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The manuscript and copies of
figures should be submitted in duplicate, together with one set of good quality
figure material
(for production of the printed figures), to the editor-in-chief, at the
following address:
Dr. Jamshed H. Zaidi,
Editor-in-Chief, “The Nucleus”, PINSTECH, P.O. Nilore, Islamabad 45650, Pakistan
It will be helpful if the
word “NUCLEUS” is written in a corner of the envelope.
Preparation of Manuscripts
Contributions to ‘The
Nucleus’, must be in English and should have an abstract of upto 250 words.
Manuscripts should be typed
throughout with single line spacing and wide margins on numbered pages. The
lines containing equations/formulae, special characters, and super-/sub-script
may be indicated by an arrow in the margin. The title page should contain, in
addition to the article title, author(s) names and affiliations, the text of
related footnotes, key words, and the text of the abstract without having the
word ‘Abstract’ as heading.
The text of the paper should
be organized as follows.
Number one headings:
Section titles should be typed in lower-case bold letters with left
justification. These should be numbered using Arabic numerals, (e.g. 1.
Introduction)
Number two headings:
Subsection titles should be typed in lower case italics with left justification.
These should be given decimal numbers consistent with the number of the section
(e.g. 1.1. Historical background).
Formulae
in the manuscript should be clearly hand written or typed with a particular
consideration given to the characters that may be misinterpreted. If necessary,
unusual symbols should be explained using the lead pencil in the margin.
Acknowledgements
are optional and may be given before references. No heading is required. The
word ‘References’ is treated as a number one heading, omitting the number.
Tables
should be typed on separate sheets appended at the end of the manuscript. In
addition to its serial number in Arabic numerals, each table should have a
sufficiently detailed heading or caption to explain the data displayed in it.
Figures
should be numbered and their
captions be listed together on a separate sheet at the end of the manuscript.
References
in the text should be numbered consecutively within square brackets, for
example:
“Using a similar technique
[1] ….. ” or “As outlined in ref. [2]” and listed together at the end of the
text, for example:
[1] S.M. Hasany, M.M. Saeed
and M. Ahmed, Talanta 54 (2001) 89.
[2] R.L. Fleischer, P.B.
Price, and R.M. Walker, Nuclear Tracks in Solids, University of California
Press, Berkeley, USA (1975).
[3] H.A. Khan, in: Radon
Monitoring in Radioprotection, Environmental Radioactivity and Earth Sciences,
eds. L. Tommasino,
G. Furlan, H.A. Khan and M. Monnin (World Scientific, Singapore, 1990) p. 231.
[4] M. Ahmed, J.I. Akhtar,
M.A. Shaikh, M. Akhtar, M. Iqbal and M.A. Chaudry, Procd. 6th International
Symposium on Advanced Materials, September 19-23, 1999, Islambad, Pakistan, p.
333-336.
Please provide upto six
(6) Keywords and
e-mail address of corresponding author.
Preparation of Figures
The publisher requires a set
of good quality drawings and photographs to produce the printed line figures and
half-tone plates in the journal. Photographic copies (glossy prints) of drawings
are also acceptable for the line figures if they have been sharply focused and
evenly exposed.
Line figures:
The drawings or glossy prints supplied for the line figures should be 1.5 – 3
times larger than the printed size of the figures and should contain all the
required lettering.
Figures
are preferably reduced to a single column width (7.6 cm) unless their
complexity, large width to height ratio, or need to display special detail makes
a large format necessary (max. printed width = 20 cm). Inappropriately sized
lettering on a figure may prevent its reduction to the size optimum for its
information content. The lettering used on a drawing should be chosen so that
after reduction, the height of numbers and (capital) letters falls within the
range 1.2 – 2.4 mm. Care should be exercised in choosing the pen width of
machine plotted graphs. Frequently lines in these figures are too fine compared
to the area of the figure.
Shaded
areas in line figures should be shown by means of cross-hatching (or a matrix
of dots) rather than a continuous grey ‘wash’. Cross-hatching, after reduction,
of density less than ~ 25 lines/cm is satisfactory.
Half-tone plates.
The photographs supplied for reproduction should be unmounted unless they form
part of a composite figure and they should have a somewhat greater contrast than
is desired in the printed figure. It is important that the photographs supplied
are not already screened (overprinted with the point-matrix used by printers) or
moire patterns will form when they are screened for a second time. When
necessary, the top side of a photograph should be marked. A reduction factor
should be recommended for a photo when it is not obvious what detail in the
photo is of interest.
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