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Size and position figures to achieve consistent font size and information display.</p> <p>Figures and tables will be placed as close as possible to their first citation within the text (ideally on the same page) when your article is typeset; however, sometimes the number or size of figures does not allow for this.</p> <p>Number all figures and tables in numerical order. If this is not the case they will be renumbered as part of the production process.</p> <p>Use labels, e.g., ‘(a)’, ‘(b)’, etc where a figure has several parts. Explain all parts in the caption.</p> <p>If the figure has been previously published elsewhere, obtain permission from the original publisher and include the appropriate permissions wording in your figure caption, even if it is your own work.</p> <p>The style in the text for referring to tables and figures is, for example, ‘table 1’ and ‘figure 1’ (or ‘Table 1’ and ‘Figure 1’ if at the beginning of a sentence), respectively. Contractions (e.g. ‘tab. 2’, ‘fig. 1’) are not allowed.</p> <h2>References</h2> <p>We encourage the use of the Harvard or Vancouver reference systems. However, you can use any reference system providing it is sensible and consistent throughout the paper. We will ensure your references adhere to house style during the production process, whatever format you submit them in.</p> <p>A reference should give your reader enough information to locate the article, and you should take care to ensure that the information is correct so that DOI links can be made.</p> <p>Listed below are the most common reference types. We have included details of how they should be styled and the mandatory elements they should include.</p> <h3>Journal articles</h3> <p>References to journal works should include:</p> <ul> <li>Author(s): surname(s) and initial(s)</li> <li>Year</li> <li>[Title of article (optional, but see below)]</li> <li>Standard abbreviated journal title (in italics)</li> <li>Part of journal (e.g. A, B, etc, if appropriate)</li> <li>Volume number (in bold)</li> <li>Page number, page range or article number</li> </ul> <p>Example:</p> <ul> <li>Cantillano C, Mukherjee S, Morales-Inostroza L, Real B, Cáceres-Aravena G, Hermann-Avigliano C, Thomson R R and Vicencio R A 2018 <em>New J. Phys.</em> <strong>20</strong> 033028</li> </ul> <p>For more than ten authors, the name of the first author should be given followed by <em>et al</em>.</p> <p>Note that the article title is not mandatory, except for <em>Journal of Neural Engineering</em> (<em>J. Neural Eng.)</em>, <em>Measurement Science and Technology</em> (<em>Meas. Sci. Technol.)</em>, <em>Physical Biology</em> (<em>Phys. Biol.)</em>, <em>Physiological Measurement</em> (<em>Physiol. Meas.)</em> and <em>Physics in Medicine and Biology</em> (<em>Phys. Med. Biol.).</em></p> <p>If no individual is named as the author, the reference may be by a collaborative group of authors or by a corporate body, e.g.:</p> <ul> <li>The ASDEX Upgrade Team 2002 Theory-based modelling of ASDEX Upgrade discharges with ECH modulation <em>Nucl. Fus</em>. <strong>42</strong> L11</li> </ul> <p>If a collaboration is appended to one or more authors, the name of the collaboration must come before the year, e.g.:</p> <ul> <li>Nakamura K (Particle Data Group) 2010 <em>J. Phys. G: Nucl. Part. Phys</em>. <strong>37</strong> 075021</li> </ul> <h3>Books</h3> <p>References to a book should include:</p> <ul> <li>Author(s): surname(s) and initial(s)</li> <li>Year</li> <li>Full title (in italics, the initial letter of each significant word should be upper case; note that if a word is hyphenated then both parts should have an initial capital letter; for example, Non-Classical Mechanics)</li> <li>Town of publication</li> <li>Publisher</li> </ul> <p>Example:</p> <ul> <li>Whelan C T 2018 <em>Atomic Structure</em> (Bristol: IOP Publishing)</li> </ul> <p>References to a book may include (optional):</p> <ul> <li>Chapter title (lower case roman; caps only for first word and proper nouns)</li> <li>Edition (e.g. 1st edn) (if any)</li> <li>Volume number (if any, given after the contraction ‘vol’)</li> <li>Editor(s) (if any, initials before the surname(s) and preceded by the contraction ‘ed’ [no full point] even if more than one editor)</li> <li>Chapter and/or page number(s) (if appropriate)</li> </ul> <p>Example:</p> <ul> <li>Leung C-W and Ng C-K 2018 Spectra of commutative non-unital Banach rings<em> Advances in Ultrametric Analysis</em> (<em>Contemporary Mathematics</em> vol 704) ed A Escassut et al (Providence, RI: American Mathematical Society) p 91</li> </ul> <h3>Conference proceedings</h3> <p>References to conference papers should include:</p> <ul> <li>Author(s): surname(s) and initial(s)</li> <li>Year of publication</li> <li>Title of conference (in italics, initial letter of each significant word should be upper case)</li> </ul> <p>Example:</p> <ul> <li>Mahanta N K and Abramson A R 2012 <em>13th Intersociety Conf. on Thermal and Thermomechanical Phenomena in Electronic Systems</em></li> </ul> <p>References to a conference proceedings may include (optional):</p> <ul> <li>Paper title</li> <li>Place and date (month and/or year) of conference (in italics and within parentheses, separated by commas)</li> <li>Volume number</li> <li>Editors</li> <li>Town of publication</li> <li>Publisher</li> <li>Page numbers/other paper designations</li> </ul> <h3>SPIE Proceedings, AIP Conference Proceedings and IEEE Transactions</h3> <p>These should be treated as journals:</p> <ul> <li>Levin A D and Shmytkova E A 2015 <em>Proc. SPIE </em><strong>9526</strong> 95260P</li> <li>Smith M 2004 <em>AIP Conf Proc.</em> <strong>94</strong> 340–9</li> <li>Stoffels E <em>et al</em> 2008 <em>IEEE Trans. Plasma Sci.</em> <strong>36</strong> 1441–57</li> </ul> <h3>Conference series</h3> <p>Conference series should include the title of the conference and the title of the series but not the publisher.</p> <p>The exceptions are <em>Journal of Physics: Conference Series</em> (<em>J. Phys.: Conf. Ser.</em>), <em>IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science</em> (<em>IOP Conf. Ser.: Earth Environ. Sci.</em>) and <em>IOP Conference Series: Materials Science and Engineering</em> (<em>IOP Conf. Ser.: Mater. Sci. Eng.</em>), which should be set as journal references, e.g.:</p> <ul> <li>Barry R Holstein 2009 <em>J. Phys.: Conf. Ser.</em> <strong>173</strong> 012019</li> <li>V V Kramarenko <em>et al</em> 2016 <em>IOP Conf. Ser.: Earth Environ. Sci.</em> <strong>43</strong> 012029</li> <li>S Adarsh <em>et al</em> 2016 <em>IOP Conf. Ser.: Mater. Sci. Eng.</em> <strong>149</strong> 012141</li> </ul> <h3>Web links</h3> <p>Only permanent or persistent web links should be used in reference lists. Examples of acceptable links include:</p> <ul> <li>Digital Object Identifier (DOI)</li> <li>PubMed identifier (PMID)</li> <li>PubMed Central reference number (PMCID)</li> <li>SAO/NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS) Bibliographic Code</li> <li>arXiv e-print number</li> </ul> <h3>Unpublished</h3> <h4>Pre-prints</h4> <p>References to pre-prints should include:</p> <ul> <li>Author(s)</li> <li>Year of publication</li> <li>Pre-print number</li> </ul> <p>Example:</p> <ul> <li>Jones R and Brown A 2011 arXiv:0912.1470</li> </ul> <h4>Theses</h4> <p>References to theses should include:</p> <ul> <li>Author surname and initials</li> <li>Year</li> <li>Type of thesis</li> <li>Institution</li> </ul> <p>Examples:</p> <ul> <li>Roberts P 1970 <em>MSc Thesis</em> University of Manchester</li> <li>Dobson C T J 1968 Magnetic transport in reaction–diffusion phenomena <em>PhD Thesis</em> Brunel University, London</li> </ul> <p>The title is optional.</p> <h4>Lecture Notes</h4> <p>References to theses should include:</p> <ul> <li>Author surname and initials</li> <li>Year</li> <li>Lecture title</li> <li>Institution</li> </ul> <p>Example:</p> <ul> <li>Chandrasekhar J R 2003 Modelling aspects of model based dynamic qos management by the performability manager <em>Lecture Notes</em> Institute of Technology Delhi, India</li> </ul> <h4>Accepted or submitted</h4> <p>References to articles that are accepted or submitted should include:</p> <ul> <li>Author(s)</li> <li>Year of publication</li> <li>Standard abbreviated journal title (in italics)</li> <li>Either ‘accepted’ or ‘submitted’</li> </ul> <p>Example:</p> <ul> <li>Jones R and Brown A 2011 <em>Class. 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