PHYSICA A: STATISTICAL MECHANICS AND ITS APPLICATIONS
Recognized by the European Physical Society
Guide for Authors
Submission of papers
Only papers not previously published will be accepted and authors must agree not to publish elsewhere
a paper submitted to and accepted by the journal. Authors must not submit their paper to more than one editor. Papers have a maximum
length of 30 pages. Mini reviews' are also allowed and have a maximum length of 10 pages.
Authors are requested to submit their manuscripts
via the PHYSA online submission and peer-review system at http://ees.elsevier.com/physa/. Please follow the instructions
given on this site. If you have any questions or experience problems, please contact authorsupport@elsevier.com Note:
Separate stand-alone files should be submitted for each part of the paper, i.e. a separate file for the text, tables, figures etc.
The following file formats are preferred for submission:
For figures and illustrations: EPS, TIF or JPG (for more details see http://www.elsevier.com/artworkinstructions
For text matter: DOC, RTF, TeX/LaTeX or TXT.
It is essential that authors provide fax and telephone numbers and an e-mail address
when submitting a manuscript.
Upon receipt of a submission the author will receive an acknowledgement of receipt. In case the submission
cannot be handled by the (Advisory) Editor to whom the manuscript has been submitted, it will be forwarded to one of the Editors. In
this case the author will be informed, on the "acknowledgement of receipt" form, who will handle the paper. After refereeing, the manuscript
will be finally judged by one of the Editors who, unlike to the Advisory Editors, has the right to accept or reject a paper.
Submission
of a paper will be taken to imply that it represents original work not previously published, that it is not being considered elsewhere
for publication, and that if accepted for publication it will not be published elsewhere in the same form, in any language without the
consent of the Publisher.
Structure.
Please adhere to the following order of presentation: Article title, Author(s), Affiliation(s), Abstract, PACS codes and keywords, Main
text, Acknowledgements, Appendices, References, Figure captions, Tables.
Corresponding author. The name, complete postal
address, telephone and fax numbers and the e-mail address of the corresponding author should be given on the first page of the manuscript.
Classification codes/keywords. Please supply one to four classification codes (PACS-1996 and/or MSC) and up to six keywords
of your own choice that describe the content of your article in more detail (see http://publish.aps.org/PACS/).
References
References to other work should be consecutively numbered in the text using square brackets and listed by number in the Reference list.
After acceptance
Notification. You will be notified by the Editor of the acceptance of your article and invited to supply
an electronic version of the accepted text, if this is not already available.
Copyright transfer. You will be asked to transfer
the copyright of the article to the Publisher. This transfer will ensure the widest possible dissemination of information.
Proofs.
About 4-6 weeks after acceptance page proofs are sent out to authors in order to check that no undetected errors have arisen in the typesetting
(or file conversion) process. Please note that the proofs have been proofread by the Publisher and only a cursory check by the author
is needed; we are unable to accept changes in, or additions to, the edited manuscript at this stage. In order to guarantee the fastest
possible production times, the proofs must be returned within 48 hours after receipt, preferably by fax.
Author benefitsNo
page charges. Publishing in Physica A is free.
Free offprints. The corresponding author will be provided with a PDF
file of the article via e-mail. The PDF file is a watermarked version of the published article and includes a cover sheet with the journal
cover image and a disclaimer outlining the terms and conditions of use.
Discount. Contributors to Elsevier journals are
entitled to a 30% discount on all Elsevier books.
Article tracking. Authors can keep track of the process of their accepted
article and set up e-mail alerts, informing them of changes to their manuscript's status, by using the "Track a paper" feature at (http://elsevier.com/trackarticle)
Further information (after acceptance)
Physica A.
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