Third IAA Symposium on SEARCHING
FOR LIFE SIGNATURES
Information for Authors of Articles
Submitted to the Edition
«Third IAA Symposium on SEARCHING FOR LIFE SIGNATURES»
The General Information
The present rules contain the information on an order of submission and recommendations on formatting of the scientific materials for publication in the edition
«Third IAA Symposium on SEARCHING FOR LIFE SIGNATURES».
Article should be presented in English. Article text should be carefully
edited and checked up for spelling and stylistic errors.
It is necessary to check formulas especially attentively.
Article should be formatted according to the present rules,
using the styles containing in the attached file
example.doc.
Order of reception of papers:
- The editorial board accepts articles containing original results of scientific researches, presented at the conference SETI-2011 by one of the authors (invited, oral presentations or posters).
- The editorial board accepts articles issued in Microsoft Word format. Please do not separate the article into several files.
- The acceptable volume of article is: for authors of the invited papers - no more than 10 pages, for authors of oral papers - 5 pages.
- The editorial board reserves the right to make technical editing of article (correction of typing, grammatical, stylistic and formatting errors, etc.) without coordination with the author.
Guidelines of formatting of Articles in Microsoft Word Format
Please use the file
example.doc
as the sample. In this file special style corresponds to each paragraph. Please use these styles in your paper.
For example, article name should
be typed in string
Here Is the Paper Title, using style "title paper", etc.
Margins are: left and right - 4.5 сm, bottom - 6.7 сm, top - 4 сm.
Page number should stand at the bottom of page at the center.
Page parameters can be found in the file
example.doc.
1. Title part of article
Paper Title (style «Title Paper». Styles are contained in the file
example.doc).
Authors (style «Title Author»).
Institution, city, country (style «Title Institute»).
If authors of article work in different institutions, their surnames
are accompanied with references to the list of organizations.
2. Abstract
The abstract (style «abstract») should precede the article and starts
with word «Abstract», marked with boldface. The recommended volume
of the abstract is 10-15 lines.
3. Article text
It is necessary to use style «text paper» for the body of article.
Please avoid situations when, for example, last or first string appears unique on the page or one-two strings appear between figures, etc.
The hyphen is typed as '-', delimiter is typed as '–' (for example, 10–12 m, in 1995-1998, p. 23–26), a dash – as '—'.
4. Sections
It is recommended to begin article with the section "Introduction" containing statement of a problem and, it is desirable, the short historical review of how this problem was solving by other authors. It is recommended to finish the article with section "Conclusion" summing up basic results of the research.
You should not put the dot at the end of section (subsection) heading.
5. Formulas
Formula number should be in parentheses, placed in the same line being adjusted to the right margin.
Negative numbers in the text and tables should be typed as formula: –5.
Latin letters in formulas and as symbol designations in text should
be printed in Italics, for example: A = B + d. Greek letters and
abridgments should be in Roman type, for example: ΔΕ = Εmon−Εsut.
6. Tables and figures
It is recommended to place figures at the top part of the page and to group small figures in one line. Tables and figures are to be centered.
All tables and figures should have headings (captions) clearly explaining the content of the Table (Figure). Please do not insert additional vertical blanks between the Figure (Table) and the caption. In the text of article there should be links to every Figure and Table: «Fig. 1» and «Tab. 1» accordingly.
Figure caption is placed under it, typed using style «title figure» and end with the dot. The caption of the figure should be in the text, not in the figure.
Headings of tables are placed over them and end without dot. Headings of Tables are made out by style «Title table».
All figures should be black-and-white (shades of grey), qualitative, well read.
7. References
The list of references is located at the end of the paper in citing order. The reference in paper text is given as a serial number of the source in square brackets, like [1].
Surname should precede initials. Numbers of citing pages are typed through a dash (first—last).
“P.”, “V.”, “No” - with capital letter.
Do not use web link in References without putting author and paper name before. If you want to refer to personal communication of scientist, you should do it in the text; don't put such source in the list of references.
You can find samples of references in the file
example.doc.
Please abbreviate the titles of some journals according to the following list:
Astronomical Journal - Astron. J.
Astronomy AND Astrophysics - Astron. Astrophys.
Astronomy AND Astrophysics Supplement Series - Astron. Astrophys. Suppl.
Astrophysical Journal - Astrophys. J.
Bulletin Geodesique - Bull. Geod.
Celestial Mechanics and Dynamical Astronomy - Cel. Mech. Dyn. Astr.
Geophysical Journal - Geophys. J.
Geophysical Journal International - Geophys. J. Int.
Geophysical Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society - Geophys. J. RAS
Geophysical Research Letters - Geophys. Res. Let.
Journal of Geodesy - J. of Geod.
Journal of Geophysical Researches - J. Geophys. Res.
Journal of Geophysics - J. Geophys.
Manuscripta Geodaetica - Man. Geod.
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society - Mon. Not. RAS
Physical Review D - Phys. Rev. D
Physical Review Letters - Phys. Rev. Let.
Proceedings of the: Conference (Colloquium, Symposium) - Proc:. Conf. (Coll., Symp.)
Transactions of the... - Trans....
8. Appendix
Considering small volume of publishing articles, appendix is not
recommended. If necessary, appendix is set down at the very end of article.
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