Some notes on using Springer svjour3 class
Summary
This page contains some notes I find useful when using Springer svjour3 class to prepare manuscripts and submissions in some journals. You can find here a more customized version with several additional features that you can use to prepare your draft. You can find here some more tips for using TeX and here some tips for using Springer LNCS style.
Download
You can download the svjour3 class from here. I also downloaded a copy here. (MD5SUM: 89998b8a6754c5f2349c141a7595c64f)
Some Configurations
Add Statements and Declarations
In the file svjour3.cls, there is already a definition for the acknowledgements environment. You can use it to add your acknowledgements. Furthermore, some journals require you to add some statements and declarations. To achieve this, one way is to define a new \declare command as follows:
\newcommand{\declare}[2]{
\renewcommand{\ackname}{#1} % Change the title "Acknowledgements" to #1
{\begin{acknowledgements}% #2 is the content of the declaration/statement
#2
\end{acknowledgements}}
}
And then you can use it as follows:
\declare{Conflict of interest}{
The authors declare that they have no conflict of interest.
}
Author-year Citation
To use author-year citation, you can use the natbib package with the svjour3 class. You can use the following commands to set the citation style:
\usepackage{natbib}
% show citations like (Author1 et al. 2019; Author2 2020)
% that is, no comma between the author and the year
\setcitestyle{round,sort&compress,aysep={},yysep={;}}
\let\cite\citep % Make \cite behave like \citep
% Some other configurations
\begin{document}
% Some contents
% BibTeX users please use one of
\bibliographystyle{spbasic} % basic style, author-year citations
% \bibliographystyle{spmpsci} % mathematics and physical sciences
% \bibliographystyle{spphys} % APS-like style for physics
\bibliography{<your-bib-file>}
\end{document}
To display the URLs in the bibliography with blue color, you can use the following configuration in addition to the hyperref package:
% Redefine the \urlstyle command to change the style of URLs in bibliography
% by setting the URL font color to blue and applies a specific style based on the argument provided
\renewcommand\urlstyle[1]{\renewcommand\UrlFont{\color{blue}\csname url#1style\endcsname}}
hyperref Package Settings
\usepackage{hyperref}
% Hyperref options
\hypersetup{
hidelinks, % This option hides the colored boxes around links
colorlinks=true, % This option colors the text of links instead of using colored boxes
allcolors=blue, % This sets the color of all types of links (e.g., citations, URLs) to blue
unicode, % This allows the use of Unicode characters in PDF bookmarks
bookmarks, % This enables the creation of bookmarks in the PDF
bookmarksopen, % This option makes all bookmarks visible when the PDF is opened
bookmarksdepth=2 % This sets the depth of the bookmarks tree to 2 levels
}