Submissions and inquiries should be sent via electronic mail to the appropriate address given below.
Files must be accompanied by a cover message stating to which journal the paper is submitted and must provide a conventional mailing address. The manuscript accession code should be included for resubmissions. The cover message can be in the form of comments at the head of the file(s).
The file must be in ASCII containing no control codes, with line lengths of 80 characters or less. The file should produce double-spaced output (three lines per inch and at least 6 mm white space between lines).
Editorial processing of an electronic-mail submission cannot begin until at least review-quality copies of the figures are received. Sending photoreproducible journal-quality figures immediately by overnight mail will meet this need. Alternatively, review-quality figures can be forwarded by FAX to 516-924-5294, while the ``originals'' are sent by conventional or overnight mail as soon as possible. Please mark the FAX transmission as being part of an electronic-mail submission. Our processing of figures sent via electronic mail (e.g., PostScript formatted) is not yet totally reliable.
Include the copyright transfer form with the original figures or forward it by FAX.
If the transmission of the computer file and the figures has been successful, you will receive an acknowledgment from us by electronic mail and be informed of the manuscript's code number. If we encounter any problems, we will contact you immediately, again by electronic mail, and inform you of the problem. If you do not hear from us within 24 hours, you can assume that we never received your file.
Copies of the manuscript must not be sent by conventional mail unless there has been an unsuccessful transmission. For the initial submission of a compuscript, a confirmation copy of the output generated at the Editorial Offices is sent to the author by conventional mail.