57th Scottish Universities Summer School in Physics "LHC Phenomenology" 17- 29 August 2003 John Burnett Hall, St. Andrews, Fife KY16 9JF, Scotland

Notes for SUSSP authors

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• SUSSP57 editors:
  Michael Krämer, Edinburgh University, email: Michael.Kraemer@ed.ac.uk
  Paul Soler, Glasgow University and RAL, email: p.soler@rl.ac.uk

• General Comment
  A Summer School is neither a conference nor a workshop and consequently your article is expected to have a pedagogical nature, being neither too terse nor encyclopaedic.

• Authorship
  Our policy is that contributions in the proceedings will appear under the name of the person giving the lectures. If you wish to acknowledge the contributions of others you should do so either in a footnote on the first page or in an Acknowledgements paragraph at the end.

• Deadlines
  It is our standard practice to hand out lecture notes at the summer school and we therefore expect lecturers to produce at least draft notes beforehand. During the school the editors and lecturers are expected to work together so that a reasonably final version of the notes is preferably available by the end of the school. The deadline for finished contributions is October 1st this year.

• Length
  The final book should be no more than 400 pages so that for a school of 40 lectures you should aim at 10 A4 pages of 12pt text per lecture (including figures).

• Manuscript production
  If you do not use Latex please contact the series editor immediately. In general you should prepare your contribution with the Latex 'article' style. Do not finalise page breaks since the articles will be reformatted to establish page sizes, margins, headers etc in a uniform manner.
  
  

• Structure
  The first section should be the Introduction. (Note that NO abstract is required). The remaining material should be in sections, subsections and (preferably unnumbered) subsubsections. Very short contributions should not be sectioned overmuch. Do NOT use footnotes.

• Indexing
  Make a sensible choice of words to index (using \index(?) commands). Do not over-index. A typical article will average about 2--3 items per page.

• References
  The preferred reference style is an author/date system. In the text use direct citation, as in Smith(1977) or parenthetic citation, (Smith and Jones 1977). For three or more authors use only the first name followed by ‘et al.’ as in (Smith et al. 1981). If an author has two references in any year use (Smith 1988a) and (Smith 1988b). The list of references should be formatted as follows. Note the absence of superfluous punctuation in these examples.

  Albus J S, 1971, A theory of cerebellar function, Classical and Quantum Gravity l9 25.

  Albus J S and Buckles B P, 1972a, Physics Letters 10 25.< /P>

  Anderberg M R, 1973, Cluster Analysis 122--147 (Academic Press, New York).

  Ankenbrandt C A, Buckles B P, and Petry F E, 1990, Scene recognition using genetic algorithms with semantic nets, Physical Review Letters 21 233.

  Bezdek J C, 1981, Pattern Recognition with Fuzzy Objective, in Proceedings of the Conference on High Energy Physics, Rome, editors Smith A and Jones B (Plenum).

  
  All this can be done with say astroncite.bst or other packages.
  
  Remember that your article is not for a review journal. Select those that are genuinely useful for young workers in the field.

• Figures
  Please be selective and do not let the number get out of hand. The figures will be set in portrait mode with a maximum width equal to the text width of 15.5cm. Hopefully most figures will be considerably less than the textwidth. Keep the captions fairly short; do not let them grow into paragraphs with comments that could well appear in the main body of text. Refer to figures within the text as ``see Figure 12''; do not abbreviate. If you have used a drawing package to produce a figure please send it as 'eps' if possible. If you are using scanned images please supply the originals or good quality xerox reproductions. Colour plates are NOT acceptable. If you do use colour in designing a figure please make sure that it will print satisfactorily when reduced to greyscale on a mono printer. Please bring any hard copy originals to the school.