RevTeX

Revtex (proper spelling: ) is a collection of LaTeX macros. It was designed by the American Physical Society, the American Institute of Physics and the Optical Society of America to facilitate the publication of their journals. It is maintained by the American Physical Society.

The collection is among scientists, are published in the journals of these three organizations whose products, especially popular. Some other scientific journals also accept revtex -formatted manuscripts for electronic publication.

Revtex v3.1 was released in September 1996. The next version 4.0 came out August 2001. However, version 4 is not backwards compatible with version 3 The current version is 4.1 (11 August 2010).

Originally revtex was designed to be similar to the AASTeX format of the American Astronomical Society.