Notes for Electronic Text Preparation for PHYSICA E

Availability

Word-processor types

• General electronic manuscripts
  Articles can be prepared with any of the well-known word processors. The word-processed text should be in single column format, with a simple layout (Word, WordPerfect, and LaTeX).
• LaTeX mansucripts
  Articles containing many and/or complicated equations can be processed more easily by the publisher from an electronic file, if encoded in LaTeX (using standard document style "article" or "REVTeX", or Elsevier document style "elsart"). The coding should be kept as simple as possible with a limited use of user-defined macros. An Elsevier LaTeX package, together with more detailed instructions on how to prepare the LaTeX file is available from the publisher.

Note: In all cases the publisher reserves the right to decide whether to process a manuscript from author's files or not.

Text preparation

Authors should consult a recent issue of the journal for the style of the article opening, headings, abbreviations and for the style of the reference list preferred in the journal. Electronic manuscripts should be prepared in a way very similar to conventional manuscripts (see also Instructions for Authors in the journal). Do not reserve space for the figures and tables throughout the text.

Submission

The disk containing the electronic version of the manuscript should be submitted (or resubmitted, in the case of a revised manuscript), together with three hard copies of the text and figures and a set of original figures. It is the responsibility of the author to ensure that the version on disk exactly matches the paper copies. No deviations from the version accepted by the Editor of the Proceedings are permissible without the prior and explicit approval by the Editor. Upon acceptance of the article for publication, both the disk and a hard copy will be sent by the Proceedings Editor to the publisher.

The preferred storage medium is a 3.5 inch disk in MS-DOS or Macintosh format or a CD-ROM. Both double density (DD) and high density (HD) diskettes are acceptable.

The name and version of the word-processing program and the type of computer on which the text was prepared should be clearly indicated on the diskette label and on the checklist overleaf.

Just as for a conventional manuscript, the publisher requires a set of good quality drawings and photographs to produce the line figures and half-tone plates in print. This material should be submitted together with the diskette and hard copies of the manuscript.

Important

The accepted article will be regarded as final and the files will be processed as such. Proofs are for checking that no undetected errors have arisen in the typesetting or file conversion process. At the proof stage only printer's errors may be corrected. No changes in, or additions to, the edited manuscript will be accepted.