Please submit your new manuscript either in electronic form on the website or as paper (hardcopy) by mail or by courrier. Use only one method of submission: if the editorial office receives the same manuscript both electronically and by mail, it is likely to cause us great confusion.
All electronic manuscripts (new and revised) must be submitted via this web site.
New paper (hardcopy) manuscripts must be submitted to the University of Chicago office by post, courier, or messenger. (Hardcopy submissions that include files on CD or diskette are welcome and make life easier for the staff.)
E-mail and regular mail concerning a previously submitted manuscript should go to the appropriate editorial office.
Submissions will not be accepted by email except under extraordinary conditions, which you must explain to us before sending us the manuscript.
Submission implies that the manuscript has not been published previously, and is not currently submitted for publication elsewhere. Submission also implies that the corresponding author has consent of all authors. Upon acceptance for publication transfer of copyright will be made to AIP.
Each manuscript must be submitted in one of the following categories: Articles, Communications, and Letters to the Editor (Notes, Comments and Responses, and Errata.)
Articles are reports of original research of significance to the chemical physics community. There is no specific length limit, but articles should be as concise as possible consistent with a clear description of the work.
Communications provide rapid publication of brief reports presenting concise descriptions of highly significant work whose rapid publication will be important to a relatively large number of workers in the field. Communications are limited to 400 column lines (4 pages in the printed Journal of Chemical Physics). The number of column lines a Communication will occupy is estimated by the following formula:
column lines = (1/58)x(characters/MS line)x(MS lines/MS text page)x(MS text pages) + 1.5x(number of references + figure captions + table captions ) + 22x(number of tables + figures)*
* Number of one-column width square equivalents of tables and figures.
Communications exceeding 4 journal pages in length will not be published, but will be returned to the authors at galley proof stage for shortening.
If the estimated length of a submitted Communication exceeds 400 column lines, it may be returned to the authors for shortening before being sent for review.
Letters are limited to 200 column lines, as defined above, and are in one of three categories.
Notes
Letters in this category have the character of articles except for their length. They are reviewed using the same standards as regular articles. Notes are intended as the final publication of the work described and are not preliminary reports. The manuscript of a Note must contain an abstract. The abstract is not published and does not count toward the 200-column-line limit, but it is required for the use of the abstracting services.
Comments and Responses to Comments
Letters in this category include discussion and comments on articles and Letters previously published in The Journal of Chemical Physics. Comments and Responses should address non-trivial points of interest to readers other than the authors of the comment and the paper being commented on. Comments should address only the scientific points in question.
Comments will normally be submitted for review to the authors of the published work being discussed. These authors will be given the opportunity to submit a Response for simultaneous publication. Publication of a Comment or a Response will be delayed until both parties have an opportunity to examine the manuscript(s). Publication of a Comment or a Comment and Response is conditional on the editors' judgment that such publication is warranted by the scientific significance of a particular manuscript(s). The editors will normally consult independent referees. A Response to a Comment accepted for publication must also be scientifically significant in order to be published; thus the acceptance of a Comment for publication does not guarantee the acceptance of a Response.
Like Notes, Comments (and Responses) require an abstract. The abstract is not published and does not count toward the 200-column-line limit. It is used by the abstracting services.
Errata
Errata are corrections of errors in Articles, Communications, and Letters previously published in The Journal of Chemical Physics. The title of an erratum should begin with the word 'Erratum' followed by the title of the Article or Letter being corrected and the reference.