Online Submissions

A number of contributed papers covering original, unpublished work on the conference topics will be accepted for presentation.

The online submission will be accepted beginning Tuesday 1 August 2006.

The deadline for submission of the papers is Sunday 1 October 2006, 12pm French Time.

Authors will be notified whether their papers have been accepted by 17 November 2006.

Two types of contribution can be chosen:
-> Oral or Poster
-> Poster only

Choosing the first option (Oral or Poster) will mean that your submission is automatically submitted as an oral contribution to the refereeing process. However, the programme committee can decide to affect it as a poster.

Choosing the second option (Poster only) will mean that your submission is only eligible for a poster presentation.

The option “Invited Talk” is only authorized for the pre-invited presenters. Do not choose this option unless you were explicitly formerly pre-invited to present a plenary or invited talk at the Nanometa Conference.

Registration is open to all members of the scientific and technical community. Authors must obtain appropriate approval to have their paper reviewed by and presented to an international audience.

Authors are requested to:
1) Electronically submit their paper (a short abstract and a one page summary in PDF format) at http://s175655235.online.de/nanometa07/submission.html
2) Email a copy of the one page summary in PDF format with the copyright form to EPS office at sarah@europhysnet.org

Required documents:
1. A short abstract.
2. A single page summary in pdf format
Please follow the following layout recommendations
- paper size: A4 (210mm X 297mm); material formatted for 8 ½” x 11” paper will be converted to A4
- margins: left & right = 20mm, top = 37mm, bottom = 19mm
- format: Acrobat (*.pdf) file
- title: use 14pt Times bold letters centred on the page
- list all author’s names, organisation/affiliation & mailing address in 10pt Times italic, grouped by affiliation
- text fonts: use only 10pt Times (roman, bold or italic) symbols
- include equations, drawings, figures and references within the one page limit
- avoid asterisks, acknowledgements, job descriptions or footnotes
- cite references at the end of the summary (maximum of two)
- do not add any page number

Directives for the electronic submission:
The submission procedure takes four steps. Besides filling the online form you need to upload a single page abstract in PDF format. Your contribution is properly submitted after performing all the steps only. You will get a proper success message online and by email.

The online submission system properly handles numerous special characters. Details are available at the information page on special characters. Optionally you can also create mathematical symbols and formulas via LaTeX. Unfortunately some characters will get a special meaning once LaTeX is activated and the characters need to be replaced by proper code. In case of problems with the online submission system technical support is available at contact@wobsta.de

Please take care of the following hints:

• Do not use CAPITAL WORDS for example in author names or the title (except for common acronyms).
Examples:
Do not write PETER SMITH but Peter Smith
Do not write EUROPEAN PHYSICAL SOCIETY, Mulhouse, FRANCE but European Physical Society, Mulhouse, France
However write C.N.R.S.

• Be sure to not exchange the first name and the surname. Otherwise you will be listed by your first name in the author index.

• Prefer to use full first names. Middle initials can be added after the first name. Do not state academic titles.

• Submit all the authors’ information and add as many authors as required.
The system will not allow the conference organiser to make any change and the person registering the submission is entirely responsible for entering the full and correct list of all the authors.

• There is no direct length limit for the abstract text itself. Instead there is an overall size limitation for the contribution including title, authors, and affiliations. In the online form we kindly ask you to provide a very brief abstract text. For about three authors and about two affiliations of average length the space should allow for about 35 to 50 words. If your abstract exceeds the available space, it is shown how much needs to be cut.

• Do not misuse the LaTeX functionality to alter the font. However it's acceptable to use single italic words or the usual bold notation for volume numbers in citations. Do not create empty vertical space. Do not use "\\" to create line breaks.

• You need to upload a single page abstract in PDF format. This extended version of the abstract will be included at a conference CD. See the example abstract for details regarding the format.

Alternative 1: Restore an already filled form

It is possible to fill out a contribution form and to create a format test but instead of submitting the contribution right away you can download your data in form of a LaTeX file. Using this file you can then later on restore the filled form.

Alternative 2: Modify an already submitted abstract

In the exceptional case an already submitted contribution needs to be modified, please fill in the key for modification you received during the contribution submission. Modifications to an already submitted contribution are only possible 8 hours after the submission.

In the final step you will receive a submission confirmation on screen and by email. Be sure to get this confirmation to ensure the proper registration of your contribution in the conference database. The confirmation email which will be sent will contain the format test as pdf for your records and a key for corrections. Corrections are authorized until the 1 October 2006, 12 pm French Time. After that deadline the review process will begin and no change can any longer be brought.

These recommendations are intended to avoid technical problems in the transferral of your paper to the conference digest. Failure to follow these recommendations may result in papers being returned to authors. Please note that the EPS will not manipulate or edit papers.
The summary will be reduced and published in the Technical Digest. Since contributed papers are selected on the basis of the summary, it should convey the original results in a succinct manner rather than describe the research topic.

Any of the following conditions may result in rejection of a paper:
- failure to submit the paper by the deadline date
- failure to complete the required fields on the web based submission form
- failure to follow the compulsory layout recommendations (a short abstract, a single page summary in pdf format)
- failure to send the copyright form.

The date and time for presentation will be determined after the programme committee has reviewed the papers.

The notification will be sent to the email address as given during the electronic submission.