instructions for AUTHORS

Keywords: symposium, word processing, proceedings, styles

ABSTRACT

Detailed instructions for authors preparing papers for Congress of metrologists are given. This instruction should be followed closely. All papers presented at Symposium will be published in a Proceeding and posted on the website of the Society of Metrologists.

INTRODUCTION

Authors are requested to comply with proposed text formatting presented in this Instructions in order to achieve the consistent layout of their articles and improve the final appeal of the Congress Proceedings.

The general requests for the layout of articles for the Metrology Congress are as follows:

Total length of article (including cover page, pictures and tales) should not exceed 8 pages.

Page size A4.

Text margins: left 15 mm, right 15 mm, top 30 mm, bottom 20 mm.

Language: Serbian, Latin or Cyrillic script,English.

Basic font: Times New Roman, size 12 points, black color.

Paragraph formatting: single-spaced lines, text justification: both left and right alignment.

Omit page numeration.

Text document format: use MS Office Word format (.doc, .docx) in any Office version.

All pictures, tables and graphics should be positioned within the text at their exact location. All graphical and photographic objects should be in 300 dpi resolution.

Abstract and final electronic version of paper should be sent to the web site of Society of metrologists: www.drustvometrologa.org or the temporary web site www.drustvometrologa.uns.ac.rs.

TITLE PAGE

Title of the article

The title page should start with the title of the article, formatted in Times New Roman 14 pt black ink font, with all letters capitalized, and justified by central alignment. The title should be preceded by five empty lines formatted in the same style.

If you are using our electronic MS Word template for article preparation, please apply the “Title” style, which is preformatted accordingly.

The same style should be used for the title in English. Serbian and English titles should be separated by two empty lines formatted in the same style.

Author(s)

Full names of the authors should be positioned below the title, formatted in Times New Roman 14 pt black ink font, with central alignment. The appropriate “Authors” style is provided in the electronic template as well. The Authors line should be separated by two empty lines from the title and formatted in the same style.

All additional data relevant to the authors, such as academic titles, affiliations and related positions, society fellowships, addresses including phone, fax, e-mail should be enclosed at the separate page at the end of the article. These data will not be printed adjacent to the article, but will be used for preparation of detailed index of the authors in the Proceedings.

Key words

Two up to six key words should be presented. They should be formatted in Times New Roman 12 pt black ink font, with central alignment. The appropriate “Key words” style if provided in document template. Key words should be separated by two empty lines from the prior entry and formatted in the same style.

Abstract

The abstract should be formatted in Times New Roman 12 pt black ink font, paragraph should be indented by 15 mm both from left and right margin. The text should be fully justified by both left and right alignment. The appropriate “Abstract” style is provided in document template as well.

The ABSTRACT heading (capital letters, central justification) should be separated by 2 empty lines from the prior entry and one line from the abstract body text, formatted in the same style. The abstract body should not exceed 10 lines of text.

Following the Abstract preparation, the remaining text should start as the new page.

ARTICLE TEXT

The whole text of article should be formatted in Times New Roman 12 pt black ink font, single-spaced, with full text justification (left and right alignment).

Titles and Subtitles

Main titles should be capitalized and formatted in Times New Roman 14 pt black ink font. The appropriate “Heading 1” style is provided in the document preparation template. These titles should be separated at both sides by one empty line formatted in the same style. Subtitles should not use any numeration. No further enhancements (underline, bold, italic) should be used.

Subtitles should be formatted in Italic Times New Roman 12 pt black in font, with left alignment. The appropriate “Heading 2” style is provided in the document preparation template. Subtitles should be separated at both sides by one empty line formatted in the same style.

The first line of the first paragraph below the title or subtitle should be indented by 5 mm. First lines of all other paragraphs should be without indentation, aligned with the left page margin.

Footnotes

For indicating footnotes, superscript notation with either *, or 1,2,3 etc. should be used within the text. Footnote text should appear at the bottom of related page, separated from the page text by the full line extending from the left margin to the center of the page. If using MS Word program, the footnote utility should be utilized for footnotes generation.

Figure 1. Equipment for testing angle measures

FIGURES AND TABLES

Figures and Tables should be embedded within the text (do not place them at the end of article). All Figures should be numerated. For Figure caption use Arial 10 pt font. To generate figure caption appropriate text box may be used. If text is not wrapping around Figure or Table, then the related object should be centered between left and right margin.

If Figures are of smaller width, then the text may wrap from either right or left side. An example is presented in Figure 1.

Authors are encouraged to use color in Figures preparation since Congress Proceedings will be posted on the website of the Society of Metrologists. Examples are presented as Figures 1. and 2. Color photographs may be used as well, as presented in Figure 1.

Figure 2. Diagram of differences of the GPS vectors and length

Tables should be numerated as well. For Table caption use Arial 10 pt font, with left justification, above the table, separated by one empty line at both sides. Examples are presented as Table 1. and Table 2.

Graphic objects (figures, pictures, tables) and their captions should never be positioned vertically (in landscape mode) on the page.

EQUATIONS

Equations should be written exclusively using the equation editor version 3.0 (Insert -> Equation) or with MathType.

(1)

To obtain the form (1), the enclosed style "formule" has to be used. Inserting the first tabulator, a cursor is centred over the page, where the equation is written. The second tabulator moves the cursor to the end of the row, where the equation number is entered.

CONCLUSION

Authors are reminded that the Congress Proceedings will be posted on the website of the Society of Metrologists. Therefore, by strict adherence to these instructions for preparation of contributing articles, a major improvement in its the final layout and appeal will be accomplished.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

The authors express their gratitude to numerous known and anonymous persons who provided contribution in formatting articles for publication and whose experiences and labors are to certain extent embedded in this instruction.

LITERATURE

B. R. Schupler, R. L. Allhouse, T. A. Clark, Signal Characteristics of GPS User Antennas. Journal of the Institute of Navigation 41(3), 1994.

Leeuwen, S. S. (1997): Position Calculation based on Single Difference Pseudoranges, home-2.worldonline.nl/~samsvl.

ISO, Guide to the expression of uncertainty in measurement, Int. Org. for Standardization, Geneva, Switzerland, 1993.