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138 lines
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%% Template for a preprint Letter or Article for submission
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%% to the journal Nature.
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%% Written by Peter Czoschke, 26 February 2004
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%%
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\documentclass{nature}
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%% make sure you have the nature.cls and naturemag.bst files where
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%% LaTeX can find them
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\bibliographystyle{naturemag}
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\title{Put title here (less than 90 characters).}
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%% Notice placement of commas and superscripts and use of &
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%% in the author list
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\author{Aauthor$^{1,2}$, Bauthor$^2$ \& LastAuthor$^2$}
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\begin{document}
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\maketitle
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\begin{affiliations}
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\item Put institutions in this environment and
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\item separate with \verb|\item| commands.
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\end{affiliations}
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\begin{abstract}
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For Nature, the abstract is really an introductory paragraph set
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in bold type. This paragraph must be ``fully referenced'' and
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less than 180 words for Letters. This is the thing that is
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supposed to be aimed at people from other disciplines and is
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arguably the most important part to getting your paper past the
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editors. End this paragraph with a sentence like ``Here we
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show...'' or something similar.
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\end{abstract}
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Then the body of the main text appears after the intro paragraph.
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Figure environments can be left in place in the document.
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\verb|\includegraphics| commands are ignored since Nature wants
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the figures sent as separate files and the captions are
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automatically moved to the end of the document (they are printed
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out with the \verb|\end{document}| command. However, tables must
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be manually moved to the end of the document, after the addendum.
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\begin{figure}
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\caption{Each figure legend should begin with a brief title for
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the whole figure and continue with a short description of each
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panel and the symbols used. For contributions with methods
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sections, legends should not contain any details of methods, or
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exceed 100 words (fewer than 500 words in total for the whole
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paper). In contributions without methods sections, legends should
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be fewer than 300 words (800 words or fewer in total for the whole
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paper).}
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\end{figure}
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\section*{Another Section}
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Sections can only be used in Articles. Contributions should be
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organized in the sequence: title, text, methods, references,
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Supplementary Information line (if any), acknowledgements,
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interest declaration, corresponding author line, tables, figure
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legends.
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Spelling must be British English (Oxford English Dictionary)
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In addition, a cover letter needs to be written with the
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following:
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\begin{enumerate}
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\item A 100 word or less summary indicating on scientific grounds
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why the paper should be considered for a wide-ranging journal like
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\textsl{Nature} instead of a more narrowly focussed journal.
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\item A 100 word or less summary aimed at a non-scientific audience,
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written at the level of a national newspaper. It may be used for
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\textsl{Nature}'s press release or other general publicity.
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\item The cover letter should state clearly what is included as the
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submission, including number of figures, supporting manuscripts
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and any Supplementary Information (specifying number of items and
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format).
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\item The cover letter should also state the number of
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words of text in the paper; the number of figures and parts of
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figures (for example, 4 figures, comprising 16 separate panels in
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total); a rough estimate of the desired final size of figures in
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terms of number of pages; and a full current postal address,
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telephone and fax numbers, and current e-mail address.
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\end{enumerate}
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See \textsl{Nature}'s website
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(\texttt{http://www.nature.com/nature/submit/gta/index.html}) for
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complete submission guidelines.
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\begin{methods}
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Put methods in here. If you are going to subsection it, use
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\verb|\subsection| commands. Methods section should be less than
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800 words and if it is less than 200 words, it can be incorporated
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into the main text.
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\subsection{Method subsection.}
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Here is a description of a specific method used. Note that the
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subsection heading ends with a full stop (period) and that the
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command is \verb|\subsection{}| not \verb|\subsection*{}|.
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\end{methods}
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%% Put the bibliography here, most people will use BiBTeX in
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%% which case the environment below should be replaced with
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%% the \bibliography{} command.
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\begin{thebibliography}{1}
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\bibitem{dummy} Articles are restricted to 50 references, Letters
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to 30.
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\bibitem{dummyb} No compound references -- only one source per
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reference.
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\end{thebibliography}
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%% Here is the endmatter stuff: Supplementary Info, etc.
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%% Use \item's to separate, default label is "Acknowledgements"
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\begin{addendum}
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\item Put acknowledgements here.
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\item[Competing Interests] The authors declare that they have no
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competing financial interests.
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\item[Correspondence] Correspondence and requests for materials
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should be addressed to A.B.C.~(email: myaddress@nowhere.edu).
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\end{addendum}
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%%
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%% TABLES
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%%
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%% If there are any tables, put them here.
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%%
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\end{document}
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