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+[[!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+is out of date.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]]