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The science magazine prescribes that authors cannot use 'amsmath' package and so on, then how to generate matrix with Latex?enter image description here

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    as arrays: \begin{array} ...end{array}. for parenthesis and brackets use\left(or[and\right)or\right]`. welcome to tex.se! – Zarko Jan 18 '18 at 14:08
  • It sounds like they don't want matrices displayed at all. If you use tabular or tikz matrix they will probably prohibit that as well. Actually, they don't seem to want any math at all. – John Kormylo Jan 18 '18 at 14:31
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    @Zarko : I think the magazine instructions do not want the array environment to be used. – Sandy G Jan 18 '18 at 14:33
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    They say that they prefer Word and any LaTeX document will be converted to Word using DOS via HTML... https://www.sciencemag.org/site/feature/contribinfo/prep/TeX_help/ Quite unexpected for "one of the world's top academic journals" (according to Wikipedia). – Earthliŋ Jan 18 '18 at 14:39

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If I understand the instructions correctly, you need to use the plain TeX version of \matrix.

\documentclass{article}

\begin{document}

$$\left( \matrix{ a & b & c \cr
d & e & f \cr
g & h & i \cr} \right)$$

\end{document}

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You can change the delimiters if you wish. Note that normally you should avoid $$..$$ in favor of \[..\] (see this post). However, I see you are specifically instructed by this magazine to use it.

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You need not to use \left( and \right) when rounded parentheses are used. Just use \pmatrix intead \matrix. And the last \cr is always optional.

$$
  \pmatrix{ a & b & c \cr
            d & e & f \cr
            g & h & i }
$$
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