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  1. I have submitted my manuscript to the AMS’s Editorial Manager system for peer review, but the PDF is not building correctly.

  2. How do I layout a table or figure in landscape?

  3. My reference citations appear as question marks when building the PDF on my personal computer.

  4. I want to have a figure fill an entire page.  How can I do this and have the caption on the facing page?

  5. The figure and/or table numbering is incorrect in the appendixes.  Instead of the correct appendix numbering (e.g. A1, A2, A3, etc.) the numbering is continued from the main text of the manuscript.

  6. Tables are not double spaced.

  7. How do I add the required line numbers to my manuscript (or line numbers do not appear in paragraphs before a dispplay equation)?
  8. Citations and equation, table, and figure references in my figure captions result in an error. How can this be fixed?

1. I have submitted a new/revised manuscript to the AMS’s Editorial Manager system for peer review, but the PDF is not building correctly.

  • Redered vs Non-Rendered Figure-Make sure the item type for your figures is set to "Rendered" so that the system recognizes they should be included in the PDF generated from the LaTeX code.
  • Remove ALL directory paths-There should be NO directory paths to any figure or reference files in your .tex file (this includes the current directory "./") .  The system is unaware of any directory structure. You should include only the name of your figure and reference files. For example:

Do NOT include directory paths like this:

\bibliographystyle{./ametsoc}

\bibliography{./bibliography/references}

 

\noindent\includegraphics[width=7.0in]{../figures/surface.eps}

These must be changed to remove the directory paths:

\bibliographystyle{ametsoc}

\bibliography{references}

\noindent\includegraphics[width=7.0in]{surface.eps}

  • Use only .eps, .pdf, jpg, or .png figure file types - The use of .tiff files is no longer support by the pdftex program.
  • Include the figure file extension in the figure file name - You must include the figure file extension (.eps, .pdf, .jpg, or .png) in the name of figure file so the system can determine whether the pdflatex or latex program should be used to build the PDF
  • Ensure your .bib file and all figures are uploaded-If you have done the above items and the references or figures are still not formatted correctly, double check that there are no missing files.  We recommend you upload both the ametsoc.sty and ametsoc.bst files also.   The latest versions are installed on the system, but you may have an older version of the template and we do not guarantee the style files are backwards compatible.
  • Do not include the file extension (.bst and .bib) in the filename when using the \bibliographystyle or \bibliography commands. Including the extension is incorrect syntax and will result in your references and citation not being formatted.  For example

Do NOT include the file extension in the following commands:

\bibliographystyle{ametsoc.bst}

\bibliography{references.bib}

These must be changed to remove the three letter file extension

\bibliographystyle{ametsoc}

\bibliography{references}

2. How do I layout a table or figure in landscape?

In order to layout a table in landscape you need to add use of the "rotating" package:

 

\usepackage{rotating}

 

and then create the table using the "sidewaystable" environment:

 

\begin{sidewaystable}

.

.

.

\end{sidewaystable}

 

For landscape figures use:

 

\begin{sidewaysfigure}

.

.

.

\end{sidewaysfigure}

 

Also, the template uses the endfloat package to move tables and figures to the end of the document. By default, the "endfloat" package is aware of the "figure" and "table" environments only. To make "endfloat" also move the "sidewaysfigure" and "sidewaystable" environments to the end of the paper, you could download the file endfloat.cfg (.tar) and save it in the same folder in which your LaTeX (.tex) document is located.

3. My reference citations appear as question marks when building the PDF on my personal computer.

The bibtex program is responsible for formatting the references. So, after running the latex command once, make sure you run the bibtex command once to format the references and then the latex command twice more to clear up any dependencies.

4. I want to have a figure fill an entire page.  How can I do this and have the caption on the facing page?

To have the full sized figure on one page and the caption on the facing page you need to do something similar to that shown in the following snippet of code:

\begin{figure}[p]

\begin{leftfullpage}

  \noindent\includegraphics[width=39pc,angle=0]{figure01.pdf}

\end{leftfullpage}

\end{figure}

\begin{figure}[tp]

  \caption{Enter the caption for your figure here.}\label{f1}

\end{figure}

5. The figure and/or table numbering is incorrect in the appendices.  Instead of the correct appendix numbering (e.g. A1, A2, A3, etc.) the numbering is continued from the main text of the manuscript.

This is a known issue and will be corrected when possible. For now allowing the figure/table numbering to continue from the main text is acceptable.  AMS copyeditors will correct the numbering when your manuscript is accepted and goes through our production workflow.

6. Tables are not double spaced.

This is a known issue and will be corrected when possible. .  For now, you don't need to worry about it.  Your paper will be accepted with single spaced tables.

7. How do I add the required line number to my manuscript.

The code for adding line numbers exists in the latest version (5/1/11) AMS template.  If you are using your own files do the following:

Add the following lines to your .tex file in the preamble (before the the \begin{document} command). The \usepackage{lineno} command must be placed after any use of \uspackage{amsmath} package commands.

\usepackage{lineno}

\linenumbers

Do NOT use the pagewise option to the lineno package or the \setpagewiselinenumbers, \pagewiselinenumbers or \begin{pagewiselinenumbers} commands.

Pagewise numbering requires the running LaTeX/PDFLaTeX an unspecified number of times until the numbers start at 1 on eeach page. This is not possible with an automated system.

There is a known issue with the lineno package and the numbering of text in the paragraph preceding a display equation.  This can be resolved by wrapping each display equation with the linenomath environment.  For example:

 

\begin{linenomath*}

   \begin{equation}\label{eq:4}

      {\cal L}_{fw}[{\cal A}]\;=\;\sum_\alpha {\cal S}_\alpha

   \end{equation}

\end{linenomath*}

8. Citations and equation, table, and figure references in my figure captions result in an error. How can this be fixed?

\cite and \ref are what is called "fragile" commands. They must be "protected" using the \protect command when used in a caption.  For example:

\begin{figure}

...

\caption{The graph of the temperature profile given by \protect\ref{some_eqtn} developed by \protect\cite{Anderson98}}

\end{figure}

 

 

 

 

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