ESAW'01 Author's Instructions
In order to format both the revised version for the workshop notes, and the
final version of the LNAI volume, an author
pack is available.
This is a TAR file that contains all ESAW-specific formatting instructions.
It extends (and also includes) the standard Springer LNCS author's
instructions.
After downloading the compressed file, you can expand it by using any
application able to handle the TAR format, according to your platform of
choice.
This should extract all the files into a subdirectory author-pack.
Please start by reading the file author-pack/READ-ME.txt, which
explains how to use the author pack.
When your are done, you should send both the PDF version and all the
source files to
Andrea Omicini
mailto:aomicini@deis.unibo.it
before 21 June 2001, for the workshop reader's
revised version, and before 2 August 2001, for
the LNAI final version.
Some other pointers:
- page limit: 16 for the workshop notes, no limit for the LNAI volume
- times font
- short titles
- capitalized titles, sections, subsections - every major work begins
with an upper case letter
- capitalize only the first word for a paragraph and put a period at the
end, as in \paragraph{Future Work.}
- if a section has a subsection, it must have more than one subsection
- leave hyphenation on when you typeset
- use ``foo'' quotes instead of "foo", which looks like ''foo''
- don't use `foo'
- don't repeatedly quote a term - not after it has been introduced
- use en dashes for number ranges, e.g., for page numbers
- use em dashes to separate subclauses in your prose
- use \langle and \rangle instead of < and > when denoting tuples
- no space around em or en dashes
- i.e., (comma after)
- e.g., (comma after)
- use the same font size throughout the main text (exceptions: figures,
tables, and footnotes)
- use the same font family in figures, smaller by 1pt if necessary
- use 0.5pt or 1pt lines in figures
- shade the pictures lightly if at all - don't make them too garish!
- captions at the bottom for figures and tables
- write Figure(s), Table(s), Section, Definition, Theorem, Lemma in the
text - capitalized full word
- Acknowledgments as an unnumbered section at the end, but before
References
- don't capitalize too many terms - "artificial intelligence", "contract
net protocol" are better than "Artificial Intelligence", "Contract
Net Protocol"
- reduce the number of footnotes
- use plain bib style for references, which looks like [1], [2], etc.
- never start a sentence as "[13] says"
- use author(s)' name for the first occurrence of any major reference
- combine adjacent cites if author(s)' names are not needed - "Rao [13]
and Mueller [9] have shown ..." OR "Previous work has shown ... [9;
13]" but NOT "Previous work has shown ... [9], [13]"
- spel chek
- proof reed, because pell Czech miss several types
Many thanks to Michael Wooldridge for allowing us to re-use a lot of work of
his!
Last modified by AO 21-06-2001
