Text Formatting ⇒ File ended while scanning use of \@citex

[Nadia]

Dear all,

I am having the following error message when trying to compile my code

File ended while scanning use of \@citex suspect you have forgotten a } , causing meto read past where you wanted me to stop.

Could you please help with this.

Another question please

Elsevier site says that (The article should preferably be written using Elsevier's document class 'elsarticle')

What dose that mean? which document class I need to use?

Many thanks in advance.

Nadia

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Hi Nadja,

welcome to the board!

Possibly you forgot a closing brace }. Show the code, then we would know. You could remove non-relevant code and text in the copy you post.

Regarding the second question, have look here: Elsarticle LaTeX document class. I installed TeX Live, it already contains elsarticle.

Stefan

[cgnieder]

Hi Nadia,

welcome to the LaTeX community!

I am having the following error message when trying to compile my code

File ended while scanning use of \@citex suspect you have forgotten a } , causing meto read past where you wanted me to stop.

Could you please help with this.

This error could have any number of causes. We will need to see some code to give you an answer. Please provide us with a minimal working example (if you're not sure what that is please follow the link). We will then probably be able to fix the issue.

Elsevier site says that (The article should preferably be written using Elsevier's document class 'elsarticle')

What dose that mean? which document class I need to use?

Like it says: use the class »elsarticle«:

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\documentclass{elsarticle}
...

It is available on CTAN (elsarticle) so probably already installed on your system. There's also documentation available: elsarticle.

Regards

PS: Pfff, Stefan beat me again

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Clemens, be faster just joking. Well, I look at here too often. As often, you made good additions, perfect.

Stefan

[Nadia]

Many thanks Stefan and Clemens for the reply. The problem has been sorted out.

The following link has helped a lot, it is perfect for elsarticle.cls document class.

Best regards,
Nadia

http://cdn.elsevier.com/assets/pdf_file ... elsdoc.pdf

[Nadia]

Hi Stefan,
Got another problem with elsarticle.cls style which is the title 'References' does not print out when generate the pdf file. I mean, the references list is showed up without the heading 'references'. Could you please help with this.

Many thanks,
Nadia

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Hi Nadia,

perhaps post this as a new topic together with a minimal working example, because it's possible that helping readers don't see this new problem in an older, already solved topic which firstly deals with another issue.

Stefan

[Nadia]

OK Stefan. This is my Latex file I am currently working on

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\documentclass[final,3p,times,twocolumn]{elsarticle}
\usepackage{amssymb}  
\usepackage{amsthm}   
\usepackage{amsmath}
\usepackage{pifont}   
\usepackage{natbib}   
\usepackage{geometry} 
\usepackage{tikz}     
\usepackage{graphicx} 
\usepackage{txfonts}  
\usepackage{hyperref}
\usepackage{latexsym}
\usepackage{multirow} 
\usepackage{array}    
\usepackage{lineno}
   
\begin{document}
\begin{frontmatter}

\title{}
%\tnotetext[label1]{}
\author{\fnref{1}}
\author{ \fnref{1}}
\author{ \fnref{1}}
\ead{}
%\ead[url]{home page}
%\fntext[label2]{}
%\cortext[cor1]{}
%\address{\fnref{3}}
%\fntext[label3]{}

\begin{abstract}
-----
\end{abstract}
\begin{keyword}
------
\end{keyword}
\end{frontmatter}

\section{INTRODUCTION}
my text

\bibliographystyle{elsarticle-num}
\bibliography{my bibdatabase file}
\end{document}

Best regards,
Nadia

[cgnieder]

I wonder: are you using the Elsevier class to submit an article to them? The reason I'm asking is because the elsarticle class is designed to give articles in a way Elsevier wants it. And I believe it is by design that there is no heading for the references.

I could be wrong, of course...

Regards

[Nadia]

Hi Clemens,

Actually for Elsevier articles, there is heading for references and I think using an asterisk (*) after the section command like (\section*{Introduction}) could fix the problem.
http://www.fauskes.net/nb/latextips/#di ... nnumbering

Many thanks and best regards,
Nadia