APL投稿時，需要什麼提交格式，要提交哪些材料?
投過一篇，發現被直接拒稿。後來才想明白，原來投稿系統中可能有個功能，看看有沒有引用APL的文獻，如果沒有，那就直接被拒了。編輯發給我的信中，也直接這樣寫了，說還是投到你引用的期刊上發表吧。
科研不知APL，投遍論文也枉然!實驗室的老師和師兄師姐們論文投稿的第一選擇都是APL，錄了很多篇了，自己做了一個小東西，有點創意，但和拼指標的論文相比，相距甚遠!在老師的鼓勵下，寫了份詳細的`稿件，老師看後，提出三點，也就是APL的精髓：A代表應用背景擴充套件，P代表物理模型解析，L代表新穎性和創新性。論文的重中之重要先L，再P，最後A!自己在這樣的思路指導下，堅決執行L-P-A順序對論文開始重新組織：L是老師給指出來;P的話，花了很長時間，大概一個多月，讀了30多篇相關文章，模型根基才算打牢;和老師商量了A，再把圖片一個個的清晰化(很關鍵)，前後2個月，完成文章!投出去後，趕上聖誕節，到大年八年級，意見回來： Reviewer #1 (Comments to the Author): This is a useful contribution to the field. It should be published "as is".
這是個比較快的雜誌，收和拒都很快的，如果你做的比較有新意，可以選擇投稿，去年投了一篇，修了兩次接受大概用了3各月，今年投了兩篇，一篇投稿四天後直接接受(這個有一定運氣成分，但這篇文章準備了一年半，之前修改的比較多了) 一共投稿五次，中了兩篇，一篇送審。文章要有很新的物理思想，
倘若結果不好，就要看論文通篇的寫法。最近幾年，稿件的標準有所提高，最通常的原因往往是因為稿件缺乏深刻的物理內涵。所以最適合投稿APL的工作是，有足夠的創新性，並且通過深入談論，得出非常明瞭、直接的結論。
APL老牌雜誌，影響廣泛。 因為存在pre-screening，編輯直接拒稿率較高。一個審稿人，存在較大隨機性，不過一般審的都不錯(畢竟是老牌雜誌，審稿人資料庫比較完善)。個人認為要比nano letters等“家族”式期刊更具參考價值。其論文被引用總量在SCI期刊也是佼佼者。值得投稿!
材料類全球權威期刊，去年中了一篇，前後大修2次，小修1次，APL審稿速度很快，從投遞初稿，到修改，接收，整個來回將近20天。最大的感觸就是APL的摘要需要限制在100個單詞之內 APL上面的文章，比較強調時效性、與應用和實驗研究掛鉤。好處是剛出來時候看的人多，缺點是讀者興趣隨時間快速衰減。與它互補的有發表長篇的J. Appl. Phys. (JAP)。
APL是二類雜誌中比較好的。特點是研究內容容新，具有應用背景。現在是一個人審稿，審稿速度超快。文章的觀點明確，內容較短。內容新穎，具有物理思想的文章中APL比較容易。
應用物理類的最好期刊，要求的東西比較新，而且有一點的物理思想。1要足夠Applied，沒有應用背景的文章比較難中， 2要有Physics，沒有物理思想，或者物理思想不清晰的文章會比較困難，3是Lett，就是要新，別人沒做過的。
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前段時間投了一篇APL,花了好長時間都沒有結果，其實是未投完。為防止蟲友們犯類似錯誤，現將apl投稿注意事項和大家分享。
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