HOW TO PREPARE A MANUSCRIPT PROCEEDINGS OF THE SCES07 CONFERENCE

All manuscripts must be submitted electronically using the manuscript upload site of the SCES07 Conference. The source file of the manuscript can be either of two formats: Word or Latex (see special instructions below). Figures need to be formatted as TIFF, PS, or EPS files and uploaded as separate files with the text file. A file name will be provided for each author on the submission site and authors are asked to name their files accordingly. Submissions with file names that differ from those provided on the conference webpage will not be processed. The manuscript should be written in English. The following guidelines should be carefully observed. The authors are advised to consider the sample-template files for Word and Latex provided by the Conference Organizers. Number all pages, from the very first to the very last. The FIRST PAGE should contain the following items, in exactly the given order: (1) Version Date, stating when that particular version was finalized / submitted. (2) Title of the paper. Do not use capital letters. (3) Author's Names (initials or first names before surnames), grouped together, separated by commas and each followed by a superscript letter ( a etc.), referring to the respective address. (4) Addresses, each preceded by a superscript letter ( a etc.), referring to the respective author name(s). (5) Abstract, which should be self-contained (no footnotes or references) and serve both as an index to and a brief summary of the paper. (6) 3 or 4 Keywords, which will be quoted in the Subject Index of the Proceedings. (7) Name and complete Postal Address of the author that is responsible for further correspondence (Corresponding author, plus valid Fax number and E-mail address. Items (1) to (7) should be followed by (in just this order): Main Text, References, and for WORD submissions, Tables (with captions), list of Figure Captions, Figures. Acknowledgements (e.g. for grants) should be put at the end of the main text, before the references. For submissions in Latex tables and figures (including captions) should be embedded in the text. See special instructions for WORD and Latex submissions below. NOTATION must be legible, clear, compact and consistent with standard usage. All unusual or handwritten symbols whose identity may not be obvious to the typesetter must be identified in the left margin at first appearance. Vectors should be printed in bold characters; they will be typeset bold italic. Special attention should be given to characters that can be misread, such as: l (ell), 1 (one), ' (prime), o (lower case), O (capital), 0 (zero), (degree), v (vee), (Greek nu), c (lower case), C (capital), i, I, s, S, x, X, (times), z, Z, p, P, (Greek rho), k, K, (Greek kappa), etc. Please note the following Journalspecific notation: BCC, FCC, RF, RT, AC, DC, at%, wt%. Always abbreviated and with initial capital: Fig. 4, Eq. (3), Ref. [2]. Always use single quotation marks. Separate units from the preceding number by a space (230 K, 2.5 kHz, 3.2 A/m, etc.), but close up degrees and percentages (24C, 53%). You are requested to italicize all

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symbols (the variables B not the units or standard functions such as exp, cos). However, on the other hand, subscripts and superscripts should be printed roman (i.e. not italic) if they do not denote a variable or an index but an abbreviation [e.g.TC (Curie-temperature), Eg (ground-stateenergy)]. FORMULAS should be displayed (i.e. put on separate lines) when they are important or quoted elsewhere, but also if they are likely to be broken incorrectly in the printed text. Displayed equations should still fit into the Journal text column width (i.e. 7.5 cm), so you should break long lines at suitable places, with this width in mind. Equation numbers should be put at the right margin. To permit a page break, they should not refer to a group of equations; rather subdivide your numbering [e.g. (2a), (2b)]. TABLES (with Arabic numbering in order of appearance) should be used for all except the simplest tabular material. Their structure should be clear, with simple column headings giving all units. Choose the least spaceconsuming layout; in most cases this means making long rather than wide tables, to make them fit into a single printed text column. FIGURES must be submitted electronically with the manuscript text file in TIFF, PS, or EPS format. Electron micrographs should be provided with a scale bar within the figure and their top edge should be indicated. All details (lettering, plotted symbols) should have proportionate dimensions so as not to become illegible or unclear after reduction; in general the figures should be half the size of a typewritten page and also should be designed for reduction to one-column width (7.5 cm). Avoid small open symbols, which tend to fill in upon reduction. The size of the lettering should be no less than 1.5 mm after reduction. Please check carefully for spelling mistakes and consistency with the main text. Wherever feasible, compile individual graphs with identical axis values and analogous captions into a single figure. The numbering should be in the order in which they are referred to in the text. Finally, for WORD submissions, the figure captions should not be put under the figures but rather listed together after the references and tables in the manuscript, preceded by Fig. 1. etc. Electronic versions of figures should be supplied in TIFF, PS, or EPS formats only. REFERENCES should be consecutively numbered in the text [in square brackets], also according to their order of appearance. The information should be presented in the correct Journal style (see recent issues), especially with regard to the order of items. Include authors, journal names, page numbers, book editors, book or proceedings publishers (with location), and year of publication: [1] F.J. Pinski et al., Phys. Rev. B 23 (1981) 5080. [2] J. Jackle, in: Amorphous Solids: Low-Temperature Properties, ed. W.A. Philips (Springer, Berlin, 1981) pp. 135160. All references should be cited in the text.

Special instructions for authors using WORD

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For your convenience a sample file is provided (Example_Word.doc) on the SCES07 Web site. Please download the file and replace the text and figures as needed. Do not change the settings like text size, margins, line spacing etc. Append tables (including captions) and figure captions to the text after the references. Append a copy of all figures on separate pages to the Word document. Provide all figures in TIFF, PS, or EPS format as separate files. These files must be uploaded together with the WORD document in sequence of their appearance and consecutively numbered following the names provided on the upload screen. Make sure that your manuscript does not exceed the page limits set for the conference contributions (2 pages for contributed oral talks and posters, 4 pages for invited talks). Figures will be reduced in size to fit the width of one column (about 7.5 cm). Manuscripts that exceed the page limit will not be accepted.

please change their names according to the ones shown on screen for your paper, then upload all files including figure files. Press the submit paper link at the bottom of the screen. Note: A pdf file will be generated for your convenience. The paper has not been submitted yet. Please check the pdf manuscript carefully with respect to correctness or needed changes. Only at this stage you can go back, apply corrections to your files and start the submit paper process all over. If you are satisfied with the pdf of your manuscript, submit your paper by pressing the submit paper link. No corrections to your submitted manuscript are possible after you pressed the submit button! If your submission was successful you will see the notice The paper was submitted. Review? on your screen. Please prepare your text and figure files carefully. A list of common problems will be regularly updated on the conference website. One known issue in generating EPS-figures by printing a graph to a postscript printer (print to file) are the addition of leading or trailing characters or spaces. This can lead to problems in the electronic processing of your manuscript and may cause possible delays in publication. Please check your postscript files with respect to any dummy characters at the start and the end of the file. A clean postscript file should start with a line like %!PS ... and it should end with the end-of-file line: %%EOF. Any leading characters before the first line and any trailing characters after the end-of-file line have to be removed using a standard text editor. Another known problem is the errors in the figure inclusion into the pdf file due to extra spaces in the \includegraphics[] command.

Special instructions for authors using LATEX:

Please download the LATEX class file elsart5p.cls from the paper submission web site. For your convenience the organizers have provided a LATEX sample file you may use to assemble your manuscript (Example_Latex.tex). Use the \documentclass{elsart5p} command line to generate the correct format as requested by the publisher. Insert tables and figures (including captions) into the text where they are supposed to appear in the final print. Provide all figures in EPS format as separate files. These files must be uploaded in sequence of their appearance together with the source (.tex) file following the names provided on the upload screen. Make sure that your manuscript including tables and figures does not exceed the page limits set for the conference contributions (2 pages for contributed oral talks and posters, 4 pages for invited talks). Manuscripts that exceed the page limit will not be accepted.

Useful hints for electronic submission:

The Web page of the SCES07 Conference must be used for electronic paper submission. Contributors log in with their user name and password. If the abstract status is accepted the submission process can be started via the submit paper link. The next screen provides the tools to identify all files that need to be uploaded. The first two boxes show the current title and author list as extracted from your abstract. If title or authors of your manuscript are different from your abstract, please make the necessary changes here. Next check the format of the text file (Word or Latex). Please follow the name convention assigned to your paper (number_authorname). If your files are named differently,