期刊名称：RIVISTA DEL NUOVO CIMENTO
 期刊简介(About the journal)
投稿须知(Instructions to Authors)
编辑部信息(Editorial Board)
About the journal
Rivista del Nuovo Cimento
Starting from 1969 "Rivista del Nuovo Cimento" has taken the place of the "Supplemento al Nuovo Cimento". While the latter had been published as a collection of monographs or congress papers with no specific periodicity, the "Rivista", at first introduced as a three-monthly journal of review articles, has now turned into a monthly journal of monographs. It deals with topics of particular scientific interest and with up-to-date issues pertaining to different fields of physics.
These monographs, which illustrate the state of the art of specific topics of relevant importance in modern physics, usually are invited papers.
Instructions to Authors
Preparing the manuscript
In preparing your article you are requested to follow these guidelines as closely as possible, particularly with regard to the reference list. This will minimize copy editing and will hasten publication process.
Title page
The title page should include:
- The title set in bold (initial word only is capitalized), mathematical expressions and formulas within the title shall be left in light face.
- A shortened version of the title for running headers (only if the title itself cannot be used as short title: it should not exceed 70 printed characters, spaces included).
- Initials of the authors' first name followed by last names (please specify if you want first name to appear in full).
- Affiliations. If they are more than one, please clearly identify them by superscript numbers that must be appended to the author names accordingly.
Main text
The text can be divided into first- and second-level numbered sections.
Note that English spellings are preferred (colour, flavour, behaviour, tunneling, artefact, fibre, metre, centre, etc.). Compound words beginning with "non" or "self" are hyphenated.
The words: figure, equation and reference may be abbreviated as fig., eq. (eqs.), ref. only if they are not first word of a sentence. The word table is written in full.
Authors who have access to italic and boldface should use them to identify physical and mathematical variables according to the following rules.
Units, chemical formulas, abbreviations should be typeset in roman while mathematical symbols in Italics (vectors and tensors are set in boldface roman; when it is essential to distinguish between them, sans serif may be used for tensors).
However, there are some cases in which it is necessary to use a roman font also for mathematical symbols: the differentials , and the mathematical functions, cos, sin, exp, det, ker, ln; tr, O (for traces and orders); Im and Re (for imaginary and real); letters or abbreviations used as sub- or superscripts to variables, but serving merely as label, e.g., (a = adsorbed) , , etc.
Equations are numbered on the left with arabic consecutive numerals in parentheses.
The contractions i.e., e.g., et al., should appear in italics not in roman.
Exponential expressions are clearer in the notation especially the long ones or those containing subscripts or superscripts; for simple expressions we accept also .
It is important to distinguish between and .
For single fraction in the text, use the solidus, instead of fraction. Use parentheses whenever necessary to avoid ambiguity, for example to distinguish between 1/(n-1) ( ) and 1/n-1 ( ). Exceptions are the proper fractions , or which are better left in this form.
For usual units, use the standard SI abbreviations, unusual units may be written in full at least at first place of mention.
Using marginal notes if necessary, clear distinctions should be made in manuscript between characters that may be easily confused. Example: upper-case I, lower-case l and number 1; O and 0; p and ; lower-case v and Greek ; X and ; x and .
Footnotes and appendices
Footnotes should be kept to a minimum and numbered consecutively with arabic numerals as superscript in parentheses.
For note added after submission, you can use the notation note added in proofs in italics with the text in a smaller type run on. Use appendices only if vital to the understanding of complex formulas and in this case treat them as normal sections.
Figure and Table captions
They should be on a separate sheet. Each caption should be written as a single paragraph without indentation. Note that table captions are to be typeset in italics while figure captions are in roman. Figures should be numbered with arabic numerals and tables should be numbered with roman numerals.
Artworks
Remember that the final quality of illustrations depends on the quality of the original artwork.
Line drawings.
Good quality figures have the following characteristics: they should be produced with good quality laser printer (at least 600 dpi); lines, numbers, and symbols should be black, sharp and of uniform strength.
After reduction all details of the figure should still be visible and all labelling legible. Avoid too thin continuous or dotted lines or too heavy lettering and thick lines.
Different parts of diagrams, graphs, should be indicated by using different types of hatching rather rhan different grey scales, which may disappear in the printing process.
In order that the figures do not significantly depart from the journal style attention to the following points may be helpful:
¡¤ Characters should appear as they would be set in the main body of the article, i.e. upright letters for text, italic letters for mathematical variables; numbers on axis scales should be oriented appropriately. If a key to symbols is included, it should be clear and uncluttered.
¡¤ The line thickness (i.e. pen size) used for a line drawing should be related to the width of the diagram and the reduction that it is likely to be used (i.e. the percentage of the original size to which the diagram is reduced before printing).
NC uses 50 % for standard reduction (in addition to 1-1 proportion) and aims for a standard line thickness in the journal of 0.2 mm, and, as far as possible, a printed diagram width in the range 60-130 mm. The reduction used for a particular diagram will of course depend not only on the width of the original, but also on the complexity of the diagram. Original lettering, after the appropriate reduction, should appear at the standard height of 9 typographic points for numbers and upper-case letters and about 7 points for lower-case letters (resp. 2.25 mm and 1.75 mm) with subscripts and superscripts being correspondingly smaller.
¡¤ There should be no large gaps between the label of axes and axes themselves.
¡¤ Also avoid including any unnecessary text around a figure, such as captions, figure numbers, author or file names. These indications should be handwritten on back. This becomes particularly stringent if you are sending PS files of the figures.
Halftones.
Halftones are usually black-and-white photographs. If they do not have a margin for labelling, they should be labelled on the back using a smudge-free pen or pencil. Photographs in colours are accepted but will be at the author's expense.
References
References are quoted with arabic numerals in square brackets. Literature citations of periodicals [1], books [2], conference proceedings [3] and preprints [4] should be organized according to the following examples after the international standar ISO document n. 690. Journal names should be abbreviated according to the list of the Serial Title Word Abbreviations of the ISDS (International Serial Data System) if available, otherwise full Journal names are preferable.
[1] HUCKENSTEIN B. AND KRAMER B.: Phys. Rev. Lett., 64 , (1990) 1437.
[2] LAWRIE I. D. AND SARBACH S.: in Phase Transition and Critical Phenomena, edited by C. DOMB AND J. L. LEBOWITZ, Vol. 9 (Academic Press, London) 1984, pp. 65-68.
[3] GAWEDZKI K. AND KUPIAINEN A.: in Critical Phenomena, Random Systems Gauge Theories, Les Houches 1984, edited by K. OSTERWALDER AND R. STORA, Part I (North-Holland, Amsterdam) 1986, pp. 185-293.
[4] POLYAKOV A.: PUPT-1341, hep-th/9209046 Preprint, 1992; PUPT-1369, hep-th/9212145 Preprint, 1992
Editorial Board
Director: G.-F. BASSANI (Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa)
Editor-in-Chief: R. A. RICCI (University of Padova)
Editorial Manager: A. TARONI (University of Brescia)
Vicedirectors:
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