FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact:
Amy Halsted
American Physical Society
halsted aps.org
631-591-4232
APS Offers Author Names in Alternate Language Alphabets
Ridge, NY, 3 December 2007 -- A new program announced today
[http://l
ink.aps.org/abstract/PRL/v99/e230001] by the American
Physical Society offers authors the option to include their
names
in either Chinese, Japanese, or Korean characters, following
the
name as it appears in Latin characters. The program is
offered
for author bylines throughout the Physical Review journals,
including Physical Review Letters.
The option offers advantages to these authors and to readers
of
the journal. Many names that are different when expressed
in
characters become the same when transliterated into English.
Showing the characters after the transliterated name removes
the
ambiguity, and enables readers to know definitively whose
work is
whose.
The program is the brainchild of Gene Sprouse, APS
Editor-in-Chief. "A person's name is important. It is
the first
word that a child learns to write, and it stays with him or
her
throughout life," he observed. "Authors who choose
to have their
names printed this way can show their name on their paper to
a
friend or family member who may not read English! Our
international submissions are growing and we occasionally
have
trouble ourselves distinguishing one Asian author from
another.
We value these authors and we want to be welcoming to them
in our
journals," he said.
The pilot program for Chinese, Japanese, and Korean
characters is
now available, and with time and more experience additional
languages may be offered. Full instructions are given for
authors
on how to supply the proper Unicode characters at the time
of
submission [http://authors.aps.
org/names.html].
About the APS: The American Physical Society is the world's
largest
professional body of physicists, representing over 46,000
physicists
in academia and industry in the US and internationally. It
has
offices in Ridge, NY; Washington, DC; and College Park, MD.
For more
information: www.aps.org
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