Dear Delegate,

Your paper has been accepted for an oral or poster presentation at the ASST IV Symposium in Beaune. The Symposium Proceedings will be published as a special volume in ATB-Metallurgie.

In order to ensure rapid publication, papers must be submitted by electronic mail by 31 st of March 2006

to Annette De Coninck :

Tel. : 00 32 (0)2 629 35 35

e-mail : adconin@vub.ac.be

Papers will be reviewed by two referees for acceptance in the published proceedings.

Manuscripts

All contributions should be written in English. Manuscripts should be typed with double line spacing and margins of 38 mm must be left at the top, bottom and left-hand side of the paper. The manuscript has to contain page numbers. Tables and figures are to be included at the end of the text; authors have to indicate their correct position in the text. Denote with an asterix (*) the author to whom enquiries regarding the work should be directed. To enable prompt publication, the full postal address should be given for the author who will check proofs, along with telephone and telefax numbers and email address. The title of the paper should describe the contents fully but concisely and should include keywords suitable for retrieval systems. Compounds and figures should be numbered in separate sequences using Arabic numerals. All figures and tables must have captions. Footnotes should be avoided.

Length of the paper

For the length of your paper : The equivalent number of words is 6000 for text + figures + tables + images

The following list shows how to estimate the length of your paper.

Number of words in the text = ……………

Number of pictures x 250 = ……………

Number of figures x 250 = ……………

Number of tables x 250 = ……………

Total (<6000) ……………

Abstracts

Every manuscript for publication must include an abstract of not more than 250 words setting out the essential contents and typed on the first page. This should be sufficiently comprehensive to allow effective use by abstracting services. A list of ‘keywords' should be included with the abstract.

Nomenclature

Authors should conform to nomenclature, symbols, abbreviations and procedures adopted by ASTM. SI units are preferred; if more commonly used units are adopted, conversion factors should be given at their first occurrence. All abbreviations should be defined the first time they are used.

Ilustrations

Line drawings and pictures should be supplied on a separate sheet at the same size as the intended printed version (so no enlargements or reductions is required), maximum width 140mm. Lettering on the artwork should be set in 8pt type. Computer-generated artwork must be submitted as laser printed output at a resolution of 600 dots per inch on high quality paper. Dot matrix printer output is unacceptable. Tints are to be avoided; hatching should be used instead. Drawn artwork should be carefully lettered and draw in black ink.

•  Pictures: black/white in EPS or TIFF format, with a 300dpi resolution minimally

•  Figures, logos and line drawings, in EPS or TIFF format, with a 600 dpi resolution minimally

References

This section should be used only for references to previous work. Additional information, such as experimental details, etc. should be incorporated into the text. References should be numbered in the sequence in which they occur in the text, cited by superior numbers and listed at the end of the paper.

References should be listed in the following style:

•  Afanasyeva NI, Bruch RF. Surf. Interface Anal. 1999 :27 :345.

•  Dowsett MG, Clark EA, in Practical Surface Analysis , 2 nd Edn, Vol.2, ed. By D. Briggs and M.P. Seah; John Wiley, Chichester , 1992:pp. 229-302.

Journal titles must be abbreviated according to the system co-sponsored by the American Chemical Society and listed in The ACS Style Guide .

Acknowledgements

Thank you for your cooperation.