Proceedings
IMPORTANT: WE ARE LEAVING THE
UPLOAD WEBPAGE OPEN FOR 1-2 WEEKS AFTER THE
DEADLINE, SINCE
A FEW OF YOU ARE LATE. PLEASE, SUBMIT YOUR CONTRIBUTION ASAP OR INFORM
US IF YOU
PREFERE NOT TO WRITE ONE
1)
GENERAL
INFORMATIONS:
Proceedings of the meeting will be published
as
a special issue of the Astrophysics and Space Science journal (ApSS;
Springer), and then in an hardcover spin-off book. The book will
follow the special issue publication in a couple of weeks time. The
book will be sent to all participants and the contributors to the book
will also receive 25 offprints of their respective article.
Moreover, the articles will be included in
the new ApSS Online First programme. This has been introduced a few
months ago and it means that as soon as the manuscript has been
submitted and the proofs have been corrected Springer will place the
final articles online. They are then fully citable by their DOI and the
advantage for the contributors is that they do not have to wait for
publication when other contributors are delayed with delivering their
corrections.
When the special issue is ready this will also be published completely
online.
Both, book and journal will be published in a large format (A4) with
double column layout, which hopefully will give plenty of space to your
paper. Also, from 2006 Springer will publish color figures
free of charge if color adds significantly to the image, figure or
photograph. This will make the special issue even more attractive and
we believe the contributors will appreciate this new feature as
well.
In order to improve the quality of the book, Springer asks for an
internal reviewing round that will be done by re-distributing papers
among senior participants or members of the soc. Eventually,
delayed papers or papers that need more corrections could be submitted
as regular papers for publication in a later journal issue. These
papers will be subject to regular reviewing, then.
Both the Authors and the Editor(s) will receive a proof of the paper
for the corrections. When the author is late in returning corrections,
Springer will use the Editor's corrections instead (please don't do
that !)
The editors of the Proceedings will be Dany
Page, Roberto Turolla and Silvia Zane
2)
PAGE
LIMIT:
There is a limit of
- 5 double side pages for 30'
Talks (or 10 one side pages)
- 4 double side pages for 20'
Talks (or 8 one side pages)
- 2 double side pages for
Posters (or 4 one side pages)
3)
MACROS:
Macros are available from this link:
MACRO
For Astrophysics and Space Science, please choose the format
[twocolumn], i.e. in the template.tex file change the two lines
"documentclass" and "journalname" into:
\documentclass[twocolumn,runningheads]{svjour2}
\journalname{Astrophysics and Space Science}
Moreover, if you want to use natbib for your references
(very useful!) the first line should be:
\documentclass[twocolumn,runningheads,natbib]{svjour2}
4) SUBMITTING YOUR CONTRIBUTION:
You can upload your contribution(s)
using the webpage :
http://www.pd.infn.it/astro/london2006/upload.html
The access is password restricted. After selecting the file
to be uploaded you'll be
prompted for both an username and a
password. Please use the
following
username: contributor
password: NS2006
***
IMPORTANT ***
In order to speed up the editorial/publishing procedure we ask
contributors to submit now the complete version of their manuscript,
not just the ps or pdf file as originally announced.
Please note that only a single tarred, gzipped file (.tar.gz)
should be transmitted. It must include:
1. the latex source, complying with the publisher's macro
2. all the figures, in high-resolution (> 300 dpi) ps, eps or
tiff
formats
3. the complete ps or pdf file of the contribution
4. the manuscript submittal form (see below)
Please name your file with your surname (i.e. authorname.tar.gz).
Partecipants with more than one contribution should name their
files as authorname_1.tar.gz, authorname_2.tar.gz, etc. and repeat the
upload procedure.
5) REVIEW
PROCESS:
As announced, all contributions are reviewed by members of the SOC or
senior partecipants. The Author will then receive a referee report and
eventually will be asked to resubmit a revised version, by taking into
full account for the required changes. The Editors will contact the
Authors should any problems arise.
6) WE
NEED ALSO SOME OTHER FORMS:
We also require that each of you fill
two forms
: a "Consent to publish" form and a "Manuscript Transmittal "
form.
Both are downloadable from the following links: Manuscript
and Consent and both should be sent to
us when you submit
your paper.
In case you are using figures from other
publisher/sources,
please fill and send us also a third form downloadable here: Request.
NOTE: please send the "Consent" and,
eventually, the
"Request" forms, both signed, by fax to Roberto
Turolla at
the Padova's University .
THESE MUST BE SIGNED. The fax number is: ++39-049-8277112
NOTE: please send us the "Manuscript" form
together with the .tar archive. This form is not going to
be signed.
When
filling this form, leave blank: manuscript number,
received/revised/accepted dates,
and the
last two sections which deal
with "manuscript comprises" and with the details of the
Guest editor.
Those entries are for office use.
Watch this space for informations!