[[!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](http://www.elsevier.com/) journals using their
[elsarticle](http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/authorsview.authors/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](http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/info/bibtex/tamethebeast/),
I've [fixed it up](/~wking/tools/elsarticle/elsarticle-num.bst), so it
runs without errors (!), works with
[natbib](http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/natbib.html)'s
`\citet{}`, and conforms with the examples posted in the
[International Journal of Biological Macromolecules' author
guide](http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/journaldescription.cws_home/525446/authorinstructions#68000).

Update: Oct. 6.  Turns out [the code linked from
Elsevier](http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/authorsview.authors/elsarticle)
is out of date.  Rishi over at
[River-Valley](http://www.river-valley.com) (writers of the elsarticle
package) pointed me to some [more up to date documentation and
source](http://support.river-valley.com/wiki/index.php?title=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...


[[!tag  linux]]
[[!tag  programming]]