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 pdflatex apj
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+In Overleaf or wherever you are writing your paper, it is usually easiest to include the `auth.tex` file (using `\input{auth.tex}`); see the example `apj.tex` file for a usage example.
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+Usually we end up reorganizing the acknowledgments by hand, to put institutional ones first, followed by alphabetical individual acknowledgments.
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