Instructions for Authors

The conference proceedings will be published in the Springer-Verlag series "ESO Astrophysics Symposia".

Page Limits

• Invited review paper: 18 pages
• Targetted paper: 11 pages
• Oral contributed paper: 7 pages
• Poster paper: 3 pages

Please observe these generous limits. It is anticipated that some editorial overview will be exercised and authors may be requested to make changes to their papers.

All contributions are due on or before OCTOBER 27, 2000.

Preparing your contribution

Required files:

Contributions must be formatted with LaTeX2e using the LaTeX2e classes which are available from the ESO ftp host (ftp.eso.org) in the directory /pub/esoproceedings/latex2e.

If you wish to retrieve these files via a Web browser, you should click on the link ftp://ftp.eso.org/pub/esoproceedings/latex2e/. Please note that you need to use the browser's "Save As..." facility.

If you are not using a Web browser to obtain the files, please do the following:

  ftp ftp.eso.org
  Name: anonymous
  Password: your e-mail address
  cd /pub/esoproceedings/latex2e
  binary
  prompt
  mget *
  quit

The files 1readme.PDF (pdf format) and 1readme.doc (MS Word format) contain detailed instructions for authors.

The file author.tex contains a sample contribution, which can be used as a template for your own text. The files author.dvi and 2demo.ps are the .dvi and .ps files generated by running LaTeX2e and dvips on author.tex, and the file figure.eps is a sample figure.

Naming Convention:

Suppose A.J. Banday is the first author. Then all filenames associated with the contribution must be called by this name. For example, the LaTeX2e file of the contribution must be banday.tex. The associated encapsulated postscript figures must be bandayfn.eps where n is the unique figure number.

Naturally, the file to be transferred must then be named banday.uu.

Important constraints:

• The provided macro files must not be altered.
• The TeX \def command is forbidden!
• The LaTeX2e \renewcommand command is forbidden!
• Personal LaTeX2e command definitions using \newcommand are allowed, but should be kept to an absolute minimum, and made uniquely identifiable by appending your name to the command.
• All labels and citations using \label and \cite should be uniquely identifiable by appending your name to the definitions.
• Figures should be provided as encapsulated PostScript files only, and should be incorporated in your contribution using the standard LaTeX2e "graphicx" package (as described in the demo file author.tex).
• The proceedings will not contain any colour illustrations.

Submitting your contribution

All the files required to generate your contribution (i.e. the LaTeX2e source file and all figures in encapsulated postscript format) should be combined in a uuencoded, tarred, compressed format (using gzip or pkzip ONLY). We particularly recommend using the uufiles script available here (but under no guarantee for your system).

You may communicate your uu-file to us either by email or anonymous ftp.

• email: Please send everything in ONE email message, as an attachment, to
  

  cosmo@mpa-garching.mpg.de

  
  
• ftp: Your anonymous ftp session should proceed as follows for the file file.uu :

    ftp ftp.MPA-Garching.MPG.DE
    Name: anonymous (or ftp)
    Password: your e-mail address
    cd upload/MiningTheSky
    binary
    put file.uu
    quit
  

  After ftp submission, it would be very helpful if you emailed us that the upload had been completed.

For further information about the proceedings, please contact: cosmo@mpa-garching.mpg.de.