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JOURNAL OF MAGNETISM AND MAGNETIC MATERIALS

Guide for Authors

Submission of papers
Authors are encouraged to submit their papers using the Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials online submission tool. Alternatively authors can submit by sending their manuscripts (one original + two copies), to one of the Editors. Papers for the section Information Storage: Basic and Applied should be submitted to R.W. Chantrell. Letters to the Editor should not exceed six pages when printed and will be given priority in both the refereeing and production processes. The faster production schedule may preclude sending proofs of letters to authors.
Original material: Submission of a manuscript implies it is not being simultaneously considered for publication elsewhere and that the authors have obtained the necessary authority for publication.

Manuscript preparation
All manuscripts should be written in good English. The paper copies of the text should be prepared with double line spacing and wide margins, on numbered sheets. See notes opposite on the electronic version of manuscripts.
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.
PACS codes/keywords. Please supply one or more relevant PACS-1996 classification codes and about 5 keywords of your own choice for indexing purposes.
References. References to other work should be consecutively numbered in the text using square brackets and listed by number in the Reference list. Please refer to recent issues for examples.

Illustrations
Illustrations should also be submitted in triplicate: one master set and two sets of copies. Theline drawings in the master set should be original laser printer or plotter output or drawn in black india ink, with careful lettering ,large enough (3-5 mm) to remain legible after reduction for printing.The photographs should be originals, with somewhat more contrast than is required in the printed version. They should be unmounted unless part of a composite figure. Any scale markers should be inserted on the photograph itself, not drawn below it.
Colour plates. Figures may be published in colour, if this is judged essential by the Editor. The Publisher and the author will each bear part of the extra costs involved. Further information is available from the Publisher.

After acceptance
Notification. You will be notified by the Editor of the journal 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. In the course of the production process you will be asked to transfer the copyright of the article to the Publisher. This transfer will ensure the widest possible dissemination of information.

Electronic manuscripts
The Publisher heartily welcomes the receipt of an electronic version of your accepted manuscript. If there is not already a copy of this (on diskette) with the Journal Editor at the time the manuscript is being refereed, you will be asked to send a file with the text of the accepted manuscript directly to the Publisher by e-mail or on diskette to the address given below. (When e-mailing a non-ASCII word-processor file, you should encode it, e.g. with Uuencode or BinHex, so as to retain all formatting codes.) The name and version of the word-processing program and the type of operating system should always be indicated. Please note that no deviations from the version accepted by the Editor of the journal are permissible without the prior and explicit approval by the Editor. Such changes should be clearly indicated on an accompanying printout of the file.

Author benefits
No page charges. Publishing in the Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials is free.
Free offprints. The corresponding author will receive 25 offprints free of charge. An offprint order form will be supplied by the Publisher for ordering any additional paid offprints.
Discount. Contributors to Elsevier journals are entitled to a 30% discount on all Elsevier books.

Further information

Elsevier B.V.,
Issue Management Physics and Astronomy,
Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials,
P.O. Box 2759,
1000 CT Amsterdam,
The Netherlands.

Fax: +31 20 4852319

E-mail: matsci-de-f@elsevier.nl.

For complete up-to-date addresses of Editors please check the link to Editorial Board at the beginning of these instructions.

Information on submitting a paper in Word or LaTeX can be found at External link http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/authorsview.authors/howtosubmitpaper.
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