Elsevier (two columns, final layout) LaTeX template
Elsevier journals, final two-column look
Start a paper with this template
Free account. Your paper compiles in the browser on TeX Live 2026.
What it is
- Class
- elsarticle
- Version tested
- TeX Live's current
- Tested with
- elsarticle in TeX Live 2026 as installed where we tested (tlmgr revision 77655)
- Licence of the class
- LPPL 1.3
- Licence of our starter
- CC0-1.0 (written by Sapience from the class documentation; use it freely)
- Official source
- www.elsevier.com/researcher/author/policies-and-guidelines/latex-instructions
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 5p two-column layout, numbered references
The venue's own instructions are the rule: www.elsevier.com/researcher/author/policies-and-guidelines/latex-instructions.
Article
Elsevier (elsarticle)
Elsevier (author-year)
Elsevier CAS (single column)
Elsevier CAS (double column)
Oxford University Press (contemporary)