Submission Procedure
All contributions submitted to Natural Phenomena 2006 must be original, unpublished work and should not exceed 8 pages. Any work that has previously been published or simultaneously been submitted in substantially similar form to any other conference or journal will be rejected. Contributions must be written and presented in English. Please read these instructions carefully, well in advance of the submission deadline.
Attention: this event uses a blind reviewing approach, so please remove all personal data (like author, affiliation etc.) from your submission!
Electronic Submission Procedure
- Prepare your submission either as a PostScript or
PDF file. You can also include material in other media such as
applets and video, but the paper that is to appear in the printed
proceedings must be in PostScript or PDF. We ask you to follow the
standard layout for Natural Phenomena 2006 publications. A LaTeX2e
style file to generate this layout is available (document
class, style file, sample LaTeX2e source, and corresponding PDF
output file). In case you do not use LaTeX2e to typeset your paper,
please reproduce the style and layout in the sample PDF
file as closely as you can in the system you are using.
In either case, please make sure that an image embedded in your paper does not contain transparent pixels (i.e. an alphachannel of a transparent color) because this will lead to problems when the resulting PDF is displayed or printed. - In order to use our electronic submission system you must fulfil the following requirements: a modern browser is used (like MS Internet Explorer >= 4, Netscape >= 4), JavaScript is enabled and "cookies" are enabled (to be able to log in).
- In order to make a submission, you will need to register with the server. Please follow the instructions here to create a Natural Phenomena 2006 login account at the server. It is necessary to have a login account for reasons of security and protection. It takes only a few minutes to create the account. If you intend to make a submission to Natural Phenomena 2006, it is a good idea to create your login account as soon as possible.
- The submission area is reached via the following link:
- If you are not already logged in when you access this URL you will
be asked to supply your Natural Phenomena 2006 login id and
password.
Attention: "cookies" have to be enabled in your browser for the login to work properly. - You will then be prompted to fill in the online
Natural Phenomena 2006 Upload Form. You will have to indicate
your name and affiliation as well as the title of your
submission etc. At the bottom of the form, you will be prompted
to upload your submission as a PDF or a ZIP or GZIP
compressed archive (created with winzip,
pkzip, zip resp. gzip) containing
only the PDF or PostScript document. In addition to the
PostScript or PDF file, you may also upload one or more other
ZIP/GZIP archives containing accompanying movies (MPEG,
QuickTime or AVI), images (JPEG or TIFF) and/or applets (one
archive may contain several files, but you might want to keep
the size small for easier upload). In case of acceptance, you
will be requested to provide all the material for the CD-ROM
conference proceedings at the camera ready submission
time.
Attention: depending on the quality of your Internet connection and the size of your compressed archives the upload of your submission might take a long time (upto some hours) during which your browser window seems to be "frozen". Do not abort the transmission or retry until you get some response! We recommend to split 'large' (~ 5 MB) archives into several smaller ones if possible. - From the Upload Form you also have to generate an HTML page comprising the Natural Phenomena 2006 Submission Form. Besides the information you have provided in the upload form, this form includes a declaration that the submission is original work and has neither previously been published nor simultaneously been submitted to any other conference or journal and that you are prepared to present the work at the conference in case of acceptance.
- After each successful upload you will receive an email
confirming your submission.
If you have not received a confirmation email after a reasonable abount of time, please contact nph06-submission@eg.org. - If you wish to revise your submission after upload or the data you have entered (before the submission deadline), you can do so by simply going again to the submission area and accessing your previous submission. During the reviewing process, revisions to submissions will not be permitted.
Submission Checklist
Use the checklist below to ensure that your submission is complete and meets all applicable program requirements.
- I have produced a PostScript or PDF file in accordance with the Natural Phenomena 2006 standard layout for publications.
- I have filled the fields of the online Natural Phenomena 2006 Upload Form, and followed the instructions provided to upload the paper on the Natural Phenomena 2006 server.
- I have received an email confirming the successful upload of my submission.
- I have printed and signed the HTML page ('Submission Form') that has been produced during the electronic submission.
Remarks
After the reviewing process is completed, authors of successful submission will be asked to provide the final form of their submission by the same mechanism. Material accompanying submissions can be included on the conference CD-ROM which will be given to all delegates.
Authors who intend to submit video material, or other large files are asked to do so early in order to avoid last minute congestion at the web site. For particularly large submissions, please contact the secretariat in advance, in case special arrangements need to be made.
Authors experiencing problems with electronic submission can contact nph06-submission@eg.org. General questions concerning the submission can also be addressed to the conference organizers.
