Instruction to Authors of oral and poster contributions
This section provides information on the submission procedure for abstracts and 4-page papers. It should be done through the electronic submission system ELISE. It is open only during the time windows bellow.
Deadlines for submission:
| Abstracts – 1 page | February 16 – February 27, 2009 |
| Paper – up to 4 pages | June 15 – June 26, 2009 |
Submission of Post-deadline abstracts is by e-mail attachment sent to LOC till May 31. Submission of the corresponding 4-page papers must be as all the others though ELISE in the time period given above. Papers, sent by Email will be not published in the Conference proceedings.
Only contributions that have actually been presented at the Conference (as oral or poster) will be included in the Conference proceedings. Submitting a 4-page paper therefore does not imply automatic inclusion in the proceedings.
Layout requirements
All these documents must comply with the following requirements.
| Item | Requirement |
| Max. number of pages | 1 (abstracts), 4 (4-page papers) |
| Page size | A4 (21.0 x 29.7 cm) |
| Page margins | 2.5 cm on all 4 sides, gutter 0.0 |
| Fonts | Times, Symbol |
| Font size | 14 pt (title only), 12 pt (all other text) |
| Line spacing | 1.5 lines (21 pt) |
| Title of paper | Centred alignment, bold font 14 pt |
| List of authors | Centred alignment, normal font 12 pt, presenting author
underlined e.g. M. First1, N.N. Second2 |
| Author affiliations | Centred alignment, italic font 12 pt e.g. 1 Institute, City, Country |
| Body text | Justified alignment, normal font 12 pt |
| References | 10-point font, 1.5 lines spacing |
| Figures captions | 10-point font |
| Poster Size |
| The poster cannot exceed 1,80 (h) x 0,90 (w). |
Templates
The following templates are provided as a courtesy to facilitate document preparation. However, no guarantee is provided as to their correct functionality on all platforms. The author remains responsible for checking compliance with the above format requirements.
- For WYSIWYG text editor users: template file in RTF format (compatible with many text editors, such as MSWord).
- For LaTeX users: LaTeX class file, LaTeX sample file, sample PDF format figure. (Note: not all LaTeX versions can handle PDF format figures. Yet the sample file should also be able handle PS or EPS format figures after a minor modification - as indicated in the LaTeX sample file).
Format requirements
Submission of abstracts and 4-page papers is exclusively handled by the electronic submission system. The documents are accepted in either PDF or PS file formats, possibly compressed as .pdf.gz and .ps.gz respectively. The documents that do not comply with these requirements are not accepted by the electronic system.
For 4-page paper, Please register in ELISE "AS A NEW USER"
(do NOT use the account information you provided for the abstract submission).
