Submission Guide

Submission for OPTICAL REVIEW

Optical Review will move to online submission gradually. This system will guarantee authors fast and safe submission of their manuscripts. Manuscript should be prepared in accordance with “Instructions for Preparation of Manuscript” and be submitted in the electronic form on the internet. You will need 1 PDF file of your manuscript and 1 form indicated below.

<Necessary items>

  1. Manuscript on PDF format
    It must contain the main body, tables, figures, and photos etc.

  2. Agreement form
    “Agreement form for Copyright Transfer and Payment of Publication Charge”
    The applicant must personally sign in the blanks for “ signature” on the agreement form.
    Also, these forms need to be submitted on PDF file with the manuscript.
    Submissions without the agreement form will not be accepted.
<Online submission is available at the site below>
    https://solution.dynacom.jp/cgi-bin/osj/submission/submission.cgi (Japanese)
    https://solution.dynacom.jp/cgi-bin/osj/submission/submission.cgi?ln=en (English)

<Address>
    Editorial Office, OPTICAL REVIEW
    c/o The Institute of Pure and Applied Physics (IPAP)
    2-31-22-5F Yushima, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-0034, Japan
    TEL: +81-3-5844-3291, FAX: +81-3-5844-3290
    E-mail: optrev@ipap.jp
[Note]Prospective authors of review papers should contact an editor of OPTICAL REVIEW before preparing manuscripts. They will generally be asked to submit proposals for their papers.

Publication Charge of OPTICAL REVIEW

The authors (or their institution) are requested to pay the publication charge
according to the following rates when the paper is accepted.
This entitles the author to receive 50 reprints.
¥[10,000P], where P stands for the number of printed pages of the paper.
The standard color printing fee is ¥35,000 per color page, regardless of how many color diagrams the page contains.
Additional reprints may be ordered in lots of 50 at an extra charge of ¥3,000P per lot.
The extra charge for covered reprints is ¥5,000 per paper.

The above publication charge will be changed to the following rates. These rates apply to papers published after Vol.17 No.1, 2010.

Number of Pages PRate/printed page (JPY)Price (JPY)
1-610,00010,000P
7-126,00060,000+6,000(P-6)
13-3,00096,000+3,000(P-12)

 

 

Home

©1994-2009 The Optical Society of Japan (An Affiliate of the Japan Society of Applied Physics)
Produced, Developed, and Maintained by The Optical Society of Japan (An Affiliate of the Japan Society of Applied Physics)
Printed in Japan by Komiyama Printing Co., Ltd.

mail to Editorial Office, OPTICAL REVIEW