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Subject Coverage and Contents

Since 1929 The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America has been the leading source of theoretical and experimental research results in the broad interdisciplinary subject of sound. The Journal serves physical scientists, life scientists, engineers, psychologists, physiologists, architects, musicians, and speech communication specialists.

Subject coverage includes: linear and nonlinear acoustics; aeroacoustics, underwater sound and acoustical oceanography; ultrasonics and quantum acoustics; architectural and structural acoustics and vibration; speech, music and noise; psychology and physiology of hearing; engineering acoustics, sound transducers and measurements; bioacoustics, animal bioacoustics and bioresponse to vibration.

All submissions for publication are subject to peer review to determine their suitability for publication.

In addition to contributed papers, the Journal contains news items of interest to acoustical scientists, book reviews, references to contemporary papers in acoustics, reviews of acoustical patents, and news on the development of standards. Periodically the Journal also issues cumulative indexes of published articles.

Several issues of the Journal are published in two Parts, Part 1 being the regular issue and Part 2 being either a Meeting Program or References to Contemporary Papers in Acoustics, which provides a subject and author index of papers concerned with acoustics published in more than 800 other journals. A subject and author index of papers and other material published in the Journal itself appears in every June and December issue. The subject indexes follow a classification scheme and code called the Physics and Astronomy Classification Scheme (PACS). The PACS code related to acoustics is listed in the June and December issues of JASA in the front of the index itself.

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Subscription Information and Rates

Publication Frequency and 2008 Projections

Monthly

Volumes 123, 124

700 articles

7000 pages


2008 Institutional Subscription Rates

Print plus online access
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$1,920 Surface Freight (Canada, Mexico, Central and South America, Caribbean)
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Online only
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Back issues of the Journal are available as follows:
Print copy: 1929 to 2007
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Information for Authors

Authors of papers published in the Journal need not be members of the Acoustical Society of America. All submissions for publication are subject to peer review to determine their suitability for publication and all manuscripts must conform with certain standards for the text and format.

Manuscripts must adhere to certain physical requisites to be acceptable for publication in The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. Authors intent on publishing in the Journal should, before preparing the final manuscript, download and study carefully Information for Contributors (42 kb) to The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America (JASA) which is also printed in the introductory pages of each Number 1 issue of the Journal (January and July). Authors should also consult the American Institute of Physics Style Manual which can now be downloaded for free from the AIP Home Page.

Submit manuscripts: Articles and letters to the editor reporting on research should be submitted to the JASA Editorial Office at the Peer Xpress online site which can be found at .

All such manuscripts should be prepared in accordance with the latest version of the Information for Contributors document. This document gives explicit instructions regarding the submission of manuscripts including the content of the transmittal letter.

For submitted articles, the authors should identify, on the abstract page of the article and in the transmittal letter, the principal PACS classification number (Physics and Astronomy Classification Scheme), and they should also suggest an Associate Editor who would handle the processing of the article. A special version of the PACS listing identifies, by means of initials enclosed in brackets, just which associate editors have the primary responsibility for the various topics that are listed. The initials correspond to the names listed on the back cover of each issue of the Journal and on the title page of each volume. The Journal also has special Associate Editors who deal with applied acoustics, education in acoustics, computational acoustics, and mathematical acoustics. Authors may suggest one of these Associate Editors, if doing so is consistent with the content or emphasis of their paper. Review and tutorial articles are ordinarily invited; submission of unsolicited review articles or tutorial articles (other than those which can be construed as papers on education in acoustics) without prior discussion with the Editor-in-Chief is discouraged. If a letter to the editor has a length that will result in less than two printed pages, and for which the authors substantiate that publication is urgent, it will be given expeditious handling.

Submission of papers is open to everyone, and one need not be a member of the Society to submit a paper. Authors are asked not to send manuscripts directly to anticipated Associate Editors, as the current system for manuscript handling requires that the primary files be kept at the Editorial Office in Melville, NY.

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Transfer of copyright, which previously was assumed to be implicit in the act of submitting a manuscript, is necessary under the 1978 U.S. copyright law in order for ASA to continue disseminating acoustical research and applications information as widely as possible. Authors are required to agree to the transfer of copyright on an online copyright form at the time they submit their manuscripts. Further information may be obtained from AIP.

Publication Charge: To support the cost of wide dissemination of acoustical information through publication of journal pages and production of a database of articles, the author's institution is requested to pay a page charge of $80 per page (with a one-page minimum). Acceptance of a paper for publication is based on its technical merit and not on the acceptance of the page charge. The page charge (if accepted) entitles the author to 100 free reprints. For Errata the minimum page charge is $10, with no free reprints. Although the $80 charge is voluntary for papers of 12 printed pages or less, effective with articles submitted after 1 January 2000, the $80 page charge is mandatory for longer articles (over 12 printed pages). Authors of longer articles must agree on an online form to payment of page charges before the reviewing process begins.

Proofs and all correspondence concerning papers in the process of publication should be addressed to:



Editorial Supervisor
The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America
American Institute of Physics
Suite 1NO1
2 Huntington Quadrangle
Melville, NY 11747-4502
jas@aip.org

Reference must be made to title, author, journal, and scheduled date of issue. A limited number of alterations in proof are unavoidable, but the cost of making extensive alterations after the article has been set in type will be charged to the author.

Permission for Other Use: Permission is granted to quote from theJournal with the customary acknowledgment of the source. To reprint a figure, table, or other excerpt requires the consent of one of the authors and notification to AIP.

Requests for Permission: Address requests to AIP Office of Rights and Permissions, Suite 1NO1, 2 Huntington Quadrangle, Melville, NY 11747-4502, USA. Telephone: 516-576-2268; Fax: 516-576-2450; E-mail: rights@aip.org.

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Associate Editors

A special version of the PACS listing identifies, by means of initials enclosed in brackets, just which associate editors have the primary responsibility for the various topics that are listed.


General Linear Acoustics

Anthony J. M. Davis, University of Alabama
Lonny L. Thompson, Clemson University
Roger M. Waxler, National Center for Physical Acoustics
Sean F. Wu, Wayne State University
Nonlinear Acoustics

Robin O. Cleveland, Boston University
Oleg A. Sapozhnikov, Moscow State University

Atmospheric Acoustics and Aeroacoustics

Avraham Hirschberg, Eindhoven Technical University

Gerald C. Lauchle, Pennsylvania State University

Vladimir E. Ostashev, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

Joe W. Posey, NASA Langley Research Center

Louis C. Sutherland, Wyle Laboratories (retired)

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Underwater Sound

Shira L. Broschat, Washington State University

John A. Colosi, Naval Postgraduate School

David R. Dowling, University of Michigan

Kenneth G. Foote, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

Roger C. Gauss, Naval Research Laboratory

William L. Siegmann, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Ralph A. Stephen, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

Alexandra I. Tolstoy, Atolstoy Sciences

Ultrasonics and Physical Acoustics

Paul E. Barbone, Boston University

Yves H. Berthelot, Georgia Institute of Technology

T. Douglas Mast, Cincinnati, Ohio

Richard Raspet, University of Mississippi

Andrew J. Szeri, University of Califorina, Berkeley

Transduction, Acoustical Measurements, Instrumentation, Applied Acoustics

Allan J. Zuckerwar, NASA Langley Research Center (retired)

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Structural Acoustics and Vibration

David Feit, Applied Physical Sciences Corp.

Linda P. Franzoni, Duke University

Jerry H. Ginsberg, Georgia Institute of Technology

J. Gregory McDaniel, Boston University

Richard L. Weaver, University of Illinois

Earl G. Williams, Naval Research Laboratory

Noise: Effects and Control

Keith Attenborough, University of Hull
Kenneth A. Cunefare, Georgia Institute of Technology

Brigitte Schulte-Fortkamp, Technical University of Berlin

Architectural Acoustics

Lily Wang, University of Nebraska--Lincoln

Ning Xiang, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

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Acoustic Signal Processing

William M. Carey, Boston University

Edmund J. Sullivan, Naval Undersea Warfare Center (retired)

Physiological Acoustics

Brenda L. Lonsbury-Martin, Loma Linda VA Medical Center

William P. Shofner, Indiana University

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Psychological Acoustics

Richard L. Freyman, University of Massachusetts

Ruth Y. Litovsky, University of Wisconsin

John C. Middlebrooks, University of Michigan

Brian C.J. Moore, Cambridge University

Magdalena Wojtczak, University of Minnesota

Speech Production

Anders Lofqvist, University Hospital, Lund, Sweden

Christine H. Shadle, Haskins Laboratories

Brad H. Story, University of Arizona

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Speech Perception

Kenneth W. Grant, Walter Reed Army Medical Center

Paul E. Iverson, University College London

Allard Jongman, University of Kansas

Rochelle S. Newman, University of Maryland

Mitchell S. Sommers, Washington University

Joan E. Sussman, University at Buffalo

Speech Processing

Douglas D. O'Shaughnessy, INRSWest Montreal

Musical Acoustics

Diana Deutsch, University of California, San Diego

Neville H. Fletcher, Australian National University

Bioacoustics

Whitlow W.L. Au, Hawaii Institute of Marine Biology

Charles C. Church, University of Mississippi

Floyd Dunn, University of Illinois (emeritus)

Mardi C. Hastings, Office of Naval Research

Douglas L. Miller, University of Michigan

James A. Simmons, Brown University

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Computational Acoustics

David S. Burnett, Naval Surface Warfare Center, Panama City

Mathematical Acoustics

John J. McCoy, Catholic University of America

Education in Acoustics

Thomas D. Rossing, Northern Illinois University

Victor W. Sparrow, Pennsylvania State University

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Electronic Publication and Archives, Forum

Richard Stern, Pennsylvania State University

Meeting Reports, History, Thesis Abstracts

Allan D. Pierce, Acoustical Society of America

Acoustical News--USA

Elaine Moran, Acoustical Society of America

Acoustical News--International

Walter G. Mayer, Georgetown University

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Standards News, Standards

Susan Blaeser, Acoustical Society of America

Paul D. Schomer, Schomer and Associates

George S.K. Wong, National Research Council of Canada

Book Reviews

Philip L. Marston, Washington State University

Patent Reviews

Sean A. Fulop, California State University, Fresno

D. Lloyd Rice, Computalker Consultants (retired)

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