Writing Rules

Manuscript Organization and Submission

1. The publication language of the journal is English

2. Authors are required to submit Copyright Agreement Form, Author Form and Title Page together with the main manuscript document

3. Manuscripts should be prepared using the article template in Latex format

4. Due to double-blind peer review, the main manuscript document must not include any author information.

5. Title page should be submitted together with the main manuscript document and should include the information below:


• Category of the manuscript
• The title of the manuscript.
• All authors’ names and affiliations (institution, faculty/department, city, country), e-mail addresses, and ORCIDs.
• Information of the corresponding author (in addition to the author's information e-mail address, open correspondence address, and mobile phone number).
• Financial support
• Conflict of interest.
• Acknowledgment.


6. Submitted manuscripts should have an abstract of 150-250 words before the introduction, summarizing the scope, the purpose, the results of the study, and the methodology used. Under the abstract, a minimum of 3 and a maximum of 6 keywords that inform the reader about the content of the study should be specified.

7. The manuscripts should contain mainly these components: title, abstract and keywords; sections, references, tables and figures. The main text of research articles should include introduction, methods, results, discussion, conclusion and references subheadings.

8. Tables and figures should be given with a number and a caption. Every Figure or Table should be referred within the text of the article in numerical order with no abbreviations (ie: Table 1, Figure 1)

9. References should be prepared in line with Harvard reference system. For information: https://www.easybib.com/guides/citation-guides/harvard-referencing/

10. Authors are responsible for all statements made in their work submitted to the journal for publication.

References

Physics and Astronomy Reports complies with Harvard system for referencing and in-text citations. For information: https://www.easybib.com/guides/citation-guides/harvard-referencing/ Accuracy of citations is the author’s responsibility. All references should be cited in the text. It is strongly recommended that authors use Reference Management Software such as Zotero, Mendeley, etc.

Submission Checklist

Please ensure the following:

•The title page was prepared according to the journal rules.
•This manuscript has not been submitted to any other journal.
•The manuscript has been checked for English language.
•The manuscript was written in accordance with the full-text writing rules determined by the journal.
•The manuscript has an abstract of 150-250 words and the number of keywords should be 3-6.
•The references are in line with the Harvard reference system.
•The Copyright Agreement Form has been filled in and is ready for submission together with the manuscript.
•The Author Contribution Form has been filled in and is ready for submission together with the manuscript.
•Permission for previously published copyrighted material (text,figure,table) has been obtained if used in the present manuscript.
•The Ethics Committee Report (if necessary) has been obtained and ready for submission together with the manuscript, and the ethics committee report date and number have been given in the manuscript text.
•Review of the journal policies.
•All authors have read and approved the final version of the manuscript.