INSTRUCTIONS FOR Preparing BGRS’98 EXTENDED ABSTRACT
in the Microsoft Word or postscript formats
A.A. AUTHOR+, B.B. AUTHOR, Z.Z. AUTHOR#
AB Institute, 111 AB Street, AB-Town, AB 11111, AB-Country; a.or.b@e.mail;
#Z Institute, 999 Z Street, Z-Town, Z 999999, Z-Country; z@e.mail.address
+Corresponding author
This file is exemplifying the format that should be used for preparing your extended abstract for the BGRS’98 Proceedings. Please contact Nikolay Kolchanov (kol@bionet.nsc.ru), if you have any questions. This is the place for the brief summary of your abstract. All text should be in 10 pt Arial single-spaced. The title should be of capital letters, bold-faced, and centered. The authors should be listed within their joint list in which they should be relied to their post and e-mail addresses, and the corresponding author should be also marked. You may have as many authors and addresses as you wish. It’s preferable not to use footnotes. The acknowledgements for funding bodies etc. are placed in a separate section at the end of the text.
1. Guidelines
1.1 General information
This file in the correct format is provided here. The Microsoft Word text-processors are highly preferable because its FILE.DOC can be e-mailed to us and then, used to compile the BGRS’98 Proceedings in the hard-paper form as well as in the WWW-based form.
If you want to use some other text-processor to construct your extended abstract, and are using the final postscript version of its file as guidelines; then please follow the style given here for headings, table and figure captions, and the footnote and citation marks.
1.2 The size of paper
The final page dimensions would be 29.7 cm by 21 cm, that is a standard A4 paper. The boundaries of the extended abstract body in the A4 paper sheet should be following: «Left»=3 cm, «Righ»=2.75 cm, «Up»=2.5 cm, and «Down»=3.5 cm. Do not insert page numbers. The text should be in 10 pt Arial single spaced, and justified. Please, use capitals for the title and authors, bold for the title and headings, and Italics for the subheadings. Headings and subheadings should have spacing 10 pts before. Paragraphs should have a first line indented by about 6 mm (0.25 in), except where the paragraph is preceded by a heading, and the abstract should be indented on both sides by 6 mm (0.25 in) from the main body of the text.
1.2 The size of abstract
The extanded abstract would be 4 pages of maxmum size. It would contain «Introduction» and he others relevant sections, Figures and Tables, etc.
2. Headings and Equations
Headings should be aligned left. Equations should be centered and numbered consecutively. The same method can be used for referring to sections and subsections.
3. Illustrations
3.1 Tables
The tables are designed to have a uniform style throughout the Proceedings volume. It doesn’t matter how you choose to place the inner lines of the table. The caption heading for a table should be placed at the top of the table.
3.2 Figures
The caption heading for a figure should be placed below the figure. Be sure it is a descriptive caption that helps the reader understand why you included this figure. There is no facility for color photographs at this time.
3.3 Limitations on the Placement of the very large Tables and Figures
Very large figures and tables should be placed on a page by themselves. We would recommend making any necessary adjustments to the layout of the figures and tables only in the final draft. It is also simplest to sort out line and page breaks at the last stages.
4 Acknowledgments, Footnotes and the Bibliography
If you wish to have acknowledgments to funding bodies etc., these may be placed in a separate section at the end of the text, before the Appendices. This should not be numbered so use heading Acknowledgments. Footnotes are denoted by a letter superscript in the text, and references are denoted by a number superscript. If you more commonly use the method of square brackets in the line of text for citation than the superscript method, please, note that you need to adjust the punctuation so that the citation command appears after the punctuation mark.
5 Mailing submissions
Abstracts should be submitted by e-mail to kol@bionet.nsc.ru under subject «Abstract» as attachment. The deadline is April 30, 1998. The manuscript will not be reduced or enlarged when filmed so please ensure that indices and other small pieces of text are legible.
6. Some text in a sample section
We have prepared this Word file to have styles for the necessary elements of the paper. If you have any questions or need clarifications about the submission procedure or formats, please address them to kol@bionet.nsc.ru. Paper submissions should be in the format outlined here in order to be sure that page limitations are met. Camera ready versions of accepted papers would have to adhere to these instructions as well, of course.
Acknowledgments
This is where one places acknowledgments for funding bodies etc. Note that there are no section numbers for the Acknowledgments or References.
References
- S.A. Kauffman, «The origins of order. Self-organization and selection in evolution» (Oxford University Press, New York, 1993)
- H.H. Mc. Adams and A. Arkin, «Stochastic mechanism in gene expression» Proc. Natl. Acad. USA 94, 814 (1997)
- M. Savageau, «A theory of alternative designs for biochemical control systems» Biomed. Biochim. Acta 44, 875 (1985)