A Guide to Authors of Papers in Acta Physica Polonica A
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A Guide to Authors of Papers in Acta Physica Polonica A 1. General — main body of the article; Contributions which report original research results — list of references as described in Sect. 5; and reviews in the fields of General Physics, Atomic and — list of captions for figures and tables; Molecular Physics, Optics and Quantum Optics, Quan- tum Information, Biophysics, Condensed Matter, and — all figures and tables. Applied Physics are welcomed. Manuscripts should be submitted to the Editors by e-mail [email protected] in direct-printable 3. General presentation computer version (as *.doc file or *.pdf file with source files for the text and figures attached). In Manuscripts must be written in double-spacing any case unified *.pdf or *.doc version for the Referee, (3 lines per inch) and with a left-hand margin with all Figures and Tables included, is obligatory. of 4 cm. All pages should be numbered. Do not All submitted contributions will be refereed. It is the try to imitate the style of printing in Acta Phys- right of Editorial Committee to accept or to reject the ica Polonica A. Mathematics should be legible. Vec- contribution. tors should be bold and in italics. Only round Submission of a manuscript indicates a tacit under- brackets should be used in the text. No cross- standing that the paper is not actively under con- -references by page number should be used; the section sideration for publication elsewhere; that its publica- and subsection should be quoted. The manuscript must tion has been approved by all co-authors; that the be in good scientific American English (or British En- manuscript accepted for publication will not be pub- glish, decidedly). lished elsewhere without the consent of the Editor. The title should be brief (less than 15 words) and The Author should sign and return the Copy- should help the reader to figure out the contents and the right Transfer Form downloaded from Acta Physica nature of the paper and its place in the body of physics. Polonica A home page http://www.ifpan.edu.pl/APP/ Each paper must have an abstract typewritten as the copyright_transfer_form.doc body of the manuscript. The abstract should be self- We welcome suggestions of possible reviewers. To help -contained, should not quote any references and any fig- protect the reviewer’s anonymity, we ask for at least four ure. It should be clear, concise, and informative giving names, with full information on postal and e-mail ad- the scope, the main results obtained, and, for experimen- dresses, telephone number. The referee selected by the tal papers, where this is not obvious, some indication of Editor can, of course, not necessarily be from the list. the methods used. There is no page charge. Printing the illustrations in The manuscript should be divided into sections (and colour, if this is essential for publication (the final de- subsections, if necessary). cision is reserved for Editors), can be ordered and the Authors will bear costs of preparation and printing, ap- 4. Formulae and symbols prox. 100 Euro per page with colour figures. Displayed formulae must be clearly typed each on a 2. Material to be submitted different line and well-separated from the adjacent text. They should be numbered on the right-hand side either The following material is required before the paper can consecutively through the text or with a compound num- be prepared for print. Time will be saved if it is all ber (for example (3.16)) which contains the section num- submitted at the outset. ber. Particular care should be taken about: The manuscript should be written in English only, with: — use of decimal point and not comma, especially on figures; — title, — units when specified in formulae, tables and figures — Author’s (or authors’) name(s) with initials — on should be written in square brackets e.g. [mm], the title page; [GeV], etc.; — Author’s affiliation, mailing address, and e-mail ad- — arbitrary units should be abbreviated to [arb.u.] dress; and not [a.u.]; 3 — abstract — on the title page; — explicit exponentials 10 and not E3 should be used as well as times (×) instead of point in mixed ex- — just below the abstract keywords should be given; presions, e.g. 2 × 107. 5. Illustrations, tables, footnotes and references — For a book: [3] P.G. de Gennes, J. Prost, The Physics of Liquid Crys- Figures and references should be numbered consecu- tals, 10.nnnn/. Oxford Sci. Pub., Oxford 1993. tively in Arabic numerals in the order in which they are — For an unpublished paper: mentioned in the text. Inscriptions on drawings should be kept to a minimum [4] Ł. Gondek, Ph.D. Thesis DOI:10.nnnn/. , Jagiel- lonian University, Kraków 2004. and all explanations of different types of curve or data points should be given. Abbreviations of periodical titles must follow the con- Captions to figures should be concise. ventions of Physics Abstracts, it is safe to leave the title If figures are reproduced from other articles the source in full. In all cases the full list of all co-authors must be quoted, and written permission for reproduction must be given. obtained by the Authors from the owner of the copyrights The publisher, place and year of publication should (usually the Publisher) must accompany such materials. be given for books, conference proceedings, etc., and all Headings for columns in tables should be brief. names of the editors. Footnotes to each table should be indicated by super- Papers in the course of publication can be entered only script letters and listed below the table. if the journal has accepted them and its name is given. References must be typed together in explicit way in Internal laboratory reports not available on request order of their appearance in the text. Authors should must not be quoted. give DOI numbers, wherever applicable. Whenever possible, references to literature items pub- References are made in the text with Arabic numerals lished in non-Latin alphabet should give the title of pub- in square brackets [1] (not with the superscript). The lication in English. list of references should be presented as follows: 6. Correction of proofs — For a paper in journal: [1] A. Engelko, H. Bluhm, J. Appl. Phys. 95, 5828 (2004). Proofs should be checked carefully and returned DOI:10.nnnn/. promptly. At this stage any modifications of the text — For an article in a book: can be followed by a delay of publication of the paper. [2] R. Hirota, in: Solitons, DOI:10.nnnn/. Eds. R.K. Bullough, P.J. Caudrey, Springer, Berlin 1980, Editorial board of Acta Physica Polonica A p. 157..