Information for Authors

The journal Pis'ma v Zh. Eksp. Teor. Fiz. (and its English edition JETP Letters) publishes short papers that are in need of urgent publishing and that are of broad physical interest. These papers should report first observations of new physical phenomena or new fundamental theoretical results.

This journal accepts and published manuscripts submitted in Russian or English. All manuscripts submitted in English are put to a linguistic test. If the English text appears unreadable, the Editorial Board may request that the authors submit the Russian variant of the manuscript for publication.

All articles in JETP Letters are published in English. The translation of manuscripts submitted in Russian, as well as the editing of manuscripts submitted in English, is performed by the International Academic Publishing Company (IAPC) "Nauka/Interperiodica". Russian and English versions should be identical, as the paper published in both are assumed to be a single publication. Though the final proof of the English version appears a month later then that of the Russian version, the English version cannot contain additional references, figures, formulas etc.

The total length of any paper should not exceed five journal pages in the Russian edition. This length approximately corresponds to 25 KB in LaTeX format, including 1 KB for each figure. One can estimate the manuscript length more accurately by preparing it according to the example available on the Web server for the journal ( http://www.jetpletters.ac.ru/tex/example.tex) by using the style file ( http://www.jetpletters.ac.ru/tex/koi/jetpl.cls) available on the same server.

Manuscript may be submitted to the Editorial Board in the following ways:

Conventional mail to the following address: Pis'ma Zh. Eksp. Teor. Fiz., ul. Kosygina 2, Moscow, 117334 Russia. A manuscript should be submitted in duplicate with figures on separate sheets (for half-tone figures, one additional copy should be submitted). Please, append the e-mail and postal addresses (including the postal code), the office and home phone numbers, and the complete name of the author to whom correspondence should be addressed. The authors of English manuscript should also submit a floppy disk containing the text in LaTeX format.
Electronic mail to the e-mail address letters@kapitza.ras.ru. In this case, each figure should be submitted in the form of an individual file in PostScript (*.ps), EncapsulatedPostScript (*.eps), or PaintBrush (*.pcx) formats.

Acceptance or rejection of a paper for publication is decided by the Editorial Board with a proposal from the Editorial Board member specialized in the appropriate section. A manuscript can be rejected if it is not topical enough, does not provide significant development compared to other publications in this field, considers too specific a subject, etc. As a rule, the referee reports on rejected papers are not sent. The authors may resubmit a rejected manuscript, appending with it an explanatory letter. In this case, the manuscript will be put under additional review.

The Editorial Board sends (or hand delivers if the authors live in Moscow) five reprints of the papers published in the Russian edition. The English version is send to the autors in electronic mode by IAPC "Nauka/Interperiodica".

MANUSCRIPT PREPARATION

The first page of a manuscript should have the following form:
TITLE
Initials and Surnames of the Authors
Institutions where the authors work, including city
and postal code (the e-mail address
of one of the authors is desirable)
Text of the Abstract

Then, after one empty line, the main text follows.

Because abstracts may now be distributed separately from the papers (data bases, online systems, etc.), the abstract text should be self-contained with no references or abbreviations but with understandable notation.

Abbreviations must be given in capital letters with no points and should be explained as they are first introduced. Footnotes in the main text must be numbered consecutively in the order of their appearance.

Cited references must be given in a general list at the end of a manuscript and should be numbered with an ordinal number (e.g., [1]) consecutively as they are mentioned in the main text. The reference to a journal article should cite the following: the initials and surnames of the authors, journal name, volume number (in boldface type), the first page of the paper, and year enclosed in parentheses. If an article is written by more than four authors, indicate only the first three, e.g.,

1. A.B.Ivanov, V.G.Petrov, I.M.Sergeev, et al., Zh. Eksp. Teor. Fiz. {\bf 98}, 290 (1990) [JETP {\bf 71}, 161 (1990)].

References to books must cite the following: the initials and surnames of the author, the complete book title, and year and place of publication (in the case of translated books, give the information for the original in parentheses).

Use decimal points instead of commas. Vectors should be typed in bold.

We recommend that the authors preparing figures electronically adhere to the following rules: prepare figures in the frame; direct dashes on the axes inside the figure; when possible, use Times font; use numerals (including those on the axes in an insert) and lower case letters with a height of 3-4% of the maximum figure size (height or width) of the figures; put measurement units on the axes in parentheses. When preparing the figures, please, keep in mind that in printed version their width usually does not exceed 82 mm. In exceptive cases a figure may match two columns, up to 160 mm.

Examples of the preparation of manuscript and figures, as well as style file, are available on our Web server (Only in Russian for now http://www.jetpletters.ac.ru/en/instr.shtml).

The figures are transfered from "Pis'ma v ZhETF" to "JETP Letters" without any changes. Hence, all the letters, axis titles, comments and etc. on the figures should be only in English.