BPR, CHA, CPR, JCP, JPCRD, POF, POP, RSE, RSI, or SDY, there are
additional requirements that apply to each journal. Please read the
section “Specific Journal Guidelines” below after reading this section.
Essentials
The manuscript needs to be in good, scientific, American English.
Your
motivation for the research presented, central results, and conclusion
should be stated in nontechnical language for a broad audience.
Authors should present their names in the same way across publications.
Your
abstract should not contain displayed equations, footnotes, references,
graphics, or tables. It should be one paragraph of 250 words providing a
summary of the new information, results of general interest, and
conclusions.
Formatting
Manuscript Order
Your
manuscript should be arranged in the following order: Title, author(s),
affiliation(s), abstract, text, conclusion, supplementary material
section, acknowledgments, author declarations section (conflict of
interest, ethics approval, and author contributions), data availability
statement, appendixes (if any), and references.
All pages should be numbered consecutively.
Name Formatting and Indexing Notice
We
support authors in choosing how their names are displayed, including
the use of initials, hyphenation, special characters, and cultural
naming conventions.
However,
please note: Indexing services such as Google Scholar and PubMed rely
on complete surnames to correctly associate publications with author
profiles. If you abbreviate your surname (e.g., “S” instead of “Singh”),
your article may not be correctly linked to your publication history or
author record. Authors may choose how their names appear, but we
encourage the use of a full surname to support accurate indexing and
discoverability of your work.
Equations
Displayed equations should be punctuated, aligned to bring out their structure, and numbered on the right-hand side.
Multi-line continued equations should have the operator placed at the beginning of the next line.
Except for scalar products of vectors, use “x” and not a center dot.
A solidus (/) should be used for built-up fractions in text and in displayed math.
Math font use should be consistent throughout the paper.
For complicated exponents, use “exp.”
Notation needs to be clear and consistent with standard use.
Footnotes
Footnotes to the title should be set as a “Note” above affiliation footnotes.
Footnotes to the affiliations should be labeled as a), b), c), etc.
Footnotes in text are not permitted. You can either add that information into the text or in the references list.
Figures
All figures should be embedded in the text. Follow the information in the Preparing Your Graphics section.
Figures should have a caption and be cited in text and numbered consecutively, i.e., 1, 2, 3, etc.
Tables
Tables should be embedded in the text.
Tables should have a caption and be cited in text and numbered consecutively, i.e., I, II, III, etc.
Footnotes in tables should be labeled as a), b), c), etc.
Units should be noted in column headings.
If using bold font to emphasize table data, include an explanation, i.e., “Boldface denotes…”
Unaltered computer output cannot be accepted.
Appendixes
A descriptive title should be added to the Appendix heading.
If you have more than one Appendix in your paper, label them as “Appendix A,” Appendix B,” etc.
Equations
in the Appendixes are numbered according to the Appendix. Equations in a
single Appendix, or an appendix labeled “Appendix A,” are numbered as
(A1), (A2), etc. Equations in following Appendixes are numbered
according to the Appendix label, i.e., (B1), (B2), (C1), (C2), etc.
The numbering of figures and tables in an Appendix continues the numbering in text.
References
All references should be cited within the text.
Adequate information should be provided on the reference list for the reviewer and readers to access the information.
References can appear in one of these three formats:
By
number – present the names of the authors, the journal, volume, page
number(s) and year, as in: 19F. Hernandez, H. Wang, D. Dubrovski, and L.
Blum, Appl. Phys. Lett. 121(9), 080401 (2022). (This paper will be
listed as the 19th on the reference list. It can be cited in text as
Ref. 19, superscript 19, or Hernandez et al.19)
In
alphabetical order – according to the first author’s last name, the
article title, journal name, volume, first and last page, and year, as
in
Hernandez,
F., Wang, H., Dubrovski, D., and Blum, L., “Advances toward a universal
fault-tolerant quantum computer,” Appl. Phys. Lett. 121(9), 080401
(2022).
By
number and alphabetical order – numbering references on an
alphabetical-order reference list and citing them by their number in the
text.
Preparing Your Author Declaration Section
Conflict of Interest Statement – A Conflict of Interest (COI) disclosure statement is required for every article.
A COI is any personal interest or relationship that may be affected by publishing the submitted manuscript.
A
COI may exist from owning a patent or stock; being a member of a board
of directors, advisory board, or committee for a company; receiving
speaker or consultancy fees; etc.
All
potential conflicts directly related to the submitted work should be
disclosed including any COI from 3 years before the start of the work.
For more information about COIs, please see AIP Publishing’s COI policy
and the COI form provided by the International Committee of Medical
Journal Editors
A COI statement is required even if the authors have no conflicts to report.
The following chart shows types of COI and the related statement to place in your manuscript after the Acknowledgments section.
Type of COI Sample COI statement to include in your manuscript
None 1-The author (authors) has (have) no conflicts to disclose.
Financial Interests 1-(Author’s initials or name) reports grant(s) from {name of organization} and speaking fees for {insert name of organization} during the conduct of the study.
2-(Author’s initials or name) reports personal fees from (name of organization) outside the submitted work.
3-(Author’s initials or name) is a paid consultant for (name of organization) and owns stock in (name of company).
Non-financial interests 1-{Author’s initials or name} is an unpaid member of {name of organization}.
2-{Author’s initials or name} is on the advisory board of {name of organization}.
Intellectual Property {Author’s initials or name} has Patent {patent number} {pending/issued/licensed}.
Ethics
Approval Statement – Any research article that includes experiments
using animals or humans needs to contain an ethics approval statement.
The statement should include the name of the ethics committee, internal review board, an approval ID number, etc.
For
research using human participants, the ethics approval statement should
indicate that informed consent was obtained from all participants or
why this was not needed.
Not
meeting these requirements or following ethical standards in
experiments using animals can result in the rejection of your manuscript
Additional supporting documents can be uploaded when you submit your manuscript.
For
more guidance on accepted standards for human animal subjects in
research, you can consult World Medical Association’s Declaration of
Helsinki, International Guiding Principles for Biomedical Research
Involving Animals, and Guidelines for Animal Research: Reporting of In
Vivo Experiments (ARRIVE)
Author
Contributions – A list of authors and their specific contributions,
known as a CRediT (Contribution Role Taxonomy) Statement, is required
for all submissions in accordance with the NISO standard.
Please see the CRediT portion of our Ethics and Policy page for more information and to develop this statement for your paper.
The
Corresponding Author is responsible for providing accurate contribution
descriptions for each author listed on the manuscript. They need to
ensure that all authors have reviewed, discussed, and agreed to the
complete statement.
CrediT
statements will be published as part of the article, in the Author
Contributions section in the full text view and pdf/version of record.
Preparing Your Data Availability Statement
In
accordance with our Data Sharing Policy, all datasets supporting the
conclusion of your paper need to be available to readers.
The data should include the minimal dataset needed to interpret, replicate, and build upon your findings.
You
can either deposit your datasets in a publicly available repository
(where available or appropriate) or you can present them in the
manuscript.
To inform readers of where your data can be found, all manuscripts need to contain a data availability statement.
Based
on the availability of your dataset, select the appropriate data
availability statement text from the chart below and include it in your
