E-print archives

How to submit a paper by e-mail

Text:
Your paper should be a TeX or LaTeX file with lines not longer than 80 characters.
All nonstandard TeX macros or definitions must be defined within the file, style files not available at the E-prints archives should be sent with the file.

Figures:
It is recommended to include postscript figures into the paper with psfig or epsfig.
Send your figure files together with the TeX file (and style files)
packed (tar-compressed and uuencoded) using the uufiles utility.

Header:
The electronic archives need a special header preceding the text (+figures) file in the following format:

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 Title:          (required)
 Author:         (required)
 Comments:       (recommended)
 Report-no:      (if appropriate)
 Subj-class:     (if appropriate)
 Journal-Ref:    (if appropriate)
 MSC-class:      (if appropriate)
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 Abstract (or other short description, must be less than 24 lines)
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Examples:

 (submission to hep-ph)

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 Title: Charmonium Production via Fragmentation at DESY HERA
 Authors: Bernd A. Kniehl (MPI Munich), Gustav Kramer (Hamburg)
 Comments: 32 pages (Latex), 12 figures (Postscript)
 Report-no: DESY 97-110, MPI/PhT/97-001
 Journal-Ref: Phys. Rev. D56 (1997) 5820-5833
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       (Text of abstract)
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 (submission to physics)

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 Title: A superconductive undulator with period length of 3.8 mm
 Authors: T. Hezel, B. Krevet, H. O. Moser, J. A. Rossmanith,
 R. Rossmanith, T. Schneider
 Subj-class: Accelerator Physics
 Report-no: ANKA Technical Note BES-07/97
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       (Text of abstract)
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 (submission to math)

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Title: Hamiltonian Dynamical Systems Without Periodic Orbits
Authors: Viktor L. Ginzburg
Comments: AMS-LaTeX, 16 pages
Subj-class: Differential Geometry
MSC-class: 58F05, 58F17, 58F22
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       (Text of abstract)
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Title:
Should be readable text - avoid illegible TeX sequences.
Author:
Use the form: first name(s) familyname
(first name(s) may be abbreviated by initial, followed by '.' and a blank)
seperate multiple authors by ', ' or ' and '.
Affiliations (without addresses) can be added in parentheses
Comments:
number of pages, number of figures, (tex flavors, conference or journal,to which paper has been submitted,...) For including an URL, see help of E-prints archives.
Report-no:
Publication number(s) of your institution(s).
Subj-class:
for the cond-mat , math and physics archives.
For the cond-mat archive you may indicate the Subj-class,
for the physics and math archives it is obligatory .
Journal-Ref:
full bibliographic reference - only if paper has already been published in a journal or conference proceedings, must contain journal- or book-title, volume number, year and page number.
MSC-class:
Mathematical classification code for the math archive only

The abstract is used only for the listings and will not be TeXed, avoid illegible TeX sequences and unnecessary blank lines.

Submit

The archive paper number can be inserted directly into the TeX file
(typically on the title page together with the local report numbers) using the encoded form
arch-ive/yymmnnn (replace arch-ive by the name of the selected archive).
The sequence 'yymmnnn' will be translated to the correct paper number assigned after submission.

 Example:   hep-th/yymmnnn    transforms to e.g.   hep-th/9710323

For submission use any mail program.
The command 'put' must be placed in the ' Subject ' field of the mail program,
the header followed by the (packed) text (+figures) file in the ' Message ' area.

 Example:

 To       : hep-th@arXiv.org
 Cc       :
 Attchmnt :
 Subject  : put
 -----Message Text----
            ( header )
            ( paper  )

Replacing a paper

  Example:

 To       :  hep-th@arXiv.org
 Cc       :
 Attchmnt :
 Subject  : replace 9612121
 -----Message Text----
           ( new header )
           ( new version of the paper)
 

Creating a cross reference in another preprint archive

  Example:

 To       :  hep-lat@arXiv.org
 Cc       :
 Attchmnt :
 Subject  :  cross hep-th/9701007
 -----Message Text----
            ( header )

Adding the reference after publication of the preprint

Example:

 To       : hep-th@arXiv.org
 Cc       :
 Attchmnt :
 Subject  : published 9701116  Phys. Rev. D56 (1997) 6684-6687
 -----Message Text----
            ( empty )
 

Submission by WEB upload or anonymous ftp

uufiles

Be sure that all files you want to submit are in one directory.
Be careful with the choice of file names: If you submit a file name.tex don't submit a file name.ps too, because it will be automatically removed at the E-print archive to allow dvips to create the Postscript file from your TeX file.

    directory with files to be archived: 

   files (e.g. *.ps, file1 file2 file3, or * for all):

   output file (will create name.tar.gz uuencoded as name.uu) name:

Email addresses of some E-print archives

Physics 

astro-ph@arXiv.org            (astrophysics)
cond-mat@arXiv.org            (condensed matter, see Subject-Classes)
gr-qc@arXiv.org               (general relativity / quantum cosmology)
hep-lat@arXiv.org             (computational and lattice physics)
hep-ph@arXiv.org              (high energy physics phenomenological)
hep-th@arXiv.org              (high energy physics formal)
hep-ex@arXiv.org              (high energy physics experimental)
math-ph@arXiv.org             (mathematical physics)
nucl-ex@arXiv.org             (nuclear experiment)
nucl-th@arXiv.org             (nuclear theory)
physics@arXiv.org             (partitioned, see Subject-Classes)
quant-ph@arXiv.org            (quantum physics)

Mathematics 

math@arXiv.org                (partitioned, see Subject-Classes)

Nonlinear Sciences

nlin@arXiv.org                (partitioned, see Subject-Classes)

Computer Science 

cs@arXiv.org                  (partitioned, see Subject-Classes)

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