib.html
[ijbmm]: http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/journaldescription.cws_home/525446/authorinstructions#68000
[River-Valley]: http://www.river-valley.com
[elsarticle.cls]: http://support.river-valley.com/wiki/index.php?title=Elsarticle.cls

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