Plasma and Fusion Research Style Guide

Established by the Editorial Board on 25 November 2005
  1. How to Write a Manuscript
  2. Units
  3. Fonts
  4. Bibliographic Citations
  5. How to Write References
  6. Figures and Photographs
  7. Copyright

1. How to Write a Manuscript

Download the sample text and prepare your manuscript in the same format. Produce a PDF file of the manuscript that includes title, authors information, abstract, main text, references, tables, figures and their captions.

The main text of the manuscript intended for the Rapid Communications or Letters must not have separate sections.

Five to ten keywords should be given. Put a comma after each keyword. Except in special cases, type all keywords in lower-case letters.

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2. Units

The choice of units and the way to write them should, in general, follow the rules of the System International (SI) of metric units. It is advisable that units of the CGS and SI Systems not be used together.

The symbols (or abbreviations) for units should appear in ordinary Roman type. In general, lower-case letters are to be used, although symbols derived from proper nouns will have their first letter capitalized (e.g., J and Hz). Do not put a period after the abbreviation for a unit, and use the same form for singular and plural.

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3. Fonts

Latin letters used as symbols that represent quantities are generally italicized, whereas units and abbreviations for chemical elements, etc., should all be in ordinary Roman type. Vectors are generally in bold italic, with tensors in sans serif. Latin-letter superscripts or subscripts on physical quantities or numbers should be italicized. However, if a superscript or subscript is an abbreviation of a word, Roman type should be used.

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4. Bibliographic Citations

The references should be both necessary and sufficient in extent. Avoid citing references that are unavailable to the general public, such as private communications or preprints; instead it is preferable to state their source and specific content, either within the text or in a footnote. Indicate references by means of consecutive numbers, such as Spitzer [1], Artsimovich [2 3], Chandrasekhar [4-6], etc., and list them alltogether at the end of the paper. It is preferable that each number corresponds to only a single reference.

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5. How to Write References

Each reference should contain (in this order) the author's name, name of the journal, volume number (in bold type), page number, and year of publication (in parentheses). For journals that are not paginated consecutively throughout the volume, also include the issue number.

Follow the conventions of ISO/833 for abbreviating the names of journal. In papers written in English, when citing a reference written in a language other than English), indicate the name of the journal by means of Romanized letters or by the English name for the journal, and at the end of the reference indicate the language used: e.g., [in Japanese] or [in Russian].

References that are not yet published, but which are set to be published, may be designated in the bibliography as "to be published in [name of journal], [volume number], and [year (in parentheses)]." The volume number, year, and page number may be included at the time of proofreading if this information can be obtained by then.

References to books should contain (in this order) the author's name, book title (italicized), editor's name, publisher's name, publisher's location, year of publication, and chapter or page number. The name of the publisher, his location, and the year of publication should be inside parentheses.

References to proceedings should be identical in form to book citations.

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6. Figures and Photographs

The figures, along with the photographs must be numbered consecutively, such as Fig. 1, Fig. 2, etc. Letters in figures must be sufficiently large.

If a figure is taken from somewhere else in the literature, always clearly identify the source. Also, in this case, as a general rule, the figure should be reproduced as is, without any alteration. (This does not preclude changing the size of the lettering a little, etc.)

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7. Copyright

The copyright for all contributed articles hereafter referred to as contributions published in the Plasma and FusionResearch will belong to the Japan Society of Plasma Science and Nuclear Fusion Research.

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