Instructions for Preparation and Submission of Camera-Ready for NCSP'09

Abstract

This document shows instructions for submission and preparation of Camera-Ready for 2009 RISP International Workshop on Nonlinear Circuits and Signal Processing NCSP'09.

1. Introduction

Authors are kindly invited to submit papers describing original works to NCSP'09.
Please prepare your camera-ready according to the guidelines and submit via NCSP'09 web site not later than January 15, 2009. Only electronic submission of papers in PDF format is accepted. As the process to complete submission of camera-ready, you should
  • prepare the camera-ready (4-page maximum).
  • generate the camera-ready in PDF format
  • upload the camera-ready by the submission interface. (submission page)

2. Preparation of the Camera-Ready

In the following, we show requirements for a camera-ready.

2.1 Paper Style

The camera-ready paper must be at most 4 pages long, including title, author's name, affiliation, address and contact author's email, and abstract.
All manuscripts must be written in English. The LATEX style file and a sample LATEX source files are available:

Typesetting by using this style file is strongly recommended. The authors who use other text processing systems should follow the style descriptions shown below:

2.1.1 Paper Size

Please use only A4 size. The printing area is 175mm x 226mm (6.9in x 8.9in). Nothing outside this area will be printed except for the header of the first page. The top margin and left-side margin are 40mm (1.6in) and 17mm (0.67in), respectively. The header (conference title; automatically added by our handling program) appears only on the first page of the manuscript. A two-column, single-space format and black ink should be used, including text and figures.

2.1.2 Fonts

The default font size is 10pt. The paper title has to appear in capital letters, 11pt, boldface and centered across the top of the two-columns. The author's name has to appear in 11pt. The affiliation has to appear in 10pt. The author's names and affiliations need not be strictly confined to the number of lines indicated. The section headings appear in boldface, 10pt, numbered, and flush-left format. Capitalize most words. Examples of the headings are included in this paper. The subsection headings appear in boldface, 10pt, numbered, and flush-left format. Capitalize the first word only. The sub-subsection headings appear in italic, 10pt, numbered, and indented like a paragraph. Capitalize the first word only.

2.1.3 Figures

Figures must appear within the designated margins. Caption and number every figures. The CD-ROM proceedings can include color figures, but the quality of a printed paper in black and white is guaranteed. Please check whether your color figures are printed properly in black and white before submission.

2.1.4 References

List and number all references at the end of the document. The references can be numbered in alphabetical order or in order of appearance in the paper. When referring to them in the text, type the corresponding reference number in square brackets as shown at the end of this sentence [1].

2.1.5 Page limitation

The camera-ready paper cannot exceed 4 pages including all figures, tables, and references.

2.2 File format of Camera-Ready Papers

We only accept camera-ready papers with PDF format. Please set the option of compatibility of a file to "Acrobat 6.0 (PDF1.5)" if you make camera-ready by Adobe Distiller 7.0. Microsoft Word document, PageMaker file, PostScript file are not acceptable.

We only enumerate important factors to ensure a high-quality readable and printable PDF:

  • embed all fonts except for built-in outline fonts of the standard AcrobatReader. Please confirm the quality of your paper both on screen and on printed matter.
  • use over 600 dpi resolution if you use bit-mapped figures and fonts.
  • Adobe Distiller usually tries to compress figures and pictures by down-sampling conversion. This loses the original quality of them. You may turn off the options for down-sampling conversion in Distiller for getting a fine article.
  • Do not protect your PDF by security options.

The proceedings of NCSP09 will be published as a CD-ROM. This will contain the top page for browsing, a table of contents, all camera-ready papers, and authors index. Basically the quality of camera-ready papers relies on authors' production.

3. Submission guide of your Camera-Ready

When you are ready to post your camera-ready, please access again

submission page

and login again with your own user name and password issued by the camera-ready submission. Press `Edit' button of your paper information line. Update authors' information if any. Please specify your camera-ready PDF file in File selection box. Your camera-ready will be replaced by your camera-ready. At this step, we also would like to suggest you to revise your abstract text shown in the same page since it will be used for the abstract collection booklet. We will publish and distribute it at the conference site.

4. registration

The registration page is here.

Please keep in mind that at least one author has to make a registration per one paper. Camera-ready papers without the registration will not appear in the NCSP09 proceedings.

4.1 Deadline

The deadline for full paper submission is very strict. The deadline for electrical submission is January 15, 2009. Manuscripts received after this date will not appear in the Proceedings of NCSP09.

5. Conclusions

This document is an example of the format for the camera-ready of NCSP'09. If you have any question about camera-ready and submission, please ask ncsp09@is.tokushima-u.ac.jp.

6. Bibliography

  1. V. I. Arnold, Geometrical Methods in the Theory of Ordinary Differential Equations, 2nd. Edition, Springer, 1988.
  2. H. E. Nusse, E. Ott, and J. A. Yorke, ``Border-Collision Bifurcations: An Explanation for Observed Bifurcation Phenomena,'' Physical Review E, Vol. 49, No. 2, pp. 1073-1076, 1994.
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