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                PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS OR PHYSICAL REVIEW?

     The  Physical  Review publishes Articles, Rapid  Communications,  Brief
Reports,  and  Comments.  Except for Articles, these are limited in  length.
Each  paper  must have an abstract.  Announcements of planned  research  and
progress reports are not suitable for publication.  A series of short papers
by  the same authors on a particular subject is discouraged; a comprehensive
single regular article is preferred.

     If  a  paper is more suitable (see below) for the Physical Review  than
for  Physical Review Letters, it is in the author's interest to transfer the
paper  as  soon as possible.  Since many of the reasons for not accepting  a
submission   for  a  Letter  may  also   apply  to  acceptance  as  a  Rapid
Communication,  authors  should give careful consideration to submission  to
Physical Review as an Article or as a Brief Report.

     We  encourage authors to follow a Rapid Communication or a Letter  with
the  subsequent  submission  of  a  longer version of  the  same  work,  but
significant  additional  material  must be included.  Neither  Articles  nor
Brief Reports should be followed by such expanded articles.

                                  ARTICLES

     Articles  in  the  Physical Review may be short; there  is  no  minimum
length limit.

                            RAPID COMMUNICATIONS

     Rapid  Communications  are  intended for important  new  results  which
deserve  accelerated  publication,  and  are  therefore  given  priority  in
editorial processing and production to minimize the time between receipt and
publication.   Authors  submitting  papers as  Rapid  Communications  should
explain  in  a cover letter why the work justifies this priority  treatment.
Rapid  Communications  are similar to Letters; the principal  difference  is
that  Letters are of broad interest and are accessible to a general audience
of  physicists  and  allied  scientists,   while  Rapid  Communications  are
primarily for a more specialized audience, the usual readers of a particular
Physical Review journal (A, B, C, D, or E).

                               BRIEF REPORTS

     Brief  Reports are accounts of completed research which do not  warrant
regular  Articles  or the priority handling given to  Rapid  Communications;
however,  the  same  standards of scientific quality  apply.   (Addenda  are
included in Brief Reports.)

                    PHYSICAL REVIEW RECEIVED DATE POLICY

     Papers  transferred  from  Physical Review Letters  or  other  Physical
Review  journals  which  are  accepted without further review  (and  if  the
authors  have  not  caused undue delays) will retain the  original  received
date.   In  all  other  cases  a new received date, which  is  the  date  of
transfer, will be given.  However, the authors may request that the original
received date be retained.