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The proceedings of the Symposium will be published as full papers in the well indexed "Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials". The cost of the proceedings (incl. mailing) is included in the registration fee. As in previous years, reviewing and publishing of the JMMM issue will take some time. We expect that you will receive the special JMMM issue in the first quarter of 2009.

Impact factor 2007 of JMMM is now 1.704 !

Due to the high cost of publishing the proceedings, only research papers which meet the following criteria will be considered for publication:

They must contain original research. (Please take this seriously it was the number one reason for manuscript rejection after the last meeting.)
They must pass a stringent peer-review process.
They must not be review papers.
They must be submitted by the submission deadline.

In addition, only one paper can be published per laboratory or research group. Exceptions are only possible if the subject matter of the research paper is completely different and, even then, only after getting prior permission by the guest editor (Urs Hafeli)

Deadline for electronic paper submission
June 15, 2008. Absolutely no exceptions will be made.

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Some information about the Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials
The Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials provides an important forum for the disclosure and discussion of original contributions covering the whole spectrum of topics, from basic magnetism to the technology and applications of magnetic materials and magnetic recording. It has an impact factor of 1.031 (2004). JMMM is indexed in Current Contents/Physics, Chemical, & Earth Sciences, El Compendex Plus, Engineering Index, INSPEC, Metals Abstracts and Scopus.

Preparing a manuscript

Please make sure that you do not submit the paper directly to Elsevier / JMMM, because it might then be published outside our special JMMM issue.

A good example of a proper article is given here.

And in Microsoft Word form, for online submission on our website, check what such an article or a second one from our last special issue would look like. It is important that the paper is structured like every other paper, with introduction, aim, materials and methods, results, discussion, acknowledgments, then figure legends, then figures and tables. But, we don't need these subtitles to save space.

Please carefully obey the following guidelines:

Number all pages, from the very first to the very last, if possible in the footer of the page.
The first page should contain the following items, in exactly the given order:
1. Version number and date, stating when that particular version was finalized (so that new versions can be identified).
2. Title of the paper. Do not use capital letters.
3. Authors (full first names before last names), separated by commas and each followed by a superscript footnote letter (a,b,..) referring to the respective address.
4. Addresses, each preceded by a footnote superscript letter referring to the respective author name(s).
5. Abstract of at most 100 words. It should be self-contained (no footnotes or references).
6. Keywords, which will be quoted in the Subject index of the Proceedings. Please provide at least 5 of them.
7. Contact author name and complete postal address, fax and telephone numbers, and e-mail valid for the period after the conference.
The next pages should contain the following items (in exactly the given order):
1. Main text, preferably not partitioned into sections. Be concise, e.g. do not repeat conclusions which are already in the introduction, and avoid verbosity. You should not use footnotes; incorporate these as text remarks. Neither should references be used as footnotes. Notation and symbols must be clear, compact and consistent. Formulas should be made with Microsoft Equation. Other equation editors are also possible. Displayed equations should still fit into the Journal text column width, so you should break long lines at suitable places, with this width of 7.5 cm in mind. If necessary revise your notation. Equation numbers should be put at the right margin.
  
  For a good example of how to write your paper, check out Bao and Krishnan's recent paper.
  
  In order to allow as many publications as possible, please be short and to the point. A recommended length is about 4000 words and 4-5 figures.
2. Acknowledgements (e.g. for grants) should be put at the end, before the references.
3. References, which should be limited to the most relevant literature (not more than 25 citations). Do not use references as footnotes. The information should be presented in the correct Journal style (see recent issues), especially with regard to the order of items: authors (initials before names), journal abbreviation (or editors, book/proceedings title and publishers plus city), volume, year of publication, first page. Do not include several references under one number. All references should be cited in the text, numbered in [ ] brackets consecutively in order of first appearance.
  Examples:
  1. F. Paul, D. Melville, Brit. J. Haem. 38 (1980) 273.
  2. S. Roath, R.J. Smith, A. Richards et al., Anal. Biochem. 141 (1995) 342.
  3. J.T. Kempshead, G. Gloom, K. Patel, Bone Marrow Purging and Processing, ed. P. Gilt, A.P. Grut (Wiley & Sons, New York, 1990).
  If you use Endnote reference manager, you can download a correct jmmm.ens file here. After you place it in your Endnote/Styles program folder, you will be able to automatically format your references according to the JMMM format.
4. Tables (with Arabic numbering in order of appearance), having a clear structure, with simple column headings that include all units in parentheses. Try to avoid wide tables that would cover two text columns. Generally only five table columns go into a 7.5 cm text column; check recent journal issues for layout and spacing examples.
5. Figure captions, listed together on a separate page.
6. Figures, each on a separate page, with its figure caption repeated on top. The figures must be absolutely crisp and stainless - no scanned photocopies and such. Electron micrographs should be provided with a scale bar within the figure. All details (lettering, symbols) must be sufficiently large so as not to become illegible after reduction (at least 1.5 mm high in print). In general the figures should have approximately the size of half a typewritten page (landscape type, or double portrait), and be designed for reduction to a text column (7.5 cm wide). Avoid small open symbols which tend to fill in upon reduction. Check lettering carefully for spelling mistakes and consistency with the main text. Wherever feasible, compile multiple graphs with identical axis values and analogous captions into a single figure. The sequence numbering should be exactly in the order in which they are first referred to in the text.
7. Color figures: The publications of non-colour figures (grey/white/black) are free for authors. However, if you wish to get colour figures in the printed version, a fee of $600 per colour will be asked for by the publisher. For the electronic version, all figures containing colour will be automatically done in colour.

Checklist

Is the length of the total manuscript less than 5000 words? Please use 12 pt font size. A length of 4000 words or less is recommended.
Are all pages numbered consecutively in the page footer?
Is the contact author given with full postal address, telephone, fax and email on the first page?
Are the references complete and given in the JMMM style?
Are at least 5 keywords given below the abstract? Be specific and try to give the special aspects of your article.
Are the figures high quality with size bars and legible axis notations?
Are the figure captions given in a separate list and identical to the ones on the figure pages?
Is your manuscript a single word document? No PDF's allowed. All figures and tables must be contained inside the document after the text - we don't need graphs as single files.

An example of what the final papers will look like is available here.