Instructions for the contributions of the invited lectures

The proceedings of the 24th Summer School and International Symposium on the Physics of Ionized Gases will be published in the open access Journal of Physics: Conference Series (JPCS), published by IOP Publishing. All papers will be free to read and download immediately upon publication. Papers published in JPCS will be hosted in IOP Publishing's electronic journals system and will be fully citable – in addition, citations to your paper will also be tracked online.

Other published (free to read) JPCS conferences of interest

JPCS invites SPIG 2008 participants to browse other published proceedings that may be of interest, including the following events published in 2007:

• XXV International Conference on Photonic, Electronic and Atomic Collisions (ICPEAC XXV)
• 5TH EU–Japan Joint Symposium on Plasma Processing
• First International Workshop on Nonequilibrium Processes in Plasma Physics and Studies of Environment

You can also browse the conference archives, by year (everything is free to read), using the following links: 2007, 2006, 2005, 2004

Preparing your paper

Journal of Physics: Conference Series uses author-supplied PDFs for all online and print publication. Authors are asked to prepare their papers using Microsoft Word or LaTeX2e according to the journal guidelines and templates.

Instructions on preparing your paper, together with Microsoft Word and LaTeX2e templates, can be downloaded from the journal web site.

What you need to provide

• The PDF file of your paper: when preparing their papers, authors are kindly requested to ensure that they follow the minimum basic requirements from the journal guidelines. Full details are available online, but as a minimum authors should:
• Use either European A4 or US Letter sized paper with at least a 25mm white space margin all around the page.
• Ensure that their paper includes an abstract, however brief.
• Not add any page numbers, headers or footers to your article as these will be added during the publication process.
• Any multimedia files you wish to publish online
• JPCS encourages authors to submit multimedia files to enhance the online versions of published research articles. Multimedia guidelines are included with the Word and LaTeX2e templates.
• A signed Assignment of Copyright Form
• The Assignment of Copyright Form is included in the Word and LaTeX2e templates. You can send it electronically to your Conference Organiser (as a PDF) by scanning the printed and signed form.
  
  

Where to send your paper

Authors should supply their papers directly to their Conference Organiser who, after peer review, will supply the accepted papers to JPCS.

Please do not send your papers directly to JPCS.

Please send your contribution (invited lecture up to 12 pages, topical lecture up to 10 pages, progress report up to 8 pages) to following email address: spig2008-proceedings@phy.bg.ac.yu .

Technical enquiries

Technical enquiries concerning preparing papers for Journal of Physics: Conference Series should be directed to:

Jacky Mucklow
Production Editor, Journal of Physics: Conference Series
E-mail: jacky.mucklow@iop.org