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Copernicus / EGU journals

Template name: copernicus Aliases: cp, esd (and any other Copernicus abbreviation registered as a filter) Class file: copernicus.cls Citation style: natbib author-year Example PDF: build/example.pdf

Covers

All EGU / Copernicus journals — short form abbreviations are passed to the class via journal.short:

short journal
acp Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics
amt Atmospheric Measurement Techniques
bg Biogeosciences
cp Climate of the Past
esd Earth System Dynamics
essd Earth System Science Data
hess Hydrology and Earth System Sciences
nhess Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences
tc The Cryosphere
wcd Weather and Climate Dynamics

…and the full list at https://publications.copernicus.org.

YAML setup

journal:
    template: copernicus
    short: cp            # journal abbreviation: cp, acp, hess, tc, esd, bg, ...
    # draft: false       # publication-ready two-column production layout

journal.short is always passed as the first documentclass option. The layout follows the unified journal.draft flag:

  • draft: true (default) → \documentclass[cp, manuscript]{copernicus} — the one-column, line-spaced discussion/preprint layout authors submit.
  • draft: false → \documentclass[cp]{copernicus} — the two-column typeset production layout (the class sets \@twocolumntrue when the journal stage is final and manuscript is absent).

The journal logo, coloured section bars and a few other decorative production elements only appear when copernicuslogo.pdf is present in the build directory, so draft: false is a close preview rather than the exact published page. Set journal.options explicitly to override the flag.

Recognised section headings

These can appear as # ... headings in your markdown — texmark will pull them out of the body and inject them into the right LaTeX command:

  • # Abstract
  • # Acknowledgements
  • # Author Contributions
  • # Competing Interests
  • # Appendix
  • # Supplementary Material / # Supplementary Information

Bundled fonts

copernicus.cls does \RequirePackage[T5,T3,T1]{fontenc}, so it needs the T5 (Vietnamese) encoding from the vntex package. That package is absent on minimal TeX installs, where the build otherwise fails with Encoding file 't5enc.def' not found followed by an NFSS error. To keep the template self-contained, the two files needed to satisfy the encoding setup — t5enc.def and t5cmr.fd (LPPL, from vntex) — are bundled in the template directory and copied into the build directory at build time. They are the standard, long-frozen vntex files, only ever parsed to register the T5 encoding (no Vietnamese glyph is typeset), so they do not affect the output on systems that already ship vntex.