Advances in Aerospace Science and Technology (AAST)
AAST: Using the Template File
Template and Styles Explained
The AAST Journal provides authors with a Template for writing the journal paper.
The template is available from the
AAST
page
Authors' Guidelines.
The template provides the expected visual appearance of the paper and the explanations about how to edit the text.
Three word processing programs are supported:
It is of primary importance to understand the logic and hierarchy of the styles defined for Word and LibreOffice.
The authors should carefully build on this logic of the styles.
Authors should refrain as much as possible from ad hoc modifications of the text as a one off solution,
but should rather edit the text by using the pre-defined styles.
When authors find it necessary during writing to modify styles or to define own new styles, they should base it on the logic of the given styles.
Uncoordinated one-off changes of styles can easily end up in a chaotic document structure.
It can later be impossible to correct the text appearance from such a file or to work with it at all.
In the new AAST Template the underlying logic and hierarchy of the styles has been designed new almost from scratch.
Read:
- How to work with the new template in a coordinated way.
- How to follow the logic of the defined styles for AAST.
- How to generate a PDF-File (should the author be interested)
.
SCHOLZ, Dieter, 2014.
AAST: Template, Style, PDF-File. Memorandum. Scientific Research Publishing, 2014-03-24. Available from:
http://AAST.ProfScholz.de.
AAST_M_Template_Style_PDF-file_2014-03-22.pdf 
Upload: 2014-03-24,
Size: 2.3M
Template_Style_Hierarchy_2014-03-22.xls (Table 1 from the Memorandum)
Upload: 2014-03-22,
Size: 22K
More File Downloads
AAST's Guidelines Page provides
the template in the file format *.docx. This is the native format of Word 2007.
This template can also be used together with alternative word processing programs if minor errors are accepted and subsequently corrected.
It is, however, easier to work with the correct file in the first place.
Word 2007 version compatible with Word 2003 (including equation set in Equation Editor, Hyperlinks to graphics, ...)
AAST-template2014-03-24_compatibleWithWord2003.docx
Upload: 2014-04-22,
Size: 921K
Word 2003 version (including equation set in Equation Editor, Hyperlinks to graphics, ...)
AAST-template2014-03-24.doc
Upload: 2014-04-22,
Size: 1.0M
When publishing Open Access, it makes much sense to use Open Software .
In Open Access (OA) there is the distingtion between
Gratis OA and Libre OA:
- Gratis OA is free OA with "free as in beer",
- Libre OA is free OA with "free as in speech".
SCIPR provides Libre OA, because its articles are free of most usage restrictions due to CC BY or CC BY-NC.
For this reason, LibreOffice goes along well with
Libre Open Access.
|
For use with LibreOffice 4.1.5 a template file of type *.doc is used for compatability with SCIRP typesetting (instead of the native *.odt):
AAST-template2014-03-24_LibreOffice.doc
Upload: 2014-03-25,
Size: 1.0M
Unfortunately LibreOffice 4.1.5 is not capable of storing some things in the file of type *.doc. These are equations in LibreOffice Math, Hyperlinks to graphics, ... So it may also make sense to store in OpenOffice' native format *.odt:
AAST-template2014-03-24_LibreOffice.odt
Upload: 2014-03-25,
Size: 791K
PDF generated from the LibreOffice file. Check which "AAST Rules for PDF Generation" are implemented. Compare with the Memorandum from above!
AAST-template2014-03-24_LibreOffice.pdf
Upload: 2014-09-29,
Size: 1.2M
AUTHOR: Dieter SCHOLZ
LAST UPDATE: 2014-06-29
Prof. Dr. Scholz
