Submissions and inquiries should be sent via electronic mail to the appropriate address given below.
Where X is a,b,c,d,or e
Files must be accompanied by a cover message stating to which journal the paper is submitted and must provide a conventional mailing address. The manuscript accession code, if any, should be included for resubmissions. The cover message can be in the form of comments at the head of the file(s).
All of the textual material of the paper (including tables, captions, etc.) should be in electronic form. The file must be in ASCII containing no control codes, with line lengths of 80 characters or less. The file should produce double-spaced output (three lines per inch and at least 6 mm white space between lines). Seperate electronic figure files should be coded in PostScript (one figure per file).
Editorial processing of an electronic-mail submission cannot begin until at least review-quality copies of the figures are received. Sending scanner-reproducible journal-quality figures immediately by overnight mail will meet this need, as will electronic-mail transmission (one figure per file) of PostScript-formatted figures. Alternatively, for Physical Review Letters, review-quality figures can be forwarded by FAX to 516-591-4141, while the ``originals'' are sent by conventional or overnight mail as soon as possible. Please mark the FAX transmission as being part of an electronic-mail submission.
If the transmission of the computer file and the figures has been successful, the Editorial Office sends an acknowledgment by electronic mail. If any problems are encountered, you are contacted immediately, again by electronic mail, and informed of the problem. If you do not receive either message within 24 hours, you can assume that your file was never received.
Copies of the manuscript must not be sent by conventional mail unless there has been an unsuccessful transmission.