The editors will decide whether or not the work merits rapid publication. Rapid communications usually will be published 4-5 months after submission. Authors should provide a justification statement with the manuscripts that they wish to have considered for rapid communication. Emphasis should be given to the concise presentation of the results, but sufficient experimental data to allow others to repeat the work should be presented. After acceptance the authors should be prepared to submit their work promptly on a diskette with an acceptable word processing program on request by the editor.
Papers are research articles describing original experimental results.
The Experimental Section should contain sufficient detail so that others are able to reproduce the experiment. If methods used have been published refer to the literature. 4-6 Key words should be supplied. Maximum length of Papers is 2500 words or 10 typewritten pages. Letters should report concisely on isolated, generally interesting results.