COLA-2001 to be published in Applied Surface Science
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INSTRUCTIONS TO AUTHORS FOR Conference COLA-2001 to be published in Applied Surface Science |
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Submission of papers + electronic text and graphics on diskette
Contributions must be written in English. They should be submitted in
triplicate with original drawings of the figures and an abstract in
English. Address and deadline of submission you have obtained from the
conference organization.
The organisers have given you a page limitation, which varies per type of contribution. In order for you to be able to meet these limitations the following information is important:
The text of your manuscript can be counted using the wordcount option that is available on your textprocessing package. Further, each figure and table should be counted as 250 words.
As an example, 2500 words of (double-line spaced) manuscript (roughly 10 full pages) and 6 figures will produce roughly 6 printed pages. Please count title page, text pages, tables and figure captions as manuscript pages.
The final text should be submitted (or resubmitted, in the case of a revised manuscript) on a 3.5" or 5.25" diskette (in addition to the three hard copies with original figures). For detailed information we refer to the attached "A Guide for Electronic Submission of Manuscripts".
Preparation of manuscripts
Manuscripts should be typed throughout with double-line spacing and
wide margins on numbered pages.
Contributions are accepted on the understanding that the authors have
obtained the necessary authority for publication. Submission of an
article implies that it is not under consideration for publication
elsewhere and that the author has satisfied himself that no copyright
will be infringed. Upon acceptance of an article, the authors will be
asked to transfer copyright of the article to the publisher. This
transfer will ensure the widest possible dissemination.
Language
All contributions should be written in English. Authors whose first
language is not English are urged to seek assistance in style, syntax
and grammar.
Structure
Please adhere to the following order of presentation: Title page,
Abstract, Keywords, Main Text, Acknowledgements, Appendices,
references, Figure Captions, Tables, and Figures.
Title page
Papers should be headed by a concise but informative title. This
should be followed by the name(s) of the author(s) and by the name and
address of the laboratory where the work was carried out. The name and
complete address of the person to whom proofs are to be sent must be
given inclusive of telephone, fax and E-mail address.
Abstract
Papers should have an abstract of between 100 and 250 words and this
should serve as a summary to the paper, providing a brief and factual
account of the contents and conclusions of the paper as well as an
indication of any new information presented and its relevance.
Abstracts should be understandable in isolation, and reference to
formulae, equations or references that appear in the text is not
permissible.
Keywords
Please supply up to six keywords of your own choice that describe the
content of your manuscript in more detail.
References. References should only be given to published material;
references are not allowed to be footnotes and references to not
readily accessible reports should be avoided. References to other work
should be consecutively numbered in the text using square brackets,
for example: "... and Chang and Weaver [1] show ..." and listed by
number in the Reference list at the end of the text, for example:
[1] S.-C. Chang and M.J. Weaver, Surf. Sci. 241 (1991) 11.
[2] A. Roth, Vacuum Technology, 3rd ed. (North-Holland, Amsterdam,
1990).
[3] V. Celli, in: Dynamical Properties of Solids, Vol. 6, Eds. G.K.
Horton and A.A. Maradudin (North-Holland, Amsterdam, 1990) p. 337.
[4] C.B. Duke (Ed.), Surface Science: The First Thirty Years
(North-Holland, Amsterdam, 1994).
Note:. In the case of multiple authorship all authors should be listed in the references provided they number less than ten. Only in the case of more than 10 authors is first author et al. acceptable.
Footnotes. Footnotes should be consecutively numbered. They will appear on the page of text they are referred to. They are not allowed as a reference as stated above, obviously they may refer to a reference.
Symbols, Formulae and Equations
Symbols, formulae and equations should be written with great care,
capital and lower case letters being distinguished where necessary. A
clear distinction in typewritten text should be made between
characters that may be misinterpreted, e.g. capital I ("Indiana"),
lower case l ("lion"), figure 1 (one),
(prime); capital O, lower case o,
zero (0), 
(degree); capital X, lower case x,
(times);
capital C, lower case c, capital K, lower case k, 
(Greek kappa); capital
P, lower case p, 
(Greek rho); capital U ("Utah"), lower case u, capital
V ("Virginia"), lower case v, 
(Greek sigma; both capital and lower
case), 
(sum); 
(capital Greek pi), 
(product)
If necessary, unusual symbols should be explained in pencil in the margins. Vectors should be indicated by a wavy underline. Numerals referring to equations should be enclosed in parentheses.
Tables
Tables should also be typed in double-line spacing on separate sheets
and provided with a suitable heading. Tables should be clearly
referred to in the text using Arabic numerals. Considerable thought
should be given to the layout, so that the significance of the results
can be easily grasped. Each table should have a title which makes the
general meaning understandable without reference to the text.
Figures Figures should be numbered and their captions listed together at the end of the manuscript. All figures should be clearly referred to in the text. The publisher requires a set of good quality drawings and photographs to reproduce the printed line figures and half-tone plates in the journal. Photographic copies ("glossy prints") of drawings are also acceptable for the line figures if they have been sharply focused and evenly exposed. As a rule, Xerox copies cannot be accepted. Photocopies of the original figures should be provided with the extra two copies of the submitted manuscript.
Preparation of figures
Line figures
The drawings or glossy prints supplied for the line figures should be
1.5 to 3 times larger than the printed size of the figures and should
contain all the required, carefully applied lettering. Figures are
preferably reduced to a single column width (7.6 cm) unless their
complexity, large width-to-height ratio or need to display special
detail makes a larger format necessary (max. printed size ca. 20 cm).
Inappropriately sized lettering on a figure may prevent its reduction
to the size optimum for its information content. The lettering used on
a figure should be chosen so that after reduction, the height of
numbers and (capital) letters falls within the range 1.2 to 2.4 mm.
Care should be exercised in choosing the pen width of machine-plotted
graphs. Frequently lines in these figures are too fine compared to the
area of the figure. Shaded areas in the line figures should be shown
by means of cross-hatching (or matrix of dots) rather than a
continuous grey "wash". Cross-hatching, after reduction, of density
less than ca. 25 lines/cm is satisfactory.
Half-tone plates
The photographs supplied for reproduction should be unmounted unless
they form part of a composite figure and they should have a somewhat
greater contrast than is desired in the printed figure. It is
important that the photographs supplied are not already screened
(overprinted with the point-matrix used by printers) or moire patterns
will form when they are screened for a second time. When necessary,
the top side of a photograph should be marked on the back. A reduction
factor should be recommended for a photo when it is not obvious what
detail in the photo is of interest.
Colour plates
Illustrations can be printed in colour when they are judged by the
Editor to be essential to the presentation. The publisher and the
author will each bear part of the extra costs involved. Further
information concerning colour illustrations and the costs to the
author can be obtained from the publisher.
Proofs
Corresponding Authors will receive a set of proofs via e-mail, which
they are requested to return within 3 days.
Offprints
A total of 25 offprints of each article will be supplied free of
charge to the author(s).
Additional offprints can be ordered at the prices shown on the
offprint order form which, along with a copyright transfer form, will
be mailed to the corresponding author of the article upon registration
by the publisher's central Log-In Department.
There are no page charges.
