Preparation Paper

The page limit for the paper is 12 pages with the possibility of adding at most 2 extra pages for an extra fee.

1) Copyright form

• All authors submitting papers must grant Springer specific permission to publish the work "Consent to publish".

  • Print the “Consent to publish” form

  • Write the title of your paper as well as the names of the authors at the top of the form and sign it

  • Prepare a scanned version of the “Consent to publish” form in a PDF file

2a) LaTex Manuscript

• Use the LaTex template, available here

  • • Very important: The camera-ready template is slightly different from the submission template. Remember to change the document class into documentclass{svproc}

    • You can add packages to this template but do not remove any that are already included

    • The template folder also contains the spmpsci.bst BibTeX style sheet. Do not modify the following line in the template bibliographystyle{spmpsci}, it will ensure that your references are generated in the correct format

  • If your manuscript is separated into several .tex files, combine them into a single, cohesive .tex file before the submission

    • Bibliography can be submitted separately as .bib (see bibliotest.bib in the zip) or included in your main .tex file (do not use input, include or externaldocument)

    • Figures should be placed in the directory containing the .tex manuscript (not in subdirectories). Therefore, the /includegraphics command should contain only the filename, es.:
      includegraphics[]{figure_name}

    • We accept only EPS and TIFF (at least 600 dpi) files

    • Since figures are uploaded separately from your .tex file, remove EPS figures generated in the LaTeX file.

  • Generate the PDF file

2b) Word Manuscript

• Format the manuscript according to the Word template available here

• Generate the PDF file