General ⇒ elsarticle | Author Address with multiple Affiliations

[rkealey]

Hello all

I am new to the community and hope this is the correct place for this post. I've been having some issues formatting the document I'm working on. I'm using the elsarticle class class and I am trying to format the front matter for the document.

The area where I'm encountering an issues is with the declaration of multiple affiliations for 2 of the 3 authors. In the output document these two authors have incorrect tags for their second affiliation. It's a trivial matter, but an important one that I can't figure out. I'm hoping someone on here knows what the issue is.

This is how I setup the document:

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\documentclass[authoryear]{elsarticle} 
\begin{document}
\begin{frontmatter}
\title{A Very Clever Paper Title}

\author[add1]{Author1}
\ead{email1@domain.ca}
\author[add2, add3]{Author2\corref{cor1}}
\ead{email2@domain.ca}
\author[add2, add3]{Author3\corref{cor1}}
\ead{email3@domain.ca}

\cortext[cor1]{Please address correspondence to Author2 or Author3}
\address[add1]{Department of Redundancy Department}
\address[add2]{Centre for Study of Things}
\address[add3]{Department of Interests}

The output is as follows (the bold characters in brackets represent superscript characters)

A Very Clever Paper Title
Author1(c), Author2(a,1,*), and Author3(a,1,*)

(a) Department of Redundancy Department
(b) Centre for Study of Things
(c) Department of Interests

(*) Please address correspondence to Author1 or Author2

The main issue is that when I try to have multiple affiliations for Authors1 and 2, the second affiliation (add2) shows up as the number 1 in the superscript list instead of 'b'. So the author line should look like this:

Author1c, Author2a,b,*, and Author3a,b,*

Again, it is trivial but for the life of me I can't figure out why this is happening! Any advice would be helpful!

[localghost]

After completing your code snippet to a self-contained document I can't comprehend the problem since I get the desired output (needs at least two compiler runs).

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\documentclass[authoryear]{elsarticle}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage{lipsum}

\begin{document}
  \title{A Very Clever Paper Title}

  \author[add1]{Author1}
  \ead{email1@domain.ca}
  \author[add2,add3]{Author2\corref{cor1}}
  \ead{email2@domain.ca}
  \author[add2,add3]{Author3\corref{cor1}}
  \ead{email3@domain.ca}

  \cortext[cor1]{Please address correspondence to Author2 or Author3}
  \address[add1]{Department of Redundancy Department}
  \address[add2]{Centre for Study of Things}
  \address[add3]{Department of Interests}

  \begin{abstract}
    \lipsum[1]
  \end{abstract}
  \begin{keyword}
    Keywords
  \end{keyword}

  \maketitle
\end{document}

It is important to delete the blank spaces in the optional arguments for the \author commands.


Thorsten

[rkealey]

Thank you very much for your response and for testing out the code.

I'm very confused as well haha. I have a sneaking suspicion that my latex install is a little bit messed up. This is the second time a very odd error has occurred that does not seem to be typical for other users.

Thanks again for the reply, I'll keep at it. If I find a solution or the cause on my end, I'll post it.

Ryan

[localghost]

[…] I have a sneaking suspicion that my latex install is a little bit messed up. This is the second time a very odd error has occurred that does not seem to be typical for other users. […]

Perhaps it's a matter of your TeX system which is probably not up to date. It is recommended that you update your TeX system regularly. LaTeX – and its packages in particular – is under continuous development.

[rkealey]

Thank you again for the help.
After some re-installs and updating, everything seems to be working properly!

Ryan

[omekrit]

See that space between addresses? \author[add2, add3] That's the problem.

The solution is to simply remove that space \author[add2,add3].