[Tex/LaTex] Warning Message Using Revtex4 in Preamble

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I was wondering what was the cause of the following warning! message with the documentclass below:

Using the following:

\documentclass[amssymb,twocolumn]{revtex4}

WARNING MESSAGE BELOW

Class revtex4 Warning: No Society specified, using generic APS style.

Best Answer

You did not specify a society (journal) and therefor it used the generic APS style :-)

Option aps: American Physical Society, default journal

\documentclass[amssymb,twocolumn,aps]{revtex4}

Options pra, prb, prc, prd, pre, prl, prstab: APS society, Physical Review Journals.

Option osa: Optical Society of America, default journal, etc.

ADDED: Usage of times fonts

Make sure that you load amsmath before the font commands. With ReVTeX it can be loaded as a class option

\documentclass[amsmath,amssymb,twocolumn,osa]{revtex4}

Do not use the times package because it was superseded by mathptmx. Use the following setup but note that the \bm{} will use "poorman's bold" because the times do not have bold math symbols

\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}%.......... Type 1 outline fonts
\usepackage{textcomp}%............. Additional text symbols
\usepackage{mathptmx}%............. Roman+math - Times
\usepackage[scaled=.92]{helvet}%... Sans serif - Helvetica
\usepackage{courier}%.............. Typewriter - Courier
\usepackage{bm}%................... Bold math symbols

An alternative is to use the txfonts package that has bold math symbols

\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}%.......... Type 1 outline fonts
\usepackage{textcomp}%............. Additional text symbols
\usepackage{txfonts}%.............. Roman-Times, Sans-Helvetica, TT-Monospaced
\usepackage{bm}%................... Bold math fonts

Related Solutions

[Tex/LaTex] RevTex4-1 warning: “Repair the float package”

The revtex4-1 class defines several similar messages, for instance

351 \@ifx{\eqnarray\eqnarray@LaTeX}{%
352  \class@info{Repairing broken LaTeX eqnarray}%
353  \let\eqnarray\eqnarray@fleqn@fixed
354  \newlength\eqncolsep
355  \setlength\eqncolsep\z@
356  \let\eqnarray@LaTeX\relax
357  \let\eqnarray@fleqn@fixed\relax
358 }{}%

The warning you get is quite similar in essence:

3979 \appdef\document@inithook{%
3980  \@ifxundefined\newfloat{}{%
3981   \@ifx{\float@end\float@end@float}{%
3982    \@ifx{\newfloat\newfloat@float}{\true@sw}{\false@sw}%
3983    }{\false@sw}%
3984    {%
3985     \class@warn{Repair the float package}%
3986     \let\float@end\float@end@ltx
3987     \let\newfloat\newfloat@ltx
3988    }{%
3989     \class@warn{Failed to patch the float package}%
3990    }%
3991  }%
3992 }%

but, for some reasons, “Repairing” turned into “Repair”. It's almost certainly a small bug, but the warning is completely innocuous.

It is issued because algorithm loads float. If you want to turn it off, use the silence package: add

\usepackage{silence}
\WarningFilter{revtex4-1}{Repair the float}

to your preamble and the warning will disappear.

[Tex/LaTex] Author’s initials in longbibliography for revtex4-1 aps style

Using the 'aps' option for a revtex4-1 documentclass, the following solution allows to keep all other particularities of the aps bibliographic style unchanged. Notably, it is possible to use a modified version of apsrev4-1.bst but this will probably affect the other behaviours. Here we will simply overwrite the parameters passed to apsrev4-1.bst style file.

Originally, the output of the RevTex package without 'longbibliography' will be

Now when you add the 'longbibliography' option you get this

with the awful mix of initials and full first names.

Actually the parameters for building the bibliography are stored in an extension of the .bib file called [Your file]Notes.bib of your document folder. To overwrite its output, add into your preamble, after the calls to packages,

\AtBeginDocument{%
    \newwrite\bibnotes
    \def\bibnotesext{Notes.bib}
    \immediate\openout\bibnotes=\jobname\bibnotesext
    \immediate\write\bibnotes{@CONTROL{REVTEX41Control}}
    \immediate\write\bibnotes{@CONTROL{%
    apsrev41Control,author="08",editor="1",pages="1",title="0",year="1"}}
     \if@filesw
     \immediate\write\@auxout{\string\citation{apsrev41Control}}%
    \fi
}%

This will replace the text generated at the time of building the file. You can set manually all parameters in these lines of code. Here author="08" stands for "initials for authors". The integer value used for authors is actually encoded in a sum of powers of two, each one corresponding to a different parameter. title="0" allows the production of the article titles. Your output now looks like this

Note that the use of 'longbibliography' option is now ineffective but replaced by the manual values.

Beyond just initials, here is the list of all authors parameters as found in apsrev4-1.bst

  'control.author.jnrlst   swap$ duplicate$ #64 control.decode
  'control.author.dotless  swap$ duplicate$ #32 control.decode
  'control.author.nospace  swap$ duplicate$ #16 control.decode
  'control.author.initials swap$ duplicate$  #8 control.decode
  'control.author.nocomma  swap$ duplicate$  #4 control.decode
  'control.author.first    swap$ duplicate$  #2 control.decode
  'control.author.reversed swap$ duplicate$  #1 control.decode

so for example use 16+8+1=25 to reverse order without spaces and use of initials. You need to set editor="0" to allow full control over author format. The parameter entered for author="HH" is actually an hexdecimal value. This means that for the previous example you have to set author="19"