Special Issues

EPJ welcomes the publication of selected and topical Special Issues.The journal EPJ - Special Topics is explicitly devoted to this type of publication.

Occasionally, however, it will also be possible to publish a Special Issue of one of the journals EPJ A-E or EPJ Applied Physics.

If such a special issue is based on a scientific meeting, the organizers will be asked to adhere to quite stringent rules to ensure the success of such an endeavour.
In particular, the journal will expect the meeting organizers to recognize and announce to participants that:

1. There will be no conference proceedings.
2. Instead, a special issue provides an opportunity to have original material (only) refereed quickly and published inthe EPJ journal concerned.
3. Accordingly, authors interested in making a contribution should,on their own initiative, submit their full paper at the time of the conference.
4. Articles must be strictly journal length and quality and each will be refereed like any regular paper of its kind submitted to the EPJ journal concerned.

Provided that in this way a critical mass of papers is reached so as to form a representative and coherent survey of the subject matter, they will be released together as a self-contained (but regular) journal issue.

Currently, the EPJ journals are calling for papers for the following special issues:

Special Issue on "Biological physics near surfaces/interfaces"
(deadline for submission: December 1, 2008)

Here you find the topical issues that have already been published in
EPJ A
EPJ B
EPJ D
EPJ E
EPJ ST