As of 1 January, 2008, authors will be able to submit their manuscript online via the Elsevier Editorial System, EES. Prior
to submission, authors are encouraged to read the instructions available by following this link and clicking on the 'help' icon in the
top right hand corner of the page. EES SubmissionOnline submission considerably
shortens the overall publication time.
Submission of papers: The entire submission and review process for Journal of Nucelar Materials
is now handled electronically, which shortens publication times. All papers should be submitted electronically at http://ees.elsevier.com/jnm.
Prior to submitting your paper, please follow the instructions on manuscript preparation given below. Please note that you must have
an e-mail address to use the online submission system.
Authors submit their article online by simply registering, logging-in, and
submitting.
Detailed instructions on the use of the online submission system are available at http://ees.elsevier.com/jnm.
Please read the "Hints" for information on how to register, and review the "Tutorial for Authors" for a run-through of the submission
process. If you need any further help, please do not hesitate to contact our Author Support Department: authorsupport@elsevier.com.
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 and you may submit
the PDF version originally however, the original source files are needed for further processing after acceptance. All correspondence,
including notification of the Editor's decision and requests for revision, takes place by e-mail and via the Author's homepage, removing
the need for a hard-copy paper trail.
Editors:
L.K. Mansur (Chairman) Materials Science and Technology Division Oak
Ridge National Laboratory P.O. Box 2008 Oak Ridge, TN 37831-6138 USA
S. Ishino (Nuclear Materials Office) 13-4
Iwado-Minami 3-chome Komae-shi Tokyo 201-0005 Japan
Clément Lemaignan CEA-Grenoble DEC-Dir 17 rue des
Martyrs 38045 Grenoble Cedex 9 France
L.O. Werme Swedish Nuclear Fuel and Waste Management Co. Box 5864, S-10248
Stockholm Sweden
Submission Language: English
English Language: Manuscripts should be proof-read and have
English language errors corrected before submission as we may have to return papers due to poor language usage. Elsevier has negotiated
with five different language editing companies to provide their services to our authors at favourable rates. You will find a listing
of these companies which provide pre-submission language editing on http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/authorsview.authors/languageediting/
.
Types of contributions: Original research papers, critical reviews. letters to the editor.
Corresponding
author: Clearly indicate who is willing to 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. Full postal addresses must be given for all co-authors. Please consult a recent journal paper
for style if possible.
Original material: Submission of an article implies that the work described has not been published
previously (except in the form of an abstract or academic thesis), that it is not under consideration for publication elsewhere, that
its publication is approved by all authors and that, if accepted, it will not be published elsewhere in the same form, in English or
in any other language, without the written consent of the Publisher.
Editor's requirements:
Rapid publication:
short manuscripts (not exceeding a total length of 2000 words) which have been entitled: 'Letter to the Editors' by the author(s) may
be published in a shorter time than regular articles. Abstracts may be included with Letters; however, their length should be limited
to 75 words.
Detailed instructions on manuscript preparation and artwork instructions can be found below. The editor reserves
the right to return manuscripts that do not conform to the instructions for manuscript preparation and artwork instruction, as well as
paper that do not fit the scope of the journal, prior to refereeing.
Structure: Follow this order when typing manuscripts: Title, Authors, Affiliations, Abstract, Main text, Acknowledgements,
Appendices, References, Figure Captions and then Tables. For submission in hardcopy, do not import figures into the text - see Figures.
Collate acknowledgements in a separate section at the end of the article and do not include them on the title page, as a footnote to
the title or otherwise. Back to the contents list
Text
Layout: Title: Manuscript title should be concise and, where possible, should occupy a single line
in the published article.
Headings and Subheadings should be typed in lower case except for the initial capital letter,
proper names and acronyms.
Use double spacing and wide (3 cm) margins. (Avoid full justification, i.e., do not use a constant right-hand
margin.) Ensure that each new paragraph is clearly indicated. Present tables and figure legends on separate pages at the end of the manuscript.
If possible, consult a recent issue of the journal to become familiar with layout and conventions. Number all pages consecutively, use
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Abstract: A self-contained abstract outlining in a single paragraph the aims, scope and conclusions of the paper must be
supplied. Abstracts for original research papers and critical reviews should be no more than 150 words. For letters to the editors,
abstracts should not exceed 75 words. Do not define or use acronyms in the abstract. Back to the
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Units: The use of metric units in the SI (Système
International) form is obligatory. Potential contributors are referred to complete and modern descriptions such as: (1) IEEE/ASTM
SI 10-2002, Standard for Use of the International System of Units (SI): The Modern Metric System, published by the Institute of Electrical
and Electronics Engineers, Inc., New York, NY, USA and by The American Society for Testing and Materials, West Conshohocken, PA, USA;
(2) Quantities, Units and Symbols in Physical Chemistry, edited by I. Mills et al., published by Blackwell Scientific Publications, Oxford,
UK, 1993 - published on behalf of the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry. Back to
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Maths: Displayed formulae should
be numbered and typed or clearly written by hand. Vectors will be printed in boldface italics (heavy, slanting type),
and should be indicated by a wavy underlining in the typescript. Otherwise no symbols should be underlined. Special attention should
be paid to the clear distinction of characters which can easily be misread such as i (lower case), I (cap.), l (el), 1 (one), 0 (prime);
o (lower case), O (cap.), 0 (zero); u, v(lower case), v(greek nu), V (cap.); s, S; x, X, ?; p, P, Greek rho; etc. If necessary, unusual
symbols should be explained in pencil in the margin.
References: All publications
cited in the text should be presented in a list of references following the text of the manuscript.
Text: Indicate references by
number(s) in square brackets in line with the text. The actual authors can be referred to, but the reference number(s) must always be
given. Example: "..... as demonstrated [3,6]. Barnaby and Jones [8] obtained a different result ...."
List: Number the references
(numbers in square brackets) in the list in the order in which they appear in the text. Examples: Reference to a journal publication:
[1] J. van der Geer, J.A.J. Hanraads, R.A. Lupton, J. Sci. Commun. 163 (2000) 51-59. Reference to a book: [2] W. Strunk
Jr., E.B. White, The Elements of Style, third ed., Macmillan, New York, 1979. Reference to a chapter in an edited book: [3] G.R.
Mettam, L.B. Adams, How to prepare an electronic version of your article, in: B.S. Jones, R.Z. Smith (Eds.), Introduction to the Electronic
Age, E-Publishing Inc., New York, 1999, pp. 281-304. Back to the contents list
Figures: Figures should be placed at the end
of the manuscript. Figures should be drawn in such a way that they can be reduced to a final width of 76mm (i.e. the column width); in
exceptional cases a reduction to a width of 160mm (two columns) will be allowed. All the lettering (numerical scales, scale and curve
legends, etc.) as well as the details (e.g. graph symbols) should be such that a height of 1.5-1.8mm results after reduction. Each figure
should have a number and a caption. The captions should be typed on a separate sheet. The desired location of figures should be indicated
in the margin of the text. Micrographs must have proper scale markers located within the print. Extraneous and unexplained microscope
stampings should not appear on micrographs.
FREE ONLINE COLOUR If, together with your accepted article, you submit
usable colour and black/white figures then Elsevier will ensure, at no additional charge, that these figures will appear in colour on
the web (e.g., ScienceDirect and other sites) regardless of whether or not these illustrations are reproduced in colour in the printed
version. Please note: Because of technical complications which can arise by converting colour figures to "grey scale" (for the black/white
printed version of e-colour) please submit in addition usable black and white versions of all the colour illustrations. Also make sure
that in your captions and text you do not refer to colour, as the images will be black and white in print, and references to colour will
not make any sense to the reader of the print journal. 'Usable' means the formats comply with our instructions. See the information
about Illustrations at http://www.elsevier.com/artworkinstructions. For colour illustrations in the print journal see colour
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Tables: Tables should be numbered consecutively and given suitable caption and each table is laid out on a new page.
No vertical rules should be used. Tables should not duplicate results presented elsewhere in the manuscript (for example, in graphs).
Footnotes to tables should be typed below the table and should be referred to by superscript lowercase letters. Back
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Authors will be notified of
the acceptance of their paper by the editor. The Publisher will also send a notification of receipt of the paper in production. Back
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All authors must sign the Transfer
of Copyright agreement before the article can be published. This transfer agreement enables Elsevier to protect the copyrighted material
for the authors, but does not relinquish the authors' proprietory rights. The copyright transfer covers the exclusive rights to reproduce
and distribute the article, including reprints, photographic reproductions, microfilm or any other reproductions of similar nature and
translations. Authors are responsible for obtaining copyright from the holder permission to reproduce any figures for which copyright
exists. Elsevier has preprinted forms for use by Authors in these cases, available online. For more information please go to our
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One set of page proofs in PDF format will be sent by e-mail to
the corresponding author, to be checked for typesetting/editing. The corrections should be returned within 48 hours. No changes in,
or additions to, the accepted (and subsequently edited) manuscript will be allowed at this stage. Proofreading is solely the author's
responsibility. Any queries should be answered in full. Please only correct factual errors, or errors introduced by typesetting. For
more information on proofreading please go to our proofreading page http:/www.elsevier.com/locate/guidepublication.
Please
note that once your paper has been proofed we publish the identical paper online as in print. Back
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No page charges:
Publications in this journal is free of charge.
Free Offprints: Twenty-five offprints will be supplied free of charge. Corresponding
authors will be given the choice to buy extra offprints before printing of the article. Authors who pay for colour illustrations will
receive an extra fifty offprints free of charge.
