An International Journal devoted to all aspects of Nuclear Fission Energy


Affiliated with the European Nuclear Society (ENS) and with the International Association for Structural Mechanics in Reactor Technology, e.v. (IASMiRT)

Submission of Manuscripts
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Types of Contribution
Peer review:
•Original papers (full length article, short communication, review article).
• Technical notes
No page length restriction, subject to referee comments

Editorial review:
•Summary Reports from Governments and Official National and International Organisations, e.g. OECD, IAEA, USNRC, etc
Two to four journal pages summary
•Summary Reports on New Regulatory Codes and Criteria and Guidelines (including revisions)
Two to four journal pages summary
•General Overview of Major Program or Case History
Up to ten journal pages, with chronological list of references
•Announcements of New International Co-operative Projects including Benchmark Tests on Nuclear Safety and Design
Up to two journal pages
•Opinion Forum papers
Up to two journal pages
•Letters to the Editor - commenting on papers published in the journal
•Book Reviews

Manuscript Preparation
Text and formulae
The text should be typewritten on one side of the paper only with double spacing, and a wide margin. The article should be logically divided into sections and subsections with Arabic numbering.
Mathematical formulae should be clearly written, with special consideration to distinctive legibility of sub- and superscripts. Equations (at least the principal ones) should be numbered consecutively using Arabic numerals in parentheses in the right hand margin. Nomenclature should conform to that most frequently used in the engineering field concerned; a list of nomenclature should be included.

References
References to published literature should be quoted in the text using parenthesis containing the name of the first author (without initials) followed by the year of publication, for example (Stoneking, 1970) and (Dendy, Jr., 1977). These references can also be expressed in the following way: Stoneking and Boresi (1970) and Dendy, Jr.et al. (1977), in case the authors are explicitly mentioned in the text. The references should be listed alphabetically according to the names of the first authors on a separate sheet (and not given as footnotes) in the same way as in the following examples.

For a paper in a journal: Stoneking, J.E. and Boresi, A.P., 1970. A theory for free vibration of orthotropic shells of revolution. Nucl. Eng. Des. 14, 271-285.

For a book:Langhaar, H.L. and Chu, S.C., 1970. Development in Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, Pergamon, New York, pp. 553-564.

For an unpublished paper: Bradbury, J.N. and Morgan, P.L.T., 1975. Containment for LMFBR (CFR), Proc. Int. Conf. on Experience in the Design, Construction and Operation of Prestressed Concrete Pressure Vessels and Containments for Nuclear Reactors, York, to appear.

For a paper in a contributed volume: Dendy, J.E. Jr., Swartz, B. and Wendroff, B., 1977. Computing traveling wave solutions of a nonlinear heat equation, in J.J.H. Miller (ed.), Topics in Numerical Analysis, Vol. III, Academic Press, London, pp. 447-463.

For a laboratory report: Beck, R.L., November 1960. Research and development of metal hydrides. USAEC Report, Denver Research Institute, LAR-10.

Tables
Tables should be numbered consecutively and have a complete descriptive title. Tables should not repeat data which are available elsewhere in the paper, e.g. in a diagram.

Figures
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Photographs
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Colour Figures and Photographs
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Offprints of Published Articles
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