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Formatting Instructions and Tips
Springer LNCS format - Frequent writing and formatting problems
If you are familiar with the LNCS format and publication process, you can skip this section.
Please very carefully follow Springer's format instructions. Papers that do not comply with all format requirements cannot be published in the printed proceedings. Note that pages must not be numbered and must not contain running headers, and all figures and tables must be within margins.
Original Springer files. For complete instructions and updated files, see LNCS Authors Instructions (located on the Springer LNCS site, click on For LNCS Authors and Editors on the right, then "more" after LNCS Authors Instructions).
Locally mirrored files (only in case you cannot access the Springer site). Format instructions: typeinst.pdf. Templates and instructions: MS Word 2003: word.zip, MS Word 2007: LNCS-Office2007.zip, LaTeX2e: llncs2e.zip, LaTeX (old versions): llncs.zip. Please read errata and instructions below.
Sample paper. Unofficially, for your convenience we provide a sample paper. This file is not provided by Springer. The file provided by Springer is typeinst.zip.
When describing phenomena of a language other than English or giving screenshots in another language, please make your discussion understandable for people not familiar with this language. For all non-English examples, data, and screenshots, English glosses are obligatory.
Do not (allow Word to) underline email addresses or URLs and set their color to blue.
All figures, tables, formulas, etc. must be within margins. We will not be able to include papers that do not meet this requirement.
Do not include page numbers and running heads.
Please do not leave unused space on the pages. Try moving your figures if they cause unused space. Avoid if possible the last page being filled to less than one third.
No section title should be the last line on the page. Avoid widow and orphan lines.
All section titles must be First Letter Capitalized.
We recommend an en-dash as bullet character:
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If the title of your paper does not fit in one line, please divide it into logical parts (with Shift-Enter in Word, or \\ in TeX):
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A Method of Calculation of Semantic Word |
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A Method of Calculation |
Do not use colors in figures: they will not be visible in the printed book. In Excel drawings, a blue and a red line will look the same, and a yellow line will not be visible at all. In Excel drawings, remove the outer frame and make the background white (not grey):
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For homogenous look of the book, please format the tables, whenever it does not cause difficulties in understanding the table, with only three thin horizontal lines:
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Figure captions must be below the figure; table captions must be above the table (especially important for TeX users). Both figures and tables should be centered. We recommend to also center both figure and table captions. You can also align the caption with the left side of the table:
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LNCS Microsoft Word 2003 (we did not check 2007) template file sv-lncs.dot currently provided by Springer has the following bugs that you must correct in the text of your paper (if they affect you):
All centered paragraphs (title, author, address, email, equation, etc.) and some other special paragraphs (table and figure captions) incorrectly have 0.4cm first line indentation, set it to 0 (not indented). This can be done through the menu by changing Format | Paragraph | Indenting | Special to none or (for expert users) by modifying the corresponding style.
Bulleted lists seem to have a problem with the bullet character. You can choose another bullet character through the menu Format | Numbering and lists | Bulleted lists | Personalize or (only for expert users!) by modifying the corresponding style.
Table caption style has German language, you might want to set it to English through Tools | Language | Define Language.
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