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InstructionsforauthorsEPJAP Thesubmissionstage Theweb-basedsubmission(andresubmission),in- cludingviaapreprintserver,ispreferredoverother methods.ThememberoftheEditorialBoardorthe Editor-in-Chieftowhomthemanuscriptshouldbe forwardedmaybeindicatedinthesubmissionform. Additionalyauthorsareencouragedtosuggestalist ofpossiblereferees(notmorethan5).Thecontentof yourarticleshouldnotbesubmittedsimultaneously toanotherjournal. Electronicsubmission GlobalresultingPostscriptorPDFÞlesofarticlesare preferred.Theyshouldhoweverbecarefullytested forprintingandcompressedbeforesubmission. 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References ItisimportanttoconÞrmtheaccuracyofbiblio- graphicinformationinreferences.Thishasbecome moreimportantwiththeonlineversion.Hyper- linkswillbeprogrammedtoenablereaderstojump directlytothematerialc ited.Ifyourreferencecita- tionsareincorrectorincomplete(e.g.,missingauthor name,oranincorrectvolumenumberorpage),the associatedhyperlinksmayfail,andtheusefulnessof yourpaperintheonlineenvironmentmaybedimin- ished. Referencesshouldbecitedinthetextbyplacing sequentialnumbersinbrackets(forexample,[1], [2,5,7],[8Ð10]).Theyshouldbenumberedintheor- derinwhichtheyarecited.Authorsmaybecitedin thetextbyname,butwithoutinitials.Authorsshould usetheformsbelowintheÞnalreferencelist. Journals 1.C.Green,Eur.Phys.J.Appl.Phys. 25 ,123 (2007) 2.J.M.Smith,Eur.Phys.J.Appl.Phys. 26 ,1(2007) 3.J.M.Smith,Eur.Phys.J.Appl.Phys.(tobepub- lished) Books 4.J.M.Smith, MolecularDynamics ,2ndedn. (Springer,Berlin,2007) 5.J.M.Smith,in MolecularDynamics ,editedbyC. Brown,2ndedn.(EDPSciences,LesUlis,2008) Proceedings 6.J.M.Smith,in ProceedingsoftheInternational ConferenceonLowTemperaturePhysics,Madison, 1975 ,editedbyC.Brown(EDPSciences,LesUlis, 2008),p.201 ReportsandTheses 7.J.M.Smith,BrookhavenNationalLaboratory ReportNo.110,2000(unpublished) 8.J.M.Smith,Ph.D.thesis,UniversityofParisXI, 2000 Important: ToensurethattheCrossReffacilitycan hyper-linktothearticlesquotedinthebibliography, multiplereferencesmustnotbeused .I.e.,alist ofreferencesunderthesa menumberisnotallowed: eachreferencehastobesinglynumbered . 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