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% LaTeX support for Biological Cybernetics
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%                                       (c) Springer Heidelberg, 11/2004
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% base-URL for updates: ftp://ftp.springer.de/pub/tex/latex/svjour2/422

This package contains the LaTeX2e support for
Biological Cybernetics

The following files are part of the macro package

  readme.txt    This file
  history.txt   The version history of the package
  svjour2.cls   The document class file for Springer journals
  usrguid2.*    Main User's Guide (dvi, pdf)
  svglov2.clo   The global class option file
  template.tex  A fill-in-form for a standard article with usage comments
  spbasic.bst   BibTeX style file

In due course:
  example.*     Example of an article (tex, dvi)
  example.pdf   The file example.pdf contains a ready to print version
                that can be produced at the publisher only, when page
                numbers are fixed. It also uses the final fonts namely
                PostScript Times.


Bibliographic references in author year form are preferably made with
the "natbib" package of Patrick W. Daly. You can find it on CTAN, e.g. at
ftp://ftp.dante.de/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/natbib/
or look for a mirror next to you at
http://www.ctan.org/getmirror/?action=/search/


INSTALLATION

Copy svjour2.cls and svglov2.clo to a place where LaTeX can find them.


GETTING STARTED

You should first read the "Main User's Guide" to get an overview.
Alternatively to reading the entire documentation, it is
also possible to proceed by merely filling out the template and then
looking up additional commands as needed.