Manuscript Preparation Guidelines

Regular submissions to Laser Physics Letters should be written in correct English. Please consult a native speaker or a knowledgeable colleague for help, if necessary. All contributions will be evaluated according to the standard procedures of peer review, usually by two referees. Only contributions which meet the scientific and formal standards of the journal can be accepted for publication.

For submissions, please follow our short Instructions for authors, given here. Please accompany your submission by one archive file (ZIP or tar.gz). The manuscript length should be adequate to the content and they should be written concisely. Large numbers of figures should be avoided. The manuscript length usually should be about 6 journal pages, including abstract, figures, tables, acknowledgements, and references.

The manuscript title should be in lower case letters except for first letter, proper nouns, certain abbreviations, physical quantities, etc.

Authors information consists of the names of all authors (with first name initials or full names) and the corresponding institutions (from the smallest to the largest unit, e.g. group, department, university) with addresses, as given in the above example (street or P.O. box, city with zip codes, country). Countries should be written in English.

Please identify the corresponding author by the asterisk and add his/her electronic mail address. A corresponding address valid for the entire period from submission until publication of the paper will be given either in the manuscript.

Dates of receipt, acceptance and publication will be added by the publisher.

Please prepare your manuscript electronically using  LaTeX 2e, the style file package with files wiley2sp.cls, stylefileLPL.tex, stylefileLPL.pdf, example.tex, and example.pdf is available here. The file wiley2sp.cls must be installed in a place where LaTeX can find it. Please use the predefined styles from stylefileLPL.tex for title, authors, abstract, body etc.

The Microsoft Word (or compatible formats like RTF) may be used on emergency. In this case the manuscript length usually should be about 12 pages, including abstract, figures, tables, acknowledgements, and references.

Figures must be carefully prepared and submitted ready for reproduction. Lettering and symbols should be clear and large enough in the final figure size (the typical width of a figure in the journal is about 6 cm; smallest letters should not be smaller than 1.5 mm).

Avoid small open symbols, small dots, small decimal points, hairlines, close-dotted or short-dashed lines. Draw a closed axes frame in diagrams with the axis titles (quantity followed by the unit in brackets) parallel to the corresponding axis, outside the frame.

For numbers, use a decimal point instead of a comma.

Labeling in the form 2.1E–4 is not permitted, write 2.1×10^–4 or include the power in the axis title such as R, 10^–4 Ω or using prefixes R, mΩ. For symbols and units, avoid writing alpha, Ohm, deg; use Greek and special characters instead: α, Ω, º.

Figures and tables including captions should be embedded in the manuscript file, in order to indicate their appropriate position and required space (Fig. 1, see also Table 1). Further possible arrangements of figures and captions are shown in the document example.tex. Separate files of your figures (PS, EPS) should be attached. Please make sure to use only standard fonts (Arial, Times, Symbol) or include the fonts in the figure file.

In the text, the figures or tables are referred to as "... in Fig./Table 1".

Halftone figures should have 300 dpi, line drawings 1200 dpi minimum resolution in final size. Screen or web resolution, e.g. JPG-compressed format, is usually insufficient for publication.

Color figures submitted in electronic format will generally remain in color in the internet PDF version of an article at no cost. The print version will be black/white unless color figures are purchased using the color print authorization on the Reprint Order form, when returning proof corrections.

Quantities, units, and equations

All physical quantities and constants should be given in italic, vectors in bold letters (both in the text and in equations). Care should be taken to distinguish subscripts, superscripts, and special symbols. Units (e.g. V/cm, K, Pa, etc.) should be written in upright letters (not in italics) with a short space to the number before.  Mathematical functions which are tabulated (e.g. sin, cos, exp, e, etc.) should be given in upright letters (not in italics).

Equations may be numbered sequentially. Except for small in-line equations, they should appear on separate lines.

In the text, equations may be referred to by writing "... in Eq. (1)".

Formatting of literature citations

References should be numbered (in square brackets, such as [1,2] or [1–3] and listed in the order of citations in the text at the end of the manuscript, using the corresponding LaTeX commands. Please apply the format used in Laser Physics Letters for journal article and book citations. The preferred citation scheme for journals is: Initials. Surnames, Journal Title (according to the INSPEC List of Journals abbreviations) Vol. (in bold face), starting page (year of publication in brackets) [1,2]. For books, the following order is required (skip irrelevant information): Authors of Article or Chapter, in: Book Authors or Editor[s] (ed[s].), Book Title, edited by Editors, Book Series Vol. No. (Publisher, Place, Year), Chap. No., p./pp. page numbers [3,4]. When citing conference proceedings, please add all available data such as title, date, and place of the conference as well as publisher, place, and year of publication or, alternatively, the corresponding journal information [5,6].

Acknowledgements  Two authors (A.A.K. and S.N.B) acknowledge support from the Russian Academy of Sciences, the Russian Foundation for Basic Research and Ministry of Industry, Science and Technology, as well as the INTAS.

Please pay attention to the following points: