ICRM 2005
15th International Conference on Radionuclide Metrology and its applications

Instructions to authors

Oral Presentations

Please consult the final agenda to find the Session in which your paper will be presented. Contact the Session Chairpersons and confirm that you are available to make the presentation. You will be scheduled for a 15 minutes presentation with 3 - 4 minutes for discussion. Please note that additional time is needed to change speakers and to announce the presentations. Each speaker must stay within the time allotted for his presentation but does not necessarily have to speak for all the allotted time. The Chairperson of your session will insist that you adhere to the published schedule. Additional time is allocated for the discussion of the presentations at the end of a session.

The auditorium will be equipped with an overhead projector for transparencies and a computer based beamer system for powerpoint presentations. Presenters should avoid the use of detailed tables, or figures with faint or coloured lines, which will not be legible to the audience. Other questions regarding your presentation should be addressed to the Session Chairpersons or to the Scientific Secretariat.

Poster Presentations

The set-up of posters is scheduled for Monday morning, September 5. If you will not be available that morning, please ask a colleague to set up your poster in due time. Each poster is identified by a unique number, which is the abstract number assigned to the paper by the Scientific Committee. This number will also appear in the final agenda. Please fix your poster on the stand labelled with the respective number.

The space available for each poster is 1.00 m (width) x 1.20 m (height). Please bring special adhesive tape (Hook Velcro) and other tools to fix posters.

Each poster will be introduced orally to the audience by the respective Session Chairperson who will prepare one overhead display for each poster. You should communicate to your Session Chairperson a few key statements explaining the message of your paper. Contact the Session Chairperson and confirm that you will attend the session and be available to answer questions from the audience regarding the paper.

Manuscripts for ICRM 2005

Authors must submit the full text of accepted papers to the Scientific Secretary by June 01, 2005. Authors should anticipate discussing their papers by email with the referees before the conference. Final versions of the paper must be with the Scientific Secretary by October 31, 2005.

It is expected that at least one author of an accepted paper will have registered by July 5, 2005. At least one author is required to attend the conference. If this does not occur the paper will not be presented and it will not be published. Also, it cannot be guaranteed that final manuscripts of papers accepted by the referees and submitted to the Scientific Secretary LATER than October 31, 2005 will be published in the conference proceedings.

All authors must submit their manuscripts as computer files (MS Word format) either on disk or by electronic mail directly to the Scientific Secretary. Authors may use a maximum of 3600 words, including figures, tables and references. Small figures and tables represent 250 words. Large figures and tables represent 500 words. This approximates to nine written manuscript pages, double line spaced in Times New Roman 12 pt font type or equivalent, including all figures, tables and references.

Statements of numerical results (e.g. activities, decay-scheme data, etc.) must conform to the Guide to the Expression of Uncertainty in Measurement (ISO, 1995). An uncertainty budget must be given. Do not communicate confidence limits but only coverage factors. Quantities and units must comply with The International System of Units (BIPM, Sèvres, 1998). For the papers reporting emission probabilities, a covariance matrix will also be required.

Conference Proceedings

The conference proceedings will be published in the journal APPLIED RADIATION AND ISOTOPES. Manu­scripts must be submitted in English and must comply with the guidelines (ARI – Instructions to Authors) given below. A paper that does not comply with the guidelines will be returned for revision and may be rejected from publication if it is not revised in due time.

Accep­tance of a paper for presentation at the conference does not automatically imply that it will be published in the proceedings. Publication of the manuscripts is subject to the result of a refe­reeing procedure. Please note that a manuscript will be accepted for pub­lication in the proceedings only if it has not been published previously and if it is not under consideration for publication elsewhere.

Applied Radiation and Isotopes- Instruction to Authors

Manuscript Preparation

General: Manuscripts must be typewritten, double-spaced with wide margins on one side of white paper. Good quality printouts with a font size of 12 pt are required. The corresponding author should be identified (include a Fax number and E-mail address). Full postal addresses must be given for all co-authors. Authors should consult a recent issue of the journal style if possible. An electronic copy of the paper should accompany the final version. The Editors reserve the right to adjust style to certain standards of uniformity. Authors should retain a copy of their manuscript since we cannot accept responsibility for damage or loss of papers. Original manuscripts are discharged one month after publication unless the Publisher is asked to return original material after use.

In manuscripts describing experiments with living animals, authors should state clearly in the text that they experiments were carried out in compliance with the relevant nationals laws relating to the conduct of animal experimentation, or, where such laws do not exist, that the studies were performed in accordance with some internationally recognized code of practice such as the United Kingdom Biological Council’s Guidelines on the Use of Living Animals in Scientific Investigation, 2^nd edn.

Abstracts: An abstract of not more than 80 words must be supplied for all articles, and preferentially a short summary for Technical Notes.

Text: Follow this order when typing manuscripts: Title, Authors, Affiliations, Abstract, Keywords, Main text, Acknowledgements, Appendix, References, Vitae, Figure Captions and then Tables. Do not import the Figures or Tables into your text. The corresponding author should be identified with an asterisk and footnote. All other footnotes (except for table footnotes) should be identified with superscript Arabic numbers.

Units: Preferably, Systeme International (SI) units should be used throughout with equivalent quantities in older usage indicated in parentheses. NBS Special Publication 330 The International System of Units (SI) or the Systeme International d’Unites may be helpful in this respect. Chemical and biological nomenclature should conform to International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) recommendations. The IUPAC Rules can be found in the Handbook of Chemistry and Physics, CRC Press Inc., Boca Raton, FL. Radioactive labels should be indicated by the radionuclide’s symbol in square brackets before the labelled compound, e.g. [³H]H₂O, [¹⁴C]carbon dioxide, 2-amino-4-([¹¹C]methylthio) butyric acid (not [¹¹C]methyl-methionine), N-[¹¹C]methyl-nomorphine, etc. Carrier-free compound only should be designated as ³H₂, ¹³NH₃, etc. No-carrier-added compounds should be written as [¹³N]NH₃, [¹¹C]CO₂ unless proof of specific activity is given. Metastable (isomeric) and ground state of nuclei are designated by an “m” or “g” respectively, placed after the atomic-mass number, e.g. ^99mTc and ^99gTc although the “g” may be omitted if no ambiguity results.

References: All publication cited in the text should be presented in a list of references following the text of the manuscript. In the text refer to the author’s name (without initials) and year of publication (e.g. “Since Peterson (1993) has shown that ...” or “This is in agreement with results obtained later (Kramer, 1994))”. For three or more authors, use the first author followed by “et al.”, in the text. The list of references should be arranged alphabetically by authors’ names. The manuscript should be carefully checked to ensure that the spelling of authors’ names and dates are exactly the same in the text as in the list of references. References should be given in the following form:

Dadachova, E., Smith, S.V., Mirzahdeh, S., 1996. Electrolytic reduction of carrier-free rhenium-188. Applied Radiation and Isotopes 47 (3), 289-292.

Walling, D.E., Quine, T.A., He, Q., 1993. Investigating contemporary rates of floodplain sedimentation. In: Carling, P.P., Petts, G.E. (Eds.), Low-land Floodplain Rivers: Geomorphological Perspectives. Wiley, Chichester, pp. 166-184.

Illustrations: All illustrations should be provided in camera-ready form, suitable for reproduction (which may include reduction) without retouching. Photographs, charts and diagrams are all to be referred to as “Figure(s)” and should be numbered consecutively in the order to which they are referred. They should accompany the manuscript, but should not be included within the text. All illustrations should be clearly marked on the back with the figure number and the author’s name. All figures are to have a caption. Captions should be supplied on a separate sheet.

Line drawings: Good quality printouts on white paper produced in black ink are required. All lettering, graph lines and points on graphs should be sufficiently large and bold to permit reproduction when the diagram has been reduced to a size suitable for inclusion in the journal. Dye-line prints or photocopies are not suitable for reproduction. Do not use any type of shading on computer-generated illustrations.

Photographs: Original photographs must be supplied as they are to be reproduced (e.g. black and white or colour). If necessary, a scale should be marked on the photograph. Please note that photocopies of photographs are not acceptable.

Colour: Figures may be published in colour, if this is judged essential by the editor. The author will be charged for colour at current printing costs.

Tables: Tables should be numbered consecutively and given a suitable caption and each table typed on a separate sheet. Footnotes to tables should be typed below the table and should be referred to by superscript lowercase letters. No vertical rules should be used. Tables should not duplicate results presented elsewhere in the manuscript (e.g. in graphs).

Electronic Submission

Authors should submit an electronic copy of their paper with the final version of the manuscript. The electronic copy should match the hardcopy exactly. Always keep a backup copy of the electronic file for reference and safety. Full details of electronic submission and formats can be obtained from

http://www.elsevier.com/locate/disksub or from Author Services at Elsevier Science.

Proofs

Proofs will be sent to the author (first named author if no corresponding author is identified on multi-authored papers) by PDF wherever possible and must be returned to the publisher within 2 weeks of receipt, preferably by e-mail. Corrections should be restricted to typesetting errors; any other amendments may be charged to the author. Any queries should be answered in full. Elsevier will do everything possible to get your article corrected and published as quickly and accurately as possible. Therefore, it is important to ensure that all of your corrections are returned to us in one all-inclusive e-mail or fax. Subsequent additional corrections will not be possible, so please ensure that your first communication is complete. Should you chose to mail your corrections, please return them to: Log-in Department, Elsevier Science, Stover Court, Bampfylde Street, Exeter, Devon EX1 2AH, UK.

Offprints

Twenty five offprints will be supplied free of charge. Additional offprints and copies of the issue can be ordered at a special reduced rate using the order form sent to the corresponding author after the manuscript has been accepted. Orders for reprints (produced after publication) will incur a 50% surcharge.

Copyright

All authors must sign the “Transfer of Copyright” agreement before the article can be published. This transfer agreement enables Elsevier Science Ltd to protect the copyrighted material for the authors, but does not relinquish the author’s proprietary rights. The copyright transfer covers the exclusive rights to reproduce and distribute the article, including reprints, photographic reproductions, microfilm or any other reproductions of similar nature and translations. This includes the right to adapt the article for use in conjunction with computer systems and programs, including reproduction or publication in machine-readable form and incorporation in retrieval systems. Authors are responsible for obtaining from the copyright holder permission to reproduce any figures for which copyright exists.

Author enquiries

For enquiries relating to the submission of articles (including electronic submission where available) please visit the Author Gateway from Elsevier at http://authors.elsevier.com.

The Author Gateway also provides the facility to track accepted articles and set up e-mail alerts to inform you of when an article’s status has changed, as well as detailed artwork guidelines, copyright information, frequently asked questions and more.

Contact details for questions arising after acceptance of an article, especially those relating to proofs, are provided after registration of an article for publication.