A submission to Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter must be the original work of the author(s) and must not be published elsewhere or under consideration for another publication in its submitted or a substantially similar form in any language. Research Papers (not normally more than 8500 words in length) and Letters to the Editor (not normally more than 2500 words in length) will be considered. They must be in English, French or German, but an abstract, title and list of figure and table captions in English must be provided.

The following material should be submitted.

1. Three copies of the typescript, at least one of which must be single-sided, each including:
   (a) Title page with: title of article, name(s) of author(s) and address(es) of establishment(s) where work was carried out.
   (b) Abstract.
   (c) Text with double line spacing on A4 (210 mm x 297 mm) or similar paper.
   (d) List of references given in either the numerical or the Harvard (alphabetical) system (on separate sheet).
   (e) List of captions for illustrations.
   (f) Set of copies of illustrations.
   
2. One complete set of illustrations suitable for reproduction. The quality of labelling, line thickness and other detail should be adequate to maintain acceptable size, density and clarity after an appropriate reduction in size. Photographic illustrations should be supplied as glossy prints (not negatives or slides). Graphics files may also be supplied (see below) but good quality originals are still required in case the electronic files cannot be used.
   
3. Copies of any unpublished or obscure references that may be necessary for the refereeing process.
   
4. A completed Assignment of Copyright form. Authors unable to include this with their submissions will be sent a copy for signature.

Colour reproduction
Colour reproduction of illustrations is available in four colours or spot colour, for which the author will be asked to pay the additional reproduction costs incurred.

Addresses for submissions

The typescripts and figures should be sent to:
Publishing Administrator,
JPCM,
Institute of Physics Publishing,
Dirac House,
Temple Back,
Bristol BS1 6BE, UK.

Alternatively they may be submitted through a member of any of the Editorial Boards.

North American authors may send Letters to the Editor to the American Editor:
Professor P Coleman,
Department of Physics and Astronomy,
Rutgers University,
136 Frelinghuysen Road,
Piscataway, NJ, 08854-8019
E-mail coleman@physics.rutgers.edu

Japanese authors may send Letters to the Editor to the Japanese Editor:
Professor K Ueda,
Institute for Solid State Physics,
University of Tokyo,
7-22-1 Roppongi,
Minato-ku,
Tokyo 106-8666
E-mail ueda@issp.u-tokyo.ac.jp

Regular papers from North America or Japan should be sent to the Bristol office as usual

Russian authors may also submit papers to:
V Grigor'yants
Institute of Physics Publishing Editorial Office
Ioffe-Physico-Technical Institute
26 Politekhnicheskaya Street
194021 St Petersburg
Russia

Submitting articles electronically
Articles for consideration by the journal can now be submitted without the need to send a hard copy. The text of the article can be submitted as a Microsoft Word document or in any common variant of TeX (including LaTeX, REVTeX, AMS-TeX, etc). Figures should be submitted as separate files, preferably in Encapsulated PostScript (EPS) or TIFF formats. The text and figure files should be packaged together into one archive and compressed using a common utility such as PKZip, tar+gzip or Stuffit. For detailed instructions see Electronic Submissions guidelines. Details of additional formats which can be used after your article has been accepted, are available from the booklet Notes for Authors.