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Brief notes on preparing LATEX manuscript for Applied Physics
Express and Japanese Journal of Applied Physics
APEX/JJAP Editorial Division1 ∗ and Oyo Buturi2
1 APEX/JJAP Editorial Division, The Japan Society of Applied Physics, Bunkyo, Tokyo 113-0031,

Japan
2 Oyo Buturi Gakkai, Bunkyo, Tokyo 113-0031, Japan

This document brieﬂy provides instructions on how to prepare your manuscript in LATEX format. As
regards general instructions for preparing manuscripts, please refer to “Instructions for Preparation ofManuscript”, which is available at our Web site (http://journals.jsap.jp).

1. Introduction
You can use this ﬁle as a template to prepare your manuscript for Applied Physics Express(APEX)1) and Japanese Journal of Applied Physics (JJAP).2, 3) Please note that apex.cls
has been obsolete and embedded in jjap3.cls as a paper type option (see Table I).4)
Copy jjap3.cls, cite.sty, and overcite.sty onto an arbitrary directory under thetexmf tree, for example, $texmf/tex/latex/jjap. If you have already obtained cite.styand overcite.sty, you do not need to copy them.
Many useful commands for equations are available because jjap3.cls automaticallyloads the amsmath package. Please refer to reference books on LATEX for details on theamsmath package.
Label ﬁgures, tables, and equations appropriately using the \label command, and use
the \ref command to cite them in the text as “as shown in Fig. \ref{f1}”. This automatically labels the numbers in numerical order.
The \citen command enables you to display reference numbers inline. The usage is thesame as that of the \cite command.
No footnotes to the text are allowed except for the title page that contains author(s)’information (use the \thanks command). You can provide comments on the reference list byuse of the bibitem and \cite(n) commands.
∗ E-mail: jsap-journals@jsap.or.jp

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Table I.

List of options for paper types.

OptionPaper typeapex

Applied Physics Express

ip

Invited Reviews

prProgress Reviews

staprev

STAP Reviews

stapart

STAP Articles

rc

Rapid Communications

bnBrief Notes

cr

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Graphic ﬁles can be embedded using the \includegraphics command. Basically, ﬁgures shouldappear where they are cited in the text. You do not need to separate ﬁgures from the main text when you use
LATEX for preparing your manuscript.

For the top and bottom lines of a table, the \Hline command draws a thiker line than thatdrawn by \hline.
2. Options
2.1 Paper type
jjap3.cls has class options for paper types. You should choose the appropriate option listed
in Table I. Default (without option) is for Regular Papers.
2.2 Two-column format
The twocolumn option may help estimate the length of your manuscript particularly for APEX,
Rapid Communications (RC), and Brief Notes (BN), which have a limitation of four (APEXand RC) and three (BN) printed pages. If the newtx or txfonts package is available in yourLATEX system, you can estimate the length more accurately. However, prepare a one-column
version when you submit your manuscript.
2.3 Equation numbers
The seceq option resets the equation numbers at the start of each section.
3. BibTeX
Unfortunately, it is not in the plan to create BibTeX style ﬁles for APEX/JJAP. Instead, thosefor APS or AIP can be used. See the comments in the preamble of this template.
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Acknowledgment
If you need acknowledgment(s), use the \acknowledgment command. We have prepared variants of this command as \acknowledgemnts, \acknowledgement, and\acknowledgements.

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Appendix
Use the \appendix command if you need an appendix(es). The \section command should
follow even though there is no title for the appendix (see above in the source of this ﬁle).

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References
1) The abbreviation for APEX should be “Appl. Phys. Express” in the reference list.
2) The abbreviation for JJAP should be “Jpn. J. Appl. Phys.” in the reference list.
3) More abbreviations of journal titles are listed in “Instructions for Preparation ofManuscript”, which is available at our Web site.
4) From jjap3.cls version 2.0 released on April 2011.

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