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[ Where to Submit Your Manuscript | How to Prepare Your Manuscript ] [ Statement of Ethics and Responsibilities of Authors ] [ How to Transmit Your Accepted Manuscript Electronically | Manuscript Preparation Checklist ] Where to Submit Your Manuscript Send manuscripts to: Donald Levy, Editor The Journal of Chemical Physics Department of Chemistry 5735 S. Ellis Ave. The University of Chicago Chicago, IL 60637 USA Telephone: 773-702-7067 FAX: 773-702-8314 E-mail:
[email protected] A covering letter should specify authors, title, Journal, the corresponding author's e-mail address, and any special requests. Unless otherwise stated, submission of a manuscript will be understood to mean that the paper has been neither copyrighted, classified, published, nor is being considered for publication elsewhere. Manuscripts may be submitted in one of two ways: (a) Electronically via web submission at http://jcp.uchicago.edu/. All electronic submissions must go through this website. Authors should not send manuscripts to the Editorial Office as e-mail attachments. (b) Printed manuscripts by conventional mail (2 copies) to the address shown above. A duly signed transfer of copyright agreement form is required for publication in this journal. No claim is made to original U.S. Government works. Authors are invited to suggest appropriate referees for the manuscript. They may also request that specific people not be used as referees, and they may include reasons for such a request. In both cases, these suggestions must be advisory to the editors, not a condition of submission. Authors submitting manuscripts that contain material critical of, or in conflict with, previously published work of other authors should bring this fact to the attention of the editors. In such cases, the editors will usually ask an author of the previously published work to review the new manuscript as an interested party. The identity of the interested party is made know to the authors of the new manuscript and to subsequent independent and anonymous referees. Authors whose manuscripts have been accepted for publication will receive correspondence informing them of the issue for which it is tentatively scheduled and instructions for transmitting electronic files to AIP Production. Date of publication may be before the cover date of the issue. Authors may access publication data for their manuscripts online through AIP's AMSIS service. Proofs and all subsequent correspondence pertaining to papers in the production process should be addressed to: Editorial Supervisor The Journal of Chemical Physics American Institute of Physics Suite 1NO1 2 Huntington Quadrangle Melville, NY 11747-4502 USA Telephone: 516-576-2442 or 2448 or 2423 FAX: 516-576-2643 E-mail:
[email protected] Reference must be made to the AIP identification number, title, author, and scheduled issue date. A limited number of alterations in proof are unavoidable, but the cost of making extensive alterations after the article has been typeset may be charged to the author. Please do not address correspondence about proofs, reprints, artwork, publication charges, etc., to the Editor. To do so simply delays the appropriate action and response. Accepted Manuscript Status Inquiry System (AMSIS): Through the AMSIS homepage, authors may access information about their accepted manuscript during the production process at AIP. AMSIS can be used only by authors of accepted manuscripts; direct requests about papers still under review to the Editorial Office. General information regarding publication charges, color charges, copyrights, and similar material may be found on the inside front cover of each issue. See general information for authors here. Back to Top How to Prepare Your Manuscript For general format and style, consult recent issues of the Journal and the 1990 Fourth Edition of the AIP Style Manual, published by the American Institute of Physics and available free-of-charge for downloading. Three types of manuscripts are acceptable: full length, Communications, and Letters to the Editor. For Communications and Letters, as
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for articles, the primary criterion is the concise presentation of significant research results of interest to the chemical physics community. Communications appear in a separate section, whereas the Letters to the Editor section is subdivided into three categories entitled Notes, Comments, and Errata. The publication length of Communications is limited to 400 column lines (about 3.5 published pages) and the length of Notes, Comments, and Errata is limited to 200 column lines. Communications exceeding four (4) journal pages in length will not be published, but will be returned to the authors at galley proof stage for shortening. Additional information about Communications and Letters to the Editor may be requested from the Editor's Office. The Manuscript, including the abstract, references, and captions, should be neatly typed in English, double-spaced, on one side only of 21.6 x 28 cm (8-1/2 x 11 in. or A4) white paper with ample margins. It should be carefully proofread by the author. The manuscript must be in good scientific American English; this is the authors' responsibility. Number all pages in single sequence beginning with the title and abstract page. The title page should contain the title of the article, the names of the authors, a suitable byline, and a short abstract only. Pages of the manuscript should be arranged in the following order: abstract, text, acknowledgments, appendices, references, tables, and figure captions. Papers should not be lengthened by unnecessary descriptions and repetitions, but neither should authors use a telegraphic style detrimental to the clarity and understanding of the paper. The Title should be concise but informative enough to facilitate information retrieval. The Abstract should be self-contained (contain no footnotes). It should be adequate as an index (giving all subjects, major and minor, about which new information is given), and as a summary (giving the conclusions and all results of general interest in the article). It should be about 5% of the length of the article, but less than 500 words for full-length articles and correspondingly shorter for Letters to the Editor. It must appear on its own page(s) separate from the text. The abstract should be written as one paragraph and should not contain displayed mathematical equations or tabular material. Authors' names should preferably be written in a standard form for all publications to facilitate indexing and avoid ambiguities. Equations should be neatly typed, punctuated and aligned to bring out their structure, and numbered on the right. Mathematical operation signs indicating continuity of the expression should be placed at the left of the second and succeeding lines. Use ? rather than a centered dot, except for scalar products of vectors. The solidus (/) should be used instead of built-up fractions in running text, and in display wherever clarity would not be jeopardized. Use "exp" for complicated exponents. Notation must be legible, clear, compact, and consistent with standard usage. All unusual symbols whose identity may not be obvious must be identified the first time they appear, and at all subsequent times when confusion might arise. Superscripts are normally set directly over subscripts; authors should note where readability or the meaning requires a special order. References and footnotes are treated alike. They must be numbered consecutively in order of first appearance in the text and should be given in a separate double-spaced list at the end of the text material. Reference should be made to the full list of authors rather than to first author followed by an abbreviation such as et al. References within tables should be designated by lowercase Roman letter superscripts and given at the end of the table. For the proper form, see the AIP Style Manual and recent issues of this journal. The number of a grant or contract is meaningless to our readers and should be omitted unless its inclusion is required by the agency that supports the research. Preprints of cited unpublished work by the authors should be sent with the manuscript. Separate Tables (numbered with Roman numerals in the order of their appearance in the text) should be used for all but the simplest tabular material; they should have captions that make the tables intelligible without reference to the text. The structure should be clear, with simple column headings giving all units. Unaltered computer output and notation are generally unacceptable. Computations: For manuscripts in which computation is a major component, sufficient information must be given defining the model and approximations so that a capable scientist could validate the results by means of an independent computation. The information may be given in the paper, in supplementary material (e.g., EPAPS), or by reference to appropriate papers in the open literature. Electronic Physics Auxiliary Publication Service (EPAPS) is a low-cost electronic depository for material that is supplemental to a journal article. Appropriate items for deposit include multimedia (e.g., movie files, audio files, 3D rendering files), color figures, data tables, and text (e.g., appendices) that are too lengthy or of too limited interest for inclusion in the printed journal. Retrieval instructions are footnoted in the related published paper. Prominent links in the online journal article allow users to navigate directly to the associated EPAPS deposit. EPAPS deposits may also be retrieved by users free of charge via command-line FTP or via the EPAPS homepage. Authors are encouraged to deposit multimedia files with EPAPS, and should consider depositing in EPAPS color versions of illustrations that will appear in black & white in the journal. All deposits to EPAPS must be approved by the Journal Editor as part of a manuscript's normal review cycle and require a nominal deposit fee. Obtain deposit forms from the Journal Editor. For additional information about depositing or retrieving EPAPS files, see the EPAPS homepage. Illustrations: Upon acceptance of your manuscript, authors are strongly encouraged to send all illustrations to AIP Production as electronic files. With your notification of acceptance, you will receive your AIP identification number (e.g., 001301JCP) and instructions for transmitting electronic files to AIP Production. It is important that you send files to AIP as soon as you know the nine-character AIP code number (e.g., 001301JCP) assigned to your accepted manuscript; if your electronic files are received at AIP after hardcopy illustrations have been processed for your paper, the electronic files will not be used. Please adhere to the following guidelines when preparing your illustrations for submission: General Guidelines for Preparing Illustrations Number figures in the order in which they appear in text. Label illustrations with their number, the name of the first author, and the journal well outside the image area. Place only one figure per page. Place all parts of the same figure on one page, spaced 1/4 inch apart, leaving a 2-inch bottom margin and ensuring that each figure is straight on the page. Label all figure parts with (a), (b), etc. Avoid any large disparity in size of lettering and labels used within one illustration. Prepare illustrations in the final published size, not oversized. The maximum published width for a one-column illustration is 3-3/8 inch (8.5 cm). Each illustration should be prepared for 100% reproduction in order to avoid problems arising from large reductions in size during scanning. This is especially important for screened or shaded illustrations; reduction of screened or shaded originals during the digitizing process introduces an undesirable Moiré pattern. In cases where reduction is required, avoid small open symbols that tend to fill in and avoid small lettering; ensure that, in the final published illustration, there is a minimum of 8-point type size (2.8 mm high; 1/8 inch high) for lettering and 0.5-point width for lines.
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Ensure that lettering and lines are dark enough, and thick enough, to reproduce clearly, especially if reduction is necessary. Remember that fine lines tend to disappear upon reduction. Additional Guidelines for Preparation of Electronic Graphics Files: Do not send electronic graphics files to AIP Production until your paper has been accepted for publication and you know the corresponding nine-character AIP identification number for your paper (e.g., 001301JCP). Instructions for preparation and transmission of electronic graphics files to AIP Production may be found here. Back to Top Statement of Ethics and Responsibilities of Authors Submitting to AIP Journals This journal is published as part of the charter of its publisher, the American Institute of Physics (AIP), to advance and diffuse knowledge of the science of physics and its applications to human welfare. To that end, it is essential that all who participate in producing the journal conduct themselves as authors, reviewers, editors, and publishers in accord with the highest level of professional ethics and standards. A detailed statement of what this journal expects is available here. By submitting a manuscript to this journal, each author implicitly confirms that it meets the highest ethical standards. Back to Top How to Transmit Your Accepted Manuscript Electronically Compuscripts: AIP accepts the following author-prepared electronic text files for use in production: REVTeX, LaTeX, or Microsoft Word. If you are interested in transmitting an electronic file, please indicate so in the cover letter that accompanies your original submission. Also include an e-mail address. Do not send an electronic text file to AIP Production until your manuscript has been accepted. Details and instructions may be found here. AIP uses translation software to convert REVTeX, LaTeX, and MS Word files into Xyvision composition files for production. Each file will be evaluated for appropriateness; authors will receive notice with their galley proofs as to whether or not their file was used, along with a feedback form detailing any problems encountered in processing the file. The REVTeX Toolbox and the Word Author Toolkit, as well as general information regarding AIP's compuscript program, are accessible here. Back to Top Manuscript Preparation Checklist Use this checklist to avoid the most common mechanical errors in submitted manuscripts. 1. The manuscript must be one-sided only and must be double-spaced throughout. 2. Number all pages in sequence, starting with the title page. 3. Type title and abstract on a separate first page. 4. Type (double-spaced) list of references (including footnotes), list of figure captions, and tables on pages separate from each other and from the main text. 5. Type references in the style used by this journal. 6. If submitting hardcopies, submit (a) two clear copies of the manuscript with clear copies of figures and (b) the original high-quality figures. 7. The original figures must be identified by figure number and author's name and must be in the final published size, not oversized. 8. Mail a signed AIP Transfer of Copyright Agreement Form to the JCP Editorial Office. A blank copyright transfer form is available here. Back to Top
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