期刊名称：PROCEEDINGS 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
Proceedings A publishes refereed research papers in the mathematical, physical and engineering sciences. The emphasis is on new, emerging areas of interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary research. The Editor will also consider short reviews, but only if they contain original and interesting new ideas.
With its worldwide circulation and highly respected scholarly reputation, Proceedings A is essential reading for mathematicians, physicists, engineers and other physical scientists.
This journal is covered in the following:
Applied Mechanics Reviews, Chemical Abstracts, Current Contents, Engineering Index Monthly, Excerpta Medica, Mathematical Reviews, Metals Abstracts, INSPEC (The Institution of Electrical Engineers) (1968- ), Research Alert (Philadelphia), British and Irish Archaeological Bibliography, Oceanographic Literature Review, Fluidex, Forest Products Abstracts, Geographical Abstracts: Human Geography, Bibliography and Index of Geology (Also known as GeoRef), Compumath Citation Index, Chemistry Citation Index, Geomechanics Abstracts, Engineered Materials Abstracts, Mass Spectrometry Bulletin, Petroleum Abstracts, Index to Scientific Reviews, Metals Abstracts Index, Mineralogical Abstracts, Nonferrous Metals Alert, Polymers, Ceramics, Composites Alert, Steels Alert, Science Citation Index, World Aluminum Abstracts, Geological Abstracts
Instructions to Authors
1. GENERAL
Proceedings A is published monthly, and welcomes original papers on any aspect of mathematical and physical sciences, including chemistry and engineering, and papers of an interdisciplinary nature.
The maximum paper length is 20 printed pages (based upon approximately 640 words or 2 figures per page). Papers exceeding this limit will incur page charges of ?0 per page or part page, plus VAT (@17.5%). Papers estimated as being longer than 30 printed pages will not be considered and will be returned to the author. Short papers (up to 10 printed pages) are especially welcome. If accepted, they can be published within three months of receipt as Rapid Communications (the author should state if this rapid route is required). These should contain reports of completed work; preliminary reports (`letters') are not encouraged. The Editor will also consider short reviews, but only if they contain original and interesting new ideas.
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 Proceedings 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. Acceptance of a paper will be determined by its quality and interest.
2. SUBMISSION
Papers should be submitted electronically via the Internet - simply register with the ESPERE server and upload your paper. We accept papers formatted as Adobe PDF? Authors should consult our guidelines on the Submission of Electronic papers, and in particular notes on Preparing an Acrobat PDF file. Please note that PDF will only be used for the review process - if accepted we will require your paper prepared in accordance with our Instructions to Authors.
Note: authors have the facility to provide additional information (appendices, potential referees, etc). When uploading your paper, simply upload a "Covering Message file".
Authors are encouraged to suggest the names of referees on the understanding that the Society has the final decision on the selection of referees. Please indicate to whom correspondence and page proofs should be addressed, and include daytime telephone and fax numbers, and contact email addresses.
Copies of documents on disk should NOT be supplied until the paper has been accepted. Once accepted and finalized, the paper is passed to our Journals Production Office (tel +44 (0)20 451 2642 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. ACCEPTED PAPERS ON DISK
Upon acceptance submit the final version along with separate disks for both the text and figures. Please check that the disks match the printout. 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. 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 the 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 be sent only when the paper is accepted and 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 98PA99 should be labeled 98PA99.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.
6. 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.
7. COLOUR
Proceedings 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, and if authors make an explicit case to the Editor explaining why they are unable to obtain the necessary funds.
8. 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).
9. 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 initial
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:
- Kumar, S. 2001 Parametric instability of a liquid sheet. Proc. R. Soc. Lond. A 457, 1315?326. (DOI 10.1098/rspa.2000.0724.)
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).
10. 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 are liable for the cost of significant alterations to their proofs.
Fifty offprints of each paper are supplied free of charge; further copies may be ordered at cost at proof stage.
11. 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 Proceedings 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 Trevor Stuart
Editorial & Reviews Co-ordinator:
Tim Holt
Editorial Board
| SJ Bell Burnell |
Faculty of Science Office,
University of Bath |
| CG Caro |
Department of Biological and Medical Systems,
Imperial College |
| JR Cash |
Department of Mathematics,
Imperial College |
| JH Coates |
Department of Pure Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics,
University of Cambridge |
| AG Constantinides |
Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering,
Imperial College |
| W Craig |
Department of Mathematics and Statistics,
McMaster University |
| SH Davis |
Department of Engineering Sciences and Applied Mathematics,
Northwestern University |
| RJ Donnelly |
Department of Physics,
University of Oregon |
| AK Ekert |
Department of Physics,
University of Oxford |
| AS Fokas |
Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics,
University of Cambridge |
| LB Freund |
Division of Engineering,
Brown University |
| VS Isham |
Department of Statistical Science,
University College London |
| R Jeltsch |
Seminar for Applied Mathematics,
ETH-Zurich |
| C Jordan |
Department of Physics,
University of Oxford |
| JF Knott |
School of Metallurgy and Materials,
University of Birmingham |
| RC McPhedran |
Department of Theoretical Physics,
University of Sydney |
| L Mahadevan |
Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences,
Harvard University |
| NS Manton |
Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics,
University of Cambridge |
| PA Martin |
Mathematics and Computer Sciences,
Colorado School of Mines |
| HK Moffatt |
Isaac Newton Institute, Cambridge |
| T Mullin |
Department of Physics and Astronomy,
University of Manchester |
| H Ockendon |
Mathematics Institute,
University of Oxford |
| RW Ogden |
Department of Mathematics,
University of Glasgow |
| S Sarkar |
Department of Physics,
King's College London |
| LA Segal |
Department of Computer Science and Applied Maths,
The Weizmann Institute of Science |
| J Stark |
Department of Mathematics,
Imperial College |
| LN Trefethen |
Computing Laboratory,
University of Oxford |
| JG Williams |
Department of Mechanical Engineering,
Imperial College |
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