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There seems to be a pretty serious clash between the revtex4-1 documentclass and the acronym package. The following MWE illustrates the problem:

\documentclass{revtex4-1}

\usepackage[nolist]{acronym}
\begin{acronym}
  \acro{ABC}{ay bee cee}
\end{acronym}
\begin{document}
\maketitle
\ac{ABC}
\end{document}

I can also add whatever title, abstract, etc., I want without changing the result. The real problem appears to be \maketitle. When it is present, the output looks like this:

With <code>\maketitle</code>

Note the boldface, the random "!", and the fact that the long form of the acronym is not used. If I comment out \maketitle, I get what I expect:

Without <code>\maketitle</code>

How can I fix this problem?

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revtex4-1 is sometimes rather strange. For example, you should define \author and \title & Co. after \begin{document}. In this case it seems that the acronym environment should also come in the main document. The following code compiles fine for me. [Don't ask why :-)]

\documentclass{revtex4-1}

\usepackage[nolist]{acronym}

\begin{document}

\begin{acronym}
  \acro{ABC}{ay bee cee}
\end{acronym}
\author{Me}
\title{Title}

\maketitle

Hello world!

\ac{ABC}

\end{document}
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  • I removed the author and title just for the sake of minimizing the working example; they didn't make any difference the way I was doing it, though they do now. More importantly, moving the acronym environment into the document itself does make all the difference. Thanks!
    – Mike
    Commented Nov 20, 2015 at 15:32
  • I had them in the MWE because I was testing revtex4-1 vs article, and the latter protests if you give \maketitle without \author &Co. But I always forget to put them into the document for revtex, and that's what brought me to the idea :-)
    – campa
    Commented Nov 20, 2015 at 15:47
  • Unfortunately, this still doesn't help if you don't want the list, so use \acrodef{}
    – Gilly
    Commented May 23, 2017 at 2:57
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I have had the same problem with revtex 4.2 and the suggested fix doesn't quite work : the solution appears to be to place the acronym definition block (\acrodef's, etc) within the main body of the document and after the \maketitle command.

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