Proceedings for Aging Workshop


International Workshop on Aging Phenomena in Gaseous Detectors October 2-5, 2001 at DESY in Hamburg

	Proceedings

The proceedings of the workshop will be published in
Nuclear Instruments and Methods: Section A.

Deadline for submission of papers: November 2, 2001

The maximum numbers of pages allowed for your papers are:

   Scheduled length of talk    Max. number of pages

60 min.

18

50 min.

15

30 min.

9

20 min.

6

Short Summary

2

Poster

4

Please read the general guidelines for preparation of manuscripts on the Elsevier server.

For authors preparing their proceedings with LaTeX:

For estimating the actual length of your paper,
- we recommend using the LaTeX style file espcrc2.sty for so-called `camera-ready copy' and encapsulating your figures. This is the style file with output closest to the 2-column layout of NIMA that Elsevier could offer us. You can obtain this style file and corresponding instructions from the above link. Please do not worry about the layout of the header (title, authors, affiliations, abstract, etc.) which is different from the NIM header, as Elsevier will take care of transforming all into actual NIMA style.
- Alternatively, Elsevier offers the more pedestrian way of counting words and lines etc. as described here or in the equivalent MS document length.doc. This is what you'll have to do if you use the LaTeX class elsart.cls.

For authors preparing their proceedings with MS-Word:

Please read the instructions in the MS template file. You can immediately save this file and use it for creating your document. As this is a MS Word document, you'll need the corresponding helper/plugin for your browser to open it properly. It should work automatically with a modern version of MS Explorer.
The above template was produced for "Computer Physics Communications", not for NIM. As they do not have a specific NIM template available, Elsevier has instructed us to ask you not to worry about this detail as they will change this automatically when processing your paper.
Other than that, the layout is very close to the layout for NIM articles, so that you will be able to determine the length of your paper directly from the document.

Please note the following important points when preparing and submitting your paper:

Please submit your manuscript and all plots electronically via email to the workshop by Nov 2, 2001. (For photos, originals must be submitted via regular mail, see below.) Please do not send your papers directly to NIM. The organizing committee will collect all contributions, have them refereed and then submit them as a bundle to NIM.

If you wish to include colored pages in your contribution, you will have to bear the cost of reproduction of colored pages:
NIM charges EUR 640,- for the first colored page and EUR 320,- for every next colored page. Included in this price are 100 offprints of your contribution.

Please follow this order when you create your manuscript: Title, Authors, Affiliations, Presenter, Abstract, Keywords, Main text, Acknowledgements, Appendix, References, Vitae, Figure legends and then Tables.
Note that for these proceedings a non-standard line "presented by ..." is allowed between Affiliations and Abstract for multi-author papers to indicate the speaker. For examples, please see the layout of the abstracts in the scientific program of the workshop.

For references, please use the `numbered' reference scheme, not the `Harvard style (author-year)' scheme.

Please make sure to include all figures as separate files when mailing your contribution to the workshop. Please note that Elsevier prefers TIFF or EPS format for graphics. When you submit your files to the workshop: Please use the last name of the speaker as the name of the text files, e.g. `padilla.doc' or `titov.tex'.

Name your figures or photos by adding `..._fig_1', `..._fig_2', etc. to your file name, e.g. `padilla_fig_1.eps' or `titov_fig_5.tif'. The editors will appreciate this numbering scheme, as it will help enormously with sorting all the files and will reduce the risk of confusion.
If you are not a native speaker of English and have some doubts concerning language in your paper, please have one of your colleagues who is a native speaker read your manuscript before submitting it.

A stylistic note: Please use the spelling "aging" (not "ageing") throughout your whole manuscript. Both spellings are correct, but we have decided to use the spelling "aging" consistently for all documents related to this workshop, so you'll make the editors' lives much easier if you adopt this spelling right from the start. Thank you !

If you have additional questions that are not addressed on this page, please contact the organizers.

Thank you for your cooperation ! We hope it will help with a timely publication of the workshop proceedings.

The organizing committee

Last changes: 24/10/2001 by Org. Committee