Provando et Riprovando

Proceedings of the International School of Physics

Information for Contributors

Preparing the manuscript

The lectures of the International School of Physics "Enrico Fermi" to be set in the volumes of the Proceedings (no camera ready) shall be prepared following these guidelines as closely as possible. This will reduce copy-editing and will hasten the publication process.

Text

Manuscripts, not exceeding 20 pages per lecture, should be provided in electronic form, preferably in LaTeX, either using our class file Cimento (with the option varenna), or using the LaTeX standard article class.

The Cimento package can be obtained at this link or by email, contacting varproc[at]sif.it.

Within the deadline that shall be agreed during the Course and communicated by the directors of the Course, the file and the exactly matching printed manuscript should be submitted together. Files must be sent by email to the following address: varproc[at]sif.it. Please consider also sending big files by ftp: connect as anonymous user to ftp://ftp.sif.it and upload your files to the directory incoming; please remember to send a note to varproc[at]sif.it when the transfer is complete.

Note that also MS-Word files are accepted, but in this case formulas and references need partial retyping.

In preparing the manuscript please stick to the following rules.

The title page should contain:

the title, that should be informative but concise;
if necessary (i.e. if the title exceeds 50 printed characters) a shortened version of the title for the running heads;
initials of the authors' name followed by surnames (please specify if you want your first name to appear in full);
affiliations, with complete address;
abstract, that should be self-consistent, without cross-references to references, equations and tables of main text. Mathematical expressions should be avoided too.

For the main text:

whichever spelling you use (British or American English) please be consistent;
the words figure(s), equation(s), reference(s) must be abbreviated as fig. (figs.), eq. (eqs.), ref. (refs.) only if they are not the first word of a sentence; the word table is always written in full;
figures "fig. 1", tables "table I", footnotes "note(1)", references "ref. [1]" and formulas "eq. (1)" should be numbered in the order of their appearance in the text;

Formulas

Each important equation should appear on a separate line and numbered consecutively throughout the text (or in each section as (1.1), (1.2), (2.1) etc.)

Mathematical symbols should be italic, vectors bold face, tensors sans serif; use roman characters for the following:

units of measurement,
multiletter abbreviations for standard mathematical functions (cos, sin, exp, Re, Im, tr),
total differential (d),
chemical formulas and labels which are not parameters themselves.

Exponential expressions are clearer in the notation exp(...), especially the long ones or those containing subscripts or superscripts; for simple expressions we accept also e^x.

It is important to distinguish between "ln" (= log_e) and "log" (= log₁₀).

References

It is of paramount importance that literature citations of periodicals [1], books [2] and conference proceedings [3] be organized after the international standard, i.e. initials of first name following the family name of the quoted authors, and publication data exactly in the order: volume number, publication year, page number. We higly recommend to strictly stick to these rules as in the following examples:

[1] Schmiedl T. and Seifert U., Europhys. Lett., 81, (2000) 20003.

[2] Labeyrie J., in The Scientific Legacy of Beppo Occhialini, edited by Redondi P., Sironi G., Tucci P. and Vegni G. (SIF, Bologna and Springer, Berlin) 2006, pp. 277-281.

[3] Ketterle W. and Zwierlein M. W., in Proceedings of the International School of Physics "Enrico Fermi", Course CLXIV, edited by Inguscio M., Ketterle W. and Salomon C. (SIF, Bologna and IOS Press, Amsterdam) 2007, p. 95.

Journal names should be abbreviated according to the list of the Serial Title Word Abbreviations of the ISDS (International Serial Data System) if available, otherwise full journal names are preferable.

Note that for LaTeX users, a bibtex file is available inside the Cimento package.

Figures

ARTWORK:

Each figure should be cited in the text. The final quality of illustrations depends on the quality of the original artwork.

SIZE:

A printed figure width must be in the range 60--135mm (for example, 135mm for a single figure, 60mm each for two coupled figures). Larger figures will be conveniently reduced. The reduction used for a particular figure will of course depend not only on the width of the original, but also on the complexity of the figure.

TEXT:

Characters should appear as they would be set in the main body of the article, i.e. roman letters for text, italic letters for mathematical variables, the final height not lower than 6pt. Letters, numbers and symbols should have uniform strength and contrast, should be appropriately oriented on the axes. The notations used in the figures should be consistent with those used in the text, the correct use of capital and lower-case letters in units is very important.

LINE DRAWINGS:

After photographic reduction, all details of the figures should still be visible and all labelling legible. Avoid too thin continuous or dotted lines or too heavy lettering and thick lines. The final size of the lines should not be lower that 0.3 pt.

HALF-TONES AND COLOUR FIGURES:

Figures that are meant to be printed in colour should be reduced to a minimum number, due to the high cost of colour printing. Figures not intended to be printed as colour reproduce best when they contain only grey-scale (or black and white) graphics.
Note that figures submitted in colour will appear in colour in the online version.

POSTSCRIPT FORMAT:

Particular care should be taken when producing PostScript files to ensure that scaling the figure to the width above specified (60--135mm) does not produce very thin lines, in any case, never below a line width of 0.3 pt. It is particulary important that the PS files do not contain unnecessary text such as figures numbers, captions, file names.

The use of Encapsulated Postscript (not just Postscript) is recommended.
Please include all the fonts used in the EPS file with the option saved with "fonts included".
EPS should not include a Tiff preview and should be in ASCII (not binary) format.
Also bitmap format such as PDF, TIFF, BMP and JPG are acceptable, but they need to be transformed into EPS format in the production procedure. Bitmap images may present quality problems in the production of the printed version of the journal due to low resolution. For this reason black and white graphics files should have a resolution of at least 600 dpi and grey-scale graphics files of least 300 dpi.

For extended instructions on how to prepare graphics for SIF journals, also refer to this guide (pdf - 177Kb).

Proofreading

Proofs are sent to the author only once by email, unless otherwise requested. The production staff shall ask for necessary clarifications or missing items directly on proofs margins.

Corrections should be made on proofs using clear conventional signs. (note that sending back a corrected manuscript file is of no use, since original files have undergone changes during the production procedure to meet our house style.) The aim of proofreading is to correct errors which might have appeared in the production procedure, not to modify or update the contents of the lecture. Once proofs are corrected, they must be returned to the Editorial Office as soon as possible by email as scanned PDF or by fax.

Please also avoid sending us PDF files of proofs using Acrobat tools to produce note and annotations, i.e. all authors' corrections have to be written by hand on proofs.

Reprints

Paper reprints can be requested by returning to the Editorial Office the filled-in form the author receives with the proofs.

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