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Current version: REVTeX 4.2f (released May 30, 2023)

Please send all comments to [email protected]

May 30, 2023: REVTeX 4.2f is now the current version

• Fixed - Bug in @fnsymbol with more than 8 authors.
• Fixed - Detection of \eqnarray in newer LaTeX.
• Changed - Use date format yyyy/mm/dd to be compatible with older LaTeX.
• All updates are available on CTAN and TeX Live.

January 18, 2019: REVTeX 4.2 is now available incorporating the following changes:

• Added support for additional APS journals, Physical Review X, Physical Review Accelerators and Beams, Physical Review Applied, Physical Review Fluids, Physical Review Materials, and Physical Review Physics Education Research. There are new options prx, prab, prapplied, prfluids, and prmaterials, and prper.
• Added a unified physrev option for Physical Review journal style (the Phys. Rev. journals have no or few variations).
• The prb option now conforms with Physical Review B’s updated style that uses the same non-superscripted citations as other APS journals.
• Added support for additional AIP journals, AIP Advances, Applied Physics Letters Materials, and Structural Dynamics as well as AIP Conference Proceedings. There are new options adv, apm, sd, and cp
• Added support for the Society of Rheology (sor) and its journal, Journal of Rheology (jor).
• The reprint style for AIP’s journal JMP was changed to one-column formatting.
• For all APS journal options, complete article titles are now displayed in bibliography entries citing journal articles when using BibTeX by default.
• In the Physical Review BibTeX style file, article titles in the bibliography are set in roman font.
• The behavior of the noeprints option has been improved.
• Support has been added for citing data sets in the BibTeX styles.
• The indentation of tables of contents have been improved.
• The onecolumn option no longer defaults to creating a separate title page.
• The showpacs option is completely ignored now.
• A bug when using booktabs.sty has been fixed.
• The formatting of references for some commonly cited journals has been improved in the Physical Review BibTeX styles.
• URLs generated for DOIs now use https://doi.org/ as the base in the BibTeX styles.
• URLs generated for arXiv.org e-print identifiers now use https://arXiv.org/abs/ as the base in the BibTeX styles.

Documents prepared under REVTeX 4 and REVTeX 4.1 should process correctly under REVTeX 4.2. However, the formatting of the pages and, if using BibTeX, the references may change. Under 4.2, articles typeset with the prb option will typeset cite commands differently and adjacent punctuation may need to be moved accordingly.

About REVTeX

REVTeX 4.2 is a set of macro packages designed to be used with LaTeX2e and is well-suited for preparing manuscripts for submission to the journals of the American Physical Society (APS) and American Institute of Physics (AIP). The changes from REVTeX 4 include bug fixes, improved functionality, and support for a wider range of journals, including those of the American Institute of Physics Publishing (AIPP). REVTeX 4.2 was developed jointly by APS and AIPP (early versions of REVTeX 4 were developed by David Carlisle and Art Ogawa). Additional work was done by Patrick Daly to incorporate our suggested improvements into natbib 8.3 to address many new features concerning bibliographies. natbib 8.31a or later is required to run REVTeX 4.2.

Authors submitting to APS, AIPP, AAPM, or SOR journals using TeX should use REVTeX 4.2. Proper use of the commands provided by REVTeX greatly aids the peer-review and the publication process, reducing the chances for the introduction of errors.

Documentation

The documentation is included in the REVTeX distribution and may also be found on CTAN

Download and Install REVTeX 4.2

The REVTeX 4.2 may be downloaded directly from here as revtex-tds-2023-05-30.zip. REVTeX 4.2 is also available on CTAN.

To install REVTeX 4.2, unzip the revtex4-2-tds.zip file. This zip file contains all of the files in the REVTeX 4.2 distribution in the standard “TeX Directory Structure” (TDS) layout. The files can be copied directly in the local tree of your TeX distribution (for TeX Live, this would be in the texmf-local directory).

Required Packages

The most common problem encountered when first trying to use REVTeX 4.2 is missing or outdated packages. REVTeX 4.2 requires the natbib package (version 8.31a or higher), url.sty, textcase.sty, and bm.sty files at the very least. AMS-LaTeX is required as well for certain documentclass optons. Most packages are available from CTAN, but you will be better served by installing an up-to-date TeX/LaTeX2e distribution such as TeX Live or MikTeX.

• natbib: This can be downloaded from the contrib/natbib directory on CTAN. Be sure to get version 8.31a or later.
• url.sty: This can be downloaded from the contrib/url directory on CTAN.
• textcase.sty: This can be downloaded from the contrib/textcase directory on CTAN. Note that you need to download textcase.dtx and textcase.ins. textcase.sty is generated by running latex on the textcase.ins file.
• bm.sty: If you are missing bm.sty, you have a very incomplete or outdated LaTeX2e distribution and you should upgrade your distribution.
• AMS-LaTeX: Version 2.0 or higher is needed. It is available from http://www.ams.org/tex/.

Contact us

Please consult the REVTeX 4 - Frequently Asked Questions page before emailing.

• Email [email protected] if you need more help with REVTeX 4.2 or with submissions to APS journals (Physical Review Letters, Physical Review X, Reviews of Modern Physics, and the rest of Physical Review journals).
• For issues concerning the AIPP, AAPM, or SOR journals, please contact [email protected] instead.