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Abstract
This template should be used for submitting papers to MRS Internet
Journals. The important elements of the template are the associated style
sheets, in particular, the names of the style sheets. For example, the name of
the style applied to this paragraph is "abstract". The journal computer can
then tell that this paragraph is the abstract and process it accordingly.
RTF (Rich Text Format) is an interchange word-processing format developed by
Microsoft. It is supported by a range of word processing application programs,
such as Microsoft Word, Wordperfect, and FrameMaker. Files stored as RTF retain
formatting information such as bold and italic faces, characters in addition to
the ascii characters, and include paragraph style sheets. For example, the
"heading 2" style in this template is formatted with a 14-point bold Times
font. This paragraph has the "Normal" style, which is is formatted with double
spacing, first line indented, and a 12-point Time font. The style sheet sets
the defaults for the paragraph; you can still apply formatting to a word.
When you submit an manuscript using this template to the Journal, you'll
first have to save it as RTF. In Microsoft Word, you do this by using the "Save
As..." command in the "File" menu, then choosing "RTF" from the "Save File as
Type" menu option of the "Save As..." dialog. You'll then send the file
to the Journal Computer using either "FTP" or "MIME enclosures". (More
instructions are below.) The journal computer will read the file and convert it
to an intermediate format, "Internet Journal HTML". It will then build web
pages from that file.
The journal computer uses the style sheets only for mark-up, not for
formatting. This may be a bit confusing. It means that changes you make to a
particular style definition will have no effect on the web pages the journal
computer builds. All that the journal computer cares about is the name of the
style applied to a paragraph. For some styles, the paragraph is ignored
completely. For example, the content of paragraphs with style "abstract
heading" is ignored. At the present time, the journal computer wil also ignore
the content of paragraphs labeled "authors", "institution", "address",
"keywords", and "pacs", because it expects this information to have been
entered in a database during the submission process. In the future, the journal
computer may read this information directly.
The title of the article should have the style "heading 1".
The styles "authors", "institution", "address" are provided so that you can
include these elements in your word processing file for printing, etc. At
present,these items should be entered into the journal computer using web
forms.
The abstract should have the style "abstract".
Section headings of the paper should have the style "heading 2". Do not number
your sections. If you need to refer to a section in the text, use the form
Section[Introduction], replacing the word "Introduction" with the exact title
of the section.
Subsection headings of the paper should have the style "heading 3". Do not
number your subsections. If you need to refer to a subsection in the text, use
the form Subsection[What is RTF?], replacing the words "What is RTF?" with the
exact title of the subsection.
Subsubsection headings of the paper should have the style "heading 4". Do not
number your subsections. If you need to refer to a subsubsection in the text,
use the form Subsubsection[random words], replacing the words "random words"
with the exact title of the subsubsection.
Yes, you can even have Subsubsubsection headings. They should have the style
"heading 4". Do not number your subsections. Do not refer to subsubsubsections
in the text, that would be really silly.
Special paragraph styles are used for the headings of these sections:
"acknowledment heading", "reference heading", "figures heading", "tables
heading", "appendix heading". The content of these sections should be formatted
as follows.
The acknowledgment should have the paragraph style "acknowledgment ".
Each reference should come on a separate paragraph with the paragraph style
"reference". A reference should be numbered inside square brackets like this:
[1]. To cite a reference in the text, use numbers in square brackets.
Don't use numbers in square brackets for anything else. The bibliographic
information for each reference should be entered into the Journal's
reference database using the forms provided for that purpose. You don't
need to enter this information into your reference list; you only need to enter
the "reference ID" assigned to each reference in the reference database. A
reference ID is typically the first authors last name, an abbreviation for the
journal, the volume, and the page, each separated by "-". For example, Joe
Smith's article in Journal of Materials Research, volume 2, page 786
would be assigned the reference ID "smith-jmr-2-786". By using reference
ID's, the journal computer can hot-link the reference with your article.
Not only will readers be able to click on a reference item to read the title
and abstract of the referenced article, but someone browsing the reference will
be able to jump to articles which cite the reference. The publication charges
you pay to publish in MIJ-NSR include an allowance for obtaining permissions to
reprint the abstracts of the articles you cite.
You should, however, make sure that the references you wish to cite have been
entered into the journals reference database. To check for a reference, use one
of the listings on the reference page at http://nsr.mij.mrs.org/refs/ To add a
reference, use the page at http://nsr.mij.mrs.org/refs/contribution.html
There are two paragraph styles used for figures. The graphic elements of
figures should be pasted into paragraphs with the style named "figure". The
caption for each figure should immediately follow the figure in a paragraph
with style named "figure caption". The figure caption should start with words
like "Figure 1a." Each figure should be cited in the main text with the same
words; see Figure 1a. You should have a caption for each graphic element.
It's OK to have a figure 1 and a figure 1a; you should do this instead of
putting insets in figures. Remember that MIJ-NSR is designed to be presented on
video screens, which have poorer resolution than paper. Don't put
information in tiny insets.
At the present time, all figures must be included in the RTF file. This means
that you should paste all pictures into your word processing program. If your
word processing program can't deal with a figure you generate in another
application, chances are that the journal's computer can't deal
with it either. The journal will be able to accept postscript figures and
figures on paper in the future. Authors are encouraged to submit postscript
versions of their figures now so that the higher quality of these
representations can be used in future presentations of the journal.
If you use a Windows or DOS computer, you're probably aware
that exporting figures from one program to another does not always work the way
you want it to. You can check that your word processor exports the figures
properly by saving the file into RTF format, and then reopening the file. (You
should choose to interpret RTF text. If the figures come out OK in the reopened
file, the journal computer should also be able to use them. If they
don't, and you're able to print the figure on a postscript printer,
you should make a postscript file. (Most laser printer drivers include an
option to "Print to Disk" or "Print to Postscript File") If you use a
Macintosh computer, you probably won't have difficulty pasting
your graphics into your word processor, but it won't hurt to check by
saving as RTF, closing, and then opening the RTF file.
Figures should be sized so that they can be easily viewed on 640x480 screens.
This means no larger than 15 cm (6 inches) wide and 10 cm (4 inches ) high. All
text should be easily readable on your computer screen. The use of color is
strongly encouraged. At the same time, remember that figures should be
intelligible on grey scale monitors. If you're using a figure on paper,
try to use larger font sizes and heavier lines than you normally would, since
fine features tend to scan in poorly.
Tables should have a paragraph style named "table". The formatting for tables
varies from word processing program to word processing program, and even from
version to version of each word processing program, so you should realize that
if you use a program's built-in table features, it is very likely that
much of the formatting will be lost. In view of this, you should try to use
only very simple tables in MIJ-NSR, using tabs to set columns, and using the
first row for the column headings. You should also re-think your use of tables.
If you're using tables simply to present data, consider using Data
sections.
In a conventional journal, you would never consider including megabytes of data
along with your manuscript. You can do that easily in MIJ-NSR. For RTF
submissions, you just need to give the paragraph style the name "data". You may
also submit data files separately, giving them the file name "data1.txt",
"data2.txt", etc. You can refer to data in the text of your article with the
words "Data File 1"Data should be in tab-delineated text form, and should have
a header explaining what the data is. You should consider publishing your data
primarily in situations where the data would be of use to others, or when your
article relies heavily on interpretations of processed data. If, for example,
you're arguing that some data is well fit by a peculiar functional form,
it's only fair to publish the data so that people can verify that your
data is what you say it is. On the other hand, publishing data results in a
certain loss of control over what people do with it, so don't publish
data just to publish data. For that matter, don't publish articles just
to publish articles.
An appendix is material which for some reason doesn't really belong in
the main narrative of an article. Appendices should be placed at the end of
the text of the article. In addition to the conventional Appendix, MIJ-NSR
allows two additional appendix section types which its medium makes possible,
Asides and Auxiliaries. These are very similar to Appendices, with slightly
different presentations. An Appendix is presented after the main text,
typically because it contains material of such detail that it is of interest
primarily to students or specialists. An Aside is like an appendix, but is
presented in a separate box in print, usually because it is a digression
unrelated to the main narrative of the paper. An Auxiliary contains material
that would be inappropriate for print media.
Appendices of all types can contain any type of content, but they are
delineated by their headings. An Appendix should start with a paragraph with
style "appendix heading". Text in the heading is ignored. Similarly, Asides and
Auxiliaries should start with paragraphs with styles "aside heading" and
"auxiliary heading". A new appendix is started with each appendix heading
paragraph.
The RTF format supports a variety of text formatting which can be carried over
into the web version of an article. This includes boldface,
italic, underline, subscript and
superscript typestyles. For the most part, authors should use these
type styles sparingly. Type size, font, line spacing, pagination etc. are
ignored.
In addition to the normal ascii character set, RTF supports a long list of
special characters. You can use accented characters such as Å, ç,
ü by typing them the way you usually would, and are supported as
characters on the web. Greek letters (
, 
, 
) are supported
by RTF, if you use the standard "alternate" font, usually called "Symbol" to
enter them. They are not supported directly by present-day web browsers, so the
journal computer replaces them by in-line graphics. Some characters you may
want to use are not supported by RTF. One such character is "hbar". The journal
computer can replace these characters by graphic elements as well, if you
include them using their "SGML" standard name. In you use RTF, you can
designate an SGML standard character by putting two semicolons before the name
and one semicolon after . Thus the character hbar can be included by typing
";;hbar;" A list of SGML standard names can be found on the submission
information page.
Most word processing programs display mathematics as graphical elements. The
journal computer will simply extract these graphical elements and present them
on the web as graphics. If your word processor (Although this is fine for the
present, in the future, it will be preferable to encode the math in ways that
browsers understand. The standards for math encoding on the web have not yet
been established. Part of the publication fee you pay will be used in the
future to convert mathematics to future math formats. For today, you may use
the LaTeX language to format equations, if you wish to do so. The "math-LaTeX"
and "equation-LaTeX" paragraph styles are used to indicate places where you use
the LaTeX language in an RTF document. The "math-LaTeX" style indicates that
the mathematics is to be rendered in the line of a paragraph. If you
don't understand this parenthetical remark, please ignore it.)
You should use the "equation" paragraph style for mathematics that should be
rendered on a line of its own. Equations should be numbered by adding a number
in parentheses at the end of an "equation" paragraph.
If you know some HTML, you may want to include some HTML formatting in your
article. There are two ways to do this. You can use the "HTML" paragraph style,
or you can use the HTML character format, which is hidden outline.
So now that you've used this template to write your paper, you're
ready to submit it for publication. What do you do? The steps are (1) Fill out
the "intent to submit" form. (2) Send your copyright transfer form along with
the publication fees to the Materials Rearch Society. (3) Wait until you
receive a submission password for your paper. (4) Use FTP or MIME-e-mail to
send your files to the journal computer. (5) Tell the journal computer that
your files are ready to process by filling out the "ready to process" form. (6)
Wait until you recieve confirmation from the journal that your paper has been
processed. (7) Review the web pages that have been built, checking for
mistakes. (8) Tell the journal computer that your paper is ready for review by
filling out the "submission completion" form.
If this seems like a lot more work than you're used to doing for other
journals, you're right. The trade-off is that it costs a lot for a
conventional journal to do all that work, and someone has to pay for that work.
Usually, institutional libraries end up footing the bill, by buying
subscriptions to journals at the library rate. Library subscriptions usually
cost several times the individual subscription rates.
To submit a file by ftp, you will need to know the serial number and password
assigned to your paper. You should have received an e-mail confirmation from
the journal with this information in it. If your paper is part of a conference
whose proceedings are being published in MIJ-NSR, you should receive these
along with your abstract's acceptance notice.
The following instructions assume that you have access to a computer connected
to the internet, and that your RTF manuscript file has been transferred to this
system. If you use a PC that is connected to the internet, you can use a PC
based FTP program which will have very similar commands, or will have a
friendlier user interface. (1) Make sure you have an FTP client program and
your manuscript file available. (On many systems, you can check the list of
available files using the "ls" commeand.) If you're not sure
about this, consult your local guru. (2) Use your ftp program to open a
connection to "nsr.mij.mrs.org". On unix systems, the command is: "ftp
nsr.mij.mrs.org" (3) At the "Name:" prompt, enter your
paper's serial number. (4) At the "Password:" prompt, enter your
paper's password. (5) Use the put command to send the files. On Unix
systems and most PC's, the command is "put filename "
(replace filename with the name of your file) (6) If you need
to transfer a file of type "TIFF" or "GIF", use the command "binary"
before transferring the file.
If you use a Macintosh connected to the internet, we recommend using
"Fetch", a $25 shareware program from Dartmouth. The steps are similar to those
above, except the hostname (nsr.mij.mrs.org), username (your
paper's serial number), and password are entered in the "Open Location"
dialog. You should chose to send non-text files as "raw data".
If you use a MIME capable e-mail program, you will find this method easiest.
MIME capable programs include Eudora for the PC and Mac, and
Netscape version 1.1 or later. Mail programs which are not MIME
capable include Unix Sendmail, and most versions of Microsoft
Mail. If you are in doubt about whether your e-mail program is MIME
capable, send mail (with an attachment) to the Journalmaster.
To submit your manuscript using Eudora, create a new message
addressed to mailer@nsr.mij.mrs.org . Using the "Attach Document..."
command in the "Message" menu, select your manuscript file. In the body of the
message, type the following:
article number: x
password: yourpassword
(Replace "x" by your paper's serial
number, and yourpassword with your paper's password) Send
the message, and you're done.
To submit your manuscript using Netscape 1.1, type
"mailto:mailer@nsr.mij.mrs.org" in the "Go To" box, or click on the mail link
on the Journal's submission page. Make sure that your "SMTP Host" and
your email address are set in the "Mail and News" Preferences. Type the
following:
article number: x
password: yourpassword
in the message box. (Replace "x" by your
paper's serial number, and yourpassword with your
paper's password) Click the "Send" button, and you're done.
The use of this template will facilitate the processing of your article into
web pages for an MRS Internet Journal.
Acknowledgents
Acknowledgments and the Aknowledgment Heading have special paragraph styles.
References
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Figures
Figure 1. Example of a figure.
Figure 1a. Detail of Figure 1.
Data Files
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