v7.0.1

The feature change log is on journals.aas.org. This bug fix addresses the following items:

• Fixed CJK problems in \author
• Fixed the problem with display math and square brackets
• Package problems with the acronym package
• Renamed the bibtex style file to have a v7 filename; updated it to the formal release version
• GitHub repository cleanup, removing all extra files except those for v7 templates.

What's Changed

• V701 by @gregschwarz in #11

New Contributors

• @gregschwarz made their first contribution in #11

Full Changelog: v7.0.0...v7.0.1

v7.0.0

AASTeX v7.0.0 Release Notes

1. Built from scratch
   No more dependance on REVTeX as the underlying base while still maintaining the core functionality of AASTeX v6+.

2. New metadata components in the author command
   In addition to including a link to your ORCID profile, authors can now specify surnames (family or last names), given names (personal or first names), and suffixes while still expressing their full names as they want in the compiled PDF. For example:

\author[gname=Gerard,sname=’de Vaucouleurs’]{Gerard de Vaucouleurs}
\author[0000-0002-6937-9034,gname=Wang,sname=Xuesong]{Sharon X. Wang}
\author[0000-0001-7827-7825,sname=’van der Marel’,gnane=Roeland]{Roeland P. van der Marel}
\author[sname=Moutain,gname=Charles]{C. Matt Mountain}
\author[0000-0001-5448-1821,gname=Robert,sname=Kennicutt,suffix=Jr]{R.C. Kennicutt Jr.}

The text in the curly bracket argument is what is shown in the compiled pdf. Currently, this text is parsed in our peer review system to identify users but the process can fail when initials, diminutive or nick names are used, there are complex surnames (e.g. spanish or dutch surnames), or when authors have name changes. With this new metadata, we will improve our ability to identify authors which in turn reduces the burden when uploading new manuscripts.

3. Changes in how the email command works
   In early 2025, we will mandate that all authors provide an email address. This allows us to identify author quickly in our peer review system and eventually contact all authors about the status of each manuscript they are on. The old method for collecting emails is not sufficient for this change.

In v7 an author block must consist of one \author, one or more \affiliation, and one \email commands. The order of \affiliation and \email commands is not important. Author blocks missing an \affiliation or \email will generate a compiler error resulting in an incomplete compiled pdf.

To protect privacy, emails will not be shown in the published article unless an author indicates this via the ‘show’ option, e.g. \email[show]{Joe.Astronomer@aas.org}.

4. A new environment command for specifying author contributions
   Authors are encouraged to use this section to provide brief details on the individual contributions to the manuscript. The format is open. The AAS Publication Committee has put out a statement on the benefits of this section and some examples for different use cases.

Note that the text inside the author contribution environment will not count towards the total word quanta calculation. This section will also be anonymized when the \textit{anonymous} style option is used for dual anonymous review.

5. A new .bst file for initials in inline citations and optional titles in PSJ references
   In the fall of 2024, the IoP started two new citation changes for the AAS Journals. The first is including the authors’s initials in the inline citation, e.g. from “Schwarz et al. (2011)” to “G. J. Schwarz et al. (2011)”. This change provides more context on the provenance of a citation. This can be very helpful for authors with common last names. The second change adds article titles to references in PSJ articles which aligns the PSJ with the citations standard in other planetary science journals.

The new .bst file allows authors to make the same changes to their compiled manuscripts. Inline initial citations is the default behaviour of this new .bst file. The longbib sytle option includes the titles in the reference list.

6. Changes to the interactive environment
   The interactive environment no longer puts a blue boundary around the figure to signify an interactive component. This proved to be problematic with figures having unseen boundaries that pushed the border off the page or into surrounding text. The interactive environment now puts the boundary around the figure caption.

7. A command to hightlight data behind figures and tables
   The new \digitalasset command should be used on tables (machine readable tables) and figures (Data behind the Figure) that have data available in the HTML article. Similar to the interactive environment, this command puts the blue border around a table title or figure caption to signify an underlying data set.

8. Increase the number of altafiliation commands one can use in the manuscript.
   Previously, it was limited to five. Functionally, the number is unlimited but in reality, the \altafiliation command should still be used sparingly.

9. An update to the collaboration command.
   In v6+, the \collaboration command required a second argument indicating how many people above the command to show in the compiled manuscript. This was a handy way to reduce the front matter length by only showing a few authors and the collaboration identifier. Now authors can use “all” instead of a number to include all authors above the \collaboration} command in the collaboration, e.g.

 \collaboration{all}{The AASTeX development group}

10. Change to footnote numbering.
    Previously the front matter footnotes would reset in the main body of the manuscript. This is not consistent with AAS style which has continuous sequence of footnotes in the published article. There is a command to switch back to resetting the footnotes after the front page matter for very large author lists. Use the ‘resetfootnote’ style option to accomplish this.

11. A new uat command.
    This command takes two arguments, the Unified Astronomy Thesaurus (UAT) label and concept number identifier. In the compiled pdf, this UAT label+ID will link to the UAT concept page at the ARDC. The \uat can still be used inside the \keyword command structure.

12. Reinstalled the \added command.
    This command was deprecated in later versions of AASTeX v6 as it did not conform with how our Science Editors wanted to view new text in revised manuscripts. The \added command will put the text in its argument in bold when the ‘trackchanges’ style option is turned on. Without the ‘trackchanges‘ command, the text appears normally which makes it easy have a “clean” version for preprints. Note that this command will not work on designating new tables or figures, however, you can use it in a .bbl file on individual \bibitem calls.

13. Acknowledgment section changes.
    The \acknowledgments environment now has a title. In addition, many bugs have been fixed including line numbering only in the acknowledgments even when line numbering was turned off, failing in two column format style options, and running of page with long acknowledgment text blocks.

14. Many other minor bug fixes.

15. Deprecated commands.
    The following commands have been deprecated in version 7.

\authorcomment*
\edit*
\listofchanges
\replaced
\deleted
the ‘rnaas‘ style option

The first three were all different ways to flag modified text in the manuscript or display a list of changes after the text with the reintroduction of the \added and ‘trackchanges‘ style functionality. The ‘rnaas‘ produced an abstract-less manuscript which has been obsolete since the RNAAS required abstracts.