Information for Speakers



Proceedings

As with all Beilstein symposia, speakers are invited to submit their scientific contributions as papers for publication on our web site as part of a series of such events. We would like to have a paper that reflects the contents and theme of your talk.

The length of the submitted paper should be between 10 - 20 printed pages. We hope that all speakers will be able to provide us with a paper of their talk, to enable us to have a lasting documentation of this symposium.

The Proceedings are open access articles and published both on the web-site of the Beilstein-Institut and as a hard-cover book. On the web-site, the top articles are currently downloaded many hundred times each month.

Please see our web-site for proceedings and information about previous conferences:

http://www.beilstein-institut.de/en/symposia/proceedings/

Deadline for submitting the Proceedings papers will be end of September, 2011.

Instructions for Authors

Due to the processing of the manuscripts for the different modes of publication (html- and pdf-file format), we would appreciate it if the manuscripts would fulfil following requirements:

a) General:

•     Please prepare your manuscript as an unformatted text file, saved in a readable document format as rich text format (rtf), DOS-text document, .DOC format, .DOCX format, .ODT format or html.

•     Please do not deliver files that contain hidden text: for example, do not use your word processor's automated features to create footnotes or reference lists.

•     Graphics should be separately saved as tiff- or jpeg-format; file sizes should not exceed 5 MB. Images should not exceed 500 pixels per inch in width or height.

•      Do not embed the graphics within the text nor link them by OLE, but please insert corresponding placeholders within the text.

•      Tables should be separately delivered as text file.

•     Please include a separate text file containing the legends of the graphics; do not save figure numbers, legends or author names as part of the image.

•        It is the responsibility of the author to obtain permission to reproduce copyrighted material in his/her article.

b) Manuscript format:

•     Title, Author’s name(s), Affiliation (including department, institution and complete address for each author), email address of the corresponding author

•      Short abstract (about 10 lines)

•     Introduction, Methods/Results, Conclusion or any other chapters/sections if appropriate

•      References and Notes (Citation in numerical order as they appear in the text)

•      References in the following style:
 <name of author 1>, <initial 1>., <name of author 2>, <initial 2>., .... <year> <title> <journal> <issue>:<page range> .

Example: Kettner, C. and Hicks, M.G. (2010) What is Functional Nanoscience? Journal of Functional Nanoscience 1:5-10.