NUCLEAR AND PARTICLE PHYSICS

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• Description p.1
• Audience p.1
• Abstracting and Indexing p.1
• Editorial Board p.1
• Guide for Authors p.2

ISSN: 2405-6014

DESCRIPTION
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Formerly published as Nuclear Physics B - Proceedings Supplements.

Nuclear and Particle Physics Proceedings is the premier publication outlet for the proceedings of key
conferences on nuclear and high-energy physics and related areas. The series covers both large
international conferences and topical meetings. The newest discoveries and the latest developments,
reported at carefully selected meetings, are published covering experimental as well as theoretical
particle physics, nuclear and hadronic physics, cosmology, astrophysics and gravitation,
field theory and statistical systems, and physical mathematics.

This journal offers the option to publish conference proceedings in Open Access and online only. To
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AUDIENCE
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Particle physicists, field theoreticians and statistical physicists, mathematical physicists

ABSTRACTING AND INDEXING

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EDITORIAL BOARD
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Editorial Board
S.J. Brodsky, Menlo Park, California, United States of America
B. Friman, Darmstadt, Germany
P.J. Mulders, Amsterdam, Netherlands
H. Saleur, Los Angeles, California, United States of America
M. Soyeur, Gif sur Yvette, France
G. Veneziano, Geneve, Switzerland
F. Zwirner, Padova, Italy

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GUIDE FOR AUTHORS
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Introduction
Nuclear and Particle Physics Proceedings is the premier publication outlet for the proceedings of key
conferences on high-energy physics and related areas. The series covers both large international
conferences, topical meetings and some advanced schools. The newest discoveries and the latest
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as theoretical particle physics, hadronic physics, cosmology, astrophysics and gravitation, field theory
and statistical systems, and physical mathematics.
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Examples:
Reference to a journal publication:
[1] J. van der Geer, J.A.J. Hanraads, R.A. Lupton, The art of writing a scientific article, J. Sci. Commun.
163 (2010) 51–59. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.Sc.2010.00372.
Reference to a journal publication with an article number:
[2] J. van der Geer, J.A.J. Hanraads, R.A. Lupton, 2018. The art of writing a scientific article. Heliyon.
19, e00205. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.heliyon.2018.e00205.
Reference to a book:
[3] W. Strunk Jr., E.B. White, The Elements of Style, fourth ed., Longman, New York, 2000.
Reference to a chapter in an edited book:
[4] G.R. Mettam, L.B. Adams, How to prepare an electronic version of your article, in: B.S. Jones, R.Z.
Smith (Eds.), Introduction to the Electronic Age, E-Publishing Inc., New York, 2009, pp. 281–304.
Reference to a website:
[5] Cancer Research UK, Cancer statistics reports for the UK. http://www.cancerresearchuk.org/
aboutcancer/statistics/cancerstatsreport/, 2003 (accessed 13 March 2003).
Reference to a dataset:
[dataset] [6] M. Oguro, S. Imahiro, S. Saito, T. Nakashizuka, Mortality data for Japanese oak wilt
disease and surrounding forest compositions, Mendeley Data, v1, 2015. https://doi.org/10.17632/
xwj98nb39r.1.
Reference to software:
[7] E. Coon, M. Berndt, A. Jan, D. Svyatsky, A. Atchley, E. Kikinzon, D. Harp, G. Manzini, E. Shelef,
K. Lipnikov, R. Garimella, C. Xu, D. Moulton, S. Karra, S. Painter, E. Jafarov, S. Molins, Advanced
Terrestrial Simulator (ATS) v0.88 (Version 0.88), Zenodo, March 25, 2020. https://doi.org/10.5281/
zenodo.3727209.
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