Manuscript Preparation Guidelines — Instructions for Authors of physica status solidi
Manuscript Submission, Formats, and Length Restrictions
For electronic or hardcopy submissions, please follow the instructions given by the conference organizers. If submitted at the conference or by regular mail, manuscripts should be delivered in three copies and accompanied by a disk (DOS format floppy or CD-ROM) containing text and figures. Please make sure that disk files and hardcopies are identical.
Do not send your manuscript to the Editorial Office of physica status solidi.
Please be sure to meet the length restrictions as given by the conference organizers.
Prepare your manuscript using Microsoft Word (WordPerfect, RTF), LaTeX, RevTeX, or compatible formats. All textual material (incl. tables, captions, etc.) should be in a single file.
Microsoft Word
: You may use the provided document template pss.dot; an example is the file instruct.doc which contains extended author instructions in the style of a manuscript.
LaTeX 2e
: The style file pss.cls is available (with instruct.tex as sample file).
If you are not using one of the template/style files, please format your manuscript for double-spaced output or use LaTeX, resp. RevTeX article style. Three manuscript pages then typically amount to two printed pages and three figures correspond to about one printed page.
Please accompany your submission by one printable file (PDF or Postscript) of your entire manuscript including the text as well as all tables and figures.
Title and Author Information
A corresponding address valid for the entire period from submission until publication must be given, especially if the current address differs from the author's affiliation in the paper.
Please identify the corresponding author and add phone, fax, and e-mail as a footnote.
The classification system (PACS numbers) should be used (www.physica-status-solidi.com).
An abstract of about ten lines is required.
Figures and Tables
Figures
must be submitted ready for reproduction. Lettering/symbols should be large and clear enough for size reduction. Avoid small open symbols, small dots, small decimal points, hairlines, close-dotted or short-dashed lines. Draw a closed axes frame in diagrams. For numbers, use a decimal point instead of a comma.
If the style/template is used, figures and tables may be embedded as floating objects, but in Word files all figures/tables and all captions MUST appear again at the end of the paper (figures as full-page images). Please make sure to submit separate file versions of your figures (PS, EPS, TIFF, GIF, PDF, CorelDraw, Origin) if they are not embedded in the text file.
In double-spaced manuscripts, tables with captions and single figures should appear on separate pages, with all figure captions on a separate page as well.
Colour figures
submitted in electronic format will generally be published in colour in the internet PDF version of an article at no cost. Print version will be black/white unless the author authorizes the colour print publication and contributes to the additional costs.
Quantities and equations
Both in the text and in equations, physical quantities should be given in italic letters, vectors in roman bold letters. Sub/superscripts which are abbreviations of words or names, physical units, and tabulated mathematical functions should be given in roman letters.
Formatting of Literature Citations
References
should be numbered [in square brackets] and listed in the order of appearance at the end of the manuscript, or inserted using LaTeX commands. The use of the endnote feature in Word is not recommended. Please apply the format used in physica status solidi.