期刊名称：METALLURGICAL AND MATERIALS TRANSACTIONS A-PHYSICAL METALLURGY AND MATERIALS SCIENCE
 期刊简介(About the journal)
投稿须知(Instructions to Authors)
编辑部信息(Editorial Board)
About the journal
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Metallurgical and Materials Transactions A,
focuses on physical metallurgy and materials science, publishes contributions monthly on all aspects of physical metallurgy and materials science, with a special emphasis on relationships among the processing, structure, and properties of materials. All papers, including symposia contributions, are reviewed by a committee consisting of one member of the Board of Review and one or two other reviewers. |
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Instructions to Authors
Metallurgical and Materials Transactions publishes contributions on all aspects of research and significant engineering advances in materials science and metallurgy. Approved manuscripts will be published according to subject matter in Section A or B. Assignment will be made in the Editor's Office, but author guidance will be appreciated concerning appearance in Section A or B and the classification of the manuscript according to current nomenclature used in the Table of Contents.
Metallurgical and Materials Transactions A publishes contributions on all aspects of physical metallurgy and materials science, with a special emphasis on relationships among the processing, structure, and properties of materials.
Metallurgical and Materials Transactions B publishes contributions on the theoretical and engineering aspects of the processing of metals and other materials, including studies of electro- and physical chemistry, mass transport, modeling, and related computer applications.
All manuscripts, including symposia, will be judged by qualified reviewers according to established criteria for technical merit. The review procedure begins in the editorial office as a Key Reader is assigned by the Editor or Associate Editor. The Key Reader chooses one or two reviewers for the manuscript and submits his recommendation, based on his own and the reviewers' judgments, to the editorial office. The Editor or Associate Editor then makes a final decision on the paper.
Submission of a manuscript is representation that it has neither been copyrighted, published, nor submitted elsewhere for publication. Prior publication is a basis for rejection. Appearance in a conference proceedings or similar special presentation with limited distribution is not necessarily prior publication. In such cases, the article should be so referenced. There are two classes of papers:
Technical Publication: Manuscripts should represent completed original work embodying the results of extensive field, plant, laboratory, or theoretical investigation, or new interpretations of existing problems. Material must be considered to have significant permanent value. In addition to technical acceptability, material should be presented clearly and concisely. Of particular importance is the description of the experimental procedures involved in the experiment. It is very important that critical information about experimental conditions be included so that the work can be verified by other scientists.
Communication: This class provides more rapid publication of short items. Abstracts and divisional headings are not used. The length for a Communication should be about 1000 words of text, accompanied by whatever figures and tables may be required to support this text. These fall in the following categories:
- theoretical or experimental work of immediate current interest;
- discussion of Technical Papers and Communications. These should contribute to the original article by providing confirmation or additional interpretation. They will be referred to authors for reply. Discussion and authors' reply will be published concurrently;
- announcements and summaries of computations and computer programs or other compilations which are available on request from the author or a specified agency.
Electronic Submission of Manuscripts
Manuscripts may be submitted electronically to the journal via the internet. For MMTA, the site is http://mmta.electronicipc.com, and for MMTB, the site is http://mmtb.electronicipc.com. All reviews for electronically submitted manuscripts will occur online in a secure environment, and letters and comments concerning the papers will be transmitted via e-mail to the corresponding author. Please visit the site(s) to learn what information should be gathered before submitting the paper. Please note that all submissions for both journals MMTA and MMTB will be accepted only electronically after January 1, 2004.
Hard-Copy Manuscripts
All submissions for both journals MMTA and MMTB will be accepted only electronically after January 1, 2004.
- Send to: Metallurgical and Materials Transactions, Carnegie Mellon University, Doherty Hall A308, Pittsburgh, PA 15213
- Submit three copies, each complete with abstract, tables, and figures. All copy (abstract, text, footnotes, references, figure captions) should be typed double-spaced on one side of 22 x 28 cm (8 1/2 x 11 in.) paper, with a margin of at least 2.5 cm (1 in.) all around. Three sets of high quality micrographs are required for review purposes; Xerox-type copies are not acceptable. Printer's copy of all figures (drawings and halftones) should be retained by the author until requested by the editor (see items 3a and 3b).
- Copyright transfer must accompany the final manuscript. See section entitled Copyright Policy which follows.
- A separate list of figure captions should be included (double-spaced) in addition to the caption appearing with each figure.
- All tabulated data identified as tables should be given a table number and a descriptive caption. Tables should be numbered consecutively, using Roman numerals.
- Figures (halftones and line drawings) should be designed for final printing in single column 8.5 cm (3 1/4 in.) width. Double column 18 cm (7 in.) treatment will be used only when required by the complexity of the material.
- Line drawings. These should be no larger than 22 x 28 cm (8 1/2 x 11 in.). Lettering should be large enough to be 2 mm (1/16 in.) after reduction. Glossy photocopies of larger drawings are preferred.
- Photographic material. One mounted set of glossy prints with captions should be furnished for the printer's use. These should be protected by cardboard to avoid creases and markings. Staples, tape, or clips should not be used. If necessary, indicate suitable framing, position, and proportion on a working copy.
- Color printing of photographic material can be arranged. This will involve an additional charge of $650 per page. Authors should correspond with the editor regarding specific papers.
- Original drawings and photographic material will be returned to the author by the printer after publication.
- The abstract is the author's summary of a scientific paper and is included in the review procedure. It should indicate newly observed facts, conclusions, and the essential parts of any new theory, treatment, apparatus, technique, etc. It should be concise and informative and only in exceptional cases exceed 200 words.
- References should be double-spaced and listed on a separate sheet. The required format is shown in the section entitled Styling of References.
- If the paper depends on unpublished work, three copies of the unpublished material should be included to assist the referees in their evaluation.
- On the printer's copy, symbols should be clearly identified, i.e., "Greek omicron", "One and ell", and "oh and zero" should be differentiated by a marginal note to avoid ambiguity.
- Extensive revision at the author's option of text or figures in proof is costly and will be charged to the authors. Typographical errors may be corrected and references updated without charge.
- There are no facilities for translating or making editorial revisions of foreign contributions. All publication is in English, and papers must be submitted in proper form. Canadian and British spelling should be changed to Americanized version.
- The policy of Metallurgical and Materials Transactions is to use the International System of Units (SI). For guidelines, see National Bureau of Standards Special Publication 003-003-02380-9 (for sale by the Superintendent of Documents, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC 20402) or visit the NIST SI Units website. If other units are required for special situations, a conversion to SI must be provided in parentheses or in a table.
- Avoid the use of trade names and proprietary information whenever possible. Such use can occasionally be justified if this is the best way to specify a particular material or process.
- A series of papers dealing with separate aspects of a subject should be cross referenced. Divisions, such as Part I, Part II, etc. are not recommended as they complicate the review procedure and abstract listings. If such divisions are considered essential, they should be justified by the author at the time of submission and are subject to approval in review.
- A Table of Symbols should be included when symbols are used extensively throughout a paper.
Guidelines for Electronic Image Submission
Electronic images are both acceptable and encouraged for use in the journal publication. The following are guidelines to follow for formatting electronic images depending on the image type, size, and layout. These guidelines should be considered minimum in terms of image resolution, and higher resolutions are also acceptable.
An image intended for the journal's double column format (i.e., an image to fit into the space of a single column on the 2-column layout), should be sized to 84 mm (3.30 inch or 20 picas). Images submitted for a layout that spans both columns (i.e., an image that will occupy the full-page width) should have an image width of 176 mm. (6.93 inch or 41.5 picas). These image sizes must be followed to ensure the proper following image resolutions. Images can be enlarged or reduced within most Photoshop-compatible programs. When resolution is discussed below, it is based on each graphic being placed in the page-layout program at 100%.
Standard Bitmap or Line Scan Specifications for Final Image:
Standard Gray Scale Specifications for Final Image:
Standard Color Specifications for Final Image:
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Minimum 300 dpi in CMYK Color Space.
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Minimum White Point: 3%C, 2%M, 2%Y, 0%K.
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Color images should be saved as Photoshop compatible 300 dpi CMYK Tiff or EPS Single files. Tiffs are generally saved with LZW compression.
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All images files can be saved and submitted as Macintosh or PC compatible files.
Styling of References
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A journal reference should be readily available on subscription and included in most library collections. Use journal abbreviations as given in the current listing of Chemical Abstracts Service Source Index. Article titles are not to be included.
Example: Author: Journal, year, series, volume, pages.
R.M. Horn and Robert O. Ritchie: Metall. Trans. A, 1978, vol. 9A, pp. 1039-53.
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References to books should include the title and pages within the book.
Example: Author: Book, edition, publisher, place, date, pages.
George E. Dieter: Mechanical Metallurgy, 2nd ed., McGraw-Hill Book Co., New York, NY, 1976, pp. 160-65.
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A "private communication" or "unpublished research" may be referenced when required to give proper credit. The citation must include the affiliation and address of the person involved, as well as the year. Papers presented at meetings but not published fall under this category.
Example: J.J. Doe: AAA Company, Washington, DC, unpublished research, 1988.
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References to Internal Reports and other publications of limited availability (not available by subscription) are not desirable. However, they will be permitted when the use results in a saving of page space or is required for proper recognition. In these matters, the author's judgment must be supported by the review committee and editor. The report should be available on request and include the source from which a copy may be obtained.
Example: J.J. Doe: Report No. 738, AAA Company, Washington, DC, January 1988.
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In Press references must include the name of the journal. Balance of reference should be supplied when available. This may be done on the proofs.
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References such as Submitted for Publication and To Be Published are not acceptable. If the item is still undergoing review, use same format as in 3 above.
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References must be numbered throughout the manuscript and presented in consecutive numerical order on Reference page.
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No other references will be published.
Information on Page Charges and Reprints
Metallurgical and Materials Transactions, like many other scientific and technical journals, depends on author page charges for a significant part of its support. Therefore a charge of $75.00 per printed page is levied for all papers published. This charge is $70.00 per printed page for manuscripts submitted on computer diskette. One hundred reprints will be supplied without additional charge for every paper on which the payment of these charges is authorized. It is expected that each author or sponsoring institution will contribute fairly to the support of Metallurgical and Materials Transactions through payment of the page charges.
However, in special cases in which the author would have to pay the charges personally, such charges may be waived upon written request. Instructions and forms regarding page charges, waivers, and reprints will be forwarded from the editorial office and appropriate action should be taken at that time. These and any other special matters related to page charges should be referred to Metallurgical and Materials Transactions, Carnegie Mellon University, Schenley Park, Pittsburgh, PA 15213.
Publication of Symposium Papers
There are special situations when it is desirable to publish a group of papers concurrently in Metallurgical and Materials Transactions. Typically, these arise when a technical committee has organized a limited meeting program of two or three half-day sessions on a particular theme. The material must be original, of high quality, and closely correlated but not sufficient to justify an independent monograph or proceedings-type publication. A high percentage of these would normally be published as MMT papers, but the authors and committees feel there is an additional benefit from concurrent publication.
To obtain approval, the chairman of the symposium program should write to the editor outlining the symposium scope, the papers to be considered, with abstracts if available, and the plans for payment of page charges. On receipt of this information, the editor will submit a request to the Joint Commission for approval. All manuscripts in the symposium will be reviewed according to MMT standard review procedure.
An example of a symposium published by MMT: "Symposium on the Mechanical, Microstructural and Fracture Processes in Superplasticity," Metall. Trans. A, 1982, vol. 13A, pp. 688-743.
Copyright Policy
Metallurgical and Materials Transactions is subject to the U.S. Copyright Law which became effective on January 1, 1978. Accordingly, the signed copyright transfer form must be received in the Editor's Office before the article can be processed for publication. This form, sent upon acceptance of the manuscript, must be signed by each author unless excepted as noted under Part A, "work made for hire" or Part B which pertains to U.S. Government employees. Other copyright transfer forms may not be substituted for this form.
This copyright transfer formalizes the author-publisher relations of professional societies and becomes effective when the manuscript is accepted for publication. If the article is not published in Metallurgical and Materials Transactions, the copyright transfer will not take effect. As the copyright owners for articles in MMT, ASM and TMS-AIME will continue to promote the widest dissemination of the technical information printed in these journals.
Annual Awards
TMS - "Champion H. Mathewson Award": Established to honor Dr. Champion H. Mathewson, President of the Institute in 1943, award is made for a paper which represents a notable contribution to metallurgical or materials science. Paper must have been published in MMT A or B or any other TMS publication within the three-year period preceding the award.
ASM - "Marcus A. Grossmann Young Author Award": Established to honor Dr. Marcus A. Grossmann, President of ASM in 1944, award is made to suitable author whose age is less than 40 years of age on 1 January of year in which paper was published in MMT. Paper must have been published in the calendar year preceding that in which award is to be made.
ASM - "Henry Marion Howe Award": Established to honor Dr. Henry Marion Howe, this is the oldest of the ASM awards and medals. Paper must have been published in the calendar year preceding that in which award is to be made.
Editorial Board
Metallurgical and Materials Transactions
Carnegie Mellon University
Doherty Hall A313
5000 Forbes Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15213
Phone: (412) 268-2694
Fax: (412) 268-7169
E-mail: mettrans@andrew.cmu.edu
Editor: David E. Laughlin
VOX: (412) 268-2706
FAX: (412) 268-3113
E-mail: dl0p@andrew.cmu.edu
Associate Editors:
Alan W. Cramb
VOX: (412) 268-5548
FAX: (412) 268-7247
E-mail: cramb@cmu.edu
Address: 3325 Wean Hall, Department of Materials Science
and Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University, 5000 Forbes Avenue, Pittsburgh, Pa 15213, USA
R.J. Fruehan
VOX: (412) 268-2677
FAX: (412) 268-7247
E-mail: fruehan@andrew.cmu.edu
Warren M. Garrison, Jr.
VOX: (412) 268-3593
FAX: (412) 268-7596
E-mail: heleng@andrew.cmu.edu
T.B. Massalski
VOX: (412) 268-2708
FAX: (412) 268-7596
E-mail: massalsk@andrew.cmu.edu
Tresa M. Pollock
email : tresap@engin.umich.edu
phone : (734) 615-5150 fax : (734) 763-4788
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