期刊名称：PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY A-MATHEMATICAL PHYSICAL AND ENGINEERING SCIENCES
 期刊简介(About the journal)
投稿须知(Instructions to Authors)
编辑部信息(Editorial Board)
About the journal
Origins of the journal
The Royal Society was founded in 1660 to promote the new or experimental philosophy of that time, embodying the principles envisaged by Sir Francis Bacon. Henry Oldenburg was appointed as the first (joint) secretary to the Society and he was also the first editor of the Society's journal Philosophical Transactions.
The first issue of Philosophical Transactions appeared in March 1665 and featured Oldenburg's correspondence with leading European scientists. In its formative years Isaac Newton had seventeen papers published in the journal including his first paper - New Theory about Light and Colours - which effectively served to launch his scientific career in 1672. In the same year his new reflecting telescope was described and the original drawing was also published in the journal. Philosophical Transactions has also published the work of Charles Darwin, Michael Faraday, William Herschel and many more celebrated names in science.
In 1887 the journal expanded to become two separate publications, one serving the biological sciences and the other serving the physical sciences. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society has the prestige of being the world's longest-running scientific journal.
Each issue of Transactions A is devoted to a specific area of the mathematical, physical and engineering sciences. This area will define a research frontier that is advancing rapidly, often bridging traditional disciplines. Transactions A is essential reading for mathematicians, physicists, engineers and other physical scientists.
Transactions A publishes two types of issue:
- Themes: commissioned, multi-authored themes devoted to papers which form a coherent topic.
- Discussion Meetings: the proceedings of the Society's celebrated meetings, which bring together distinguished scientists from around the world.
This journal is covered in the following:
Applied Mechanics Reviews, Biological Abstracts, Engineering Index Monthly, Mathematical Reviews, Metals Abstracts, Nutrition Abstracts and Reviews Series A: Human and Experimental; Nutrition Abstracts and Reviews Series B: Livestock Feeds and Feeding, INSPEC (The Institution of Electrical Engineers), Environment Abstracts (Also see: Environ.Abstr.), Now: Environment Abstracts Annual (Also see: Environ.Ind.), Alloys Index, British and Irish Archaeological Bibliography, British Geological Literature, Research Alert (Philadelphia), Energy Information Abstracts, Environment Abstracts, Fluidex, Geographical Abstracts: Human Geography, Geographical Abstracts: Physical Geography, Bibliography and Index of Geology (Also known as GeoRef), Current Contents, Chemistry Citation Index, Engineered Materials Abstracts, Ecological Abstracts, Mass Spectrometry Bulletin, Geological Abstracts, Petroleum Abstracts, Soils & Fertilizers, Veterinary Bulletin, Index to Scientific Reviews, INSPEC (The Institution of Electrical Engineers) (1968- ), Metals Abstracts Index, Nonferrous Metals Alert, Steels Alert, Science Citation Index, Zentralblatt fuer Mathematik und ihre Grenzgebiete, World Aluminum Abstracts
Instructions to Authors
1. GENERAL
Philosophical Transactions A publishes invited Discussions, Themes and Reviews concerning any aspect of the physical sciences and engineering, including mathematics and Earth science. Readers are welcome to propose Themes and Reviews for consideration by the Editorial Board of the journal. The journal is complementary to Proceedings series A, which considers unsolicited papers in the same subject areas.
Papers must not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere. The main findings of the paper should not have been reported in the mass media. Like many journals Philosophical Transactions A employs a strict embargo policy where the reporting of a scientific paper by the media is embargoed until a specific time. The Editor has the final authority in all matters relating to publication.
2. SUBMISSION
Spelling should conform to the preferred spelling of the Shorter Oxford English Dictionary. Check the file carefully before submitting to ensure that it is the correct and full version.
Figures must be prepared separately from the text, with their position in it clearly indicated (see below).
Papers for invited Discussions and Themes should be sent by post to the following address:
Philosophical Transactions A
Editorial Office
The Royal Society,
6 Carlton House Terrace
London SW1Y 5AG
UK
Send 3 printouts (double-spaced) of your complete paper (including any figures, tables or appendices) plus the electronic version of both the text and any graphics. At least one complete set of figures should be original artwork suitable for reproduction. Label and date all printouts and figure sets so that they can be identified easily.
Please indicate to whom correspondence and page proofs should be addressed, and include daytime telephone and fax numbers, and contact email addresses.
The Society encourages authors to use LaTeX for the preparation of all papers submitted for publication, especially those with a large amount of mathematics. Please note that PDF files cannot be used in the production process. Label disks with the author’s name and date, the application used and its version. Please check that the disks match the printout. Keep a back-up disk for reference and safety.
Preparation of TeX papers
Although LaTeX is the preferred macro package, any TeX source code will be accepted. A class file (rspublic.cls) is available for use in conjunction with our TeX guide (Royal Society TeX Guide). It is not essential that this class file is obtained before the paper is written (one advantage of LaTeX is the interchangeability of style files). However, authors should consult the file when formatting their paper. The source code (files with the extension .tex) corresponding to the final version should include any specially defined macros. The source code should also be contained within a single file, whose root name should be the name of the paper; e.g. the source code for the paper 98TA009B should be labeled 98TA009B.TEX. Figures files should be supplied separately.
Preparation of non-TeX papers
Authors preparing their papers using packages other than TeX should still submit their electronic files on disk, minimizing the formatting of their document. Where TeX is not available, the use of MathType [TM] for the setting of mathematics is encouraged.
Once accepted and finalized, your paper is passed to our Journals Production Office (tel. +44 (0)20 7451 2643 with any enquiries at this stage).
3. STRUCTURE
Each paper should contain the following in order:
- Title
- Authors and full addresses where their work was carried out
- Summary of no more than 200 words
- Key index words or phrases (3? choices)
- Main body of the work, divided into sections and described by short headings
- Acknowledgements
- Appendices (if necessary)
- References (of all articles cited in the text)
- Figure captions (numbered in sequence as they appear in the text)
- Short title for page headings
The summary should be concise and informative. It should be complete by itself, and must not contain references or unexplained abbreviations. It should not only indicate the general scope of the article but also state the main results and conclusions. Please note that footnotes are not used.
In addition to providing the addresses where the work was carried out, the current addresses, where different, should be given.
4. UNITS, ABBREVIATIONS AND STATISTICS
As far as possible the recommendations based on the International System of Units (SI) contained in Quantities, units and symbols (The Royal Society, 1975, price ?.50, available from the Sales Office on +44 (0)20 7451 2645).
Abbreviations should be given in full at the first mention. In the list of references, widely recognized abbreviations for journals should be used. If in doubt, give the full title of the journal.
5. PREPARATION OF ELECTRONIC FIGURES AND THEIR LABELS
We use electronic artwork because, if prepared to a professional standard and journal style, it improves the quality of reproduction and prevents delays to publication. Hand-drawn illustrations are not acceptable.
Figures should be prepared carefully and output as high-resolution encapsulated PostScript (EPS) files from the original artwork creation software package. See guidelines on line/tone combinations below. Size artwork to the dimensions of the published journal to fit within the column width (max. 135 mm).
Create tightly cropped images with minimum white space or borders. Never use 'whiting-out' to hide unwanted elements in a figure.
Each figure must be clearly identified with the author's name and its number. For multi-part figures please supply each part as a separate file. Carefully review a printout of each figure before submitting.
Labels
Labels should be added to the original drawings before submission using lower-case lettering (Times Roman font) wherever possible. Labels should be brief, e.g. (a), (b), and explained in the legend. Labels should be consistent, and close to 9 point at final size. Mathematical symbols must follow the style of the text - variables should be distinguished from labels through italicization. Descriptions should be placed whenever possible in the captions and not on the figures themselves, although a key to symbols is often better placed within the body of a figure.
Supplying electronic figures
We require encapsulated PostScript (EPS) files. Nearly all artwork creation software is capable of saving as EPS. EPS provides quality results and file sizes are small compared to other formats. Please do NOT create EPS from Microsoft Word or PowerPoint as these are difficult to resize or edit. Simply changing the extension to .eps does not in itself make the file a true EPS.
Alternatively, we can use a press quality PDF saved from the native artwork creation package.
If you are forced to supply Microsoft Office formats please ensure that all imported images are of a high-enough resolution for quality printing, and that your figures are sized and labeled to journal size. If possible, provide original image files as well.
For best results do not label scanned images in an image manipulation package (e.g. Adobe PhotoShop), always do this in a vector drawing package (e.g. Adobe Illustrator) with the image imported.
Embed all fonts
Ensure all fonts are embedded in graphics. Failure to do this can result in unsatisfactory font substitution. In addition, corresponding fonts sometimes differ subtly from machine to machine and this could result in imaging differences. Use standard fonts only (Times, Symbol, Helvetica, Courier, Arial) and apply consistently throughout all figures.
The basic figure types
(a) Simple line figures (e.g. plots)
These are line drawings that do not contain halftones, but may contain simple shading or hatching to distinguish different areas. Line weights should be at least 0.5 point thick (prominent lines at least 1 point) and any shading a minimum of 25%. Please ensure any text is legible over these areas. Include any pattern files.
(b) Combination line & halftone (or grayscale) figures
These are electronic figures that contain a halftone element (photograph or scan) and a line element (labels or overlays). It is vital that these figures are supplied at the correct high resolution otherwise we will not be able to use them. For print quality, combination figures must have an output resolution of at least 600 dpi (dots per inch) at final size, otherwise the image will be blurred when printed. It is important to check at an early stage that each figure has a high enough resolution. If an image has to be enlarged, it will degrade even further.
When scanning artwork for print quality ensure a minimum output of 800 dpi (line), 300 dpi (halftone), 350 dpi (colour halftone) and 600 dpi (combination line and halftone). Screen or web graphics will be of very poor quality.
If there is colour use composite CMYK colour, not RGB, to match the published output. CMYK should not be separated out. Please supply a single, composite four-colour image.
File compression
Supplying uncompressed files is preferred. However, if you use compression software please let us know the type of compression used (e.g. LZW, WinZip, etc.).
Media
Figures can be supplied via FTP, Floppies, Zips or CDs, but not Opticals. Please name each figure file separately using the convention fig1.eps, etc.
Supplying hard copy photographs
Where possible, supply the original high-quality prints or transparencies for us to scan. This gives the best result.
Photographs should be supplied with the author's name and figure number on the back, and the top edge indicated if the orientation is unclear. The area covered must be limited to the subject in question, or to a minimum representative area in photomicrographs, etc. This enables the photograph to be reproduced at the largest possible scale. Each micrograph must include a scale bar, applied to the original, with an indication of the exact length. Please indicate on any overlay any areas or subjects within a halftone requiring critical reproduction. Authors' suggestions for reduction factors are welcomed, subject to the constraints of the production process.
6. COLOUR
Philosophical Transactions A welcomes the submission of papers containing colour illustrations. However, owing to the high cost of colour reproduction, authors are asked to contribute a portion of the extra cost. An estimate will be sent to authors upon submission. Exemption from charges for colour reproduction will only be made if referees decide that colour is essential.
7. TABLES
Tables, however small, should be numbered and referred to in the text by their numbers. Table captions should be brief, with descriptions of experimental detail given directly beneath, in parentheses. Column headings should, wherever possible, be in lower-case type, and the units of measurement and any numerical factors should be placed at the head of each column. Units should be contained within parentheses, e.g. distance (cm).
8. REFERENCES
All references to the literature cited must be given in alphabetical order at the end of the paper, and each reference should contain the following elements.
Author surnames with initials
Year of publication
Title of paper (roman) or book (italic)
Journal name (italic), using standard abbreviation
Volume number (bold)
First and last page numbers
Note that for a book, the edition, the chapter(s) and its/ their page range(s), the editor(s), the place of publication (if it is not obvious) and the name of the publisher should be given, for instance:
- Bellman, R. 1959 Asymptotic behaviour of solutions of differential-difference equations. Mem. Am. Math. Soc. 35 , 123?34.
- Bellman, R. & Cooke, K. L. 1963 Differential-difference equations, 2nd edn, pp. 342?48. New York: Academic Press.
- Bellman, R., Dyson, A. & Cooke, K. L. 1964 The deficiency index problems. Lecture Notes in Mathematics, vol. 621. Heidelberg: Springer.
- Bellman, R., Cooke, K. L. & Dyson, A. 1965 Shock dynamics in metals. In Proc. int. conf. on behaviour of materials (ed. J. L. Miller & R. F. Smith), vol. 2, pp. 173?83. Oxford: Pergamon Press.
Authors are encouraged to quote digital object identifiers (DOIs)—standardized article reference codes—where known, in addition to providing full citations, for instance:
- Bassingthwaighte, J. B. 2001 The modelling of a primitive ‘sustainable?conservative cell. Phil. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. A 359, 1055?072. (DOI 10.1098/rsta.2001.0816.)
The DOI is a unique electronic tag applied by certain publishers (and online databases, such as CrossRef) to their published papers. DOI hotlinks take a reader directly from the paper they are reading to the abstract of the paper they have selected.
References in the text are listed according to the Harvard style (not by number), i.e. by giving the names of authors and the date of publication, for instance:
Brown (1994) showed how all equations are now transformed from (s, z) as independent variables to (s',z') and are replaced by conservative finite difference equations (see also Smith and Brown 1994a,b; Brown et al. 1994).
9. PAGE PROOFS
Authors who may be absent from their normal address must either inform the Editorial Office of their intended whereabouts or make alternative arrangements for their proofs to be checked quickly. Authors should avoid making significant alterations to their proofs as this is very costly.
Fifty offprints of each paper are supplied free of charge; further copies may be ordered at cost at proof stage.
10. COPYRIGHT
In order to give the Royal Society authority to deal with matters of copyright, authors will be asked to assign to the Society the copyright for any paper published in the journal. In assigning copyright, authors reserve the right to use their article (subject only to normal acknowledgements to Philosophical Transactions A) for the internal or educational purposes of their own institution or company. Authors are free to mount the article on their own or their institution's Web site, or use it as a basis for their own further publications or presentations.
Please click here for a Copyright Assignment form (PDF, 14K)
Authorship should be restricted to those who have contributed substantially to the work. The corresponding author must ensure that all authors assign copyright for the paper. A hard copy must be sent to the Editorial Office. All authors must ensure that all necessary permissions have been obtained for reproducing any other copyright material, including permission to reproduce and publish electronically anywhere in the world.
Editorial Board
Editor
Professor JMT Thompson
Editorial Co-ordinator:
Cathy Brennan
Editorial Board
| AJ Coates |
Mullard Space Science Laboratory,
University College London |
| PJ Dornan |
Department of Physics,
Imperial College |
| AG Davies |
School of Electronic and Electrical Engineering,
University of Leeds |
| FJ Dyson |
School of Natural Sciences,
Institute of Advanced Study, Princeton |
| RS Ellis |
Astronomy,
Caltech |
| R Hide |
Department of Mathematics,
Imperial College |
| J Howard |
Department of Chemistry,
University of Durham |
| JCR Hunt |
Department of Earth Sciences and the Department of Space and Climate Physics,
University College London |
| JE Marsden |
Control and Dynamical Systems,
California Institute of Technology |
| AJ Meadows |
Department of Information Science, Loughborough University |
| FC Moon |
School of Mechanical Engineering,
Cornell University |
| F Pfeiffer |
Institut fur Mechanics,
Technical University of Munich |
| PR Sammonds |
Department of Earth Sciences,
University College London |
| IN Stewart |
Department of Mathematics,
University of Warwick |
| M Tabor |
Program in Applied Mathematics,
University of Arizona |
| JF Toland |
Department of Mathematical Sciences,
University of Bath |
| JJ Turner |
Department of Chemistry,
University of Nottingham
|
| H Zhou |
Department of Mechanics,
Tianjin University |
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