Guide for Authors
The
Journal of Consumer Psychology publishes articles that contribute both theoretically and empirically to an understanding of consumer
judgment and behavior and the processes that underlie them. It is focused on consumer phenomena at both the intrapersonal and the interpersonal
level. Areas of emphasis include, but are not restricted to, consumer judgment and decision processes, attitude formation and change,
reactions to advertising, consumer information processing, affective cognitive and motivational determinants of consumer behavior, family
and group decision processes, and cultural and individual differences in consumer behavior. Most articles to be published are likely
to report new empirical findings, obtained either in the laboratory or in field experiments, that contribute to existing theory in both
consumer research and psychology. However, the results of survey research, correlational studies, and other methodological paradigms
are welcomed to the extent that the findings obtained extend our current knowledge of judgment and behavior. Theoretical and/or review
articles that integrate existing bodies of research that provide new insights into the underpinnings of consumer behavior and decision
processes are also encouraged.
Further details regarding journal content, along with copies of past editorials, accepted manuscripts,
and other information, can be obtained from the society website,
http://www.journalofconsumerpsychology.com
Manuscripts
previously rejected by the editor from further consideration for publication in
The Journal of Consumer Psychology are not accepted
for regular review.
Ethics in publishing
For
information on Ethics in publishing and Ethical guidelines for journal publication see
http://www.elsevier.com/publishingethics
and
http://www.elsevier.com/ethicalguidelines.
Conflict of interest
All authors
are requested to disclose any actual or potential conflict of interest including any financial, personal or other relationships with
other people or organizations within three years of beginning the submitted work that could inappropriately influence, or be perceived
to influence, their work. See also
http://www.elsevier.com/conflictsofinterest.
Submission
declaration
Submission of an article implies that the work described has not been published previously (except in the form
of an abstract or as part of a published lecture or academic thesis), that it is not under consideration for publication elsewhere, that
its publication is approved by all authors and tacitly or explicitly by the responsible authorities where the work was carried out, and
that, if accepted, it will not be published elsewhere including electronically in the same form, in English or in any other language,
without the written consent of the copyright-holder.
Changes to authorship
This policy concerns
the addition, deletion, or rearrangement of author names in the authorship of accepted manuscripts:
Before the accepted manuscript
is published in an online issue: Requests to add or remove an author, or to rearrange the author names, must be sent to the Journal
Manager from the corresponding author of the accepted manuscript and must include: (a) the reason the name should be added or removed,
or the author names rearranged and (b) written confirmation (e-mail, fax, letter) from all authors that they agree with the addition,
removal or rearrangement. In the case of addition or removal of authors, this includes confirmation from the author being added or removed.
Requests that are not sent by the corresponding author will be forwarded by the Journal Manager to the corresponding author, who must
follow the procedure as described above. Note that: (1) Journal Managers will inform the Journal Editors of any such requests and (2)
publication of the accepted manuscript in an online issue is suspended until authorship has been agreed.
After the accepted manuscript
is published in an online issue: Any requests to add, delete, or rearrange author names in an article published in an online issue
will follow the same policies as noted above and result in a corrigendum.
Copyright
Upon
acceptance of an article, authors will be asked to complete a 'Journal Publishing Agreement' (for more information on this and copyright
see
http://www.elsevier.com/copyright). Acceptance of the agreement will ensure the widest possible dissemination of information.
An e-mail will be sent to the corresponding author confirming receipt of the manuscript together with a 'Journal Publishing Agreement'
form or a link to the online version of this agreement.
Subscribers may reproduce tables of contents or prepare lists of articles
including abstracts for internal circulation within their institutions. Permission of the Publisher is required for resale or distribution
outside the institution and for all other derivative works, including compilations and translations (please consult
http://www.elsevier.com/permissions).
If excerpts from other copyrighted works are included, the author(s) must obtain written permission from the copyright owners and credit
the source(s) in the article. Elsevier has preprinted forms for use by authors in these cases: please consult
http://www.elsevier.com/permissions.
Retained author rights
As an author you (or your employer or institution) retain certain rights; for details
you are referred to:
http://www.elsevier.com/authorsrights.
Role of the funding source
You
are requested to identify who provided financial support for the conduct of the research and/or preparation of the article and to briefly
describe the role of the sponsor(s), if any, in study design; in the collection, analysis and interpretation of data; in the writing
of the report; and in the decision to submit the article for publication. If the funding source(s) had no such involvement then this
should be stated. Please see
http://www.elsevier.com/funding.
Funding body agreements and
policies
Elsevier has established agreements and developed policies to allow authors whose articles appear in journals
published by Elsevier, to comply with potential manuscript archiving requirements as specified as conditions of their grant awards. To
learn more about existing agreements and policies please visit
http://www.elsevier.com/fundingbodies.
Language and language services
Please write your text in good English (American or British usage is accepted,
but not a mixture of these). Authors who require information about language editing and copyediting services pre- and post-submission
please visit
http://webshop.elsevier.com/languageservices
or our customer support site at
http://support.elsevier.com
for more information.
Submission
Submission to this journal proceeds totally online and
you will be guided stepwise through the creation and uploading of your files. The system automatically converts source files to a single
PDF file of the article, which is used in the peer-review process. Please note that even though manuscript source files are converted
to PDF files at submission for the review process, these 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 removing the need for a paper trail.
Submission Address
Please submit your article via
http://ees.elsevier.com/jcps.
The four main types of papers published by JCP are Research Articles (full length),
Research Reports, Research Reviews and Research Dialogues. Please abide by the following length limits because your submission will automatically
be rejected if you exceed the limits.
1. Research Articles: 50 pages maximum (double-spaced), including title page, abstract, text,
references, tables, figures and appendices (but excluding web appendices).
2. Research Reports: less than 4,000 words, excluding
title page, abstract, text, references, tables, figures, and appendices.
3. Research Reviews: 45 pages maximum (double spaced), excluding
references. This includes both invited research reviews, and regular research reviews that are submitted through the normal submission
process.
4. Research Dialogues (invited only): 45 pages maximum (double spaced), excluding references. This paper type includes the
lead article(s) and the associated commentaries.
Use of wordprocessing software
It is
important that the file be saved in the native format of the wordprocessor used. The text should be in single-column, double-spaced format.
Keep the layout of the text as simple as possible. Most formatting codes will be removed and replaced on processing the article. In particular,
do not use the wordprocessor's options to justify text or to hyphenate words. However, do use bold face, italics, subscripts, superscripts
etc. Do not embed "graphically designed" equations or tables, but prepare these using the wordprocessor's facility. When preparing tables,
if you are using a table grid, use only one grid for each individual table and not a grid for each row. If no grid is used, use tabs,
not spaces, to align columns. The electronic text should be prepared in a way very similar to that of conventional manuscripts (see also
the Guide to Publishing with Elsevier:
http://www.elsevier.com/guidepublication). Do not import the figures into the text
file but, instead, indicate their approximate locations directly in the electronic text and on the manuscript. See also the section on
Electronic illustrations.
To avoid unnecessary errors you are strongly advised to use the "spell-check" and "grammar-check" functions
of your wordprocessor.
Information on APA style: Required for JCP
For information on APA
style, click on the following link to use the APA tutorial. You can turn off the sound and advance at your own pace. The link is:
http://flash1r.apa.org/apastyle/basics/
To turn off the sound, click on the sound icon on the bottom right, and click Mute. To advance at your own pace, click the forward arrow
on the bottom left.
Hint: If you open a link to a new window, minimize it afterwards because closing it will close the tutorial.
Article structure
Introduction
State the objectives of the work and provide
an adequate background, avoiding a detailed literature survey or a summary of the results.
Material and
methods
Provide sufficient detail to allow the work to be reproduced. Methods already published should be indicated by
a reference: only relevant modifications should be described.
Results
Results should be
clear and concise.
Discussion
This should explore the significance of the results of the
work, not repeat them. A combined Results and Discussion section is often appropriate. Avoid extensive citations and discussion of published
literature.
Conclusions
The main conclusions of the study may be presented in a short Conclusions
section, which may stand alone or form a subsection of a Discussion or Results and Discussion section.
Appendices
If
there is more than one appendix, they should be identified as A, B, etc. Formulae and equations in appendices should be given separate
numbering: Eq. (A.1), Eq. (A.2), etc.; in a subsequent appendix, Eq. (B.1) and so on. Similarly for tables and figures: Table A.1; Fig.
A.1, etc.
Author Identifiers
Please ensure that you do not state the specific location that
the data in your article was collected as this reveals the location of the researcher(s).
Essential title
page information
•
Title.
Concise and informative. Titles are often used in information-retrieval
systems. Avoid abbreviations and formulae where possible.
•
Author names and affiliations.
Where the family name
may be ambiguous (e.g., a double name), please indicate this clearly. Present the authors' affiliation addresses (where the actual work
was done) below the names. Indicate all affiliations with a lower-case superscript letter immediately after the author's name and in
front of the appropriate address. Provide the full postal address of each affiliation, including the country name and, if available,
the e-mail address of each author.
•
Corresponding author.
Clearly indicate who will 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. Contact details must be kept up to date by the corresponding
author.
•
Present/permanent address.
If an author has moved since the work described in the article was done,
or was visiting at the time, a 'Present address' (or 'Permanent address') may be indicated as a footnote to that author's name. The address
at which the author actually did the work must be retained as the main, affiliation address. Superscript Arabic numerals are used for
such footnotes.
Abstract
A concise and factual abstract limited to 175 words is required.
The abstract should state briefly the purpose of the research, the principal results and major conclusions. An abstract is often presented
separately from the article, so it must be able to stand alone. For this reason, References should be avoided, but if essential, then
cite the author(s) and year(s). Also, non-standard or uncommon abbreviations should be avoided, but if essential they must be defined
at their first mention in the abstract itself.
Graphical abstract
A Graphical abstract is
optional and should summarize the contents of the article in a concise, pictorial form designed to capture the attention of a wide readership
online. Authors must provide images that clearly represent the work described in the article. Graphical abstracts should be submitted
as a separate file in the online submission system. Image size: Please provide an image with a minimum of 531 × 1328 pixels (h × w) or proportionally more. The image should be readable at a size of 5 × 13 cm using a regular screen resolution of 96
dpi. Preferred file types: TIFF, EPS, PDF or MS Office files. See
http://www.elsevier.com/graphicalabstracts for examples.
Authors can make use of Elsevier's Illustration and Enhancement service to ensure the best presentation of their images also in accordance
with all technical requirements:
Illustration
Service.
Highlights
Highlights are optional for this journal. They consist
of a short collection of bullet points that convey the core findings of the article and can be submitted in a separate file in the online
submission system. Should you wish to include Highlights with your submission, please use 'Highlights' in the file name and include 3
to 5 bullet points (maximum 85 characters per bullet point including spaces). See
http://www.elsevier.com/researchhighlights
for examples.
Keywords
Immediately after the abstract, provide a maximum of 6 keywords,
using American spelling and avoiding general and plural terms and multiple concepts (avoid, for example, 'and', 'of'). Be sparing with
abbreviations: only abbreviations firmly established in the field may be eligible. These keywords will be used for indexing purposes.
Abbreviations
Define abbreviations that are not standard in this field in a footnote to be placed on the first
page of the article. Such abbreviations that are unavoidable in the abstract must be defined at their first mention there, as well as
in the footnote. Ensure consistency of abbreviations throughout the article.
Acknowledgements
Collate
acknowledgements in a separate section at the end of the article before the references and do not, therefore, include them on the title
page, as a footnote to the title or otherwise. List here those individuals who provided help during the research (e.g., providing language
help, writing assistance or proof reading the article, etc.).
Footnotes
Footnotes should
be used sparingly. Number them consecutively throughout the article, using superscript Arabic numbers. Many wordprocessors build footnotes
into the text, and this feature may be used. Should this not be the case, indicate the position of footnotes in the text and present
the footnotes themselves separately at the end of the article. Do not include footnotes in the Reference list.
Table footnotes
Indicate each footnote in a table with a superscript lowercase letter.
Electronic artwork
General
points
• Make sure you use uniform lettering and sizing of your original artwork.
• Save text in illustrations
as 'graphics' or enclose the font.
• Only use the following fonts in your illustrations: Arial, Courier, Times, Symbol.
•
Number the illustrations according to their sequence in the text.
• Use a logical naming convention for your artwork files.
• Provide captions to illustrations separately.
• Produce images near to the desired size of the printed version.
•
Submit each figure as a separate file.
A detailed guide on electronic artwork is available on our website:
http://www.elsevier.com/artworkinstructions
You are urged to visit this site; some excerpts from the detailed information are given here.
Formats
Regardless
of the application used, when your electronic artwork is finalised, please 'save as' or convert the images to one of the following formats
(note the resolution requirements for line drawings, halftones, and line/halftone combinations given below):
EPS: Vector drawings.
Embed the font or save the text as 'graphics'.
TIFF: Color or grayscale photographs (halftones): always use a minimum of 300 dpi.
TIFF: Bitmapped line drawings: use a minimum of 1000 dpi.
TIFF: Combinations bitmapped line/half-tone (color or grayscale): a
minimum of 500 dpi is required.
If your electronic artwork is created in a Microsoft Office application (Word, PowerPoint, Excel)
then please supply 'as is'.
Please do not:
• Supply files that are optimised for screen use (e.g., GIF, BMP, PICT,
WPG); the resolution is too low;
• Supply files that are too low in resolution;
• Submit graphics that are disproportionately
large for the content.
Color artwork
Please make sure that artwork files are in an acceptable
format (TIFF, EPS or MS Office files) and with the correct resolution. If, together with your accepted article, you submit usable color
figures then Elsevier will ensure, at no additional charge, that these figures will appear in color on the Web (e.g., ScienceDirect and
other sites) regardless of whether or not these illustrations are reproduced in color in the printed version.
For color reproduction
in print, you will receive information regarding the costs from Elsevier after receipt of your accepted article. Please indicate
your preference for color: in print or on the Web only. For further information on the preparation of electronic artwork, please see
http://www.elsevier.com/artworkinstructions.
Please note: Because of technical complications which can arise by converting
color figures to 'gray scale' (for the printed version should you not opt for color in print) please submit in addition usable black
and white versions of all the color illustrations.
Figure captions
Ensure that each illustration
has a caption. Supply captions separately, not attached to the figure. A caption should comprise a brief title (
not on the figure
itself) and a description of the illustration. Keep text in the illustrations themselves to a minimum but explain all symbols and abbreviations
used.
Tables
Number tables consecutively in accordance with their appearance in the text.
Place footnotes to tables below the table body and indicate them with superscript lowercase letters. Avoid vertical rules. Be sparing
in the use of tables and ensure that the data presented in tables do not duplicate results described elsewhere in the article.
References
Authors should check their reference lists before submitting their manuscripts
to JCP. Reference lists should include recent papers in consumer psychology, consumer behavior and/or marketing that are relevant to
the topic. This is important to show contributions to these current literatures, and to facilitate the editor's choice of suitable JCP
reviewers. For classic concepts, authors should also cite the studies that developed the concepts.
Text: Citations in the text should
follow the referencing style used by the American Psychological Association. For information on APA style, click on the following link
to use the APA tutorial. You can turn off the sound and advance at your own pace. The link is: http://flash1r.apa.org/apastyle/basics/
To turn off the sound, click on the sound icon on the bottom right, and click Mute. To advance at your own pace, click the forward arrow
on the bottom left. Hint: If you open a link to a new window, minimize it afterwards because closing it will close the tutorial. You
are also referred to the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association, Sixth Edition, ISBN 978-1-4338-0561-5, copies
of which may be ordered from http://books.apa.org/books.cfm?id=4200067 or APA Order Dept., P.O.B. 2710, Hyattsville, MD 20784, USA or
APA, 3 Henrietta Street, London, WC3E 8LU, UK. Details concerning this referencing style can also be found at http://linguistics.byu.edu/faculty/henrichsenl/apa/apa01.html.
List: references should be arranged first alphabetically and then further sorted chronologically if necessary. More than one reference
from the same author(s) in the same year must be identified by the letters 'a', 'b', 'c', etc., placed after the year of publication.
Examples:
Reference to a journal publication:
Van der Geer, J., Hanraads, J. A. J., & Lupton, R. A. (2010). The art of
writing a scientific article. Journal of Scientific Communications, 163, 51-59. Reference to a book:
Strunk, W., Jr., & White,
E. B. (1979). The elements of style. (4th ed.). New York: Longman, (Chapter 4).
Reference to a chapter in an edited book:
Mettam,
G. R., & Adams, L. B. (2009). How to prepare an electronic version of your article. In B. S. Jones, & R. Z. Smith (Eds.), Introduction
to the electronic age (pp. 281-304). New York: E-Publishing Inc.
Journal abbreviations source
Journal names should
be abbreviated according to:
Index Medicus journal abbreviations:
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/tsd/serials/lji.html; List
of serial title word abbreviations:
http://www.issn.org/2-22661-LTWA-online.php; CAS (Chemical Abstracts Service):
http://www.cas.org/sent.html.
Citation in text
Please ensure that every reference cited in the text is also present in the reference list
(and vice versa). Any references cited in the abstract must be given in full. Unpublished results and personal communications are not
recommended in the reference list, but may be mentioned in the text. If these references are included in the reference list they should
follow the standard reference style of the journal and should include a substitution of the publication date with either 'Unpublished
results' or 'Personal communication'. Citation of a reference as 'in press' implies that the item has been accepted for publication.
Web references
As a minimum, the full URL should be given and the date when the reference was last accessed.
Any further information, if known (DOI, author names, dates, reference to a source publication, etc.), should also be given. Web references
can be listed separately (e.g., after the reference list) under a different heading if desired, or can be included in the reference list.
References in a special issue
Please ensure that the words 'this issue' are added to any references in the
list (and any citations in the text) to other articles in the same Special Issue.
Reference management
software
This journal has standard templates available in key reference management packages EndNote (
http://www.endnote.com/support/enstyles.asp)
and Reference Manager (
http://refman.com/support/rmstyles.asp). Using plug-ins to wordprocessing packages, authors only
need to select the appropriate journal template when preparing their article and the list of references and citations to these will be
formatted according to the journal style which is described below.
Guidelines to Authors of Research Reports
What
is the Journal of Consumer Psychology (JCP) looking for in Research Reports?
Research Reports are manuscripts that are less
than 4000 words in length excluding the abstract, title page, references, tables and figures. Research Reports, formerly referred to
as Short Articles, should contain novel and interesting research just like longer length Research Articles. Note that for an idea to
be novel and interesting does not imply that it has to be counterintuitive. However, unlike Research Articles, for novel and interesting
theoretical ideas, authors of a Research Report may provide less empirical evidence; and for novel and interesting empirical findings,
they may give less theoretical support. Thus, when presenting empirical findings, authors are not expected to pinpoint the specific
underlying process for their findings or rule out all alternative explanations (except when developing or testing an alternative process
explanation that represents the actual research goal). However, authors do need to propose a plausible theoretical process and to state
this right at the outset of the paper. Also, note that despite these differences from Research Articles, we will maintain the same standards
of rigor (in terms of literature review, conceptualization, methodology, empirical analysis, and stated insights derived from analysis).
Thus, Authors need to acknowledge past related research and show how their paper relates to this earlier work. Shortage of space should
not result in a lack of care in the literature review. Since Research Reports are meant to be widely disseminated to spark new research,
they should also be easy to read.
Research Reports may focus on novel and interesting empirical findings (based on data from experiments,
surveys, or secondary sources). This includes manuscripts whose findings: (1) are novel and interesting by themselves, (2) refute commonly
held beliefs, (3) refute prior theory, or (4) refute prior explanatory processes. Some preliminary theoretical explanation must be offered
for this category, but it is not necessary for authors to rule out all possible alternative explanations. Thus, inconclusive process
evidence is not a reason to reject a Research Report (unless an alternative explanation is obvious and more compelling). However, note
that authors need to provide substantial evidence for their proposed empirical findings - either through large sample sizes or multiple
studies or both. Thus, authors may be asked to collect additional data for further support of the phenomenon (additional study) or for
a more rigorous testing of the phenomenon (new study to replace an original study). Also, as stated earlier, even if not conclusively
establishing the process, authors should speculate about the process right at the outset of the paper (not just at the end). However,
the strengths of the claims about the process should be proportional to the evidence being provided (i.e., if the authors only provide
preliminary evidence of the process, they need to acknowledge upfront that other accounts are possible).
Research Reports may also
focus on novel and interesting theoretical ideas. This includes manuscripts that develop: (1) an alternate process explanation for an
existing theory, (2) an alternate theory for existing findings, (3) a theory that accounts for commonly held beliefs (with data to support
these beliefs), or (4) a new theory. Some preliminary empirical support (one or two studies) is required for this category.
Authors must also consider the following when they submit a Research Report:
1. The importance of the General Discussion
section:
Since one of the primary objectives for Research Reports is to stimulate follow-up research, a manuscript that is being
considered for publication needs to have a General Discussion section that provides specific and compelling implications for future follow-up
research.
The General Discussion section also serves a secondary purpose. While Research Reports are not expected to pinpoint the
specific underlying process for their findings or rule out all alternative explanations (except when this is the stated goal), they are
expected to recognize limitations and alternate explanations, and suggest possible process explanations that could be tested in follow-up
research. An appropriate place to do this is in the General Discussion.
2. Novelty Criterion:
As stated at the outset, all
manuscripts submitted to JCP (whether Research Articles or Research Reports) should be novel and interesting. Thus, although Research
Reports are shorter in length, they should not be a mere modification or a simple extension of previous research. This is not novel.
Novelty implies innovativeness.
Reviewers of Research Reports are sent these guidelines along with the manuscript and are encouraged
to limit themselves to 3 or 4 major concerns.
JCP Policy on Invited Research Reviews
The
JCP policy on Invited Research Reviews is that, because they are invited, they will be quite rare and they will take on "big" topics
that currently interest a very wide audience of researchers, including researchers in both consumer behavior and psychology. Invited
JCP Research Reviews are not designed to be self-motivated and idiosyncratic.
However, non-invited Research Reviews can also be submitted
to JCP and they will go through the normal JCP review process. Therefore, authors should submit non-invited JCP Research Reviews through
the normal submission process.
Journal abbreviations source
Journal names should be abbreviated
according to
Index Medicus journal abbreviations:
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/tsd/serials/lji.html;
List of serial title
word abbreviations:
http://www.issn.org/2-22661-LTWA-online.php;
CAS (Chemical Abstracts Service):
http://www.cas.org/sent.html.
Video data
Elsevier accepts video material and animation sequences to support and enhance your scientific
research. Authors who have video or animation files that they wish to submit with their article are strongly encouraged to include these
within the body of the article. This can be done in the same way as a figure or table by referring to the video or animation content
and noting in the body text where it should be placed. All submitted files should be properly labeled so that they directly relate to
the video file's content. In order to ensure that your video or animation material is directly usable, please provide the files in one
of our recommended file formats with a preferred maximum size of 50 MB. Video and animation files supplied will be published online in
the electronic version of your article in Elsevier Web products, including ScienceDirect:
http://www.sciencedirect.com.
Please supply 'stills' with your files: you can choose any frame from the video or animation or make a separate image. These will be
used instead of standard icons and will personalize the link to your video data. For more detailed instructions please visit our video
instruction pages at
http://www.elsevier.com/artworkinstructions. Note: since video and animation cannot be embedded in
the print version of the journal, please provide text for both the electronic and the print version for the portions of the article that
refer to this content.
Supplementary data
Elsevier accepts electronic supplementary material
to support and enhance your scientific research. Supplementary files offer the author additional possibilities to publish supporting
applications, 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 provide the data 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.
Submission checklist
The following list will be useful during the final checking of an article prior to sending
it to the journal for review. Please consult this Guide for Authors for further details of any item.
Ensure that the following
items are present:
One author has been designated as the corresponding author with contact details:
• E-mail address
• Full postal address
• Telephone and fax numbers
All necessary files have been uploaded, and contain:
•
Keywords
• All figure captions
• All tables (including title, description, footnotes)
Further considerations
•
Manuscript has been 'spell-checked' and 'grammar-checked'
• References are in the correct format for this journal
•
All references mentioned in the Reference list are cited in the text, and vice versa
• Permission has been obtained for use
of copyrighted material from other sources (including the Web)
• Color figures are clearly marked as being intended for color
reproduction on the Web (free of charge) and in print, or to be reproduced in color on the Web (free of charge) and in black-and-white
in print
• If only color on the Web is required, black-and-white versions of the figures are also supplied for printing purposes
For any further information please visit our customer support site at
http://support.elsevier.com.
Use of the Digital
Object Identifier
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 (example taken from
a document in the journal
Physics Letters B):
doi:10.1016/j.physletb.2010.09.059
When you use the DOI to create URL
hyperlinks to documents on the web, the DOIs are guaranteed never to change.
Proofs
One
set of page proofs (as PDF files) will be sent by e-mail to the corresponding author (if we do not have an e-mail address then paper
proofs will be sent by post) or, a link will be provided in the e-mail so that authors can download the files themselves. Elsevier now
provides authors with PDF proofs which can be annotated; for this you will need to download Adobe Reader version 7 (or higher) available
free from
http://get.adobe.com/reader. Instructions on how to annotate PDF files will accompany the proofs (also given online).
The exact system requirements are given at the Adobe site:
http://www.adobe.com/products/reader/tech-specs.html.
If
you do not wish to use the PDF annotations function, you may list the corrections (including replies to the Query Form) and return them
to Elsevier in an e-mail. Please list your corrections quoting line number. If, for any reason, this is not possible, then mark the corrections
and any other comments (including replies to the Query Form) on a printout of your proof and return by fax, or scan the pages and e-mail,
or by post. Please use this proof only for checking the typesetting, editing, completeness and correctness of the text, tables and figures.
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