COMPUTATIONAL MATERIALS SCIENCE
INSTRUCTIONS AND INFORMATION FOR AUTHORS
of PROCEEDINGS PAPERS for the IWCMM7
SUBMISSION: It is preferred that contributions be submitted to the
the organizers at the IWCMM7.
If this is not possible, manuscripts should be sent to the organizers before
December 31, 1997.
Contributions arriving later cannot be considered for publication in the
special issue of CMS.
Manuscripts must be in English of an adequate quality.
One set of good quality original figures and two copies must be submitted
with the manuscript.
Accepted papers will be published in a special issue of Computational Materials
Science.
Note that revisions in accepted papers are in principle not possible.
It is the authors' responsibility that the accepted paper is final in every
respect.
PREPARATION OF MANUSCRIPTS: Manuscripts should be typed throughout
with double line spacing and wide margins on numbered, single-column pages.
The title page should contain the reference number as mentioned in the IWCMM7
booklet of abstracts, the title, authors' names and affiliations, the abstract
and the text of any related footnotes.
The author to whom the proofs should be sent must be indicated with her/his
full postal address, fax number, telephone number and/or email address.
One to four classification codes (PACS and/or MSC) and up to six keywords
of the author's choice should be given below the abstract.
The PACS'96 list is available on the American Physical Society web server
http://publish.aps.org/PACS/pacsgen.html.
- Tables should be typed on separate sheets at the end of the manuscript,
be numbered and have a sufficiently detailed caption.
- Figures should be numbered and their captions listed together at the end
of the manuscript.
- Formulae should be clearly written or typed with particular
consideration given to characters that may be misinterpreted, e.g. I
(cap.), l (el), 1 (one)
- References in the text to other publications should be numbered
consecutively, e.g. [1], [2,3], [4-6], etc., and listed together at the
end of the text, e.g.
[1] B.C. Larson, C.W. White and B.R. Appleton, Appl. Phys. Lett. 32
(1978) 801.
[2] D. Tan, in: Defects in Semiconductors, ed. J. Narayan (North-
Holland, Amsterdam, 1981) p. 163.
[3] G. Ramian, Proc. 13th Int. Conf. on Free Electron Lasers, Santa Fe,
NM, USA, 1991, eds. J.C. Goldstein and B.E. Newnam, Nucl. Instr. and
Meth. A 318 (1992) 225.
PREPARATION OF FIGURES: The publisher requires a set of good
quality drawings and photographs to produce the printed figures.
- Line figures are preferably reduced to single-column width (ca. 7.6 cm).
Submitted drawings should be 1.5-3 times larger than the printed size;
the height of letters and numbers should, after reduction, fall within
the range 1.5-2.4 mm.
Do not use too narrow pen widths for machine plotted graphs.
Shaded areas should be shown by means of cross-hatching or a matrix of
dots, rather than a continuous grey wash.
- Photographs should not already be screened (overprinted with the point
matrix used by printers).
The top side of a photograph should be marked if necessary.
- Color figures can be reproduced from slides or glossy photographs, at a
cost to the author of Dfl. 700 for one page and Dfl. 350 for each
consecutive page.
A page can contain several figures.
These prices are exclusive of Value Added Tax (VAT).
LENGTH OF THE PRINTED PAPER: Invited papers max. 20 printed pages;
Contributed papers max. 10 printed pages.
Papers exceeding the limits significantly may be rejected.
The following guidelines can be used to estimate the length of an article:
- An average article opening (title up to and including abstract) is 1/2
page.
- A page with only text contains about 800 words (or about 4600 characters
including blanks).
- A one column figure takes up about 1/5 page, a two column figure takes
up about half a page.
- A one column table takes up about 1/5 page, a two column table takes up
about half a page.
- A one-line free-standing equation is equivalent to about 30 words (or
about 180 characters).
ELECTRONIC MANUSCRIPTS: The publisher invites the submission of
electronic manuscripts for Computational Materials Science.
It is the authors' responsibility that the electronic version exactly matches
the paper manuscript.
LaTeX articles or articles prepared with any of the well-known word processors
can be handled by the Publisher.
LaTeX is preferred.
The Elsevier LaTeX package (including detailed instructions to authors)
can be obtained using anonymous FTP from the Comprehensive TeX Archive
Network (CTAN) from the directory
/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/elsevier.
The participating hosts in the Comprehensive TeX Archive Network are:
- ftp.shsu.edu (TX, USA),
- ftp.dante.de (Germany),
- ftp.tex.ac.uk (UK).
In order to reduce network load, it is recommended that you use the CTAN host
which is located closest to your site.
Questions concerning the LaTeX author-prepared article project and
requests for the booklet with instructions to authors should be directed
to the address below.
COPYRIGHT TRANSFER:The authors will receive a form with which they can
transer copyright of the article to Elsevier.
This transfer will ensure the widest possible dissemination of information.
OFFPRINTS: Fifty offprints are provided free.
Authors can order more of articles containing color figures receive 200
free offprints.
CORRESPONDENCE WITH THE PUBLISHER: After acceptance of an article, any
correspondence should be addressed to:
Elsevier Science B.V.,
Computational Materials Science,
Issue Management,
P.O. Box 2759,
1000 CT Amsterdam,
The Netherlands.
Tel: ++31 20 485 2517,
Fax: ++31 20 485 2319,
email: e.mathlener@elsevier.nl
For additional information see also the Elsevier web site
http://www.elsevier.nl.
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