Magnetospheric Response to Solar Activity, September 9-12, 2003, Charles University, Prague

Instructions for authors

Papers from the conference will be published as follows:

• A special issue of the PLANETARY AND SPACE SCIENCE (PSS) journal will collect original contributions. Guest Editors: J. Safrankova, Z. Nemecek, J. Richardson.
• Invited and solicited lectures of ARW participants are supposed to appear in a special volume of the NATO SCIENCE SERIES II books. Editors: J.-A. Sauvaud, Z. Nemecek.

To enable a rapid production, all submissions will be processed via the local organizing committee and a strict time schedule is announced for manuscript submissions, peer reviews, revisions and final paper submissions to the committee. Only after that the final selected sets of manuscripts will be passed to the editorial offices. Their Editors-in-Chief have reserved the right to finally evaluate the manuscripts and accept them for publication. Then, after typesetting in the production offices, all first or corresponding authors will receive galley proofs of the papers for checking.

Please note the following points:

From standard policy for the publication of the special issue of the PLANETARY AND SPACE SCIENCE journal:

• There are no page charges.
• The organizing committee will limit the length of manuscripts to 10 pages for this special issue.
• Corresponding author will receive 25 free reprints of their own manuscript, plus a complimentary copy of the complete special issue.
• The Editor-in-Chief undertakes final evaluation of the special issue papers, only then manuscripts can be accepted.
• Color figures are possible if the contributing authors are willing to cover the extra cost involved (~ EURO/US$ 350 for the first page and ~ EURO/US$ 175 for second and consecutive pages).

The local organization committee assumes that all manuscripts will be submitted electronically to it by FTP(*) to the address and folder you will receive after your abstract submission (see below).

Articles should be preferably written using packages (see below) prepared by the publishers. For the first manuscript submissions we also accept Adobe PostScript/Portable Data Format or MS Word compatible files, provided they observe guidelines set by the PSS/NSS publishers. The authors should use double spacing and wide margins to ease the peer-review process.

Details regarding the NATO Science Series publication (length, color figure fees, reprints etc.) will be specified here later.

The following table summarizes author instructions and checklists; manuscript guidelines; LaTeX packages, templates and manuals; links to relevant publishers’ web pages etc.

	Planetary and Space Science	NATO Science Series
Final instructions for authors	We strongly prefer the FTP submission using LaTeX packages below. If you are not able to use LaTeX, FTP the text in MS-Word format. Figures should be prepared in EPS or TIFF formats and submitted as separate files. The figures for one manuscript should be in the same format! When preparing figures, please, see Artwork Instructions below.	The book will be printed as black&white with CD-ROM containing color versions. If you are using B&W figures only, FTP your final manuscript in LaTeX or MS-Word using templates given below. If you are using color figures, FTP both, B&W for printing and color versions for CD-ROM. The figures should be either in PS/EPS or TIFF format and in separate files. The combination of formats in one manuscript is not allowed.
Packages, templates, guidelines	ELSART package: • LaTeX 2e class file elsart.cls • LaTeX 2.09 style files elsart.sty + elsart12.sty , • BibTeX style file elsart-harv.bst • Guidelines (pdf format) • Template file • Preparing articles with LaTeX document (pdf format)	Kluwer packages: • LaTeX and Scientific Workplace package (incl. KAP templates, stylefiles, samples & documentation for camera-ready books) LaTexProc.zip (PC/Mac) or kapproc.tar (Unix) • Word (8/97 or higher) package (incl. KAP template, sample & instructions for camera-ready books) vbaKAPpro.zip Authors are requested to use \kluwerbib bibliography style (similar to JGR reference style; see procdocs.pdf page 29 from the package for more information).
Preparing figures	Artwork instructions (pdf format)
Manuscript submission to LOC	Send electronic version of your manuscript via FTP(*) – see below
Submission of revised manuscript to LOC	Send electronic version of your manuscript together with replies to reviewers via FTP - same conditions as for the initial submission. Replies to reviewers should be in a separate file in LATEX or MS Word format.

All conference presenters will obtain (after the abstract submission deadline) an FTP link to their personal folder with instructions how to send their manuscript submissions. Any transfer should be announced by email to the local committee. Do not send your manuscripts by email, as their length might prevent them to reach our mailbox.

(*) Please note that unless you are sending ASCII text files (e.g. PostScript, LaTeX ...) you should switch your FTP client into the binary transfer mode.