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<title>UK TeX FAQ -- question label journalpaper</title>
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<h3>Setting papers for journals</h3>
<p/>Publishers of journals have a wide range of requirements for the
presentation of papers, and while many publishers do accept electronic
submissions in (La)TeX, they don&rsquo;t often submit recommended macros to
public archives.
<p/>Nevertheless, there are considerable numbers of macros of one sort or
another available on CTAN; searching for your journal name in
the CTAN catalogue &mdash; see 
<a href="FAQ-findfiles.html">searching CTAN</a>) &mdash;
may well turn up what you&rsquo;re seeking.
<p/>Failing that, you may be well advised to contact the prospective
publisher of your paper; many publishers have macros on their own web
sites, or otherwise available only upon application.
<p/>Check that the publisher is offering you macros suitable to an
environment you can use: a few still have no macros for current
LaTeX, for example, claiming that LaTeX 2.09 is good enough...
<p/>Some publishers rekey anything sent them anyway, so that it doesn&rsquo;t
really matter what macros you use.  Others merely encourage you to use
as few extensions of a standard package as possible, so that they will
find it easy to transform your paper to their own internal form.
<p/><p>This question on the Web: <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=journalpaper">http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=journalpaper</a>
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