Information for Contributors to Journal of Materials Research
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1. Articles, journal of Materials Research publishes original research reports comprising a complete, detailed, self-contained description of a research effort. All articles must contain an abstract (see item 3).
available from the AIP, 335 East 45th St., New York, NY 10017 for $7.50 prepaid. Authors should also study the form and style of printed matter in this journal. The SI units should be used.
2. Rapid Communications. Journal of Ma- 6. Illustration. All illustrations must accomterials Research also publishes short submis-pany submitted manuscripts and, like the sions which contain important new results text, must be in triplicate (one original and and are intended for accelerated publication. two copies). Every illustration must be Rapid Communications are given priority referred to in the main text in consecutive in handling and do not require an abstract. numerical order. A caption (legend) must acompany each illustration. Captions must 3. Abstract. An abstract must accompany be typed doubled-spaced on a sheet of each article. The abstract should be typed paper at the end of the manuscript. Draw(double-spaced) on a separate page. It ings should be planned with oversize letshould be adequate as an index and as a tering and wide-spaced coordinates to be summary. It should give all subjects, major reproduced satisfactorily within singleand minor, concerning which new inforcolumn width (85 mm., or 3%in.). Principal mation is presented. It should give the letters on figures are reduced to approxiconclusions of the article and all numerical mately 1.5 mm or 1hb in. or, if a Leroy results of general interest. The abstract lettering device is used, to #060, regardless should avoid the use of jargon and other of the overall size of the drawing. For best terminology which would render its essence results, draftsmen should be given a recent inaccessible to the non-specialist. copy of this or any other journal published All abstracts should be indexed according by the American Institute of Physics to to the key word scheme developed by familiarize themselves with the proporMaterials Research Society. A description tions to be followed. of this scheme may be obtained from the Line drawings are preferable to photoeditiorial office. graphs and must be made with India ink on If desired, authors may also classify their plain white paper or tracing cloth. Coorwork according to the 1985 version of the dinate paper is not acceptable, illustrations Physics and Astronomy Classification must be held, with rarest exceptions, to Scheme (PACS). A description of this 8%xll in. High-quality glossy prints with scheme appears in December, 1984 issue of sharp even lines and lettering may be Physics Today. Although this PACS classificasubmitted in place of original drawings tion is optional, it renders an author's work when these are of exaggerated size and more readily available in automated reawkward to handle. trieval systems, provided the subject matter Photographs of standard apparatus in a of the work is appropriate for the PACS l
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