INTRODUCTION

In 1987, the Council of The American Physical Society authorized acceptance of TEX-formatted author-prepared compuscripts to be submitted to the Physical Review A, B, C, and D in machine-readable form. It is essential that author-prepared input be consistent and standardized so that the compuscripts can become part of the normal production procedures. It is only by routinely handling author-prepared files that this method of production will be economically feasible.

This input guide contains basic instructions for keyboarding compuscripts using the REVTEX macro package, which works in a L^ATEX environment. This guide is part of the ``TEX compuscript toolbox''; other items in the toolbox are the REVTEX macro package (several style files), test files, a README file (which contains details regarding installation and copying of the style files), and hard copy of the Physical Review Style and Notation Guide. For correct notation and style practices, authors should read the Physical Review Style and Notation Guide, furnished with the toolbox; authors also should be guided by recent issues of Physical Review.

Compuscripts that do not comply closely with these instructions will be returned to the author for changes.

Contents of this Guide. In Sec. we describe procedures for making an original submission (review purposes) to the Editorial Offices. Sections and detail procedures for conventional mail and electronic mail submissions, respectively.

Section briefly describes author proofs.

Section discusses the specifications for file submittal (floppy, tape, electronic mail).

In Sec. we describe in detail several aspects of compuscript creation: the input of front matter and how to switch from galley to preprint format; paragraph formatting, hyphenation, quotes, and textwidth issues; section headings; basic input for in-text math and displayed equations; special character issues; footnotes and references; figure captions; and tables.

In Sec. we have described the various autonumbering features of REVTEX; these features can be used to autonumber equations, figures, tables, references, and section heads.

Finally, Sec. contains two sample compuscripts, input and output, preprint format and galley format. These two samples (one brief and descriptive, and another an actual published Physical Review manuscript) illustrate many REVTEX and L^ATEX features that are necessary to create a compuscript.

Appendix is a handy list of some necessary commands that will be found in a REVTEX compuscript. This command list supplements the L^ATEX User's Guide and Reference Manual.

Appendix itemizes the differences between v1 and v2 of REVTEX, for current users of v1.

Authors who have not ever participated in the author-prepared program may wish to read Appendix and Appendix at this point. There we give a brief overview of the author-prepared program and answer some frequently asked author questions.

Appendix lists the people and places to contact if you have questions about any services described herein. To obtain the most proper and expedient answer to your question, please consult Appendix E before calling or e-mailing the APS.

Note on participating journals. The compuscript program is open to all Physical Review A, B, C, and D authors. At press time, project development efforts had begun to expand the program to include Physical Review Letters and Reviews of Modern Physics. It is anticipated that Physical Review Letters authors will be able to participate in a compuscript program by December of 1991 (possibly earlier). Procedures for participation in the Physical Review Letters compuscript program will differ from those detailed in this guide, however, use of REVTEX will remain essentially the same. Please contact the authors of this guide for information on project development status for either Physical Review Letters or Reviews of Modern Physics.

Unless specified in Appendix , questions regarding this Input Guide should be directed to Peggy C. Sutherland, APS Publications Liaison Office, 500 Sunnyside Blvd., Woodbury, NY 11797.