[Tex/LaTex] Two columns of figures in revtex4

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I am using revtex4 document class and would like to place several figures in succession with the twocolumn option passed.

ps. Several questions with similar key phrases are looking for ways to include large figures in a onecolumn format in a twocolumn document setting. This is not the case here.

Consider the following MWE:

%!TeX program = pdflatex
%!TeX encoding = utf8
\RequirePackage[l2tabu, orthodox]{nag}
\documentclass[twocolumn,floatfix]{revtex4}

%   --------------------------- %
\usepackage[demo]{graphicx}
\usepackage{lipsum}
%   --------------------------- %
\begin{document}
\title{Manuscript Title:\\with Forced Linebreak}
\author{Richard Prichard}%
\affiliation{Test}%
\date{\today}
\maketitle

\section{Introduction}
\label{sec:intro}

\lipsum[1-6]\footnote{some text to add in bib..}

\section{Figures and Graphs}
\begin{figure}[htbp]
    \centering
    \includegraphics[width=0.9\linewidth]{example-image}
    \caption{something}
\end{figure}
\begin{figure}[htbp]
    \centering
    \includegraphics[width=0.9\linewidth]{example-image}
    \caption{something}
\end{figure}
\begin{figure}[htbp]
    \centering
    \includegraphics[width=0.9\linewidth]{example-image}
    \caption{something}
\end{figure}
\begin{figure}[htbp]
    \centering
    \includegraphics[width=0.9\linewidth]{example-image}
    \caption{something}
\end{figure}
\begin{figure}[htbp]
    \centering
    \includegraphics[width=0.9\linewidth]{example-image}
    \caption{something}
\end{figure}
\begin{figure}[htbp]
    \centering
    \includegraphics[width=0.9\linewidth]{example-image}
    \caption{something}
\end{figure}
\begin{figure}[htbp]
    \centering
    \includegraphics[width=0.9\linewidth]{example-image}
    \caption{something}
\end{figure}
\begin{figure}[htbp]
    \centering
    \includegraphics[width=0.9\linewidth]{example-image}
    \caption{something}
\end{figure}
\begin{figure}[htbp]
    \centering
    \includegraphics[width=0.9\linewidth]{example-image}
    \caption{something}
\end{figure}

\end{document}

which yields:

As you can see, the figures get pushed into the third page before the second column in page 2 is filled. How can I ensure that the figures continue on in the second column in page 2?

EDIT:

I also have bibliography coming after this section (see MWE), and so a \clearpage, while it works, is not as ideal a solution.
(I also realise in this MWE, the figure gets kicked into the bibliography section — no idea why. But it has yet to affect my main document.)

I should also point out that there is an endfloats option for the revtex4 documentclass + \printfigures that can be used to simulate what I am looking for here, but the captions of the figures sometimes break across columns (figure in first column, its corresponding caption in second column), which is not at all ideal. So I would like to avoid this solution, if possible.

Best Answer

Well, you can use clearpage to get the images placed on page two or you add more text to the article, including using the class option floatfix ...

To test both possibilities just move the % in the following lines:

\clearpage
%\lipsum[1-6]

See the following MWE

%!TeX program = pdflatex
%!TeX encoding = utf8
\RequirePackage[l2tabu, orthodox]{nag}
\documentclass[%
  twocolumn,
  floatfix % <==========================================================
]{revtex4}

%   --------------------------- %
\usepackage[demo]{graphicx}
\usepackage{lipsum}
%   --------------------------- %
\begin{document}
\title{Manuscript Title:\\with Forced Linebreak}
\author{Richard Prichard}%
\affiliation{Test}%
\date{\today}
\maketitle

\section{Introduction}
\label{sec:intro}

\lipsum[1-6]

\section{Figures and Graphs}
\begin{figure}[htbp]
    \centering
    \includegraphics[width=0.9\linewidth]{example-image}
    \caption{something}
\end{figure}
\begin{figure}[htbp]
    \centering
    \includegraphics[width=0.9\linewidth]{example-image}
    \caption{something}
\end{figure}
\begin{figure}[htbp]
    \centering
    \includegraphics[width=0.9\linewidth]{example-image}
    \caption{something}
\end{figure}
\begin{figure}[htbp]
    \centering
    \includegraphics[width=0.9\linewidth]{example-image}
    \caption{something}
\end{figure}
\begin{figure}[htbp]
    \centering
    \includegraphics[width=0.9\linewidth]{example-image}
    \caption{something}
\end{figure}
\begin{figure}[htbp]
    \centering
    \includegraphics[width=0.9\linewidth]{example-image}
    \caption{something}
\end{figure}
\begin{figure}[htbp]
    \centering
    \includegraphics[width=0.9\linewidth]{example-image}
    \caption{something}
\end{figure}
\begin{figure}[htbp]
    \centering
    \includegraphics[width=0.9\linewidth]{example-image}
    \caption{something}
\end{figure}
\begin{figure}[htbp]
    \centering
    \includegraphics[width=0.9\linewidth]{example-image}
    \caption{something}
\end{figure}

\clearpage % <==========================================================
%\lipsum[1-6] % <=======================================================

\end{document}

with the results:

or with more text:

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[More of a comment, but to move off the unanswered list]

With the standard document classes, loading dblfloatfix would allow some flexibility here. However, as you are using REVTeX that does not work (you can load the package but it has no effect). The best that you can do is miss out the positional arguments entirely: LaTeX will then at least be able to place the floats at the top of columns and so some of them won't get bumped to the end of the document. (As you are using a journal document class the usual advice applies: just because you think the layout is odd doesn't mean you should change it!)

\documentclass[twocolumn,pre,floats,aps,amsmath,amssymb]{revtex4}
\usepackage[demo]{graphicx}
\usepackage{lipsum}
\begin{document}
\title{document title }
\author{name}
\affiliation {place }
\date{\today}
\maketitle
\section{Introduction}
\label{sec:intro}
\lipsum[1-8]
\begin{figure*}
\includegraphics[width=5 in]{1.png}
\caption{A sample schematic diagram for an experiment.}
\label{fig:1}
\end{figure*}
\section{Materials and Methods}
\label{sec:experiment}
\lipsum[1-8]
\section{Results}
\label{sec:results}
\lipsum[1-8]
\begin{figure*}
\includegraphics[width=6 in]{2.png}
\caption{A sample schematic diagram for an experiment.}
\label{fig:2}
\end{figure*}.
\begin{figure*}
\includegraphics[width=6 in]{3.png}
\caption{A sample schematic diagram for an experiment.}
\label{fig:3}
\end{figure*} 
\section{Conclusion}
\label{sec:conclusion}
\lipsum[1-8]
\begin{figure*}
\includegraphics[width=6 in]{4.png}
\caption{A sample schematic diagram for an experiment.}
\label{fig:4}
\end{figure*}
\subsubsection*{References}
 citation~\cite{ABC}, article citation~\cite{author}comment 
\begin{thebibliography}{99}
\bibitem{ABC}reference {\it } ()
\end{thebibliography}
\end{document}

[Tex/LaTex] Putting two-column wide figure in Revtex4-1

I encountered the same problem editing a document under REVTeX.

Thanks for pointing out that only position [t] is recognized under the {figure*} environment.

A working solution is offered by using the \onecolumngrid and \twocolumngrid commands

\documentclass[twocolumn,...]{revtex4-1}
\begin{document}
...
\onecolumngrid

\begin{figure}[h] 
\includegraphics{example.eps}
\end{figure}    
\twocolumngrid
...

I observed that the double newline after \onecolumngrid is essential to avoid the figure merging with the text. However, in my case this statement doesn't seem to hold for \twocolumngrid.

Pieter

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