DIRECTED ENERGY PROFESSIONAL SOCIETY
JOURNAL OF DIRECTED ENERGY

Instructions for authors:

Submit 5 double-spaced copies of the paper along with an electronic file for review to Journal of Directed Energy, Editorial Office, University of Florida, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, P.O. Box 116250, Gainesville, FL 32611-6250. Include full information (including address, phone, fax, and e-mail) for corresponding author to receive proofs. Supply names and contact information of five suggested reviewers, although the editors reserve the right to choose their own reviewers independent of the list supplied. Authors should clearly label both manuscript copies and disks at every step: initial submission, first revision, second revision, etc. Disks must clearly state the software and version used. Queries to the author will be typeset in the proof, and proofs will be e-mailed to authors as pdf files, or mailed if e-mail not available. Authors will relay corrections to compositor by e-mail, fax, or mail.

Authors must submit the DEPS copyright form with the paper so that the editor may accept the paper for review, along with written assurance that appropriate security clearance has been obtained. It is the author’s responsibility also to provide written assurance that the paper has not been published, nor under consideration, elsewhere and they are willing to make revisions in the paper, if necessary.

Papers should be in American rather than British spelling, using the serial comma, with the use of  standard abbreviations for units. (g not gm for gram, for example) Metric or dual systems of units (metric and English) are allowed. Authors should spell out numbers through ten except when used with a unit. Numbers should use the comma in numerals of four or more digits. Papers may use "et al." in the text but the authors need to include all names in the reference list. Acronyms (except for designations) would have to be spelled out at first use and would be allowed even if not used again. Authors should follow standards for setting math given in the book Mathematics in Type.

Papers must include a brief (100 to 200 word) abstract that explains the object of the investigation and the major results. For indexing purposes three to five keywords must be indicated. A nomenclature section must follow the abstract in which all symbols are identified. An introduction explaining previous work and the contribution provided by the submitted paper follows the nomenclature section. A section clearly explaining the conclusions that may be drawn from the results and their significance is the last section of the text, followed by the list of references, tables in numerical order, and then the figures in numerical order. Papers should be no more than 32 double-spaced, 12-point font, pages long in total.

References must be easily accessible public documents and are to be placed at the end of the paper in alphabetical order by first author’s last name. References, figures, and tables have to be mentioned  in the text. Tables must have a double rule at the top and bottom of the table with a single rule under column headings, with any footnotes placed under the bottom double rule. Illustrations must be clear and sharp with lettering large enough to be easily legible. Each figure must be a separate page and the captions should be listed in numerical order on a separate page. Table and figures can be mentioned out of order parenthetically (that is, a figure that is discussed later could be referred to earlier) Reference callouts in figures or tables are adequate; it's not necessary that the references also be mentioned in the text. Photographs must be glossy prints. Footnotes to the text are acceptable.

The JDE will not accept papers for publication that do not adequately address the accuracy of the results, whether computational or experimental.  

 

DEPS Copyright Policy

The Directed Energy Professional Society vision requires that the Society create venues for the exchange of directed energy (DE) information. While we encourage the free exchange of information, we must also protect our publications as well as the contributors. To these ends, we establish these two policy positions regarding the copyright of Society publications.

 

1.  The Society will copyright its publications to the extent feasible. Reproduction rights will be freely assigned to the contributors subject to appropriate reference to the DEPS copyright.

2.  The contributors to our publications bear the sole responsibility for ensuring that all required approvals for publication are obtained. Affirmations will be required before publication.