In the following TeX file which is written based on elsarticle template, I want the second author (author2) be the corresponding author. I put the \corref instruction for author2 but when I run the code, the \ast symbol appears for both author2 and author3.
\documentclass[preprint,12pt]{elsarticle}
\usepackage{epsfig}
\usepackage{subcaption}
\captionsetup{compatibility=false}
%% The amssymb package provides various useful mathematical symbols
\usepackage{amssymb}
\usepackage{mathptmx}
\usepackage{amsmath}
\newtheorem{thm}{Theorem}
\newproof{pf}{Proof}
\DeclareMathOperator*{\argmin}{arg\,min}
\DeclareMathOperator{\sign}{sign}
\journal{X}
\begin{document}
\begin{frontmatter}
\title{The title of the paper are placed here}
\author{author1}
\ead{author1\_ family@yahoo.com}
\author{author2\corref{cor}}
\ead{author2@yahoo.com}
\author{author3}
\ead{author3@yahoo.com}
\address{The affiliations and adresses}
\cortext[cor]{Corresponding author}
\begin{abstract}
%% Text of abstract
Some text are presented here.
\end{abstract}
\begin{keyword}
%% keywords here, in the form: keyword \sep keyword
Keyword1 \sep Keyword2 \sep Keyword3
\end{keyword}
\end{frontmatter}
\section{Introduction}
\label{intro}
Introduction goes here.
\bibliographystyle{elsarticle-num}
\bibliography{Bibiliography}
\end{document}
Best Answer
In my opinion, this is a bug in
elsarticle
. If you have three authors with the same address, you can work around the bug by an empty\corref
statement.A few notes. The package
epsfig
only exists for compatibility with older (pre 1992) documents and should not be used in newer documents. The right package to use isgraphicx
. There's no reason for thecompatibility=false
option tocaption
. Instead ofmathptmx
you should consider