Proceedings of this conference are going to be published in Special Issue of Journal of Physics and Chemistry in Solids (Elsevier) and distributed to the participants in a form of printed version or CD-ROM (to be determined). 

Participants wishing to make a presentation on the results of their recent research are cordially invited to submit a 1000 characters abstract in English no later than March 15, 2010 (firm deadline) via on-line. Abstracts will be on the Web for downloading.

All submitted papers are required to be reviewed and the deadline of manuscript submission is June 30, 2010.  

Instructions for Manuscripts

Deadline: June 30, 2010   

Preparing Manuscripts:

Each contributed paper is allowed a maximum of 4 (four) printed journal pages. The invited papers can take a maximum of 6 (six) printed journal pages. Figures should be in black-and-white or in gray scale, but not in color. The manuscripts will be typeset; authors do not need to prepare camera-ready copy. Authors should submit their manuscripts electrically via the conference web site with the MS Word or Acrobat PDF format.

When the paper is accepted, the authors will be asked to supply the original electric file of manuscript (MS word or LaTeX format) and the figures (EPS or any reasonable popular format). All authors will receive page proofs of the manuscript for approval.

Constraints on the total length of the conference proceedings require that each registered participant be restricted to publish one paper in the proceedings. [Of course, an author may be a co-author in more than one paper.] For groups of authors submitting multiple papers, please make an effort to combine your material so that the total number of papers you wish to submit to the proceedings does not exceed the total number of registered participants from your group. Exceptions to this policy may be possible in special situations.

How to Estimate Journal Length from the Manuscript Copy  

The Journal of Physics and Chemistry of Solids publishes in a double column format. Each column is 22.5 cm long; there are 2.5 journal lines/cm or 21 words/cm. (These counts area a bit different from what you may find by actually looking at a copy of the journal, but these are effective numbers, which take various formatting factors during typesetting into account.)

Authors should include an abstract of no more than 200 words. You need not try to estimate the space needed to accommodate the title, abstract, author affiliation, and related blank spaces, etc. Simply subtract 0.5 journal pages from your allowance to take these items into account.

This leaves 3.5 journal pages for the body of a 4 page contributed paper, or 5.5 pages for an invited paper. Equivalently, you have 3300 words available for the body of a contributed paper or 5200 words for an invited paper, assuming of course that there are no figures, tables or equations. For a figure, table or an equation which can fit in one column width (i.e., is legible with a width of not more than 7.0 cm), estimate an effective vertical height by adding 2 cm to the actual height in order to account for the blank spaces necessary to separate a figure, table or an equation from the text. Then taking into account all figures, tables, and equations, reduce the estimate of 3300 (or 5200) words above by 21 words/cm.

For a figure, table or an equation that must be placed across the page requiring two columns, double the estimates of the previous paragraph and subtract 42 words/cm for the effective vertical height.

You will thus obtain an estimate for the total number of words of text available to you. Please note that the text here refers to all text such as figure captions, references, and the narrative in the manuscript.

If you follow the rules, you should have no difficulty staying within the page limits indicated.

Click here for detailed guidance for JPCS authors, and on preparing proceedings with LaTeX

Click here to get the LaTeX template for the proceedings.

Go to the proceedings submission website

Notice: Our web submission system accepts only one file. Please upload one pdf or word file including figures and tables.