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Manuscripts should be submitted to: http://sola.edmgr.com
The English in which the paper is written must be of acceptable quality. As it is the responsibility of the authors to prepare their papers in good English, authors unfamiliar with English should obtain help from colleagues proficient in that language. Be aware that need of language corrections always delays the paper publication. Manuscripts with many errors in English will be returned to the author(s) for improvement which will make the delay even longer. Papers in which important parts of the text cannot be understood will be returned to the authors as rejected.
Both British spelling ( e.g., behaviour) and US spelling (e.g., behavior) are acceptable, but each article must be consistently written in either one of these spellings.
Letters are no longer accepted. However, short papers on important and timely topics have priority in publication. They should not exceed four printed pages including the abstract, figures, tables, and references.
The length of all papers must be proportional to their scientific contents. Long papers which do not fulfill this requirement will be returned to authors for a substantial reduction in length. Authors should be aware that the shorter a paper, the more people are likely to read it, so that such a reduction is both in the editors' and authors' interest.
An Abstract must precede all papers. It should concisely summarize the
content and conclusions of the paper. The abstract should be a single
paragraph and its length should be proportional to the length of the
paper, with 150 words as an average and 300 words as the maximum.
If references appear, they should include the full information (but not the article title
or ending page number) so that when the abstract is all that is available, the reader
can find the references, e.g. Garcia et al. ( Solar Phys.
312, 515, 2008).
The article should be divided in sections and subsections, following the
following numbering and letter types:
1. First-Order Heading
Acknowledgments of people, grants, funds, etc., should be placed in a
separate, unnumbered section before the References.
Supplementary material can be collected in an Appendix (or Appendix A,
Appendix B, etc.) and placed between the Acknowledgements and the
References.
When the journal to which the paper in preparation will
be submitted is given, keep it in the references, e.g.
"2006, Solar Phys. in preparation".
However, if the work is referred to in the text as "in preparation", it should not be included it
in the references, because it does not provide any information where
it will be published. But it may still stay in the text.
Note, that Solar Physics no longer uses "and" in the list of authors or editors in the
reference list, and the position of the editors in the reference has moved to just after the year.
The new style accepts, and we encourage, article titles which should appear just after the year, before the
rest of the reference. If article titles appear, they must appear for all of the references.
The new style also accepts the ending page number of an article, but if present this information
must be present for all references in an article.
The following forms of references should be used:
For theses:
For online media:
Milsztajn, A.: 2003, arXiv:hep-ph/0301252.
Nakahata, M.: 2003, http://www-sk.icrr.u-tokyo.ac.jp/sk/lowe/frequencyanalysis/.
Finally four and more authors, arranged according to the years.
Use "and", not "&", everywhere.
If color adds significant scientific information to a graph, figure or
photo, the publisher will no longer charge a fee for colour
reproduction. In case of doubt, please indicate why you believe colour
is essential upon submission of your paper. The journal editors and
referees may decide that a black and white reproduction conveys the
information in the figures equally well and that no colour is needed.
Electronic versions of your figures must be supplied. For vector
graphics, EPS is the preferred format. For bitmapped graphics, TIFF is
the preferred format. The following resolutions are optimal:
Please observe the following rules:
Numerators and denominators of in-line fractions should be delimited
clearly to avoid any possible ambiguity. E.g., write (log P)q / r or
(F x) / a, not log Pq/r or F x / a.
All longer formulas in the text should be put on a separate line as
(unnumbered) equations, to avoid their breaking at an improper place.
Subscripts and superscripts should be set off clearly. Do not use N_e^2 .
Use a full stop ("period") for decimals (312.67) and reserve crosses for
multiplication (3.0 × 1012 ). Do not use 3.0E12.
Use × not x.
For "thousands" use 25 000, not 25,000.
Vectors are printed in bold face, scalars in italics. Greek letters used as symbols are in regular
font, italics if they are a scalar, and bold if they are a vector.
Footnotes should be avoided as much as possible.
Names of celestial objects such as Sun, Earth, and Moon should be
written with capital letters. Directions should be lower case, e.g. "north of the sunspot",
but regions should be capitalized, e.g. "in the East".
In series of three or more items, a comma should be placed before the
final item, e.g., "brightness, temperature, and density".
The word "data" is plural and therefore takes a plural verb.
Thousands separators: use a small space ["\," in LaTeX or a 1/4 EM space in a text
processor] for numbers greater than 9999, not a comma.
Dashes:
The abbreviation for "number" is "No.", do not use "#". But only serial
numbers should be abbreviated in this way, not a number (quantity) of
measurements.
Dates should be written as 10 January 1999, or optionally as 1999 January 10 but consistently
throughout an article, in the
text and 10 Jan. 1999 in a table. Never use 99-01-10, because this means
two different dates in the European and American versions. Time
designations are 22:33:45 UT for hours, minutes and seconds of Universal
Time.
Italics should be used for non-english terms such as
et. al.,
e.g.,
vs.,
etc.... Spacecraft names are set in italics, e.g. Hinode, Cluster, Solar and Heliospheric Observatory,
but acronyms such as SOHO or STEREO are set in roman, e.g. Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO)1999.
The article title, authors name, and the shortened versions for running headers should be in "title case" with
nouns and major words capitalized. Running authors listing should be "A. Author", "A. Author,
B. Author", or "A. Author, et al. as appropriate.
Addresses used in the authors' affilitation should include the institution, city,
and country, but the full mailing address or postal code are not required.
Scope of the journal
We also do not handle papers rejected by other journals, unless the
author informs us about the rejection and substantially revises the
paper. Again, the original rejected paper should be enclosed for a comparison.
If an author does not follow these rules, their name will be
made known to the Editors of all other important journals in the field.
1.1. SECOND-ORDER HEADING
1.1.1. Third-Order Heading
References
References to journal articles, articles in proceedings, books, and
technical reports should be listed at the end of the paper in
alphabetical order, following the IAU style (see examples below and the
IAU Style Book mentioned above). In the text, references are given as
Brown (1998), Brown and Chen (1998), Brown, Chen, and Dupont (1998), or
Brown, Chen, Dupont, et al. (1998) if there are more than three authors. In a group of
references, arrange them according to the year, and use semicolons:
(Brown, 1990; Jones and Chen, 1993; Smith, 1999).
Parenthetical remarks containing a reference should be of the form
"(Smith, Chen, Dupont et al., 2000, and references therein)" or
"(see Garcia (2000) and references therein)".
Multiple references to the same author appear as
Wallace, 2003, 2004a, 2004b.)
All references cited
in the text must appear in the reference list, and all references listed
in the reference list must be cited in the text. We strongly encourage the use of BibTex to
make sure that this is the case. When you submit your manuscript, the .bbl is all that
you need to submit, as the .bst does not always get references by the same first author
in the correct order, and you may want to edit the .bbl for other reasons.
For articles in journals:
Kahler, S.W.: 1982, Astrophys. J. 261, 710.
For articles in proceedings and books:
Kahler, S.W.: 1982, This is the Title, Astrophys. J. 261, 710.
Kahler, S.W.: 1982, This is the Title, Astrophys. J. 261, 710 - 719.
Oliver, R., Ballester, J.L.: 1995, Solar Phys. 156, 145.
Demoulin, P., Bagala, L.G., Mandrini, C.H., Henoux, J.C., Rovira, M.G.: 1997,
Astron. Astrophys. 325, 305.
For more than ten authors one can use et al. after the tenth author. The page should be replaced by
"in press" for articles accepted for publication, and by "submitted" for
those not yet accepted. References to unpublished results and internal
reports should be mentioned only in the text as "private communication",
and by "submitted" for those not yet accepted, giving the names of all
authors and the journal to which it has been submitted. Without this
information, the reference will be changed to "private communication".
Hoeksema, J.T.: 1995, In: Marsden, R.G., Doe, J. (eds.), The High-Latitude
Heliosphere, Kluwer, Dordrecht, 137.
Jensen, J.M., Duvall, T.L. Jr., Jacobsen, B.H.: 2003, In: Lacoste, H. (ed.),
SOHO 12/GONG+ 2002 - Local and Global Helioseismology: The Present and Future
SP-517, ESA, Noordwijk, 315.
Gilman, P.A.: 1992, In: Harvey, K.L. (ed.) The Solar Cycle
CS-27, Astron. Soc. Pac., San Francisco,
241.
Brekhovskikh, L.M., Godin, O.A, 1990, Acoustics of Layered Media, Springer-Verlag, New York.
Díaz, A.J.: 2004, Ph.D Thesis, Univ. Illes Balears. [No need to spell out University, or include "of", "the", etc.]
Miesch, M.S.: 2005, Living Rev. Solar Phys. 2, No. 1
(http://www.livingreviews.org/lrsp-2005-1).
['1' here is
not the page number but means the first article in volume 2.]
The sequence of references in their list should be arranged as follows:
One author first, papers arranged according to the years:
Multiple references to the same author(s) and same year should be identified
by, e.g., 1998a and 1998b, both in the list of references and in the
text.
Brown, G.H.: 1994, ...
Then two authors, papers arranged according to second author's name:
Brown, G.H.: 1996, ...
Brown, G.H., Jones, B.V.: 1995, ...
Then three authors, papers arranged according to second (and then third)
author's name:
Brown, G.H., Smith, K.H.: 1991, ...
Brown, G.H., Jones, B.V., Smith, K.H.: 1990, ...
Brown, G.H., Jones, B.V., Walter, B.H.: 1987, ...
Figures
All photographs, graphs and diagrams should be referred to as a "Figure"
and they should be numbered consecutively (1, 2, etc). Multi-part
figures should be labelled with lower case letters (a, b, etc.) within parentheses,
e.g. as in Figure 4(c).
Please insert keys and scale bars directly in the figures. Relatively
small text and great variation in text sizes within figures should be
avoided as figures are often reduced in size. Figures may be sized to
fit approximately within the page width. Provide a
detailed legend (without abbreviations) to each figure, refer to the
figure in the text. Try and make the captions self contained, and avoid referring
to other figures for descriptions of the contents; e.g.same as Figure 3.
line figures - 600 - 1200 dpi
photographs - 300 dpi
screen dumps - leave as is
Colour figures can be submitted in the RGB colour system.
Font-related problems can be avoided by using standard fonts such as
Times Roman, Courier, and
Helvetica.
Tables
Each table should be numbered consecutively (1, 2, etc.). In tables,
footnotes are preferable to long explanatory material in either the
heading or body of the table. Such explanatory footnotes, identified by
superscript letters, should be placed immediately below the table.
Please provide a caption (without abbreviations) to each table, refer to
the table in the text. The use of labels in LaTeX is strongly encouraged, rather than hard wiring
table, figure, and section numbers.
Equations
Equations must be presented clearly. All symbols used in
equations must be properly explained to the reader. If not set in LaTeX, number the equations
sequentially on the right-hand side as (1), (2), etc. in the main body
of the article and continuing into the Appendices, if any, and refer to them
in the text as Equation (1), Equation (2), etc.
Additional Instructions
Acronyms and Abbreviations should be explained at first occurrence in
the text. If used and explained in the Abstract,
the explanation must be
repeated in the text. E.g. Global Oscillation Network Group (\,GONG\,)
Solar Physics is concerned with the fundamental study of the Sun. It
treats all aspects of solar physics, ranging from the internal structure of the Sun to the outer corona and solar wind in interplanetary space.
Papers on solar-terrestrial physics are included if they are clearly
related to the physics of the Sun or if they use terrestrial phenomena
as indicators of solar activity. The journal also accepts papers on stellar research if their results have a direct impact upon the understanding of the Sun, its structure and activity, or when solar observations are used when interpreting stellar data.
Originality
Solar Physics accepts only original research papers which have not been
published, and are not under consideration for publication, in the same
or a similar form elsewhere. This also includes English versions of
papers earlier published in another language. Exceptions can be made for
greatly modified papers, provided
the author sends the Editor also the original version for a comparison.
Review Papers
Review papers are accepted only if invited by the editors.
[Needs a discussion of communication with the editors, etc...
a la PASP, if I recall correctly
Conference Proceedings
Proceedings of conferences are no longer published in Solar Physics.
Topical Issues
"Topical Issues" are
concerned with a specific topic selected by the editors and, in some
cases, may contain papers presented at a monothematic conference. All
papers submitted to such a Topical Issue are handled and refereed in the
same way as regular research papers. Contrary to traditional conference proceedings, the length
of such papers is not limited, and other papers related to the same
topic, not presented at the conference, are normally solicited for the topical issue.
Permissions
It is the responsibility of the author to obtain written permission for
a quotation from unpublished material, all for any quotation in excess
of 250 words in one extract or 500 words in total from any work still in
copyright, and for the reprinting of figures or tables from unpublished
or copyrighted material.
Copyright
Upon acceptance of an article, authors must sign a form
which transfers copyright of the article to the Publisher.
Page Charges
No page charges are levied on authors or their institutions.
Proofs
Proofs will be sent to the corresponding author. The corrected proof should
be returned to the publisher within two days. Please check these very carefully,
and update any information for references that were listed as "submitted", or
"in press".. The scientific editor will also receive a copy of the proof
and will communicate directly with the author if there are any questions. Subsequent
proofs are not sent generally to the authors,
but are checked only by the desk editor.
Offprints/reprints
25 offprints of each article will be provided free of charge. Additional
offprints can be ordered by means of an offprint order form supplied
with the proofs.
LaTeX2e commands
last update: 14 January 2008