Electronic Publishing

Introductions to this wide and growing field were recently given by Heck (1992a), Heck (1992b), and in the Newsletter of the American Astronomical Society No. 62 (October 1992), Special Insert. The first and last references discuss the prospects of future directions for electronic publishing, the standards for text editors, page scanning, etc.

Below we list the currently available macro packages for preparation of papers for major astronomical journals.

• ApJ, AJ, PASP. These journals encourage the use of the AASTeX package, available via FTP. To obtain details on the retrieval and installation of the current version (3.0), send an empty message to aastex-instruct@blackhole.aas.org.

• A&A. Send e-mail to svserv@dhdspri6.bitnet with either the command send tex/plain/p-aa.zip or send tex/latex/l-aa.zip in the main body of the message, to receive the TeX or LaTeX mark-ups for papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics.

• MNRAS. Macros for electronic papers to be submitted to MNRAS are obtainable via anonymous FTP to tex.ac.uk. The TeX files are in [tex-archive.macros.plain.contrib.mnras] and the LaTeX files are in [tex-archive.macros.latex.styles.contrib.mnras].

• Ap&SS. Prospective authors for Astrophysics and Space Science should request a TeX macro from the editor, Kluwer Academic Publishers at editdept@wkap.nl.