Instructions to authors

International Journal for Light and Electron Optics

Authors can send their manuscript to the Editor either by post or by e-mail: Professor Theo Tschudi, Institute of Applied Physics, Darmstadt University of Technology, Hochschulstrasse 6, 64289 Darmstadt, Germany, E-mail: theo.tschudi@physik.tu-darmstadt.de. All manuscripts should contain: Manuscripts should be submitted in English, and the presentation should be as succinct as comprehension will permit. Manuscripts are reviewed and refereed. Those accepted for publication are edited for conformance to the journals style. Metric units should be used unless to do so is not feasible or would result in a serious loss of clarity. The following le formats are accepted: Text: Microsoft Word, LaTeX/REVTeX (Note: author toolkits for Microsoft Word and LaTeX/REVTeX are available in internet) Figures: TIFF, PostScript, EPS (minimum 300 dpi resolution). See additional requirements below. Please add also a PDF version to speed up reviewing process. Manuscripts must contain the following: Title page listing the paper title; the name(s) of the author(s); and the afliation, complete mailing address, phone number, fax number, and Email address. List sponsorship information in an acknowledgment section at the end of the paper. Abstract (200 words maximum) should be a summary of the paper and not an introduction. Because the abstract may be used in abstracting journals, it should be self-contained (i.e., no numerical references) and substantive in nature, presenting concisely the objectives, methodology used, results obtained, and their signicance. Subject terms or keywords are required, maximum of eight. Key words referring to the special contents of the publication, and not to its methods. The editor retains the right to change the Key words. Text should be typed double-spaced, in a single column using 12-point type. Equations should be created using MathType or Microsoft Equation Editor, if possible. References to published literature must be typed double-spaced and numbered consecutively in the order of their citation in the text. Private communications or unpublished reports should be treated as references. It is important that the following instructions be followed precisely for the graphics les to be utilized in the journal production process: Size your illustrations according to the journals specications for column widths. Figures are generally reduced to either one-column width (8.8 cm) or two-column width (18.2 cm) or smaller. Submit each illustration at the nal size in which you would like it to appear in the journal. Each illustration should be prepared for 100% reproduction. Avoid submitting illustrations containing small axes with oversized labels. Ensure that line weights will be 0.5 points or greater in the nal published size. Line weights below 0.5 points will reproduce poorly. The graphic should be sent with the correct orientation. Set the graphic for 600 dpi resolution for line art, 264 dpi for halftones, and 600 dpi for combinations (line art + halftone). Save line art as black/white bitmap; not greyscale. Save halftones and combinations as greyscale, not black/white bitmap. Set the bounding box to image to avoid excess white space around the image. Submit ALL illustrations for each article, including line art. Each gure le should contain all parts of the gure. For example, if Figure 1 contains three parts (a, b, c), then all of the labelled parts should be combined in a single le for Figure 1. 8 pt labels are preferable. Arrange the three parts vertically.

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