AASTeX 7 (two columns) LaTeX template
The Astrophysical Journal, AJ, ApJS, ApJL (two-column preview)
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Free account. Your paper compiles in the browser on TeX Live 2026.
What it is
- Class
- aastex701
- Version tested
- TeX Live's current
- Tested with
- aastex701 2025/05/09 Version 7.0.1/AAS markup document class in TeX Live 2026 as installed where we tested (tlmgr revision 77655)
- Licence of the class
- LPPL 1.3c
- Licence of our starter
- CC0-1.0 (written by Sapience from the class documentation; use it freely)
- Official source
- journals.aas.org/aastexguide/
How the files arrive
The class is part of TeX Live 2026, which Papers compiles with, so nothing is copied: your paper gets our starter files (main.tex and a refs.bib with one example citation).
Format
The two-column layout of the AAS journals
The venue's own instructions are the rule: journals.aas.org/aastexguide/.
AASTeX 7
MNRAS
Astronomy & Astrophysics
JCAP
Research Notes of the AAS
The Planetary Science Journal