Proceedings

• Two good copies of manuscript + figures (1 for NIM, 1 for conference referees),
• One set of good quality figure material (1 figure per A4 page)
• A disk, containing the electronic version of  text and figures identical  to the paper copies. It is the responsibility of the authors to ensure that the version on disk exactly matches the hard copies.

 The rules for preparing the manuscript and figures, as given by NIM publisher and completed by the conference editors, are given below.

• The length of the papers for a standard talk and for poster should not exceed 4 NIM pages all included. For  Invited talks and Keynotes the limit is 6 NIM pages.

• We propose to write all manuscript using a recent version of  Word. 
• For the formatting of your paper, you have two alternatives :
  1. Use the template proposed by NIM : Elsevier.dot. If you don't want to integrate your figures in the text, take them into account for the page counting.
  2. Use free formatting with preferably :  single column pages  in "times", size 10, with 1.5 line spacing 2.5 cm wide margins. 
     In this case, the first page should only contain the article title, author names and affiliations, the text of related footnotes and the text of the abstract. The table and figures as well as table and figure captions should be on separate sheets at the end of the paper. In these conditions, the manuscript should not exceed 5 text pages including the front page. A maximum of 5 figures (including photographs) and 2 tables will be accepted.

   

• The name of the contact author should be indicated with his full postal address, telephone, fax and e-mail in footnote of the first page.
• Up to six keywords of the author's choice can be given below the abstract.
• Please give 3-5 PACS codes. The PACS codes can be found at: http://www.aip.org/pacs/index.html or http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/journaldescription.cws_home/505701/authorinstructions
• Tables should have a sufficiently detailed caption to explain the data displayed in it.
• References in the text to other publications should be numbered consecutively within square brackets and listed together at the end of the text.
• Formulae in the manuscript should be clearly written or typed with particular consideration given to characters that may be misinterpreted. Unusual symbols should be explained in pencil in the margin.
• For further information please see: http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/journaldescription.cws_home/505701/authorinstructions

The publisher requires a set of good quality line figures and photographs, even if you use the NIM template with figures integrated.

• Figures should be numbered, each figure on a separate A4 page, as well as a list of figure captions.

• Line drawings should be original laser printer or plotter output.

• The top side of  photographs should be marked if necessary.

• For specifications of the electronic versions of figures and photographs, please see: http://authors.elsevier.com/artwork
• do one file per figure (TIFF or EPS) not included in the Word text document.

• Manuscripts should be written in good English. 
• Page proofs will be sent out to authors  in order to check that no undetected errors have arisen in the typesetting or file conversion process. At the proof stage only printer's errors may be corrected. No changes in, or additions to, the edited manuscript will be accepted.
• Copyright transfer: In the course of the production process, the authors will be asked to transfer the copyright of the article to the publisher. This transfer will ensure the widest possible dissemination of information.
• The Publisher reserves the right to decide whether to process a manuscript from the authors' file or not.