What you will need
The server will ask you what type of abstract you are submitting
and for free communications, what programming category you would
prefer. It will then ask you to enter your title, authors and author
details. If your title or any author names contain characters that
you cannot type in with your browser, HTML can be used. Help on
HTML characters will be available. The server will display to you
the title and byline it will use in your abstract and
in the program and indexes and allow you to make corrections.
It will then ask you to provide the body of your abstract.
If it is simple abstract you can cut and paste the text; otherwise
you will probably want to upload a file. You should
have available a file in one of the following preferred formats:
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HTML, RTF, or plain text.
If you are using OpenOffice, MSword, or WordPerfect, please save your
text as an RTF file. Please note that this file must not contain the
title and byline, as this is inserted from the information you
provide for our database.
Illustrations must be uploaded as separate files, not
embedded in a document file.
- Graphs or other computer generated
drawings should be in PDF or PostScript format. If your software
does not support saving in PDF format, It will probably
allow a "print to file" operation which will save PostScript if
you specify a PostScript printer as you output device, e.g. a
LaserWriter.
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Images such as micrographs or
gel scans should be saved in one
of the common portable image formats: PNG, GIF, JPG, TIFF.
Please note:
The reason for requesting PDF or PostScript is to enable the preparation
of a quality PDF version of your abstract that can be printed at
high resolution. To achieve this aim, the PostScript needs to be
generated by the graphical application. Including an image or a
scan within a PostScript file is possible, but does not
achieve the aim of producing an infinitely scalable quality result.
Special characters (any that do not appear on your keyboard)
can present problems when converting file formats as must occur when
both web and print versions of the Proceedings are prepared. If
your submission includes such characters, please check them carefully
in the preview window. If there are any problems, append to the
body file a section entitled "For the editor" and define in
words the symbols used. We can then ensure no translation
errors have occured in subsequent steps.
For example this section might include:
β: Greek lower case beta; μ: Greek lower case mu;
∼:approximately; ±:plus/minus sign.
For more details on these instructions see:
For instructions on style see:
