%%% LaTeX class for manuscripts submitted to the %%% journal 'Applied Economics' %%% %%% author: Arne Henningsen %%% version: 1.1 (18 November 2009) %%% license: LaTeX Project Public License %%% %%% Note: This is an unofficial style file that may not fully comply %%% with the formatting instructions of 'Applied Economics' in every detail. %%% Please report any problems at %%% http://sourceforge.net/projects/economtex/ %%% Further information is available at %%% http://economtex.wiki.sourceforge.net/ %%% %%% This document class is based on the "scrartcl" class %%% from the KOMA script bundle. %%% Following additional packages are required: %%% amsmath, babel, endfloat, geometry, ifthen %%% lmodern, natbib, setspace, textcomp, url %%% %%% The class provides following option: %%% noendfloat - don't move floats to the end of the paper %%% %%% By default, the corresponding BibTeX style "apecon.bst" is used. %%% %%% This document class provides 4 new commands: %%% \affiliation specify affiliation(s) and full address(es) of the authors %%% \rtitle specify running title (max. 75 letters and spaces) %%% \cauthor specify corresponding author including contact details %%% \NeedsTeXFormat{LaTeX2e} \ProvidesClass{apecon}[2009/11/18 LaTeX class for the journal 'Applied Economics'] % package for convenient if-then-else statements \RequirePackage{ifthen} % option to NOT place floats at the end \newif\if@useendfloat \@useendfloattrue \DeclareOption{noendfloat}{\@useendfloatfalse} % pass any options on to the scrartcl class and load this class with some options \DeclareOption*{\PassOptionsToClass{\CurrentOption}{scrartcl}} \ProcessOptions\relax \LoadClass[12pt,english,pointednumbers,tablecaptionabove]{scrartcl} % pointednumbers = add final dot after ordinary section numbers % tablecaptionabove = use \captionabove for tables % additional symbols \RequirePackage{textcomp} % page format, margins \RequirePackage{geometry} \geometry{a4paper, tmargin=2.5cm, bmargin=2.8cm, lmargin=4cm, rmargin=2cm, headheight=0cm, headsep=0cm, footskip=1.2cm } % one half spacing \RequirePackage{setspace} \doublespacing % spacing around formulas \AtBeginDocument{ \setlength{\abovedisplayshortskip}{6pt} \setlength{\belowdisplayshortskip}{6pt} \setlength{\abovedisplayskip}{6pt} \setlength{\belowdisplayskip}{6pt} \allowdisplaybreaks } % spacing around captions and floats \setlength{\abovecaptionskip}{6pt} \setlength{\belowcaptionskip}{3pt} \setlength{\floatsep}{0pt} \setlength{\textfloatsep}{20pt} \setlength{\intextsep}{5pt} % font family: latin modern \RequirePackage{lmodern} % section headers \setkomafont{section}{\sffamily\bfseries} \setkomafont{subsection}{\normalfont\sffamily\itshape} \setkomafont{subsubsection}{\normalfont\sffamily} \renewcommand{\thesection}{\Roman{section}} \setcounter{secnumdepth}{1} % amsmath \RequirePackage{amsmath} % for compatibility with ajae.cls \newcommand{\veclatin}[1]{#1} \newcommand{\matlatin}[1]{#1} \newcommand{\vecgreek}[1]{#1} \newcommand{\matgreek}[1]{#1} % font for URLs \RequirePackage{url} \def\UrlFont{\rmfamily} % citations and bibliography \RequirePackage[authoryear]{natbib} \setlength{\bibsep}{0pt} \bibliographystyle{apecon} % captions of figures and tables \setcapwidth[l]{\textwidth} \setcapindent{0pt} \setkomafont{captionlabel}{\normalsize\normalfont\bfseries} \setkomafont{caption}{\normalsize\normalfont\bfseries} \renewcommand{\captionformat}{.\ } % titlepage without author and date \newcommand{\affiliation}[1]{\newcommand{\@affiliation}{#1}} \newcommand{\address}[1]{\newcommand{\@address}{#1}} \newcommand{\rtitle}[1]{\newcommand{\@rtitle}{#1}} \newcommand{\cauthor}[1]{\newcommand{\@cauthor}{#1}} \renewcommand{\maketitle}{ \begin{center} \begin{spacing}{1.5} \LARGE{\textbf{\@title}}% \end{spacing} \ifthenelse{ \isundefined\@author }{ \ClassWarning{apecon}{No author(s) specified. 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