GUIDELINES FOR ABSTRACT PREPARATION

A.N. Author1 and A.B. Coauthor2

1Name of Institution, City, Country; 2Name of Institution, City, Country

Abstracts of all invited, oral and poster presentations for the LCS Symposium will be published. Camera-ready manuscripts are required from all authors. These instructions give guidelines for preparing manuscripts. Use this document as a template or as an instruction set. Abstracts should be submitted in the MS Word format. Please attach a .pdf file of your abstract to your MS Word submission to ensure its proper appearance in the digest.

The text of the abstract should fit in the 11.5´17.5 cm frame (European A4 paper, 21.0´29.7 cm). Page parameters: top margin – 1.5 cm, bottom margin – 10.8 cm, left margin – 1.5 cm, right margin – 8.0 cm. The total length of the abstract should not exceed 1 page. This sample text fills the mentioned frame completely.

The title of the abstract should be centered and typed in Times New Roman bold, 10 pt, all caps, space after 12 pt. The name(s) of the author(s) should be centered and typed in Times New Roman, 10 pt, space after 6 pt. The name of the presenting author should be underlined. Affiliations should be centered and typed in Times New Roman, 8 pt, space after 12 pt. The body of the text should be in Times New Roman, 10 pt, justified, single-spaced, first-line indent 6 mm, hyphenated. References in the text should be shown as [1, 2]. Black-and-white figures cannot be larger than the text frame. Use 8 pt for figure captions and center the caption relative to the figure or the page.

Latin letters in formulas and mathematical expressions should be italicized (e.g., E = mc2), Greek letters should be Roman, vectors should be Roman bold (e.g., div E = 4 pq). Similarity numbers (Reynolds, Froude, Prandtl and others, as well as mathematical characters should be Roman (e.g., Re, Fr, Pr, sin, exp, lg, max, and so on). Displayed equations should be centered and enumerated on the right:

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Avoid using displayed equations and figures unless absolutely necessary.

Acknowledgements. Do not forget to acknowledge support of the research.

References

1.  A. One, B. Two, and C. Three, Applied Optics, 1972, 8(3), 555-566.

2.  D. Four and E. Five, Proc. 6th Intern. Conf. Nonlinear Optics, F. Six (Ed.), Moscow, 1999, 555-560.

3.  J. Seven, Ibid, 581-586.

4.  B. Eight, The World of Lasers, Wiley, New Work, 1999, p.234.

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