The conference proceedings will be published as a special issue of the Journal of Physics and Chemistry of Solids, as has been the case for all previous conferences in this series. Please note that manuscripts should contain sufficient new material to justify publication in an archival journal.
Authors are encouraged to submit the manuscript on May 13 as the delegates arrive. However manuscripts will be accepted until the middle of August 2001.
Manuscripts should be mailed to:
Professor Arun Bansil, Editor
Journal of Physics and Chemistry of Solids
SNS 2001
Physics Department
Northeastern University
Boston, MA 02115, U.S.A.
FAX: +1 617 373 8277
Email: bansil@neu.edu
IMPORTANT
Each submission MUST indicate that it is an invited talk or a contributed poster (include Poster number) presented at SNS 2001. Without such a statement, the article will be treated as an ordinary submission to Journal of Physics and Chemistry of Solids and will not appear in the special issue containing the proceedings of SNS 2001.
Preparing Manuscripts
Each contributed paper is allowed a maximum of 4 printed journal pages. The invited papers can take a maximum of 6 printed journal pages. The manuscripts will be typeset; authors do not need to prepare camera-ready copy. You should supply three hard copies of your manuscript together with a diskette containing the text in one of the popular formats such as MS Word, Tex, Latex, or WordPerfect. The figures may also be supplied on a diskette in any reasonable popular format, but please be sure to provide a good quality set of print outs as well. All authors will receive page proofs of the manuscript for their approval.
How to estimate journal length from your manuscript copy
The Journal of Physics and Chemistry of Solids publishes in a double column format. Each column is 22.5 cm long; there are 2.5 journal lines/cm or 21 words/cm. (These counts area a bit different from what you may find by actually looking at a copy of the journal, but these are effective numbers, which take various formatting factors during typesetting into account.)
Authors should include an abstract of no more than 100 words. You need not try to estimate the space needed to accommodate the title, abstract, author affiliation, and related blank spaces, etc. Simply subtract 0.5 journal pages from your allowance to take these items into account.
This leaves 3.5 journal pages for the body of a 4 page contributed paper, or 5.5 pages for an invited paper. Equivalently, you have 3300 words available for the body of a contributed paper or 5200 words for an invited paper, assuming of course that there are no figures, tables or equations.
For a figure, table or an equation which can fit in one column width (i.e., is legible with a width of not more than 7.0cm), estimate an effective vertical height by adding 2 cm to the actual height in order to account for the blank spaces necessary to separate a figure, table or an equation from the text. Then reduce the estimate of 3300 (or 5200) words above by 21 words/cm, taking into account all figures, tables, and equations.
For a figure, table or an equation that must be placed across the page requiring two columns, double the estimates of the previous paragraph and subtract 42 words/cm for the effective vertical height.
You will thus obtain an estimate for the total number of words of text available to you. Please note that the text here refers to all text such as figure captions, references, and the narrative in the manuscript.
If you follow the rules, you should have no difficulty staying within the page limits indicated.