The length of a Letter should not exceed 7 printed journal pages.

An EPL articles comprises the header (almost 1/2 page) and a body text.

Each full line in EPL comprises 55 characters (letters, punctuation marks, spaces) and each page comprises 114 lines (57 lines per column).

Equations: check whether they can be displayed in one line or if they will need to be cut. A single line equation corresponds to 285 characters. A two-line equation corresponds to 365 characters and a three-line equation corresponds to 445 characters.

For figures, choose the reduction (1/2, 1/3, 1/4 of the original size) and calculate the printed height. The character equivalent is obtained by dividing by 4.2 mm (the height of a line of text in print) and multiply by 55 (number of characters per line) if the figure appears in one column or by 110 if the figure appears accross the two columns.

Each reference takes 46 characters for each column line.

For authors who would like to easily find out the length of their paper, we recommend that they use the EPL house-style package available in the section ‘EPL Macro’

It includes complete documentation that will enable authors to typeset their manuscript in the same format as it will appear in EPL allowing them to see the exact length of their paper.