PARTICLE PHYSICS, FIELD THEORY AND STATISTICAL SYSTEMS, PHYSICAL MATHEMATICS
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1. Authors should take care that their contributions are written in good
English.
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Number, Main text, Acknowledgements, Appendix, References, Vitae, Figure legends, Tables.
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4. All papers should have an abstract
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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] I.R. Klebanov and
E. Witten, Nucl. Phys. B 556 (1999) 89.
[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.
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doi:10.1016/j.physletb.2007.06.033
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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.
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