This is a template and style file for LaTeX files for SPE publications. Adjustments to the article document class are made to make it compatible with the SPE publication format.

After the documentclass is loaded, this file should be input

\documentclass[10pt,fleqn,twoside]{article} \input{spej.tex}

Title page should look like something like

\title{\TitleFont My Title \vspace*{-8pt}}
\date{}
\author{\AuthorFont \textbf{Author 1}, Affil 1; \textbf{Author 2} and \textbf{Author 3}, Affil 2}
\maketitle
\vspace*{-10pt}
\thispagestyle{fancy}
\let\thefootnote\relax\footnotetext{\CopyRightFont Copyright \textcopyright \ 2017 Society of Petroleum Engineers}
\let\thefootnote\relax\footnotetext{\CopyRightFont Original SPE manuscript received for review XX YY 20ZZ. Revised manuscript received for review XX YY 20ZZ. Paper (SPE XX) peer approved XX YY 20ZZ.}

The corresponding bibliography style should be called too.

\bibliographystyle{spej}