doing my 1st revtex article, used an example template to get going, but the format I want for my References section eludes me. I have:
\documentclass[twocolumn,prb]{revtex4} % prb is Physics Review B
\usepackage{amsmath} % need for subequations
\usepackage{graphicx} % need for figures
\usepackage{amssymb}
\usepackage[pdftex]{hyperref}
At the end I have:
\section{Conclusion}
There are articles that would be missed if only one or two databases/sources were searched
\appendix
\section*{References}
\begin{thebibliography}{31}
\bibitem{1}
D Baye and P-H Heenen,
J. Phys. A:Math. Gen., \textbf{19} , 2041-2059 (1986).
\end{thebibliography}
\end{document}
I suspect from the comments, I have not got the right commands for the References section , and will probably might fix the issues below. ('prb' is Physics Review B) Please suggest some basic changes I might make for a better bibliography? I inherited what I have at the moment.
1) How do I make the 'REFERENCES' title start on a new line, AFTER the centred line that revtext puts.
Update: I had added more material, the article expanded onto a new page – and the References title was now in the correct place.
2) How can I get the bibitem numbering to be formatted like in square brackets, normal character format? (The prb standards I found say they should be in square brackets.)
Best Answer
You don't. As you've noticed,
revtex4
style inserts a short horizontal rule immediately ahead of the bibliography and does not provide a separate header (such as "REFERENCES"). If you need to use therevtex4
document class, do not modify this very basic and distinctive document layout feature.The
revtex4
document class automatically loads thenatbib
package. Thus, inserting the instructionin the preamble will give you non-superscript numbers encased in square brackets.
That said, you should seriously reconsider whether you really have to change the citation call-out style. On page 110 of the user guide of
revtex4
class, under section 28.4.2, "prb", one finds:Thus, if you provide the
prb
option to the\documentclass
instruction, you should almost certainly not change the citation call-out style to plain-numbers-encased-in-brackets.