January 1995
Please note the style followed in Physical Review A and Physical Review E for liquid-crystal notation.
The following abbreviations are standard for liquid-crystal phases. (They should be defined at first appearance in text.)
smectic-A, Sm-A
isotropic, I
lamellar, L
hexagonal, H
hexatic, Hex
nematic, N
crystalline, Cry
“Smectic” must be an adjective in the title and the first occurrence in text. “Smectics” as a noun is acceptable later in the manuscript.
The word “nematogen” is not printed and should be replaced by “nematic liquid crystal.”
Nematogen $\longrightarrow$ nematic liquid crystal
Transitions with long arrows and temperatures have the temperature printed in miniletters below the arrows:
Sm-A $\mathop{\longleftrightarrow}\limits_{500 ℃}$ I $\mathop{\longleftrightarrow}\limits_{520 ℃}$ crystal