Guide for Authors
Studies in History and Philosophy of Science is devoted to the integrated study of
the history, philosophy and sociology of the sciences. The editors encourage contributions both in the long-established areas of the
history of the sciences and the philosophy of the sciences and in the topical areas of historiography of the sciences, the sciences in
relation to gender, culture and society and the sciences in relation to arts. The journal is international in scope and content and publishes
papers from a wide range of countries and cultural traditions.
Submission details
Authors
are requested to submit their articles electronically by using the journal's online submission and tracking tool at
http://ees.elsevier.com/shps.
This site will guide authors stepwise through the submission process. Authors should upload the source files of their articles in the
preferred format of Microsoft (MS) Word, RTF or WordPerfect for text and TIFF or EPS for figures. The system automatically converts source
files to a single Adobe Acrobat PDF version of the article, which is used in the peer-review process. Please note that even though manuscript
source files are converted to PDF at submission for the review process, these source files are needed for further processing after acceptance.
Authors, reviewers, and editors send and receive all correspondence by e-mail. Should you be unable to submit using the online system;
please email the editorial office at:
baron.17@nd.edu. The Editors and Publisher regret that they are not able to consider
submissions that do not follow these procedures.
Contributions should not exceed 10,000 words except by prior agreement with the Editors.
Please follow the style for headings, keywords and other matters as seen in a recent (post-2006) issue of the journal. A free sample
copy is available to download from:
www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/00393681.
Ethics in publishing
For information on Ethics in publishing and Ethical guidelines
for journal publication see
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http://www.elsevier.com/ethicalguidelines.
Conflict of interest
All authors are requested to disclose any actual or potential conflict of interest including
any financial, personal or other relationships with other people or organizations within three years of beginning the submitted work
that could inappropriately influence, or be perceived to influence, their work. See also
http://www.elsevier.com/conflictsofinterest.
Submission declaration
Submission of an article implies that the work described has not been published previously
(except in the form of an abstract or as part of a published lecture or academic thesis), that it is not under consideration for publication
elsewhere, that its publication is approved by all authors and tacitly or explicitly by the responsible authorities where the work was
carried out, and that, if accepted, it will not be published elsewhere including electronically in the same form, in English or in any
other language, without the written consent of the copyright-holder.
Changes to authorship
This
policy concerns the addition, deletion, or rearrangement of author names in the authorship of accepted manuscripts:
Before the
accepted manuscript is published in an online issue: Requests to add or remove an author, or to rearrange the author names, must
be sent to the Journal Manager from the corresponding author of the accepted manuscript and must include: (a) the reason the name should
be added or removed, or the author names rearranged and (b) written confirmation (e-mail, fax, letter) from all authors that they agree
with the addition, removal or rearrangement. In the case of addition or removal of authors, this includes confirmation from the author
being added or removed. Requests that are not sent by the corresponding author will be forwarded by the Journal Manager to the corresponding
author, who must follow the procedure as described above. Note that: (1) Journal Managers will inform the Journal Editors of any such
requests and (2) publication of the accepted manuscript in an online issue is suspended until authorship has been agreed.
After
the accepted manuscript is published in an online issue: Any requests to add, delete, or rearrange author names in an article published
in an online issue will follow the same policies as noted above and result in a corrigendum.
Copyright
Upon
acceptance of an article, authors will be asked to complete a 'Journal Publishing Agreement' (for more information on this and copyright
see
http://www.elsevier.com/copyright). Acceptance of the agreement will ensure the widest possible dissemination of information.
An e-mail will be sent to the corresponding author confirming receipt of the manuscript together with a 'Journal Publishing Agreement'
form or a link to the online version of this agreement.
Subscribers may reproduce tables of contents or prepare lists of articles
including abstracts for internal circulation within their institutions. Permission of the Publisher is required for resale or distribution
outside the institution and for all other derivative works, including compilations and translations (please consult
http://www.elsevier.com/permissions).
If excerpts from other copyrighted works are included, the author(s) must obtain written permission from the copyright owners and credit
the source(s) in the article. Elsevier has preprinted forms for use by authors in these cases: please consult
http://www.elsevier.com/permissions.
Retained author rights
As an author you (or your employer or institution) retain certain rights; for details
you are referred to:
http://www.elsevier.com/authorsrights.
Role of the funding source
You
are requested to identify who provided financial support for the conduct of the research and/or preparation of the article and to briefly
describe the role of the sponsor(s), if any, in study design; in the collection, analysis and interpretation of data; in the writing
of the report; and in the decision to submit the article for publication. If the funding source(s) had no such involvement then this
should be stated. Please see
http://www.elsevier.com/funding.
Funding body agreements and
policies
Elsevier has established agreements and developed policies to allow authors whose articles appear in journals
published by Elsevier, to comply with potential manuscript archiving requirements as specified as conditions of their grant awards. To
learn more about existing agreements and policies please visit
http://www.elsevier.com/fundingbodies.
Open access
This journal offers you the option of making your article freely available to all via the ScienceDirect
platform. To prevent any conflict of interest, you can only make this choice after receiving notification that your article has been
accepted for publication. The fee of $3,000 excludes taxes and other potential author fees such as color charges. In some cases, institutions
and funding bodies have entered into agreement with Elsevier to meet these fees on behalf of their authors. Details of these agreements
are available at
http://www.elsevier.com/fundingbodies. Authors of accepted articles, who wish to take advantage of this
option, should complete and submit the order form (available at
http://www.elsevier.com/locate/openaccessform.pdf). Whatever
access option you choose, you retain many rights as an author, including the right to post a revised personal version of your article
on your own website. More information can be found here:
http://www.elsevier.com/authorsrights.
Language
and language services
Please write your text in good English (American or British usage is accepted, but not a mixture
of these). Authors who require information about language editing and copyediting services pre- and post-submission please visit
http://webshop.elsevier.com/languageservices or our customer support
site at
http://support.elsevier.com
for more information.
Additional information
Studies uses the peer review system;
articles should be submitted prepared for blind review. Details of the Peer Review policy are available from the journal's homepage:
www.elsevier.com/locate/shpsa.
Authors whose native
language is not English are strongly advised to have their manuscripts checked by an English speaker prior to submission.
Use of wordprocessing software
We accept most word-processing formats, but Word and RTF are strongly preferred.
Always keep a backup copy of the electronic file for reference and safety. The text should be in single-column format. Please keep the
layout of the text as simple as possible. In particular, do not use the word-processor's options to justify text or to hyphenate words.
However, do use bold face, italics, subscripts, superscripts, etc. Do not embed 'graphically designed' equations or tables, but prepare
these using the word-processor's facility. When preparing tables, if you are using a table grid, use only one grid for each individual
table and not a grid for each row; if no grid is used, use tabs, not spaces, to align columns. Do not import the figures into the text
file but, instead, indicate their approximate locations directly in the electronic text and on the manuscript. (See also the section
on preparation of electronic illustrations.)
LaTeX
If the LaTeX file is suitable, proofs
will be produced without rekeying the text. The article should preferably be written using Elsevier's document class 'elsarticle', or
alternatively any of the other recognized classes and formats supported in Elsevier's electronic submissions system, for further information
see
http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/authorsview.authors/latex-ees-supported.
The Elsevier 'elsarticle' LaTeX style
file package (including detailed instructions for LaTeX preparation) can be obtained from the Quickguide:
http://www.elsevier.com/latex.
It consists of the file: elsarticle.cls, complete user documentation for the class file, bibliographic style files in various styles,
and template files for a quick start.
Article structure
Subdivision - numbered
sections
Divide your article into clearly defined and numbered sections. Subsections should be numbered 1.1 (then 1.1.1,
1.1.2, ...), 1.2, etc. (the abstract is not included in section numbering). Use this numbering also for internal cross-referencing: do
not just refer to 'the text'. Any subsection may be given a brief heading. Each heading should appear on its own separate line.
Items for submission
Final submissions should be organized in the following sequence:
Title of the paper,
author, author's affiliation and address
Abstract (up to 200 words)
Keywords (up to 6)
Main body of text
Acknowledgements
and any additional information concerning research grants, etc.
References
Endnotes
Tables and figures
Figure captions
Permissions
for any copyrighted material from other sources (including the Web)
Appendices
If there
is more than one appendix, they should be identified as A, B, etc. Formulae and equations in appendices should be given separate numbering:
Eq. (A.1), Eq. (A.2), etc.; in a subsequent appendix, Eq. (B.1) and so on. Similarly for tables and figures: Table A.1; Fig. A.1, etc.
Essential title page information
•
Title.
Concise and informative. Titles are often used
in information-retrieval systems. Avoid abbreviations and formulae where possible.
•
Author names and affiliations.
Where the family name may be ambiguous (e.g., a double name), please indicate this clearly. Present the authors' affiliation addresses
(where the actual work was done) below the names. Indicate all affiliations with a lower-case superscript letter immediately after the
author's name and in front of the appropriate address. Provide the full postal address of each affiliation, including the country name
and, if available, the e-mail address of each author.
•
Corresponding author.
Clearly indicate who will handle
correspondence at all stages of refereeing and publication, also post-publication.
Ensure that telephone and fax numbers (with country
and area code) are provided in addition to the e-mail address and the complete postal address. Contact details must be kept up to date
by the corresponding author.
•
Present/permanent address.
If an author has moved since the work described
in the article was done, or was visiting at the time, a 'Present address' (or 'Permanent address') may be indicated as a footnote to
that author's name. The address at which the author actually did the work must be retained as the main, affiliation address. Superscript
Arabic numerals are used for such footnotes.
Abstract
A concise and factual abstract is
required (maximum length 200 words). The abstract should state briefly the purpose of the research, the principal results and major conclusions.
An abstract is often presented separately from the article, so it must be able to stand alone. For this reason, References should be
avoided, but if essential, then cite the author(s) and year(s). Also, non-standard or uncommon abbreviations should be avoided, but if
essential they must be defined at their first mention in the abstract itself.
Highlights
Highlights
are mandatory for this journal. They consist of a short collection of bullet points that convey the core findings of the article and
should be submitted in a separate file in the online submission system. Please use 'Highlights' in the file name and include 3 to 5 bullet
points (maximum 85 characters, including spaces, per bullet point). See
http://www.elsevier.com/highlights for examples.
Keywords
Immediately after the abstract, provide a maximum of 6 keywords, avoiding general and plural terms
and multiple concepts (avoid, for example, "and", "of"). Be sparing with abbreviations: only abbreviations firmly established in the
field may be eligible. These keywords will be used for indexing purposes.
Abbreviations
Define
abbreviations that are not standard in this field in a footnote to be placed on the first page of the article. Such abbreviations that
are unavoidable in the abstract must be defined at their first mention there, as well as in the footnote. Ensure consistency of abbreviations
throughout the article.
Acknowledgements
Collate acknowledgements in a separate section
at the end of the article before the references and do not, therefore, include them on the title page, as a footnote to the title or
otherwise. List here those individuals who provided help during the research (e.g., providing language help, writing assistance or proof
reading the article, etc.).
Footnotes
Footnotes should be used sparingly. Number them consecutively
throughout the article, using superscript Arabic numbers. Many wordprocessors build footnotes into the text, and this feature may be
used. Should this not be the case, indicate the position of footnotes in the text and present the footnotes themselves separately at
the end of the article. Do not include footnotes in the Reference list.
Table footnotes
Indicate each footnote in a
table with a superscript lowercase letter.
Artwork
Electronic artwork
General
points
• Make sure you use uniform lettering and sizing of your original artwork.
• Save text in illustrations
as 'graphics' or enclose the font.
• Only use the following fonts in your illustrations: Arial, Courier, Times, Symbol.
•
Number the illustrations according to their sequence in the text.
• Use a logical naming convention for your artwork files.
• Provide captions to illustrations separately.
• Produce images near to the desired size of the printed version.
•
Submit each figure as a separate file.
A detailed guide on electronic artwork is available on our website:
http://www.elsevier.com/artworkinstructions
You are urged to visit this site; some excerpts from the detailed information are given here.
Formats
Regardless
of the application used, when your electronic artwork is finalised, please 'save as' or convert the images to one of the following formats
(note the resolution requirements for line drawings, halftones, and line/halftone combinations given below):
EPS: Vector drawings.
Embed the font or save the text as 'graphics'.
TIFF: Color or grayscale photographs (halftones): always use a minimum of 300 dpi.
TIFF: Bitmapped line drawings: use a minimum of 1000 dpi.
TIFF: Combinations bitmapped line/half-tone (color or grayscale): a
minimum of 500 dpi is required.
If your electronic artwork is created in a Microsoft Office application (Word, PowerPoint, Excel)
then please supply 'as is'.
Please do not:
• Supply files that are optimised for screen use (e.g., GIF, BMP, PICT,
WPG); the resolution is too low;
• Supply files that are too low in resolution;
• Submit graphics that are disproportionately
large for the content.
Color artwork
Please make sure that artwork files are in an acceptable
format (TIFF, EPS or MS Office files) and with the correct resolution. If, together with your accepted article, you submit usable color
figures then Elsevier will ensure, at no additional charge, that these figures will appear in color on the Web (e.g., ScienceDirect and
other sites) regardless of whether or not these illustrations are reproduced in color in the printed version.
For color reproduction
in print, you will receive information regarding the costs from Elsevier after receipt of your accepted article. Please indicate
your preference for color: in print or on the Web only. For further information on the preparation of electronic artwork, please see
http://www.elsevier.com/artworkinstructions.
Please note: Because of technical complications which can arise by converting
color figures to 'gray scale' (for the printed version should you not opt for color in print) please submit in addition usable black
and white versions of all the color illustrations.
Figure captions
Ensure that each illustration
has a caption. Supply captions separately, not attached to the figure. A caption should comprise a brief title (
not on the figure
itself) and a description of the illustration. Keep text in the illustrations themselves to a minimum but explain all symbols and abbreviations
used.
Tables
Number tables consecutively in accordance with their appearance in the text.
Place footnotes to tables below the table body and indicate them with superscript lowercase letters. Avoid vertical rules. Be sparing
in the use of tables and ensure that the data presented in tables do not duplicate results described elsewhere in the article.
References
1. All publications cited in the text should be presented in a list of references following the
text of the manuscript. The manuscript should be carefully checked to ensure that the spelling of authors' names and dates are exactly
the same in the text as in the reference list.
When citing a paper from this journal, please use the full journal title Studies
in History and Philosophy of Science.
2. The 'name, date' system should be used throughout. References can be put either
in the text, or in footnotes. If you put references in the text, they should be like this:
Since Smith (1988) has shown that. . .
'
the manuscripts are to be found in the British Library (Smith, 1988, pp. 12-16).
References in footnotes should be like this:
Cunningham (1992), pp.209-213.
3. If reference is made in the text or in a footnote to a publication written by more than two authors,
the name of the first author should be used followed by 'et al.'. This indication, however, should never be used in the list of references,
where all authors' names should be given.
4. References cited together in the text should be arranged chronologically. The list of
references should be arranged alphabetically on authors' names, and chronologically per author. If an author's name in the list is also
mentioned with co-authors, the following order should be used: publications of the single author, arranged according to publication dates,
publications of the same author with one co-author, publications of the author with more than one co-author. Publications by the same
author(s) in the same year should be listed as 1974a, 1974b, etc.
5. The reference list at the end should be in the following style
(based on that of the American Psychological Association):
Grafton, A. (2000). Geniture collections: Origins and uses of a genre.
In M. Frasca-Spada, & N. Jardine (Eds.),
Books and the sciences in history (pp. 49-68). Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press.
Kant, I. (1952).
Critique of judgement (J. C. Meredith, Trans.). Oxford: The Clarendon Press. (First published 1790)
Lipton, P. (1998). The epistemology of testimony.
Studies in History and Philosophy of Science, 29, 1-32. Pumfrey, S., Rossi,
P. L., & Slawinski, M. (Eds.). (1991).
Science, culture, and popular belief in Renaissance Europe. Manchester & New
York: Manchester University Press.
Strunk, W., Jr., & White, E. B. (1979).
The elements of style (3rd ed.). New York:
Macmillan.
6. In the case of publications in any language other than English, the original title is to be retained. However, the titles
of publications in non-Roman alphabets should be transliterated, and a notation such as '(in Russian)' or '(in Greek, with English abstract)'
should be added.
7. If you have used a reprint or translation the citation should refer to this work, NOT the original publication.
E.g.:
Bachelard, G. (1973).
Le pluralisme cohérent de la chimie moderne (2nd ed.). Paris: Vrin. (First published 1932) Meyerson,
E. (1985).
The relativistic deduction. Dordrecht & Boston: Reidel. (Translation of
La deduction relativiste. Paris:
Payot, 1925)
For citations in text, if the date of the original publication is important for your argument
it can be given in square brackets after the date of the reprint, e.g. Bachelard (1973 [1932]).
Electronic References
Authors
using and citing Internet sources should observe the following guidelines:
1. Direct readers as closely as possible to the information
being cited; whenever possible, reference specific documents rather than home or menu pages.
2. Provide addresses that work.
3.
Give the date the source was accessed.
Test the URLs in your references regularly when you first draft a paper, when you submit it
for peer review, when you're preparing the final version for publication, and when you're reviewing the proofs. If the document you are
citing has moved, update the URL so that it points to the correct location. If the document is no longer available, you may want to substitute
another source (e.g., if you originally cited a draft and a formally published version now exists) or drop it from the paper altogether.
Many websites now give their articles digital object identifiers ('doi's, e.g. doi:10.1093/shm/hkl004) as well as URLs. If a doi
is available, please use this in preference to the URL.
Reference examples
Article in
an Internet-only source, or the Internet version of a print source:
Milton, R. (2004). Locke, John (1632-1704). In
Oxford
dictionary of national biography. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/16885.
(Accessed 3 March 2007)
Malpas, J. (2003). Donald Davidson. In E. N. Zalta (Ed.),
The Stanford encyclopedia of philosophy
(Winter 2003 ed.).
http://plato.stanford.edu/archives/win2003/entries/davidson/. (Accessed 3 March 2007)
Article
in an internet-only journal:
Rossiter, W. T. (2005). The marginalization of John Lydgate.
Marginalia, 1.
http://www.marginalia.co.uk/journal/05margins/rossiter.php.
(Accessed 3 March 2007)
Article in a printed journal, for which an electronic version is also available (note: it is not compulsory
to supply the URL/doi, but this is the format to follow if you wish to give it):
Denham, M. (2006). The surveys of the Birmingham
chronic sick hospitals, 1948-1960s.
Social History of Medicine, 19, 279-293. (Available at
http://shm.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/reprint/19/2/279)
Denham, M. (2006). The surveys of the Birmingham chronic sick hospitals, 1948-1960s.
Social History of Medicine, 19, 279-293.
(Available at doi:10.1093/shm/hkl004)
Stand-alone document, no author identified, no date:
GVU's 8th WWW user survey.
(n.d.).
http://www.cc.gatech.edu/gvu/usersurveys/survey1997-10/. (Accessed 8 August 2000)
Document available on
university program or department Web site:
Chou, L., McClintock, R., Moretti, F., & Nix, D. H. (1993).
Technology and
education: New wine in new bottles: Choosing pasts and imagining educational futures. Institute for Learning Technologies, Columbia
University.
http://www.ilt.columbia.edu/publications/papers/newwine1.html. (Accessed 24 August 2000)
If a document
is contained within a large and complex Web site (such as that for a university or a government agency), identify the host organization
and the relevant program or department before giving the URL for the document itself.
Citations in text of electronic material
For electronic sources that do not provide page numbers, use the paragraph number, if available, preceded by the paragraph symbol
or the abbreviation para. If neither paragraph nor page numbers are visible, cite the heading and the number of the paragraph following
it to direct the reader to the location of the material.
(Myers, 2000, 5) (Beutler, 2000, Conclusion section, para. 1)
Reference management software
This journal has standard templates available in key reference management packages
EndNote (
http://www.endnote.com/support/enstyles.asp) and Reference Manager (
http://refman.com/support/rmstyles.asp).
Using plug-ins to wordprocessing packages, authors only need to select the appropriate journal template when preparing their article
and the list of references and citations to these will be formatted according to the journal style which is described below.
Video data
Elsevier accepts video material and animation sequences to support and enhance your scientific
research. Authors who have video or animation files that they wish to submit with their article are strongly encouraged to include these
within the body of the article. This can be done in the same way as a figure or table by referring to the video or animation content
and noting in the body text where it should be placed. All submitted files should be properly labeled so that they directly relate to
the video file's content. In order to ensure that your video or animation material is directly usable, please provide the files in one
of our recommended file formats with a preferred maximum size of 50 MB. Video and animation files supplied will be published online in
the electronic version of your article in Elsevier Web products, including ScienceDirect:
http://www.sciencedirect.com.
Please supply 'stills' with your files: you can choose any frame from the video or animation or make a separate image. These will be
used instead of standard icons and will personalize the link to your video data. For more detailed instructions please visit our video
instruction pages at
http://www.elsevier.com/artworkinstructions. Note: since video and animation cannot be embedded in
the print version of the journal, please provide text for both the electronic and the print version for the portions of the article that
refer to this content. Files can be stored on diskette, ZIP-disk or CD (either MS-DOS or Macintosh).
Supplementary
data
Elsevier accepts electronic supplementary material to support and enhance your scientific research. Supplementary
files offer the author additional possibilities to publish supporting applications, high-resolution images, background datasets, sound
clips and more. Supplementary files supplied will be published online alongside the electronic version of your article in Elsevier Web
products, including ScienceDirect:
http://www.sciencedirect.com. In order to ensure that your submitted material is directly
usable, please provide the data in one of our recommended file formats. Authors should submit the material in electronic format together
with the article and supply a concise and descriptive caption for each file. For more detailed instructions please visit our artwork
instruction pages at
http://www.elsevier.com/artworkinstructions. Files can be stored on diskette, ZIP-disk or CD (either
MS-DOS or Macintosh).
Submission checklist
The following list will be useful during the
final checking of an article prior to sending it to the journal for review. Please consult this Guide for Authors for further details
of any item.
Ensure that the following items are present:
One author has been designated as the corresponding author with
contact details:
• E-mail address
• Full postal address
• Telephone and fax numbers
All necessary files
have been uploaded, and contain:
• Keywords
• All figure captions
• All tables (including title, description,
footnotes)
Further considerations
• Manuscript has been 'spell-checked' and 'grammar-checked'
• References are
in the correct format for this journal
• All references mentioned in the Reference list are cited in the text, and vice versa
• Permission has been obtained for use of copyrighted material from other sources (including the Web)
• Color figures
are clearly marked as being intended for color reproduction on the Web (free of charge) and in print, or to be reproduced in color on
the Web (free of charge) and in black-and-white in print
• If only color on the Web is required, black-and-white versions of
the figures are also supplied for printing purposes
For any further information please visit our customer support site at
http://support.elsevier.com.
Use of the Digital Object Identifier
The Digital Object Identifier (DOI) may be used to cite and link to electronic
documents. The DOI consists of a unique alpha-numeric character string which is assigned to a document by the publisher upon the initial
electronic publication. The assigned DOI never changes. Therefore, it is an ideal medium for citing a document, particularly 'Articles
in press' because they have not yet received their full bibliographic information. The correct format for citing a DOI is shown as follows
(example taken from a document in the journal
Physics Letters B):
doi:10.1016/j.physletb.2010.09.059
When you use the
DOI to create URL hyperlinks to documents on the web, the DOIs are guaranteed never to change.
Proofs
When
your copyedited manuscript is sent by the Editors to the Publishers it is considered to be in its final form.
One set of page proofs
in PDF format will be sent by e-mail to the corresponding author (if we do not have an e-mail address then paper proofs will be sent
by post). Elsevier now sends PDF proofs which can be annotated; for this you will need to download Adobe Reader version 7 (or higher)
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http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2.html. Instructions on how to annotate PDF files will
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http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/acrrsystemreqs.html#70win.
If you do not wish to use the PDF annotations function, you may list the corrections (including replies to the Query Form) and return
to Elsevier in an e-mail. Please list your corrections quoting line number. If, for any reason, this is not possible, then mark the corrections
and any other comments (including replies to the Query Form) on a printout of your proof and return by fax, or scan the pages and e-mail,
or by post. Please use this proof only for checking the typesetting, editing, completeness and correctness of the text, tables and figures.
Significant changes to the article as accepted for publication will only be considered at this stage with permission from the Editor.
We will do everything possible to get your article published quickly and accurately. Therefore, it is important to ensure that all of
your corrections are sent back to us in one communication: please check carefully before replying, as inclusion of any subsequent corrections
cannot be guaranteed. Proofreading is solely your responsibility. Note that Elsevier may proceed with the publication of your article
if no response is received.
Offprints
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