A submission to Nanotechnology must be the original work of the author(s) and must not be published elsewhere or under consideration for another publication in its submitted or a substantially similar form in any language.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 (up to 8500 words) will be considered and Review Articles are commissioned by the Board. Submissions must be in English.

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 Copies of any unpublished or obscure references that may be necessary for the refereeing process.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.

Address for submissions
The typescripts and figures should be sent to:

Publishing Administrator
Nanotechnology
Institute of Physics Publishing
Dirac House
Temple Back
Bristol, BS1 6BE, UK

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.

Multimedia enhancements
Multimedia supplements to articles are encouraged and can be either video clips, supplementary data or extra figures. They should act as enhancements to the archival print version, but should not be essential to its understanding. A variety of electronic formats are acceptable; for full details see Multimedia Notes for Authors or contact the Editorial Office, nano@ioppublishing.co.uk.