CNR NANO - Istituto Nanoscienze Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche

- 23.09.2011 - PRL Editorial: Redefining Length
A PRL Editor-in-Chief Note about the length of submitted articles: "In an effort to streamline the calculation of length, the APS journals will no longer use the printed page as the determining factor for length. Instead the journals will now use word counts (or word equivalents for tables, ?gures, and equations) to establish length; for details please see http://publish.aps.org/authors/length-guide. The title, byline, abstract, acknowledgment, and references will not be included in these counts allowing authors the freedom to appropriately credit coworkers, funding sources, and the previous literature, bringing all relevant references to the attention of readers. This new method for determining length will be easier for authors to calculate in advance, and lead to fewer length-associated revisions in proof, yet still retain the quality of concise communication that is a virtue of short papers."

Link http://prl.aps.org/abstract/PRL/v107/i3/e030001