SYNCRYS 2001                                                                                  SYNCRYS 2001


A guide to authors
for SynCrys Conference Proceedings
(to be published in ACTA PHYSICA POLONICA A)

1. General

Only  contributions which report significant and  original  research results can be submitted to Acta Physica Polonica A.

All  contributions submitted will be refereed. It is  the  right  of Editorial  Committee  to  accept or  to  reject  contributions.  The Editorial Board does not return the manuscripts of rejected papers.

Submission of a manuscript indicates a tacit understanding that  the paper is not actively under consideration for publication elsewhere; that  its  publication has been approved by all coauthors; that  the manuscript accepted for publication will not be published  elsewhere without the consent of the Editor.

25  free of charge reprints of each printed article will be sent  to the  corresponding  Author. Illustrations  in  colour,  if  this  is essential  for  publication  (the final  decision  is  reserved  for Editors),  can be ordered and the Authors will bear all extra  costs of preparation and printing.

2. Material to be submitted

The  following  material will be required  before  a  paper  can  be prepared  for  the  printer and time will be  saved  if  it  is  all submitted at the outset.

Two  copies  (original + one identical copy) of the  manuscript  (in English) - each with: A  covering  letter, signed by one of the authors, should  accompany this material.

To  speed up the publication, a diskette with the source code of the paper  in  TeX format, MS Word, ChiWriter codes or ASCII version  of text is of considerable help (Appendix B).

The  Editors of Syncreys reserve the right of suggesting  shortening of long contributed papers.

3. General presentation

Manuscripts  must be typewritten on one side of the  page  only,  in double-spacing (3 lines per inch) and with a left-hand margin  of  4 cm. Good quality white paper (avoid coated glossy paper) of size  A4 (21  x  29.7  cm)  should  be used. All pages  should  be  numbered. Mathematics  should  be legible. All unusual or handwritten  symbols have  to be described on a separate sheet; they should be identified typographically, not mathematically. One should note  that  computer printed   special  symbols  may  be  also  unclear  and  should   be identified. Vectors should be marked by underlining with a  straight line,  and  the  text which the author wishes to  stress  should  be underlined  with a wavy line. Also, on the margin the places,  where the  figures and tables should appear, should be marked  in  pencil. Symbols  for physical quantities in the text and normal  symbols  in formulae will be printed in italics. Handwritten symbols and letters should be clearly written. Only round brackets should be used in the text. No cross-references by page-number should be used; the section and subsection should be quoted.

The  title should be brief (less than 15 words) and should help  the reader  to  figure out the contents and the nature of the paper  and its place in the body of physics.

Section headings should be numbered with Arabic numerals, e.g.

                                        1. Introduction

and  continued through the whole text in the same fashion (including Conclusions). Subsections, if used, should appear as

2.1. Room temperature results

and,  if  necessary,  they may be labelled subsequently  as  2.2.1., etc.


4. Abstract

Each  paper  must have an abstract typewritten as the  body  of  the manuscript  of a length not exceeding 3% of the text, or  250  words (whichever  is  shorter),  written  continuously  (that  is  without paragraphs). The abstract should be self-contained, should not  have figures  or  quote any references. It should be clear, concise,  and informative  giving the scope, the main results obtained,  and,  for experimental  papers, where this is not obvious, some indication  of the methods used.

5. Formulae and symbols

Displayed  formulae  must  be clearly  typed  (written)  each  on  a different  line  and  well-separated from the  adjacent  text.  They should  be  numbered  on  the right-hand side  either  consecutively through  the  text  or with a compound number (for example,  (3.16)) which  contains the section number. Particular care should be  taken about the following points: Symbols, units, and nomenclature
Authors  are encouraged to follow the recommendations  of  the Document UIP 11(SUN 65-3) 1965, of the International Union  of  Pure and  Applied  Physics  (SI  system) (see  Physica  146A,  1  (1987); Symbols, Units, Nomenclature and Fundamental Constants in Physics).
Units  when  specified  in formulae, tables and  figures  should  be written in square brackets e.g. [mm], [GeV], etc.

6. Illustrations

Figures  (submitted  in  two  sets)  whether  diagrams,  graphs,  or photographs, should be numbered consecutively in Arabic numerals  in the  order  in which they are mentioned in the text and this  number together  with  the  author's name and the beginning  of  the  title should be written in pencil.

The  fair  copies for reproduction of diagrams should be  in  Indian ink  on tracing paper, white card, or plastic and of sufficient size to  permit reduction in printing, although very large figures should be  avoided;  unless there is a special reason, they should  not  be larger than A4.

Reduction  to 40% and/or 50% of original size is normally  used  and the size of figures should allow for a suitable accommodation to the journal page size using one of these ratios.

Inscriptions  on  drawings  should be kept  to  a  minimum  and  all explanations  of different types of curve or data points  should  be incorporated in the caption. Curves should be labelled  with  single symbols or with identifying letters.

Essential  photographs can be reproduced but they should be  avoided wherever  possible; they should be on glossy paper, unmounted,  with as much contrast as possible.

Line   diagrams  of  apparatus  should  be  schematic  and  detailed dimensions should not appear in the figure.

Captions  must not be written at the bottom of figures but collected together on a page specially provided.

If  figures  are reproduced from other articles the source  must  be quoted,  and the permission for reproduction obtained by the Authors from  the  owner  of  the copyrights (usually  the  Publisher)  must accompany such materials.

7. Tables

All  tables  must  be  labelled at the top  with  consecutive  Roman numerals  and a title should be as concise as possible.  Even  small amounts (4 lines) of tabular material should be treated in this way.

Headings for columns in tables should be brief.

Footnotes to a table should be indicated by superscript letters  and listed below the table.

References  for data in tables may be given in full in footnotes  or indicated in the footnote in the manner used for references  in  the text.

8. Footnotes and references

Footnotes  should be indicated consecutively in Arabic  numerals  in the  text and typed at the end of the page or between two horizontal lines immediately after the line of text containing this indication.

References  must be typed together on a separate sheet in  order  of their appearance in the text.

References  are  made  in the text with Arabic  numerals  in  square brackets  [1]  (not  with the superscript). The list  of  references should be presented as follows:
For  a  paper   in journal:
 [1]  V.Z. Kresin, H. Moravitz, Phys. Rev.  B  43, 2691, (1991).
For  a  paper   in contributed  volume:
 [2]  S. Nagakura, in: Excited States, Vol. 1, Ed.E.C. Lim, Academic Press, New York 1975, p. 322
For a book:
[3]  W.  Demtroder, Laser Spectroscopy, 3rd  ed., Springer-Verlag, Berlin 1988, p. 143.
For an unpublished paper:
 [4] B. Novak, Ph.D. Thesis, University of Warsaw, Warsaw 1985, p. 77.
                   
Abbreviations  of periodical titles must follow the  conventions  of Physics Abstracts. If the author is in any doubt it is safe to leave the title in full.

The  publisher, town, and year of publication should  be  given  for books,  conference  proceedings,  etc.,  and  the  name(s)  of   the editor(s).  Unpublished  conferences should  not  be  given  in  the reference list.

Papers  in  the  course of publication can be entered  only  if  the journal has accepted them and its name is given.

Internal  laboratory reports not available on request  must  not  be quoted.

Whenever possible, references to Russian literature should give  the original (transliterated; the appriopriate table can be found in the Author Index of Physics Abstracts) and a translated version.

9. Correction of proofs

Proofs  should  be  checked carefully and  returned  promptly.  Only essential  corrections  should  be made  and  alterations  involving displacement  of type should be avoided. The name of the  author  to whom  proofs  are  to be sent should be indicated  in  the  covering letter.

Appendix A

The  paper  should be indexed with the help of the  current  Physics and   Astronomy  Classification  Scheme  (PACS)  which   is   widely distributed  and  is published by the US and many  European  physics journals.  PACS  Index  numbers  should  be  typed  just  below  the abstract.

Appendix B

Authors who want to speed up the publication of their papers  should supply  the source code of the paper on a diskette (all DOS or  1.44 MB  Mac)  or  by  e-mail  to  Internet  address  appol@ifpan.edu.pl, preferably  in the plain TeX format, although other TeX formats,  MS Word,  ChiWriter or unformatted ASCII codes are also acceptable.  In any  case,  authors  must  not  use any  automatic  cross-references between  the  pages, and should also refrain from  automatic  cross- referencing  the  figures  and formulae numbers,  as  well  as  from creating  a bibliography with BibTeX. Authors must not use any  non- standard  (beyond the plain TeX format) macro packages. Pictures  in common  graphic standards (PCM, TIFF, GIF, etc.) might be  sent  via ftp  after  the  specific file names are granted  by  the  Editorial Office on Authors' request.

Two  printed  copies, identical with the content of  the  file,  are still obligatory.

Poster preparation guide
for SynCrys Conference