期刊名称：BIOFABRICATION
 期刊简介(About the journal)
投稿须知(Instructions to Authors)
编辑部信息(Editorial Board)
About the journal
The scope of Biofabrication focuses on the state-of-the-art research and development of biomanufacturing processes, process science, modeling and design. That is, using cells, proteins and biomaterials as building blocks to manufacture biological systems and/or therapeutic products. It includes the following topics:
Integrated bio/micro- and nano-fabrication
cell as production plant
stem cell fabrication
nano-fiber electro-span for tissue scaffolds/nano-particle application
bio-manufacturing enabled by nanotechnology
engineering 'active and reactive' interfaces among nano structures within hierarchical bio structures, devices and systems
design, modeling and manufacturing of biomedical systems incorporating nanocomponents
enabling bio-nanomanufacturing tools and technologies for biomedicine
metrology for testing bio-nano products
Cell, tissue and organ printing, patterning and assemblies
for tissue substitutes and tissue analogs and tissue precursors
as in vitro disease model, pathogenesis model, and tissue/organ assemblies for drug screening, metabolism, and animal testing
Protein/biomolecules printing and patterning
micro-array
drug delivery
Cell/protein-integrated biological systems
biochips and biosensors
micro-fluidic devices
lab-cell/tissue/organ-on-a-chip
3D tissue scaffold fabrication
direct and indirect fabrication methods
novel processes for complex scaffolds and surface modification
Abstracted in
ISI (Science Citation Index®, Journal Citation Reports/Science Edition, Biotechnology Citation Index®, Biological Abstracts, BIOSIS Previews)
PubMed/MEDLINE
Inspec
Compendex
Chemical Abstracts Service
INIS Atomindex (International Nuclear Information System)
NASA Astrophysics Data System
Instructions to Authors
Please read these guidelines carefully and familiarize yourself with the style and editorial policies of your chosen journal by examining the online version and taking a look at the Featured Articles. It is important to check that your research fits well into the scope of your chosen journal before you submit it. You are also advised to read the IOP ethical policy. If you have any queries, please contact us.
Your article should normally consist of the following:
a title page with title of article, name(s) of author(s) and address(es) of establishment(s) where the work was carried out
an abstract
the text
figures
a list of references
The following sections give a brief overview of the main elements or structure of an article. Read them first.
You can find more detail in our LaTeX and Word guidelines which are presented in the style of a typical article.
Title page
Title of article
This should be concise but informative.
Authors and addresses
For multiple-authored articles list the names of all the authors first, followed by the full postal addresses, using superscript numeric identifiers to link an author with an address, where necessary (see LaTeX and Word guidelines). If an author's present address is different from the address at which the work was carried out, this should be given as a footnote to the page. You can also include e-mail addresses, telephone numbers and fax numbers on the title page.
Short title
This is used at the top of odd-numbered pages in the printed journal and should not exceed 80 characters. You do not need to provide short titles for Fast Track Communications, Rapid Communications or Topical Reviews.
Classification numbers
Many of our journals use the Physics and Astronomy Classification Scheme (PACS), published by the American Institute of Physics to help with the refereeing process. We therefore ask you to supply a list of appropriate classification numbers. You do not need to supply classification numbers when submitting to Physics Education. When submitting to Inverse Problems and Nonlinearity you should include suitable classification numbers from either the Physics and Astronomy scheme or the Mathematics Subject Classification (MSC), but MSC is preferred. You should include a list of keywords when submitting to Measurement Science and Technology, Physics in Medicine and Biology and Physiological Measurement.
Abstract
Your abstract should give readers concise information about the content of your article. It should be informative and not only indicate the general scope of the article but also state the main results obtained and conclusions drawn. As the abstract is not part of the text it should be complete in itself; no table numbers, figure numbers, references or displayed mathematical expressions should be included. It should be suitable for direct inclusion in abstracting services and should not normally exceed 200 words. If the article is not in English, an English version of the abstract must also be supplied.
When readers are searching for information online, an abstract of an article is likely to be the first thing they see. Consequently your abstract needs to be concise but convey as much information as possible about the content of your article.
Text
Research papers and review articles can be divided into numbered sections and subsections.
You should use tables only to improve conciseness or where the information cannot be given satisfactorily in other ways such as by histograms or graphs. Tables should be numbered serially and referred to in the text by number (table 1, etc). Each table should have an explanatory caption which should be as concise as possible.
If your article consists of a very large amount of tabular material such as long lists of crystallographic results, computer programs and spectrographic results we would not normally publish these in full. Instead these may be published online as supplementary data files.
In terms of general style, conciseness in writing helps the reader, but clarity is most important. Short sentences and paragraphs make reading easier. You should aim for consistency within your article in matters such as hyphenation and spelling.
All acronyms and abbreviations should be clearly explained when they first appear in the text, and all units used should be consistent throughout the article.
If English is not your first language, you should ask an English speaking colleague to read through your article or at least apply a UK English spellchecker to your article.
Mathematics
Detailed information on the presentation of mathematics, formulae and equations is provided in our LaTeX and Word guidelines.
References
It is vitally important to fully acknowledge all relevant work and we advise that you also consult our ethical policy for general guidance on compiling your reference list.
A complete reference should provide your reader with enough information to locate the article concerned and should consist of: name(s) and initials, date published, title of journal or book, volume number, editors (if any) and, for books, town of publication and publisher (in parentheses), and finally the page numbers. Where there are up to ten authors, all authors' names should be given in the reference list. Where there are more than ten authors, only the first name should appear followed by et al.
You should take particular care to ensure that the information is correct so that links to referenced articles can be made successfully.
Material which is really a footnote to the text should not be included in the reference list, which should contain only references to bibliographic data.
Copies of cited publications not yet available publicly should be submitted for the benefit of the referees. Unpublished results and lectures should be cited for exceptional reasons only.
Before submitting your article, please ensure you have done a literature search to check for any relevant references you may have missed.
Journal specific notes:
It can be helpful to include first and last page numbers, particularly for review articles and for journals such as Reports on Progress in Physics; final page numbers are a requirement for submissions to Physics in Medicine and Biology and Physiological Measurement.
Inverse Problems, Journal of Neural Engineering, Measurement Science and Technology, Physical Biology, Physics in Medicine and Biology and Physiological Measurement require titles of articles in journals in their reference lists.
You can use either of the referencing systems, alphabetical (Harvard) or numerical (Vancouver), described below, except for Physics in Medicine and Biology and Physiological Measurement, which insist on the Harvard system.
For articles prepared in LaTeX, please use the tools provided in your LaTeX class file (for example IOP's recommended class file). For articles prepared using Microsoft Word, please refer to the detailed Word guidelines, which contain much more detail with examples.
Alphabetical system (Harvard)
In the Harvard alphabetical system the name of the author appears in the text together with the year of publication, e.g. (Smith 2001) or Smith (2001) (as appropriate). Where there are only two authors both names should be given in the text (Smith and Jones 2001) or Smith and Jones (2001); however, if there are more than two authors only the first name should appear followed by et al, (Smith et al 2001) or Smith et al (2001). If you refer to different works by one author or group of authors in the same year they should be differentiated by including a, b, etc after the date (e.g. 2001a). If you refer to different pages of the same article, the page number may be given in the text, e.g. Smith (2001, p 39). The reference list at the end of your article using this system should be in alphabetical order.
Numerical system (Vancouver)
In the numerical system you should number your references sequentially through the text. The numbers should be given in square brackets and one number can be used to refer to several instances of the same reference. The reference list at the end of the article lists the references in numerical order, not alphabetically.
Figures
Carefully chosen and well-prepared figures, such as diagrams and photos, can greatly enhance your article. We encourage you to prepare figures that are clear, easy to read and of the best possible quality. Characters should appear as they would be set in the main body of the article. We will normally use figures as submitted; it is therefore your responsibility to ensure that they are legible and technically correct.
Note: If you are intending to use previously published figures, you must obtain written permission from the copyright holder before using them in your article.
To get the best possible results in print and online, please consider the following points when preparing your figure files:
Shading and fill patterns should be avoided wherever possible because diagrams containing them have to be printed as half-tones and undesirable interference patterns may be produced on printing.
Readers of your online article will probably download and print it on a black and white printer which may make coloured lines difficult to distinguish. To avoid this problem, please consider identifying curves by methods other than colour, for example: by letters (upper case Roman), by the symbols used for the data points (e.g.*, ) or by the type of line (e.g. --, full curve; - - - , broken curve; - · - · -, chain curve).
When producing figures using colours, light colours such as yellow, light green, light blue, light grey, etc should be avoided because they generally reproduce poorly during the black and white printing process.
Wherever possible electronic figures should be tightly cropped to minimize superfluous white space surrounding them. This reduces file sizes and helps the alignment of figures on the printed page.
Detailed information on common graphic formats and their preparation with examples are provided in our graphics guidelines.
Colour figures
The use of colour in figures can enhance the effective presentation of results, and there are no restrictions on the use of colour in the online version of your article. However, because conventional full-colour printing remains an expensive process, we must ask you (or your institution) to pay the additional costs incurred (i.e. the costs over and above the cost of normal black-on-white reproduction) if you also require colour in the printed version of your article. An estimate of the charges for your article can be obtained from the Publishing Administrator of the journal.
Exceptions:
There are no charges for colour reproduction of figures in the printed versions of Nanotechnology and Modelling and Simulation in Materials Science and Engineering when the use of colour is clearly required to further understanding and communication.
Physics Education is published in full colour throughout and authors are encouraged to submit photographs and illustrations in colour wherever possible.
There is no additional charge for offprints of articles containing colour figures, but authors are reminded that these must be ordered by the time proofs are returned; reprints produced after publication are very expensive.
If you need further information or guidance, please contact the journal.
Figure captions
Your figures should be numbered in the order in which they are referred to in the text. If there is more than one part to a figure (e.g. figure 1(a), figure 1(b) etc), the parts should be identified by a lower-case letter in parentheses close to or within the area of the figure. Captions should be included in the text and not in the graphics files.
Micrographs should include a scale bar of appropriate size, e.g. 1 m.
Supplementary data
All of our journals encourage authors to submit supplementary data attachments to enhance the online versions of published research articles. Supplementary data enhancements typically consist of video clips, animations or supplementary data such as data files, tables of extra information or extra figures. They can add to the reader's understanding and present results in attractive ways that go beyond what can be presented in the print version of the journal.
The printed journal remains the archival version, and supplementary data items are supplements which enhance a reader's understanding of the article but are not essential to that understanding. For electronic-only journals, supplementary data attachments may be used to convey essential information.
Length of submissions
Most journals have guidelines for the maximum recommended length of each different type of article, as detailed in the scope available from the journal's homepage. It is important that you follow these guidelines when preparing your submission.
The length of an article can be calculated by allowing 600 words per page in a B5-sized journal or 900 words per page in an A4-sized journal. Diagrams and tables usually occupy the equivalent of 200-300 words each, and you should allow for this in your total.
What files to submit
We encourage you to send us your article in electronic form so it can be refereed without postal delays and be published more quickly.
You are welcome to send PDF and PS files of your article, but all the separate text and figure files for your article must also be supplied because:
The PDFs we send to referees are built to our own IOP standards.
If your article is accepted for publication, we need the separate files to make the production stage quicker.
The guidelines below provide the essential information you need to prepare your article in a form that will enable us to most efficiently process your submission.
Naming your files
Please name all your files according to the following guidelines:
use only characters from the set a to z, A to Z, 0 to 9 and underscore (_);
do not use spaces in file names;
include an extension to indicate the file type (e.g., .doc, .txt, .eps, etc);
do not use any accented characters; for example, à, ê, ñ, ö, ý, etc because these can cause difficulties when processing your files.
In addition to the above points, please give figure files names which indicate the numbers of the figures they contain; for example, figure1.eps, figure2.tif, figure2a.gif etc. If a figure file contains a figure with multiple parts, for example figure 2(a) to 2(e), give it a name such as figure2a_2e.jpg, and so forth.
Article text files
TeX and LaTeX
The text of articles may be submitted in any common variant of TeX including LaTeX 2e, REVTeX, AmSTeX, AmSLaTeX and plain TeX.
Full details and a sample article prepared in LaTeX can be found in our LaTeX guidelines.
A class file for preparing articles using LaTeX 2e is also available for download.
We have copies of the common packages and class files, and these should not normally need to be sent. If, however, you are using uncommon, customized or personal files then these should be included along with your submission.
Microsoft Word
We are able to receive articles prepared using Microsoft Word for Windows or Macintosh.
Full details and a sample article prepared in Word can be found in our Word guidelines.
Fonts used should be restricted to the standard font families (Times, Helvetica, Courier or Symbol). For full details, please refer to our Word guidelines.
If special symbols are needed (e.g. Greek characters, accented characters or mathematical symbols) these should be typed using the appropriate TrueType font. Do not use the Symbol facility on the 'Insert' menu as this often results in font conversion problems.
Equations must be prepared using Microsoft Word Equation Editor or the full commercial MathType package.
Adobe Acrobat PDF
The Adobe Acrobat PDF format is suitable for the refereeing process but not the production process. Therefore PDF files should only be supplied in addition to the separate text and figure files for your article.
Fonts used should be restricted to the standard font families (Times, Helvetica, Courier or Symbol).
Figure files
For articles prepared using Microsoft Word, please make sure all graphics are fully embedded in the Word document and supplied as separate files where possible. For full details, please refer to our graphics guidelines.
For articles prepared using LaTeX2e, please make sure that your figures are all supplied as EPS and linked to your main TeX files using appropriate figure inclusion commands such as \includegraphics. For full details, please refer to our graphics guidelines.
Our preferred graphics format is vector Encapsulated PostScript (EPS). These files can be used directly to give high quality results and file sizes are small in comparison with most bitmap forms. Most graphics software has the facility to save as or export as EPS.
Vector formats
The advantage of vector graphics is that they give the best possible quality at all output resolutions.
In order to get the best possible results, please note the following important points:
Fonts used should be restricted to the standard font families (Times, Helvetica, Courier or Symbol).
If vector EPS files include bitmap information, the bitmap should conform to the specification given in the section on bitmap formats.
Certain proprietary vector graphics formats such as Origin, Kaleidagraph, Cricket Graph and Gnu Plot should not be sent in their native format. If you do use these applications to create your figures, please export them as EPS.
For full details, please refer to our graphics guidelines.
Bitmap formats
Unlike vector images, which are readily scaleable, bitmap images frequently present quality problems in the production of printed and electronic versions of our journals. Quality is basically dependent on two attributes of a bitmap graphics file: resolution and size (bitmap dimensions in pixels). Low resolution files do not reproduce well, especially when enlarged. Files with small bitmap dimensions are frequently too small to reproduce well at the resolution required for printing and suffer an unacceptable reduction in quality if enlarged. For these reasons, black and white, greyscale and colour bitmap graphics files should all have a resolution of at least 300 dpi (preferably 600 dpi for black and white bitmap graphics files). In addition, the bitmap dimensions should be sufficient to produce an image of adequate size (normally 3 to 6 inches wide, or 900 to 1800 pixels for a 300 dpi image).
Files in most bitmap formats are acceptable, including: TIFF (this is our preferred bitmap format), BMP, GIF and JPEG.
But please note that if your GIF and JPEG graphics files have been derived from Web sites they may not suitable for printing purposes as they are generally specified at only screen resolution (72 dpi).
Note: If you intend to supply your figures as JPEG files, the following points are important:
The JPEG compression method discards image data and is referred to as 'lossy' compression. When saving directly from an application it is better to choose a loss-less format such as TIFF.
Although a 'higher quality' compression setting in your software results in less data being discarded, JPEG compression may degrade details in an image-particularly in images that contain type or vector art.
Do not repeatedly resave a JPEG file because the loss of image data occurs each time you resave the image. Always save JPEG files from the original (non-JPEG) image, not from a previously saved JPEG.
Note on file sizes: For information on how to avoid unnecessarily large bitmap files, please see our graphics guidelines.
Supplementary data files
Video clips and animation
Acceptable formats for video or animation clips are MPEG, QuickTime, Windows AVI or Animated GIF.
Your video or animation clips are intended for internet use via our Web server, and we need to consider the needs of users with slow internet connections (e.g. modem-based users) so that your work can be made available to the widest possible readership.
Please aim to minimize file sizes and data rates, by considering the following points:
480 x 360 pixels is the recommended maximum frame size.
A recommended frame rate is 12-15 frames per second (fps). (Many packages output 30 fps as standard, but you can specify a lower frame rate.)
Use a 256 colour palette if that is suitable for the presentation of the material.
Please consider the use of lower specifications for all these points if the material can still be represented clearly. Our recommended maximum file size is 3MB. Our recommended maximum data rate is 150 KB/s.
The various formats have different characteristics that you should consider when choosing the format for your material:
MPEG
Suitable for photo-realistic material.
Requires users to have a third party viewer.
We recommend MPEG 1.
The MPEG standard is specified in terms of millions of colours and at least 24 fps, so you cannot choose lower specifications for these settings.
QuickTime and Windows AVI
Suitable for computer-generated material.
Requires users to have a third party viewer.
We recommend the Cinepak codec for compression. This provides good compression and, importantly, it is widely supported.
You can often consider the use of a 256 colour palette for computer-generated material.
As a general rule, we recommend using Quality 75%.
Animated GIF
Suitable for computer-generated material.
Animations may be rendered directly in a Web browser without the need for a third party viewer.
Please use only standard GIF functions as some browsers don't support the whole GIF 89 standard.
Because GIF compression is not good, consider small frame sizes and low frame rates.
Since the printed journal is the archival copy, a representative frame from your movie or animation should be included in the manuscript as a figure. Include the file size and type of the supplementary data file in the figure caption.
Supplementary data
Data files or extra figures can be submitted in any of the usual formats (PDF, Word, TeX, EPS, GIF, TIFF, etc). In addition, we are happy to consider output files from specialized data processing software and computer program codes. As we will not always be able to check the contents of data files, we request that authors also submit a 'read-me' file containing brief instructions on how to use the file, and a signed statement confirming that the material is as stated and is pertinent to the article. Supplementary data submitted as figures, TeX or Word will appear in the electronic journal in PDF format; specialized files will be offered in their original form.
How to submit
For most IOP journals, you should send your article files directly to us; however, for a small number of journals there is a different submission address (see the Exceptions section below).
We encourage you to send us your article in electronic form (guidelines in What files to submit) so that it can be refereed without postal delays and be published more quickly. You can do this via the Web, e-mail or FTP.
We strongly recommend that you submit via the Web using our online submission form, because this method is most efficient and therefore quickest to publication.
If you are a new author, we will setup a personal author homepage for you as soon as we receive your article. Using your personal author homepage, you will be able to track the progress of your article, respond to the referee reports, submit your revised version and make sure your accepted article is ready for publication.
Because your personal author homepage is integrated with our publishing systems, it will enable us to provide you with the quickest and most efficient service throughout the publication process.
There is no need to supply hard copies of the manuscript, provided that it has been prepared according to the guidelines in the What files to submit section above. Please submit all the components necessary to generate a complete printed version of your article together with any supplementary data enhancements.
For all submissions, please use the following procedure:
1. Prepare your submission information
You are required to provide us with important information about your submission and article to allow us to process it correctly.
For Web submissions you can type these details into the online submission form. For e-mail submissions, send the submission information as the main body text of the e-mail. For FTP and disk submissions, create an ASCII text file called readme.txt and include it with your submission. For hard copy submissions, please include a typed sheet with your manuscript.
The following information should be included:
Article submitted by: your full name
Postal address where we can contact you while your article is being processed
E-mail address, and phone and fax numbers where we can contact you
Journal submitted to: the name of the journal to which you are submitting the article
Article title: the full title of your article
Authors: full list of authors
Article type: Fast Track Communication, Paper, etc
Status of article: new, revised, resubmitted or accepted
Reference number: if revised, or accepted
Classification scheme used: e.g. PACS or MSC
Classification numbers: the classification numbers relevant to your article
Keywords: a list of keywords for your article
Special issue details (if applicable): tell us the title of the special issue your article is intended for
Colour printing (this may be chargeable): tell us if you want colour figures printed in colour
Permission to reproduce published material: tell us if your article contains previously published material that will require permission from the original author and publisher
Article file format: the file format of your article text file, e.g. Word, TeX, LaTeX, REVTeX
Number of figures: the number of separate figure files
Number of supplementary data files: the number of separate supplementary data files
Suggested referees (optional): the names and addresses of potential referees who could provide an independent assessment of your article
2. Archive and compress your files for electronic submission
Combine all your files (article text, graphics files and, if applicable, the readme.txt file) into a single compressed archive file for ease of handling and to save you time and space. IOP supports all common compression formats including WinZip, PKZip, tar+gzip etc. Please name the resulting file filename.ext where the first four characters of filename are the first four characters of your surname and the last four are the current day and month in MMDD format (e.g. smit0531) and .ext is an extension (maximum three letters) denoting the file type (e.g. zip for a PKZip file, sit for a Stuffit file, .uu for a uuencoded file). If you have any difficulty archiving your files, please contact us for assistance (esubs@iop.org).
Revised versions: If you are submitting a revised version of your article, please remember to include a list of changes and, if applicable, replies to the referees.
For articles prepared using Microsoft Word, please make sure all graphics are fully embedded in the Word document and supplied as separate files where possible. For full details, please refer to our graphics guidelines.
For articles prepared using LaTeX2e, please make sure that your figures are all supplied as EPS and linked to your main TeX files using appropriate figure inclusion commands such as \includegraphics. For full details, please refer to our graphics guidelines.
3. Send us your article
There are a number of alternative methods of submission, which are described below.
If you have any queries, questions or suggestions for electronic submission, then please contact our Electronic Services Specialists by e-mail: esubs@iop.org
Web
We strongly recommend that you submit via the Web using our online submission form, because this method is most efficient and therefore quickest to publication.
All common web browsers are supported, including Netscape (version 7 or higher) and Internet Explorer (version 5 or higher).
There are two different submission procedures - one for new authors that do not yet have a personal author homepage and one for returning authors for whom we have setup personal author homepages.
If you are submitting via Author services for the first time:
Please use our online submission form.
Once you have chosen the journal to which you are submitting, the submission procedure is in two steps:
Step 1: Enter article details
By giving us as much information about your submission as possible you can help us avoid problems later in the publication process and your article will be more likely to be published quickly.
Step 2: Upload files
You can either upload your article files from your local drive or, if your article has already been posted to the arXiv.org e-print archive, you can upload the files from there. (Note. Please allow enough time for arXiv to process and release your files before you submit to us. If you do not do this, we may not receive the correct version from arXiv. See http://arxiv.org/help/submit#availability for details.)
By ensuring that your article files are complete and accurate you can help us avoid problems later in the publication process and your article will be more likely to be published quickly.
If you are a returning author:
First, login to your personal author homepage using the username and password we have sent you. Then click on the 'Submit an article' link in the lefthand panel.
Once you have chosen the journal to which you are submitting, the submission procedure is in three steps:
Step 1: Enter article details
By giving us as much information about your submission as possible you can help us avoid problems later in the publication process and your article will be more likely to be published quickly.
Step 2: Upload files
You can either upload your article files from your local drive or, if your article has already been posted to the arXiv.org e-print archive, you can upload the files from there. (Note. Please allow enough time for arXiv to process and release your files before you submit to us. If you do not do this, we may not receive the correct version from arXiv. See http://arxiv.org/help/submit#availability for details.)
IOP uses PDF files for all aspects of the peer-review and production processes: they can either be built by us or supplied by you.
There are several options for you to tell us how to manage the files you upload:
Build PDF online now. Enables you to approve a PDF of your manuscript built online using your electronic files. (Your article will begin the peer-review process immediately.)
Send files to IOP and build PDF offline. Enables you to send your electronic files for IOP staff to build and check a PDF. (This method will take a little longer.)
Use your existing PDF. If you have uploaded a PDF of your complete manuscript with your electronic files, this option enables you to ask us to check and use it. (This method will take a little longer.)
If you choose to build a PDF online, an 'Organize files' screen enables you to select and classify the files you want to build into the PDF.
Whichever option you choose, your article files are transferred to our server in this step, but await checking and finalisation by you in the third step.
Step 3: Finish submission
This step enables you to check the article details you have given us and the article files you have uploaded.
If you have chosen to build a PDF of your manuscript online, you can check and approve the PDF we have built for you. Please check that you are happy with the text and figures but do not concern yourself with changes in formatting such as font sizes and line or page breaks. If you are happy with the manuscript PDF produced, press the ‘Send PDF’ button to send the manuscript PDF and your electronic files to us. Your article will begin the peer-review process immediately. Alternatively, if you are not happy with your manuscript PDF, you can try changing your article files by pressing the ‘Change’ button, or you can press the ‘Send article file’ button to send your electronic files for our staff to process.
If you are not ready to finish your submission, you can save as draft and return to your homepage later to complete the submission.
By checking that your article details and article files are complete and accurate you can help us avoid problems later in the publication process and your article will be more likely to be published quickly.
E-mail
Send your article's single compressed archive file as an attachment to an e-mail to the journal's e-mail address (see the journal's homepage) with the words 'electronic submission' in the subject line. Please do not send each of your text and graphics files as separate e-mails as this causes a considerable delay in processing your submission.
Note: Some e-mail systems have a file size limit, for example 1 MB. If this is the case for your e-mail system, files that are larger than 1 MB after compression should not be split into multiple parts, but should be sent using our online submission form, FTP or on disk.
FTP
Send your article's single compressed archive file by anonymous FTP to ftp.iop.org.
Please log on with username anonymous and use your e-mail address as the password.
Change to the /incoming directory.
Change to the directory of the journal to which you wish to submit.
Upload your compressed file using the appropriate commands for your FTP software. Make sure that ASCII files are sent as text only while other files are sent as binary.
Once you are satisfied that your file has been uploaded correctly, disconnect from the FTP server. An automatic program runs periodically to check the /incoming directory for new uploads: it will move your files to a separate, secure directory to be processed. Your file will remain in the /incoming directory for no more than 90 minutes.
Disk
Send your article's single compressed archive file on:
3.5 inch floppy disk (MS-DOS or Macintosh formatted)
Zip disk (PC or Macintosh)
CD-Rom
Please label your disk with the journal name, date and the name of the first author.
Hard copy
If it is not possible or practical for you to use electronic submission, you can send us your article conventionally by mail in hard copy form. Some of our external journals insist upon hard copy submission (see the Exceptions section).
You need to send the following material:
One single-sided copy of the manuscript including the submission information detailed in Prepare your submission information.
One set of good-quality copies of all figures, suitable for reproduction (see the section on preparing your Figures). On line diagrams, please ensure that labelling, line thickness and other detail are clear and bold so that we can digitize them successfully. If photographs are included these should be supplied as good-quality glossy prints (not negatives or slides). Please mark your figures clearly with your name and figure number.
A completed Assignment of Copyright form
Copies of any referenced articles that are unpublished or may be hard to obtain but would be vital to the refereeing process.
Please supply an e-mail address or fax number at which you may be contacted.
Please pack your typescript carefully. Use stiff card to protect the typescript and pack it in a padded or reinforced envelope.
Authors from outside Western Europe should ensure that their articles are sent by airmail; delays caused by the use of surface mail can be very considerable.
4. Send us your signed Assignment of Copyright form
Please note that a signed hard-copy version of the Assignment of Copyright is always required, regardless of submission method (see our guidelines in Copyright, reproduction and permissions).
Acknowledgment of electronic submissions
Successful receipt and processing of your electronic submission will be manually acknowledged by the Electronic Services Specialist by e-mail. If you do not receive this notification within one week then you should contact the Electronic Services Specialist (esubs@iop.org). Shortly afterwards you will receive a further acknowledgement from the Publishing Administrator when your article has been assigned a reference number.
Exceptions
In the case of Chinese Physics, Chinese Physics Letters, Europhysics Letters, Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, Journal of High Energy Physics, Journal of Physics Conference Series, Journal of Statistical Mechanics: Theory and Experiment and Metrologia, submissions should not be sent directly to IOP. The procedures for submission are given both on the respective journal homepage and in the printed versions of the journals.
Articles for consideration by Chinese Physics and Chinese Physics Letters must be submitted in hard copy form.
Details of the hard copy material required are given in the section Send us your article and submission addresses are given on the relevant journal's homepage. Please send your electronic files on acceptance or when requested by the Editor.
Editorial Board
Editor-in-Chief
W Sun Drexel University, PA, USA
Editorial Board
P Bartolo Instituto Politecnico de Leiria, Portugal
W E Bentley University of Maryland, College Park, USA
T Boland University of Texas at El Paso, USA
S Chen University of California, San Diego, USA
B N Chichkov Laser Zentrum Hannover eV, Hannover, Germany
D-W Cho Pohang University of Science and Technology, Korea
D Chrisey Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, NY, USA
B Derby University of Manchester, UK
J H Elisseeff Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA
G Forgacs University of Missouri, Columbia, USA
F Guillemot INSERM—University of Bordeaux, France
S J Hollister University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA
I-M Hsing Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, China
D W Hutmacher Queensland University of Technology, Australia
C A Kelley NIH/DHHS, Bethesda, MD, USA
A Khademhosseini Harvard Medical School, Cambridge, MA, USA
W D Kim Korea Institute of Machinery & Materials, Daejeon, Korea
D Li Xi'an Jiaotong University, China
W Li University of Washington, Seattle, USA
F Lin Tsinghua University, China
J Mao Columbia University, NY, USA
T McAllister Cytograft Tissue Engineering Inc., Novato, CA, USA
V Mironov Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, USA
M Nakamura University of Toyama, Japan
G F Payne University of Maryland, College Park, USA
B Ravi Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai, India
D W Rosen Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, USA
A J Shih University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA
P Vadgama Queen Mary College, London, UK
C Wang Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China
L E Weiss Carnegie-Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
X Wen Clemson University and Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, USA
X Zhang Boston University, USA
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