Notes for Contributors - Packaging, Transport, Storage and Security of Radioactive Material

NEW - SPRING 2006

Contributions should now be submitted online at http://prm.edmgr.com

 
Stage 1: INSTRUCTIONS FOR THE SUBMISSION OF AN ARTICLE TO PACKAGING, TRANSPORT, STORAGE AND SECURITY OF RADIOACTIVE MATERIAL

Articles must be submitted online at http://prm.edmgr.com

If you have not already done so, you will need to register to obtain a username and password. (Select the 'REGISTER' option from the main navigation bar at the top of the homepage.)

Information on the submission procedure is provided online, but you will be asked to provide the information and files listed below.

Failure to conform to these requirements may delay typesetting and publication of your paper. Authors will be asked to submit their work according to the requirements of the journal.

Articles should preferably have no more than 7000 words of text (not including figure captions or tables), though longer papers will be considered where they contain content of merit that warrants publication. In such cases it is recommended that authors contact the Editor for further guidance, and submit an abstract or short summary of the paper for initial consideration.

Authors are also encouraged to supply figures with their submission, but these should be appropriate in nature and quantity to the subject matter of the paper. Each figure or table should be fully referenced within the paper itself, cited 'Fig. 1' etc. A separate caption should be supplied for each figure and table.

For an initial submission you must upload:

Ÿ A Word file containing the complete paper

Ÿ OR a Word file containing the text, references, tables and figure captions plus an individual file

      of each figure, prepared to the specification laid out below.

Ÿ OR a PDF file of the complete paper

You will be asked to input separately the title, abstract and keywords for the article and contact details for all authors. This information may be cut and pasted.

You must also download, complete and return the Author Agreement.

Supplementary information such as datasets, animations, models or videos must be submitted offline, but you will need to indicate that an item of this type is being included in the submission.

When submitting a revised article you must upload:

Ÿ A text file containing the revised text, references, tables and figure captions, prepared to the

     specification described below. This file mustnot include graphics. The preferred file format is

     Word (.doc) or rich text format (.rtf)

Ÿ A separate image file of each figure. Ensure that figures will be legible and comprehensible at

      final size and are of sufficiently high resolution (see guidelines below). Permitted file formats

      are TIFF (.tif), JPEG (.jpg) and EPS (.eps).

Ÿ A response to the referees'/Editor's comments, as a Word or PDF file. It is not necessary to  

      upload fora second time files that were uploaded with the initial submission and have not been 

      altered.

The Publisher, the Editor-in Chief and the Editorial Board do not accept responsibility for the technical content, the use of that content or the views expressed by authors. All papers will be copy-edited prior to typesetting to ensure that they conform to the publisher's style.

 
REFEREEING:Refereeing of all submitted manuscripts is undertaken by or through the members of theEditorial Board and the Editor-in-Chief.

Scientific or Technical Papers should be full papers of a theoretical or practical nature with comprehensive descriptions of the work covered. 
Scientific or Technical Notes should be brief, covering not more than 4 journal printed pages (one page contains about 800 words or equivalent in figures) and are likely to cover work in development or topics of lesser significance than full papers. 
Letters to the Editor should be written as letters with the authors' names and addresses at the end and should be marked 'For Publication'.

LANGUAGE:All contributions should be inEnglish. Spelling should be in accordance with the Concise Oxford Dictionary. However, please use transport rather than transportation, for consistency within the journal. Authors whose mother tongue is not English are requested to ask someone with a good command of English to review their contribution before submission.

TITLES should be brief and as informative as possible. A short title of not more than 75 characters for a running head should be supplied.

AUTHORS' names and addresses (with full postal address) should appear immediately below the title for all the authors. Author's names should be presented in western style, i.e. initials and surname rather than given names. It is a condition of acceptance that all authors shall have read and agreed to manuscripts before submission and after any significant revisions have been made. The author submitting the paper should be prepared, if asked, to certify compliance.

ABSTRACTS containing up to 150 words should be provided immediately following the authors address and contact author E-mail address.(You will also be asked to submit the abstract separately during the online submission process, but this can be done by copying and pasting the abstract from your main submission.)

MANUSCRIPTS The tile should be followed by the author's names and addresses, then the abstract and finally the text of the paper. The paper should be properly structured, normally starting with an introduction and ending with conclusions. Headings should be given to main sections and sub-sections, which shouldnot be numbered. (The first level of heading in the heading hierarchy is non-bold capitals, the second is bold upper and lower case and the third is italic upper and lower case.) Manuscripts should be written in the third person passive, not the first person active. Please reserve the use of capital letters for proper names and abbreviations only and not for commonly used terms.

FIGURES should not be inserted in the pages of manuscript but should be supplied as separate electronic files. Do not send figures for final submission as PDF files. Figures should be approximately twice the final printed size (full page printed area = 19 cm x 15 cm). The lettering should be of such a size that the letters and symbols will remain legible after reduction to fit the printed area available. Figure axis labelling should be in sans serif font. All figures should be numbered, using Arabic numerals. Numbered captions or titles should be typed as a separate list. Figures should be kept to the minimum consistent with clear presentation of the work reported. Figures should have left hand vertical and bottom horizontal axes only, with no background shading or lines, but a right hand vertical axis may be included if scaled differently to the left hand axis. Lines and curves should be black (i.e. not coloured) and key information should be incorporated into the caption, and not superimposed on the figure itself. Please do not indulge in the sophisticated graphics techniques available to make figures unnecessarily complicated, such as the use of pseudo 3D presentations when two-dimensional figures are perfectly adequate (e.g. histograms). Figures generated by computer graphics are generally NOT suitable for direct reproduction. Colour figures are encouraged and can be reproduced at cost (Please contact Caitlin Meadows, Managing Editor (c.meadows@maney.co.uk for further information). Unless the author is willing to pay for colour reproduction, figures must be submitted as black and white. However, if the originals were produced in colour you should ensure that none of the meaning is lost by black and white reproduction. For example, different symbols must be used to distinguish between curves or lines in graphical presentations. All figures must be numbered sequentially and given captions or titles.

Conversion of colour figures

All illustrations must be suitable for reproduction in black and white. Colour is available in the printed journal only if the author is prepared to pay the additional cost of colour reproduction.

Graphs with coloured lines and keys, contour maps, model outputs, etc. will not reproduce adequately if converted direct to greyscale. In particular, red and blue convert to similar grey levels and will not be distinguishable. Suitable labelling or reformatting must be used to ensure clarity. Colour photographs will in general convert to greyscale satisfactorily but optimisation for greyscale reproduction may improve the final result.

Figure size and legibility

Check that all labels are correct and free of spelling or numerical errors. In general, figures will be reproduced to single column width (80mm) or page width (168mm).

Authors must ensure that the labelling on figures will be legible when reduced to final size. Lettering should be approximately 8pt in size (equivalent to 2 mm in height for capital letters) at final width (i.e. figures that are wider before reproduction generally require larger type sizes). Keys must be legible when the figure is reduced to final size. Ensure that curves on multiple plots are clear, in particular that any symbols used on graphs can be distinguished following reduction. Labelling of individual curves may be preferable to keys in these circumstances. Axis labels should be of the typical form: Stress, MPa; Velocity (n), m s-1; or log(l, nm)

Image file formats and resolution

Policy on colour Barring the exceptions below, all illustrations must be suitable for reproduction in black and white. Limited use of colour in the printed journal may be possible at the Editors’ discretion: otherwise colour is available in print only if the author is prepared to pay the additional cost of colour reproduction. 

Colour illustrations will carried free in the online version of the journal, where this enhances the information being presented, provided the figures involved are supplied in the correct electronic format (see below). For these figures, two separate files must be supplied, optimised for black and white and colour reproduction respectively.

Each figure must be supplied in digital form as a separate, clearly named file. Acceptable file formats are TIFF, JPEG and EPS. If supplying EPS files ensure that all fonts are attached. Figures embedded in Word documents are not suitable for reproduction.

Images should be saved at a resolution of at least 600 dpi at final size (dpi=dots or pixels per inch; 600dpi=240 dots per centimetre). Do not save at the default resolution (72 dpi). Crop any unwanted white space from around the figure before sizing.

Halftones (photographs) should be supplied as greyscale images.

Line drawings or diagrams should be scanned as line art or produced to the appropriate resolution using a standard package such as PhotoShop.

Diagrams with shaded or toned areas or line/tone figures should be submitted as greyscale images.

Colour figures for printing should be provided in CMYK format.

Colour figures for online use only should be provided in RGB format. In some instances a reduced resolution of 72dpi at final size may be acceptable for these figures.

TABLES should not be inserted in the text and should be typed with horizontal lines only. Data in tables should be rounded to a level appropriate for the information being provided. All tables must be given titles

UNITS, SYMBOLS AND EQUATIONS: SI units should be used throughout but other established units may be included in brackets (note that cGy is not acceptable). Any Greek letters or special symbols used in the text should be identified in the margin on each occasion they are used. Isotope mass numbers should appear at the upper left of the element symbol e.g.90Sr. Equations should be fully typed and numbered sequentially. Scalar quantities and physical constants should be italicised, including subscripts, vectors should be in bold face and tensors should be in bold sans serif face, where used. Mathematics should be punctuated, as though part of a sentence.

FOOTNOTES should only be included if absolutely necessary. They should be typed on a separate sheet and the author should give a clear indication in the text by inserting (see footnote) so that they may appear on the correct page.

ABBREVIATIONS should be defined when they first appear in the text. (When a term is given in full, followed by an abbreviation, capitals should not be used in the term itself, even to indicate the make-up of the abbreviation).

REFERENCESshould be indicated in the text by superior numbers in parenthesis and the full reference should be given in a list at the end of the paper in the following form,in the order in which they appear in the text:

1. Crase, K. W. and Gammage, R. B.Improvements in the use of ceramic BeO in TLD. Health Phys. 29(5), 739-746 (1975). 
2. Clarke, R. H. and Webb, G. A. M.Methods for estimating population detriment and their application in setting environmental discharge limits. Proceedings of a Symposium - Biological Implications of Radionuclides Released from Nuclear Industries. Vienna, March 1979. IAEA-SM-237/6, 149-154 (1980). 
3. Aird, E. G. A. A.An Introduction to Medical Physics. (London: Heineman Medical Books Ltd) (1983) ISBN 0 433 003502. 
4. Duftschmid, K. E.TLD personnel monitoring systems - the present situation. Radiat. Prot. Dosim. 2(1), 2-12 (1982). 
5. International Commission on Radiation Units and Measurements.Determination of Operational Dose Equivalent Quantities for Neutrons. ICRU Report 66. Journal of the ICRU 1(3), (2001).

All the authors' names and initials (unless there are more than 10 authors, in which case give the first author and the number of authors), the title of the paper, the abbreviated title of the journal, volume number, page numbers and year should be given. Abbreviated journal titles should be in accordance with the current World List of Scientific Periodicals. If all of this information is not available the reference should not be cited. Please note the use of lower case lettering in article titles but upper and lower case for report or book titles.

PROOFS will be sent by email as PDF files to any nominated author for final proof reading and must be returned within 3 days of receipt. Corrections and changes must either be marked on a copy of the proof and returned both by fax and by post or listed and sent as an e-mail attachment. In the latter case it is essential to record the page number and line number for each alteration. The Editor reserves the right to make editorial corrections to manuscripts.

COPYRIGHT In order for us to ensure maximum dissemination and copyright protection of material published in the Journal, copyright must be explicitly transferred from author to publisher.

A form for this purpose will be sent to the principal author, and must be signed by the principal author before any paper can be published.

We assure you that no limitation will be put on your personal freedom to use material contained in the paper without requesting permission, provided acknowledgement is made to the Journal as the original source of publication.

The Authors undertake to obtain and deliver to the Publisher all written permissions to make use of textual and illustrative materials which are to be included in papers submitted for publication, and of which the copyright is not the Authors'. All fees for such permissions shall be paid by the Authors. The Authors further indemnify the publisher against all actions in the event that the Authors fail to properly secure such permissions.

EPRINTS Under Maney's open access policy, authors will now receive a PDF file of the published version of their paper. This PDF may be forwarded to co-authors without separate permission being required from the publisher.The PDF cannot be used for commercial purposes. PRM must be cited as the original source of publication and a link to www.ingentaconnect.com/content/maney/ptssrm included with any listing. This PDF may be posted on authors' individual websites or that of their institution. Authors are entitled to make copies of the article for reasonable personal use only.

Authors may still purchase printed offprints if required; an offprint order form will be sent out to the corresponding author with their proofs.

GENERAL: In order to ensure rapid publication it is most important that all of the above instructions are complied with in full. Failure to comply may result in considerable delay in publication or the return of manuscripts to the author. In case of difficulty with illustrations and figures please consult the photo-reprographic section of your establishment. If illustrations of a quality high enough cannot be supplied they may be redrawn by the publishers at the request of authors if all relevant details are provided. A charge will be made if requirements are extensive.