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<h1>BioMed Central TeX template - Version 0.4 (January 27<sup>th</sup> 2006)</h1>
<p style='text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-US
style='font-size:14.5pt;'>1 BioMed Central LaTeX template distribution</span></p>
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<p style=' text-autospace:none'><span
lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";'>bmc_article.tex</span></p>
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<p style='text-autospace:none'>The BioMed Central manuscript template.
Edit a copy of this file.</p>
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lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";'>bmc_article.bib</span></p>
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<p style='text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-US
style='font-size:10.0pt;'>A sample BibTeX bibliography file used to create a .bbl by BibTeX using the bmc_article.bst file </span></p>
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lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";'>bmc_article.bst</span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;
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<p class=MsoBodyText><span lang=EN-US>The BibTeX bibliography style file
for the BioMed Central reference format</span></p>
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lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";'>bmc_article.cls</span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;
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<p style='text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-US
style='font-size:10.0pt;'>Page layout for for manuscripts. This makes small
changes to the standard article template</span></p>
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<p style=' text-autospace:none'><span
lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;'>This document.</span></p>
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<h2><span lang=EN-US> </span></h2>
<h2><span lang=EN-US>2 Requirements </span></h2>
<p style='text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-US>2.1</span></p>
<p style='text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-US>The BioMed Central TeX template
should work with TeX distributions on any platform � it has been tested with
<a
href="http://www.uoregon.edu/~koch/texshop/texshop.html">TeXShop</a> on Mac OS
X and <a href="http://www.miktex.org/">MiKTeX</a> for Windows.</span></p>
<p><span lang=EN-US>2.2 </span></p>
<p><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;'>In order to submit a manuscript
as a .tex file to BioMed Central, you <i>must</i></span></p>
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<li><span
lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;'>use the BioMed Central template</span></li>
<li><span
lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;'>format your references with BibTeX using
the </span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";'>bmc_article.bst</span><span
lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;'> style file</span></li>
<li><span
lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;'>not rely on any non-standard macros,
classes or files</span></li>
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<p><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;'>If your TeX manuscript does not
meet the criteria above it will need to be converted to DVI format prior to
submission.</span><span
lang=EN-US></span></p>
<h2><span lang=EN-US>2 Guidelines for creating your manuscript using TeX</span></h2>
<p style='text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-US>2.1</span></p>
<p style='text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-US
style='font-size:10.0pt;'>Follow the guidelines in the BioMed Central instructions
for authors given at http://www.biomedcentral.com/info/authors/</span></p>
<p style='text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-US>2.2</span></p>
<p style='text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;'>Make
sure your manuscript is compiled with LaTeX2e</span><span
lang=EN-US style='font-size:7.0pt;'> </span><span
lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;'>by using <i>documentclass</i>{.</span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;'>.
. } and not <i>documentstyle</i>{. . . } in the preamble at the top of your
<i>.tex </i>document.</span></p>
<p style='text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;'>A template manuscript is supplied entitled <i>bmc_article.tex</i> which
sets up the preferred page layout based on the standard <i>article.cls</i>. Two different styles are supplied; Review Style, which produces single column double spaced text, and Publication Style which produces two-column text. They can be toggled by commenting or uncommenting the relevant lines in the TeX file.</span>
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<p style='text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-US>2.3</span></p>
<p style='text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-US
style='font-size:10.0pt;'>Make sure that you only a single <i>.tex </i>document
for the entire manuscript, as you will need to upload it as a single file (together
with its associated formatted bibliography file) </span><span lang=EN-US
style='font-size:10.0pt;'>. Do not use the </span><span lang=EN-US
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Courier;'>\input </span><span
lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;'>command to include other </span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Courier;
'>.tex</span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;
'> files.</span></p>
<p style='text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-US>2.4</span></p>
<p style='text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-US
style='font-size:10.0pt;'>The BioMed Central template uses the <i>cite.sty</i>
citation style and <i>url.sty</i> for url references. It also uses <i>ifthen.sty</i> and <i>multicol.sty</i> You should also use these
during the creation of your manuscript.</span></p>
<p style='text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-US
style='font-size:10.0pt;'>See</span></p>
<p class=MsoBlockText><span lang=EN-US>http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/cite/cite.sty,
<br>
http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/misc/url.sty</span><br>
http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/unpacked/ifthen.sty</span><br>
http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex209/contrib/geomsty/multicol.sty</span></p>
<p style='text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-US
style='font-size:10.0pt;'>for these style files if they are not in your local
archive.</span></p>
<p style='text-autospace:none'><i><span lang=EN-US
style='font-size:10.0pt;'>cite.sty</span></i><span
lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;'> turns [1,2,3,4] into [1-4].</span></p>
<p style='text-autospace:none'><i><span lang=EN-US
style='font-size:10.0pt;'>url.sty</span></i><span
lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;'> formats urls so they can be broken down
cleanly when overflowing the right text boundary.</span></p>
<p style='text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-US
style='font-size:14.5pt;'>3 BibTeX</span></p>
<p style='text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-US
style='font-size:10.0pt;'>References <i>must</i> be formatted with BibTeX using
the BioMed Central style file.</span></p>
<p style='text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-US
style='font-size:10.0pt;'>i.e. when using the template, do not alter the command:
</span><span lang=EN-US
style='font-size:10.0pt;'>\bibliographystyle{</span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Courier;
'>bmc_article</span><span lang=EN-US
style='font-size:10.0pt;'>}</span></p>
<p style='text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-US
style='font-size:10.0pt;'>The bibliography datafile is referred to with \<i>bibliography</i>{datafile1,
. . . , . . . } </span></p>
<p style='text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-US
style='font-size:10.0pt;'>The template makes use of a sample bibliography called
</span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Courier;
'>bmc_article.bib </span><span lang=EN-US
style='font-size:10.0pt;'> - you should update the \<i>bibliography</i> tag to
refer to your own bibliography.</span></p>
<p style='text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-US
style='font-size:14.5pt;'>4 Notes on uploading your manuscript</span></p>
<p style='text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-US>4.1</span></p>
<p style='text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-US
style='font-size:10.0pt;'>Make sure you are submitting only one <i>.tex</i> document
</span><span lang=EN-US
style='font-size:10.0pt;'>Please note that figures, large tables and any other
reference material should be submitted as separate files, not embedded in the
manuscript. </span></p>
<p style='text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-US>4.2</span></p>
<p style='text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-US
style='font-size:10.0pt;'>A <i>.bbl</i> file is generated when you use BibTeX
to format your article's reference list. It contains formatted details of all
references used in the manuscript. After uploading a TeX file to BioMed Central,
you will then be prompted to upload the <i>.bbl</i> file which goes with it.</span><span lang=EN-US
style='font-size:10.0pt;'>.</span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:14.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";
'><br clear=all style='page-break-before:always'>
</span> </p>
<h2><span lang=EN-US>5 The TeX article layout</span></h2>
<p style='text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-US
style='font-size:10.0pt;'>This is the sectioning for a BMC-series Research Article l
manuscript submission . . .<br />For other types of articles or for non-BMC series journals, see the relevant section headings at <a
href="http://www.biomedcentral.com/info/authors/">http://www.biomedcentral.com/info/authors/</a></span></p>
<p style='text-autospace:none'><span
lang=EN-US style='font-size:9.0pt;'>� Abstract</span></p>
<p style='text-autospace:none'><span
lang=EN-US style='font-size:9.0pt;'>� Background</span></p>
<p style='text-autospace:none'><span
lang=EN-US style='font-size:9.0pt;'>� Results</span></p>
<p style='text-autospace:none'><span
lang=EN-US style='font-size:9.0pt;'>� Conclusions</span></p>
<p style='text-autospace:none'><span
lang=EN-US style='font-size:9.0pt;'>� Background</span></p>
<p style='text-autospace:none'><span
lang=EN-US style='font-size:9.0pt;'>� Methods</span></p>
<p style='text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-US
style='font-size:9.0pt;'>� Results and Discussion</span></p>
<p style='text-autospace:none'><span
lang=EN-US style='font-size:9.0pt;'>� Conclusions</span></p>
<span
lang=EN-US style='font-size:9.0pt;'>� Authors contributions</span></p>
<p style='text-autospace:none'><span
lang=EN-US style='font-size:9.0pt;'>� Acknowledgements</span></p>
<p style='text-autospace:none'><span
lang=EN-US style='font-size:9.0pt;'>� References</span></p>
<p style='text-autospace:none'><span
lang=EN-US style='font-size:9.0pt;'>� Figures</span></p>
<p style='text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-US
style='font-size:9.0pt;'>� Tables</span></p>
<p style='text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-US
style='font-size:9.0pt;'>� Additional files</span></p>
<h2><span lang=EN-US>5 Further information</span><span
lang=EN-US style='font-size:9.0pt'></span></h2>
<p><span style='font-size:10.0pt;'>The latest version of the BioMed Central TeX
template distribution, and full instructions on its use, are available here:</span></p>
<p style='text-autospace:none'><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;'><a
href="http://www.biomedcentral.com/info/ifora/tex/">http://www.biomedcentral.com/info/ifora/tex/</a></span><span
lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;'></span></p>
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