Please confirm that your submission follows all the requirements of the guidelines, including the submission checklist:

- Code availability section 
- Highlights
- Authorship statement
- Cover letter
- The manuscript must be single column and double spaced
- Reference must be in the author-date format

*All the masnucripts in disagreement with the guidelines will be desk-rejected without editorial check.



cas-sc.cls and cas-dc.cls are the two new class files created
for typesetting Elsevier's journal articles which go through
Complex Article Service (CAS) workflow. These are now accepted for
submitting articles, both in Elsevier's electronic submission system
and elsewhere.

Bugs and problems with elsarticle.cls may be reported to the
developers of the class via [email protected].

The file manifest.txt provides a list of the files in the
elsarticle-cas bundle.  The following are the main files available:

- cas-sc-template.tex, template file for single column journals
- cas-dc-template.tex, template file for double column journals
- cas-sc-template.pdf, PDF of the cas-sc-template.tex 
- cas-dc-template.pdf, PDF of the cas-ddc-template.tex
- cas-common.sty, additional macro package for formatting
  model2-names.bst, BibTeX style file
- twitter.jpeg, linkedin.jpeg, url.jpeg, gplus.jpeg, facebook.jpeg,
  email.jpeg - thumbnail images of social networking sites

The documentation file is elsdoc-cas.tex in the doc directory.  To
compile it:

1. pdflatex elsdoc-cas
2. pdflatex elsdoc-cas
3. pdflatex elsdoc-cas

or

use the makefile. Use the target `all' (eg: make all) in doc
directory.

The above procedure will create a print version, namely elsdoc-cas.pdf.

Copyright 2019, Elsevier. Bugs, feature requests, suggestions and
comments may be mailed to [email protected]. elsarticle.cls,
related documentation and supporting packages are released under the
LATEX Project Public Licence, either version 1.2 or any later
version. This work has the LPPL maintenance status
'author-maintained'.