期刊名称：FLUCTUATION AND NOISE LETTERS
 期刊简介(About the journal)
投稿须知(Instructions to Authors)
编辑部信息(Editorial Board)
About the journal
Fluctuation and Noise Letters (FNL) is intended to be a journal where a high quality standard of refereeing and editorial judgment is provided for interdisciplinary scientific articles on random noise and fluctuations. This will be guaranteed by the selection of Editors from among the leading scientists of the field and by a particular editorial process which provides thorough reviewing of articles and proper appeal opportunities.
FNL is a strongly interdisciplinary journal with emphasis on both fundamental and applied scientific values. The name "Letter" mostly indicates the speed of publication, and not the limitation of length. There is an emphasis to publish new original ideas and results.
FNL is interested in any interdisciplinary articles on random fluctuations. For example, noise enhanced phenomena including stochastic resonance; 1/f noise; shot noise; fluctuation-dissipation; ion channels; single molecules; neural systems; quantum fluctuations; quantum computation; classical and quantum information; statistical physics; degradation and aging phenomena; percolation systems; fluctuations in social systems; traffic; stockmarket; environment and climate; etc.
FNL’s new policy is an open public debate policy. Scientists with critical views about important results published in high-profile journals and magazines are encouraged to submit a comment or note. These papers are published with an accelerated editorial procedure to manifest lively debate in the field.
Instructions to Authors
This text explains the scope and objectives of Fluctuation and Noise Letters (FNL) and gives the general guidelines on how to prepare papers for submission. Deviations from these guidelines can seriously delay the handling of your contribution.
1. Scientific scope and objectives
FNL is a strongly interdisciplinary journal with an emphasis on both fundamental and applied scientific values. The name "Letter" mostly indicates the speed of publication, and not the limitation of length. The main emphasis is the publication of new original ideas and results.
FNL is intended to be a journal, where a high quality standard of refereeing and editorial judgment is provided for interdisciplinary scientific articles on random noise and fluctuations. This is guaranteed by the selection of Editors from among the leading scientists of the field and by a particular editorial process which provides thorough reviewing of articles and proper appealing opportunities.
2. Types of articles
FNL is a journal where the effective management of publication time and space is one of its chief aims. For guidelines on formatting of camera-ready manuscripts, please see the latex or PDF file on formatting of manuscripts. The maximum density of text is about 4000 characters/page (including places for figures and space characters). FNL publishes the following types of articles:
- Letters,
- Current opinions,
- Topical reviews.
2.1. Letters are short reports of new scientific findings, with relevance to random noises and fluctuations. An interdisciplinary nature of the article is required, i.e., the goals and conclusions should be of interest also to scientists in other fields. They should normally not exceed 5 pages of FNL. If the importance of the content justifies, a longer length is negotiable. An extended introduction should be written for the General Reader. This should contain a proper introduction to the field and the problems, the outline of the specific work and the general conclusions. The body of the paper, as well as the conclusions, should be written clearly and simply, so that they are accessible, as much as possible, to noise scientists with general mathematical, physical and biological background and to readers for whom US English is not their first language. It is the best to present sophisticated technical issues in an Appendix, such as details of mathematical and measurement techniques, details of sample preparation, etc. Letters are peer-reviewed articles.
2.2. Current opinions are brief articles focusing on an important hot topic, including unsolved problems or controversial issues. An interdisciplinary nature of the article is required, i.e., the goals and conclusions should be of interest also to scientists in other fields, as much as possible. They should normally not exceed 4 pages of FNL. If the importance of the content justifies, a longer length is negotiable. An extended introduction should be written for the General Reader. This should contain a proper introduction to the field and the problems, the outline of the specific work and the general conclusions. The body of the paper, as well as the conclusions, should be written clearly and simply, so that they are accessible, as much as possible, to noise scientists with general mathematical, physical and biological background and to readers for whom US English is not their first language. Proposals to invite a Current Opinion article can be sent to any Editor of FNL. Current opinions are peer-reviewed articles.
2.3. Topical reviews are short surveys of the development of selected hot topics, with relevance to random noises and fluctuations. An interdisciplinary nature of the article is required, i.e., the scope and the conclusions should be of interest also to scientists in other fields, as much as possible. They should normally not exceed 10 pages of FNL. If the importance of the content justifies, a longer length is negotiable. An extended introduction should be written for the General Reader. This should contain a proper introduction to the field and the problems, the outline of the specific work and the general conclusions. The body of the paper, as well as the conclusions, should be written clearly and simply, so that they are accessible, as much as possible, to noise scientists with general mathematical, physical and biological background and to readers for whom US English is not their first language. It is the best to present sophisticated technical issues in an Appendix, such as details of mathematical and measurement techniques, details of sample preparation, etc. Proposals to invite a Topical Review article can be sent to any Editor of FNL. Topical reviews are peer-reviewed articles.
3. Refereeing and appealing process
Refereeing. All articles, including invited ones, will go through the same refereeing process. First, an Editor, who shall carry out the refereeing process with two independent Referees, will handle the article. During the refereeing process, this Editor will communicate with the Author and the Referees via email. The Editor has the right to reject the paper.
Acceptance. When the refereeing process is done, the Editor reports the result to the Editor-in-Chief. In the case of proposed acceptance of the paper, the subject specific Executive Editor and the Editor-in-Chief will also review the paper. The formal decision about the acceptance is done by the Editor-in-Chief.
Appealing. If a paper is rejected, it is possible to appeal against the decision. The appeal should be submitted to one of the Executive Editors and a copy has to be submitted to the Editor-in-Chief. The appeal will be discussed by an ad hoc Appeal Board which consists of:
- the Editor, who originally handled the refereeing process;
- another Editor;
- the Board of Executive Editors;
- the Editor-in-Chief.
The formal decision about the appeal is made by the Editor-in-Chief and the decision is based on the input from the ad hoc Appeal Board.
4. Publication speed
A strong effort is made to maintain a short publication time and, at the same time, to keep up a high quality. The policy of FNL is that speed is of great importance; however, high quality is even more important than speed. The first year of running will be an experimental period when the final speed of publication of FNL will be reached. Tentative web publication times of problem-free articles, submitted as PDF files (with all used fonts embedded) as email attachments, are as follows:
Letters: 5 weeks
Current opinions: 5 weeks
Topical reviews: 8 weeks
The web-published articles will later be published in the printed quarterly journal.
Publication time of papers with any error (in format, spelling, content, file, etc.) can obviously be several weeks longer; therefore, no speed guarantee can be held then.
5. Format of manuscripts
In order to reach a high speed of publication, the manuscripts have to be camera-ready. Please consult the available format files at the FNL web site.
Detailed instructions for preparation of manuscripts are available in:
Editorial Board
Editor-in-Chief
L B Kish (formerly L B Kiss)
Texas A&M University
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
College Station, TX 77843-3128, USA
E-mail: Laszlo.Kish@ece.tamu.edu
Honorary Editor
N G van Kampen
Institute for Theoretical Physics
Minnaertgebouw
Leuvenlaan 4, 3584 CE Utrecht
Tel.: 030 - 253 5928
Executive Editors
Janos Bergou
CUNY, NY, USA
(Optics and Quantum Optics)
E-mail: jbergou@hunter.cuny.edu
S M Bezrukov
National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA
(Noise in biology, biophysics, electrochemistry)
E-mail: bezrukov@helix.nih.gov
M J Deen
McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
(Noise in high frequency devices, engineering, circuits and networks)
E-mail: jamal@ece.eng.mcmaster.ca
Katja Lindenberg
University of California, San Diego
(Random and stochastic processes, nonlinear dynamics)
E-mail: klindenberg@ucsd.edu
Zoltan Racz
Eotvos University, Hungary
(General and Statistical Physics)
E-mail: racz@poe.elte.hu
L K J Vandamme
University of Eindhoven, The Netherlands
(Low frequency noise in devices, noise diagnostics)
E-mail: L.K.J.Vandamme@ele.tue.nl
M B Weissman
University of Illinois, USA
(Noise in materials, mesoscopics, magnetism)
E-mail: mbw@uiuc.edu
Suhail Zubairy
Texas A&M Univ., USA
(Quantum Information)
E-mail: zubairy@physics.tamu.edu
Previous Executive Editor
L Schimansky-Geier
Editorial Board
F Danneville (Univ. Lille, France)
A Der (Biological Research Center of the Hungarian Academy of Science, Hungary)
M Dykman (Michigan St. Univ., USA)
Z Gingl (JATE Univ., Hungary)
T Gonzalez (Univ. Salamanca, Spain)
I Goychuk (Univ. Augsburg, Germany)
B Grafov (A.N. Frumkin Institute of Electrochemistry, Russia)
F Green (Univ. New South Wales, Australia)
A Klappenecker (Texas A&M University, USA)
M Macucci (Università di Pisa, Italy)
R Mannella (Univ. Pisa, Italy)
A Neiman (Univ. Missou. St. Lou., USA)
B Neri (Univ. Pisa, Italy)
T Nieuwenhuizen (Univ. of Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
E R. Nowak (University of Delaware, USA)
S Rumyantsev (Ioffe Inst., Russia)
N Stocks (Univ. Warwick, UK)
C Surya (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong)
B Suki (Boston Univ., USA)
S Tessmer (Michigan State Univ., USA)
R Toral (Universitat de les Illes Balears, Spain)
R Vajtai (Rensselear Polytech, USA)
C Van den Broeck (Hasselt Univ., Belgium
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