Text Formatting ⇒ Custom section headings

[tkemeny]

Hi there. I'm submitting to a journal that wants me to format my sections as follows:

Sections - arabic numbered, all caps, centered
Subsections - alpha (bracketed), sentence case, centered
Subsubsections - roman (bracketed), sentence case, left aligned

I tried defining sections as follows:

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\def\thesection{\arabic{section}}
\def\thesubsection{(\alph{subsection})}
\def\thesubsubsection{(\roman{subsubsection})}

But this only gets me some of the way there. I get a period after the sub and subsubsections. For example, I get:

(a). title

instead of:

(a) title

So, first, how can I get rid of the unwanted period?

Second, how can I handle the centering without specifying it for each section?

Thanks very much.
Tom

[frabjous]

You could use something like the titlesec package, e.g.:

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\usepackage{titlesec}
\renewcommand{\thesubsection}{(\alph{subsection})}
\renewcommand{\thesubsubsection}{(\roman{subsubsection})}
\titleformat{\section}%
  {\centering\uppercase}{\thesection}{0.5em}{}
\titleformat{\subsection}%
  {\centering}{\thesubsection}{0.5em}{}
\titleformat{\subsubsection}%
         {\raggedright}{\thesubsubsection}{0.5em}{}

Study its manual above for more info.

[localghost]

Use the titlesec package and modify the standard formats as shown in Section 9.2 (Standard Classes, p. 26f). Here is a complete example.

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\documentclass[11pt,a4paper,english]{article}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[latin1]{inputenc}
\usepackage{babel}
\usepackage{titlesec}
\usepackage{blindtext}

\pagestyle{plain}

\titleformat{\section}{\normalfont\Large\filcenter\bfseries}{\thesection}{1em}{\uppercase}
\renewcommand{\thesubsection}{\alph{subsection}}
\titleformat{\subsection}{\normalfont\large\filcenter\bfseries}{(\thesubsection)}{1em}{}
\renewcommand{\thesubsubsection}{\roman{subsubsection}}
\titleformat{\subsubsection}{\normalfont\normalsize\bfseries}{(\thesubsubsection)}{1em}{}

\begin{document}
  \section{First Section}
    \blindtext

    \subsection{First Subsection}
      \blindtext

      \subsubsection{First Subsubsection}
        \blindtext
\end{document}

In opposite to frabjous I used a command provided by the package to center the section headings in order to avoid possible side effects. Moreover font sizes and series remain as in the standard formats.


Best regards and welcome to the board
Thorsten¹

[tkemeny]

Thank you both for your comments. Thorsten, I followed your advice and it worked perfectly. This was a big help!

Tom