Manuscript Preparation Guidelines for Authors of Physica Status Solidi

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(pss-logo will be inserted here 1 by the publisher) 2 3 Manuscript preparation guidelines 4 5 6 for authors of physica status solidi 7 8 – Word documents 9 Sabine Bahrs*, 1, Stefan Hildebrandt1, Irina Juschak1, Heike Höpcke1, André Danelius1, 10 1, 2 11 and Martin Stutzmann 12 1 physica status solidi, Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Bühringstraße 10, 13086 Berlin, Germany 13 2 14 Walter Schottky Institute, Technical University Munich, Am Coulombwall, 85748 Garching, Germany 15 Received 23 August 2007, revised 12 October 2007, accepted zzz 16 Published online zzz 17 18 PACS 01.20.+x, 01.30.–y, 01.30.Tt, 01.30.Xx 19 20 * Corresponding author: e-mail [email protected], Phone: +49 30 470 31 331, Fax: +49 30 470 31 334, 21 Web: www.pss-a.com, www.pss-b.com, www.pss-c.com, www.pss-rapid.com 22 23 24 This manual is part of the template package for authors pre- 25 paring their work for submission to pss in MS-Word format. 26 It provides general information on journal series and manu- 27 script properties and a brief introduction to the technical us- 28 age of the package’s template file. There is a section on style 29 and layout conventions, and the manual itself is formatted ac- 30 cording to the new pss layout, effective in 2008, as an exam- 31 ple. 32 For information on the journals’ scope, the editorial policy Selected covers of pss (a), (b), and (c) as an example for the 33 regarding scientific content and peer review, and the submis- optional abstract figure (with or without caption). If there is 34 sion and production process please see the “For authors” sec- 35 tion on the journal series homepages. no figure here, the text will fill both columns. 36 37 38 Copyright will be provided by the publisher 39 40 41 1 General production process (see Table 1). pss (a), (b), (c) and 42 1.1 Journal series and templates physica status (RRL) use the same template for all article types. The pss 43 solidi has four sister series, all of which are dedicated to templates come in a Microsoft® Word (this) and a LaTeX 44 documenting the progress in solid state physics research, version (different download). Word document is the pre- 45 but differ with regard to their special scope and journal ferred file-format for submission. Original Papers in pss (a) 46 47 Table 1 Overview of the pss journal series with regard to template use, journal production and submission policy. 48 Series and scopes Length restriction Call for papers Production Template use 49 pss (a) – applications none, typically Original Papers: regular submissions typesetting strongly recommended 50 and materials science eight to ten pages Feature and Review Articles, Past & Present: 51 pss (b) – basic solid invited submissions 52 state physics 53 pss (c) – current topics varies for specific Contributed and Invited Articles: publication-ready mandatory 54 in solid state physics projects special publication projects (i. e. conferences) 55 56 pss (RRL) – Rapid three pages Rapid Research Letters: typesetting strongly recommended 57 Research Letters important results of immediate interest

1 and (b) have no length limit. For Contributed or Invited Table 2 Fonts and font size conventions for pss manuscript com- 2 Articles in pss (c) please refer to specific information on ponents as defined in the pss-styles toolbar. 3 the conference or project. pss (RRL) articles are restricted 4 to a length of three pages, for details see www.pss-rapid.com. pss-styles toolbar Font Size 5 For manuscripts submitted to pss (RRL), (a) and (b), we 01_Title Arial/Helvetica 18pt 6 strongly recommend using the template to gain an accu- 02_Author Arial/Helvetica 10pt 7 rate length estimate and maximum control over the design. 03_Address Times New Roman 9pt 8 However, accepted articles need not have final arrange- 04_Received_Date Times New Roman 9pt 9 ment and perfect layout, since they undergo full typeset- 05_PACS Times New Roman 9pt 10 ting during production. In contrast, articles intended for 06_Footnote Times New Roman 9pt 11 one of the special projects published in pss (c) must be 07_Email_Address Arial/Helvetica 8pt 12 prepared publication-ready in a template and according 08_Abstract Times New Roman 9pt 13 to the journal style, fully formatted and arranged fit for 09_Body_text Times New Roman 10pt 14 printing. 10_Free-standing_Heading Arial/Helvetica bold 10pt 15 11_Inline_Heading Arial/Helvetica bold 10pt 12_Equation Times New Roman 10pt 16 1.2 Formal manuscript requirements Manu- 13_Figure_Caption Times New Roman 9pt 17 scripts must be written in correct English (British spelling 14_Table_Title Times New Roman 9pt 18 preferred, American also possible, please be consistent) 15_Table_Body Times New Roman 9pt 19 and submitted as one single MS Word- or pdf-file (includ- 16_Table_Legend Times New Roman 8pt 20 ing all text and figures etc.). Authors should structure their 17_Acknowledgements Times New Roman 9pt 21 work in sections with subheadings of their choice. The fol- 18_ References Times New Roman 9pt 22 lowing components are essential: 23 – a title, and preferably a suggestion for a short title in the mains a self-explanatory unit. Please send this material to 24 header on the second page, the Editorial Office at [email protected], or on a CD-ROM 25 – the full list of authors (full names preferred, first name if the amount of data is too large to be transferred by e- 26 initials also possible) with their affiliations (institution mail. 27 from smallest to largest unit, postal address including 28 country), 2 How to use the Word document template 29 – a footnote indicating the corresponding author includ- Open the template file pss_author_style_file.dot and save it 30 ing a valid e-mail address (telephone, fax, web-site op- as file 〈your_manuscript_name〉.doc. Then simply replace 31 tional; additional footnotes with other authors’ contacts the dummy-text in the template with your input. Please do 32 possible), not change the pre-defined margins, font sizes, and other 33 – dates of receipt, receipt of the revised version and accep- dimensions. 34 tance will be added by the publisher, as will logos, copy- 35 right lines, page headers and the coloured abstract back- 2.1 Applying styles The template provides the tool- 36 ground, bar ‘pss-styles’ with 18 clickable shortcuts to formats re- 37 – up to six PACS® codes specifying the topic of the article quired for the specific parts of a manuscript (Table 2). To 38 (see Section 2.3 for the PACS-insertion-tool of the pss- display it on the screen, go to ‘Menu: View > Toolbar > pss- 39 template), styles’. There are two ways to apply a style to an item in the 40 – an abstract which concisely summarizes the reported manuscript: 41 study and results (optional: eye-catching abstract figure 1. retain the style from the dummy-text when you re- 42 with or without brief caption in the right column), place it with your input, 43 – an introduction or motivation (please put your results 2. mark the text after typing and click on a style. 44 into their scientific context, outlining the progress achieved Example: To insert and format the corresponding author 45 in the present study in comparison to information already information, place the cursor at the end of the name, go to 46 available in the literature from the authors’ and other re- ‘Menu: Insert > Reference > Footnote’, activate ‘pss-styles > 47 searchers work), Footnote’, type ‘Corresponding author: e-mail pss@wiley- 48 – a main part with sections devoted to the theoretical or vch.de’, mark the e-mail address and click ‘pss-styles > 49 experimental methods, results and discussion, Email_Address’ to get ‘Corresponding author: e-mail pss@wiley- 50 – conclusions revisiting the main results and derived find- vch.de’. 51 ings (keep in mind that the scope of the abstract is different 52 from that of the conclusions), 2.2 Inserting figures There are several possibilities 53 – optionally acknowledgements, for adding graphics with captions to a Word-file (for for- 54 – bibliographic references (see Section 3 for details). mat conventions and technical graphics requirements see 55 Authors may also add supporting information for online Section 3). 56 publication at Wiley InterScience to an article (tables, an- 1. Plain: Position the cursor at the chosen site in the 57 imations, movies etc.), provided that the manuscript re- body text. Then simply insert the graphics file (‘Menu: Insert

1 tion of codes into your manuscript, the pss-styles toolbar 2 2500 pss-RRL provides a macro called ‘PACS_List’, located to the right of 3 pss (c) style ‘05_PACS’. Macros must be enabled in your document 4 to use it. In the ‘PACS_List’ window, open the file PACS.txt 2000 5 pss (a) in your pss-template folder. Scroll the list or search by 6 pss (b) keyword. The most relevant categories for solid state phys- 7 1500 ics are 60, 70, and 80. Remember that the system has a ver- (counts per year) per (counts

8 N tical structure with sections and subsections. For example, 9 1000 sub-headings’ codes ending with dot-minus-letter are fol- 10 lowed by more specific sub-categories. Please be as precise 11 as possible, selecting appropriate codes and clicking ‘Insert 12 500 Code’ (or ‘Remove Code’) to assemble four to six choices. 13 Transfer the codes by pressing ‘Insert selected Codes into Published items 14 0 document’. 15 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 16 Time t (Calender years) 3 Layout and style conventions The standard 17 fonts as defined in the pss-styles toolbar are listed in Table 18 Figure 1 The plot shows the number of articles N published in 2. Please use Times New Roman, Times, Arial, Helvetica 19 pss versus time t in recent years. The colours refer to the four dif- or Symbol (Σψµβολ) fonts as much as possible, since 20 ferent journal series as indicated in the legend. other fonts (e.g., Asian or Russian character fonts) may 21 > Graphics > From File’) and edit its properties with respect to cause conversion problems. 22 scaling and positioning options. Add the caption directly Section headings come as in-line running heads in 23 below the picture and then continue with the body text. lower case letters except for proper nouns, certain abbre- 24 This method is simple, but carries a practical disadvantage: viations, physical quantities and the like. They should be 25 Picture and caption will not float within the text as a uni- consecutively numbered by decimal numbers as 1, 1.1, 2 26 fied element. etc., followed by a space and the heading text. After a fur- 27 2. Table: Place the cursor at the intended position in ther space the body text starts on the same line. The free- 28 the body text, insert a table with two cells (‘Menu: Table > standing heading-style (pss-style 10) is reserved for the 29 Insert’, either 1 column and 2 rows or 2 columns and 1 row) first of two consecutive headings. 30 The number format uses a decimal point (not a comma) in ’simple’ auto-layout (no frame lines), and format the –4 31 width of the table. For positioning, first choose the table and scientific notation as in 2.1 × 10 Ω, or alternatively 32 layout property ‘floating with text’. Then set a vertical and 0.21 mΩ (no engineering notation like 2.1E–4, also in fig- 33 horizontal distance with respect to the page margins. Be- ures). For symbols and units, avoid writing alpha, Ohm, 34 fore inserting the figure into a cell, the line spacing of the deg; use Greek and special characters instead: α, Ω, °. All 35 paragraphs within should be set to ‘regular’. Paste your fig- physical quantities and constants should be given in italic, 36 ure into the upper or left cell (important: graphics layout vectors in bold italic letters (both in the text and in equa- 37 properties need to be ‘text in line’), and add a caption within tions). Please distinguish carefully between subscripts, su- 38 the remaining other cell. This method has graphics and perscripts, and special symbols. Units (e.g. V/cm, K, Pa 39 captions floating in the text together, but may involve etc.) should be written in upright letters (not in italics) with 40 some complicated menu-navigation. a short space to the number before. Please use SI units 41 3. Textbox: Place the cursor at the intended position, throughout. Mathematical functions which are tabulated 42 open a text-field (‘Menu: Insert > Text-field’), and paste your (e.g. sin, cos, exp, e, etc.) should be given in upright letters 43 figure inside. Add a caption within the text-field below the (not in italics). 44 picture. Size and position of the floating element in the Equations may be numbered sequentially. Except for 45 body text is then a layout property of the text-field and can small in-line equations, they should appear on separate 46 be edited in the related context-specific menu (cf. Fig. 1). lines, such as 47 This method usually works well for writing and editing, 48 ∞ ∞ but may cause conversion difficulties and errors during ab+ ab+ n n 49 G = ∑b2 b1 + ∑ba2 a . (1) typesetting. iacos i=1 iacos i=1 50 51 ® 2.3 PACS tool The Physics and Astronomy Classi- In the text, equations may be referred to by writing 52 ® fication Scheme is a hierarchical subject catalogue main- ”… in Eq. (1)”. At the beginning of a sentence, use the full 53 tained by the American Institute of Physics (see form “Equation (1) shows …”. 54 www.aip.org/pacs for further information.) This template Figures and tables can be one (8.4 cm) or two columns 55 ® package comes with the PACS 2008 edition as a list in (17.2 cm) wide, have captions below, above, or to the side, 56 simple ASCII format. For easy access, selection and inser- and are preferably placed at the top or bottom of a page. 57

1 They are referenced in the text as “Table/Fig. 1”, or “Ta- 4 Manuscript submission Please finish your 2 ble/Figure 1” at the beginning of a sentence. Please limit manuscript by checking that it contains all the essential in- 3 the number of figures to maintain a reasonable relation to formation listed in Section 1.2, is available in one Word or 4 the amount of text. pdf-file including figures and tables, and meets the length 5 Figures must be carefully prepared ready for produc- restriction if applicable. 6 tion. Lettering and symbols should be no less than 1.5 mm 7 high. Avoid small open symbols, small dots, small decimal 4.1 Regular submissions to pss (a) and (b) 8 points, hairlines, close-dotted or short-dashed lines. Draw a Please submit your manuscript electronically via our online 9 closed axes frame in diagrams with the axis titles (quantity submission system at www.manuscriptXpress.com/osm. 10 or symbol followed by the unit in brackets, like “Raman You may also submit to any of our Regional Editors by e- 11 shift (cm–1)”) parallel to the corresponding axis, outside the mail. For information on the submission and consideration 12 frame. process for your article as well as on the Editorial Board 13 Captions start with the number of the figure, spell out please refer to the journals homepages (www.pss-a.com, 14 the plotted quantities by variable and full name, and end www.pss-b.com). If you have any further questions or ex- 15 with a full stop. Remember to label each plotted data trace. perience technical problems, please do not hesitate to con- 16 Please use only standard fonts (Arial, Times New Roman, tact us at [email protected]. 17 Symbol) or include the fonts in the figure file. When com- 18 posing a figure, avoid using separate drawing elements in 4.2 Special issues and conferences, especially 19 Word such as arrows, symbols or letters, since these are pss (c) For publication in pss (c) production will be based 20 sometimes lost if a figure must be extracted from the Word directly on your fully formatted, publication-ready file. No 21 file during typesetting. All elements of a figure should be page proofs will be sent. Organisation and handling of 22 grouped together as one graphics object. submissions to conferences and special issues may vary. 23 Halftone figures should have 300 dpi, line drawings Please follow the specific information given by the event’s 24 600 dpi minimum resolution in final size. Screen or Web organisers. Do not send your manuscript to the Editorial 25 resolution is insufficient for print publication. Office unless the organisers or Guest Editors have explic- 26 Colour figures will generally remain in colour in the itly instructed contributors to do so. Further information is 27 internet PDF version at no cost. Essential colour figures available at www.pss-c.com > For authors. 28 may also appear in print by decision of the publisher. Oth- Thank you for taking the time to consider these in- 29 erwise, the print version will be black/white unless colour structions. We wish you success with the manuscript 30 figures are purchased by the authors using the colour print preparations and look forward to your submission to pss. 31 authorization on the Reprint Order form when returning 32 proof corrections. Acknowledgements We gratefully acknowledge the 33 References should be numbered by order of appear- Druckhaus Thomas Münzer, Bad Langensalza, for providing the 34 ance in the text, denoted in square brackets inside the sen- MS Word template. 35 tence, such as [1], [1, 2] or [1–3], and listed at the end of 36 the manuscript [1–10]. Please do not use the foot- References 37 note/endnote function which is inherent to MS Word. Ad- 38 ditional tools such as the (commercial) software EndNote® [1] F. M. Firstauthorfamilyname, F. M. Secondauthorfamily- 39 (www.endnote.com) allow for convenient bibliography name, and C. Lastauthorfamilyname, Abbreviatedjournal- 40 management with respect to both correct numbering and name volume, page (year). 41 style. [2] F. Examplename and I. E. Anotherauthorname, phys. stat. 42 Please adhere to the journal’s reference scheme, which sol. (a) 1, 111 (2050). 43 is: Author names, Journal title according to the INSPEC [3] A. Firstauthorname, B. Secondauthorname, and C. Thirdau- 44 List of Journals abbreviations (our abbreviations is: phys. thorname, Here Goes the Title of the Book (Publisher, City, 45 stat. sol.), followed by volume number in bold face, start- year), p. 111. [4] A. Firsteditorname, B. Secondeditorname, and C. Thirdedi- 46 ing page, and year of publication in brackets [1, 2]. For torname (eds.), Here Goes the Title of the Edited Book 47 references to books see the examples [3–5]. When citing (Wiley-VCH, Berlin, 2050), p. 111. 48 conference proceedings, please add all available data such [5] D. Contributorname, Here Goes the Title of the Contribu- 49 as title, date, and place of the conference as well as pub- tion, Followed by the Title of the Series of Books, Vol. 1 50 lisher, place, and year of publication or, alternatively, the (Publisher, City, year), chap. 1. 51 corresponding journal citation [10]. … 52 [10] A. Lastbutnotleastname, in: Proceedings 1st Dummy Con- 53 ference on Citation Formatting, City, Country, year, Part A 54 (Publisher, City, year), pp. 1–11 55 56 57