国外软件开发期刊投稿格式

Short Communications (Letters) are intended as brief reports of significant, original and timely research results on the science, applications and processing of materials which warrant rapidpublication. In considering a manuscript for publication, particular attention will be given to the originality of the research, the desirability of speedy publication, the clarity of the presentation andthe validity of the conclusions. There is a strict four-page limit to printed articles. Manuscriptsmust not exceed 2000 words plus three figures and one table. This includes everything: the title,authors, affiliations, abstract, keywords, body of the manuscript, acknowledgements, references,figure captions, etc. The maximum number of figures is strictly limited to five. If the maximum of4 figures is used, then the total number of words must be reduced to 1800. If the maximum of 5figures is used, then the total number of words must be reduced to 1600. If more than 5 figures areused, the manuscript will be rejected. The manuscript submitted for review should not exceed8 pages (including title, abstract, references, figures, tables and figure captions). ShortCommunications need to report a concise but exhaustive Material and methods section included inthe main text.