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NUCLEAR PHYSICS A
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Nuclear and Hadronic Physics
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Guide for Authors
Electronic submission in the form of PostScript or PDF files of the complete article is strongly encouraged and will receive accelerated
processing. Figures, if any, should be included in the PostScript or PDF file. Contributions can be submitted at  http://ees.elsevier.com/npa
If available please provide us also with the preprint number of the Los Alamos preprint server as well as the version date.
All papers are subject to refereeing. Letter-type contributions and unnecessarily long papers are unacceptable. Authors should make
every effort to achieve the utmost concision compatible with clarity. They should make a careful survey of the literature to ensure that
papers do not duplicate previous work and that relevant existing knowledge has been taken into account. It should be realised that the
criteria for refereeing are very high. By submitting a paper for publication in Nuclear Physics A the authors imply that the material
has not been published previously nor has been submitted for publication elsewhere.
The Editors and Publisher aim at the following
time schedule: within one week of submission the author should have received acknowledgement of receipt of his/her manuscript. Within
two months the author should have had notification of acceptance or rejection, or a request for revision.
Preparation of contributions
1. Authors should take care that their contributions are written in good English.
2. Please adhere to the following order: Title,
Authors, Affiliations, Abstract, PACS codes, Keywords, Los Alamos Database Number, Main text, Acknowledgements, Appendix, References,
Vitae, Figure legends, Tables.
3. Please indicate the corresponding author: full postal address, E-mail address, telephone and fax
numbers on the title page.
4. All papers should have an abstract of no more than 150 words.
5. Please supply us with one to four
classification codes (PACS and/or MSC) and up to six keywords of your own choice that describe the content of your article in more detail.
6. References to other work should be consecutively numbered in the text using square brackets. They should be listed by number at the
end of the article as in the following examples for a paper [1], for a book [2], for a conference report [3], for a laboratory report
[4], for a preprint [5]:
[1] A. Schwenk, G.E. Brown and B. Friman, Nucl. Phys. A703 (2002) 745
[2] J. Zinn-Justin, Quantum Field
Theory and Critical Phenomena, 2nd edition (Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1993).
[3] P. Di Vecchia, Proc. of 32nd Int. Symp. Ahrenshoop
on the Theory of Elementary Particles, Buckow, Germany, 1-5 Sept. 1998, hep-th/9903007.
[4] B. Potter, DESY-97-138, hep-ph/9707319.
[5] O. Bergman and M.R. Gaberdiel, Dualities of Type 0 strings, hep-th/9906055.
DOI citations. 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:
doi:10.1016/j.physletb.2007.06.033
For Articles in Press, please do not
include an "In Press" denotation to your citation. When you use the DOI to create URL hyperlinks to documents on the web, they are guaranteed
never to change.
7. Do not mix footnotes and references.
8. Illustrations should also be submitted in triplicate. One set must
be in publishable condition. Figures should be clearly numbered. For colour figures, see below.
9. Use the metric systems of units
and abbreviations recommended by the SUN commission of the IUPAP, Physica A 93 (1978) 1.
Manuscripts
Manuscripts should
be clearly typed with wide margins and double spacing.
Preparation of supplementary data. Elsevier now accepts electronic
supplementary material (e-components) to support and enhance your scientific research. Supplementary files offer the Author additional
possibilities to publish supporting applications, movies, animation sequences, 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 ensure that data is provided 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.
Electronic submission
LaTeX.
If the
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should be encoded in LaTeX, preferably using the Elsevier document class 'elsart', or alternatively the standard document class 'article'
or the document style 'revtex'.
The Elsevier LaTeX package (including detailed instructions to authors) can be obtained using anonymous
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For a list of hosts maintaining a (partial) mirror of the CTAN archive, see the file '/tex-archive/CTAN.sites' on CTAN. In order to reduce
network load, it is recommended that you use the CTAN host which is located in the closest network proximity to your site. Alternatively,
you may wish to obtain a copy of the CTAN via CD-ROM (see 'help/CTAN.cdrom' on CTAN for details).
The files, as well as instructions
in the form of a booklet, can also be obtained from the Publisher.
The Publisher reserves the right to decide whether to process
a manuscript from the authors' file or not. Files coded in a simple and consistent manner are most likely to be used for production.
Proofs
A pdf file of the proof will be sent by e-mail to the corresponding author. Proofs will be sent to the author 4-6
weeks after acceptance. Please note that at this stage we are unable to accept large changes in, or additions to, the edited manuscript.
In order to guarantee the fastest possible production times, the corrections should be sent, preferably by E-mail or fax, within 3 days
of receipt. If no reply is received from the author, the Publisher assumes that there are no further corrections to be made and will
proceed with publication of the article.
Colour figures
Elsevier would like to stimulate the usage of colour in manuscript,
especially since they can be very useful in scientific articles. Elsevier is now able to reproduce the figures on the web in colour at
no costs. If you supply Elsevier with usable colour figures with your Nuclear Physics A article, then Elsevier provides all artwork originated
in colour as colour in the web product, regardless of whether it appears in the printed journal as colour.
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