Submission of Papers

Extended Abstracts

The length of an extended abstract (together with figures), prepared in accordance with the Symposium LaTeX style, must not exceed 6 and 4 pages for invited and contributed papers, respectively.

By February 1, 2002, authors are requested to submit:

• compressed electronic file of an abstract, including: LaTeX file of text graphic files of figures
• hard copy of an abstract with figures
• completed Registration Form
• completed Assignment of Copyright Form

Files have to be e-mailed to Nikita Vsesvetskii or sent on disk to the Secretary of the Organizing Committee.

The Proceedings will be composed from authors' electronic files without any scientific or language editing. Only minor corrections may be done during composition.

Hard copies will be a subject for consideration of the Programme Committee and may be used to resolve misunderstandings, if any, in electronic version.

The name of the principal author — a person who has been registered as a participant and will present a paper at the Symposium — should be marked against the other authors.

The Organizers will do their best to assist authors in preparing abstracts. Please do not hesitate to contact Nikita Vsesvetskii on any arising relevant questions.

Symposium LaTeX Style

The Symposium LaTeX style (nanosymp.sty), LaTeX template (template.tex and template.pdf), samples of an abstract (sample.tex and sample.pdf) and a figure (sample.eps) are included in the template.zip. This file should be decoded before running LaTeX.

The template contains some useful examples and comments which will help an author to prepare the LaTeX source code of an abstract.

If anyone does not have necessary LaTeX environment for paper preparation, he (she) can display the LaTeX formatting of template.tex and sample.tex, opening corresponding PDF-files in Adobe Acrobat Reader.

Putting together the control sequences (commands) from template.tex and appropriate places of the template printout, anyone can create a LaTeX source code for own paper. Possible program errors, which may occur at LaTeX translation of an abstract, will be corrected during Proceedings composition.

When author cannot print paper using LaTeX, the paper length should be estimated in symbols (characters plus spaces) or bytes, according to the following proportions:

• one page of LaTeX output without any figures corresponds to 3200 symbols (the same number in bytes with the file saved as text-only)
• the space needed for 50-mm-heigh figure corresponds to 1000–1100 symbols.

Graphic Files

In preparing a graphic file, please, keep in mind that a printed illustration cannot exceed 126 mm in width and 160 mm in height. Lettering, line thickness and other details should be adequate to maintain the acceptable size of the final output: 8–10 points font size and 0.4–1.2 points line thickness are recommended. Bold fonts for lettering should be used only in special symbol formatting. Color images are unacceptable. The preferred format for graphic files is Encapsulated PostScript (EPS). In order to get the best results, graphic files have to meet the following requirements:

text included in an illustration should be saved as fonts, not as curves only standard PostScript fonts Times and Symbol should be used for lettering figure captions and numbers should not be included in graphic files if a figure consists of several parts (e.g. (a), (b), etc), the part designations should be included at an appropriate place of the figure gray-scale images included in EPS-file should be with 100–150 dpi resolution gray-scale images should not be saved in RGB mode (this increases the file size dramatically and produces error on PostScript printers) files should not include a TIFF or bitmap preview and should have a bounding box which encloses just a figure and not the whole page.

If difficulties are encountered in producing EPS-files, the following formats can also be submitted:

Adobe Illustrator AutoCAD (*.dxf) Computer Graphics Metafiles CorelDraw (Not CorelPaint !) Grapher Microcal Origin	SlideWriter Mathcad Micrografx Draw Plot Windows Metafile WordPerfect Graphic

Please contact Nikita Vsesvetskii for further assistance.

File sending

By E-mail

A single compressed file containing LaTeX and graphics files should be sent, as an attachment, to Nikita Vsesvetskii with the following words in the subject line: NANO-2002, a name of the first author (see example in the table bellow).

Sending files without correct subject line and wrong file naming will produce errors and a considerable delay in processing your paper.

On disk

Use DOS-formatted 3.5 or 5.25 in. disk. Send a disk together with a hard copy and completed forms to the Secretary of the Organizing Committee.

File naming, subject line

To avoid any losses or confusions during electronic submission of abstracts, please follow strictly rules for the subject line and file naming, according to the following examples:

First author	LaTeX file	Figure 1.	Compressed file*	Subject line
Smith	smith.tex	smith01.eps	smith.zip	NANO-2002, Smith
Johnson	johnson.tex	johnson01.eps	johnson.zip	NANO-2002, Johnson
Eisenstein	eisenstein.tex	eisenstein01.eps	eisenstein.zip	NANO-2002, Eisenstein

* Files may be compressed by "pkzip", "arj", "lha", "rar", "gzip" etc.

Hard copy