Publication of Proceedings

An agreement has been reached with the World Scientific Publishing Company regarding publication of the Lecture Notes of the 22nd Canberra International Physics Summer School in the World Scientific Lecture Notes in Complex Systems series. It will be published as a book in the second half of 2009, co-edited by Robert L. Dewar and Frank Detering.

A package of files for manuscript preparation in LaTeX2e* can be downloaded from the link http://www.worldscientific.com/style/ws-rv9x6_2e.zip. This download link, plus a Readme file and General Instructions for Authors are on the page http://www.worldscientific.com/style/review_style.shtml in the For Contributors: section of the cell in the Trim Size 9.00''x6.00'' row and Latex2e column of the Review Volume (Multiple Authors) table. The example file ws-rv9x6.pdf included in the ws-rv9x6_2e.zip package also contains much useful advice.

If you intend to contribute to the volume, please confirm to the Editor, Robert Dewar (robert.dewar@anu.edu.au) immediately and provide a draft, or at least a title, table of contents, and length estimate (number of printed pages) of your chapter during the Summer School. Please submit the final manuscript to the Editor on a CD (via the COSNet Manager), or as a .zip archive, containing a .pdf file of your chapter plus all the files required to produce it, before 1 April 2009.

*Style/template files are also available for MS-Word 7, but LaTeX2e is greatly preferred. Bruce Henry recommends using Abiword to read a Word file and export it as LaTeX. Also, see Tony Roberts' LaTeX Intro pages for helpful hints and links.

Detailed Instructions:

  1. Unifying themes: Please try to organize your chapter to bring out unifying Complex Systems Science themes from the page themes.
  2. Indexing: Please provide indexing entries in your .tex file by including statements "\index{x}" or "\index{x!y}" after each occurrence of a key topic in your document, where "x" is a top-level keyword and "y" is a sub-level keyword. (Please try to use at least half of the common items on the keywords list page.)
  3. References: Please use the numbered (Vancouver) bibliography style, using the ws-rv-van.sty package as in the example file ws-rv9x6.tex included in ws-rv9x6_2e.zip. The correct formatting of the references is best obtained by using BibTeX, i.e. by putting your references in a .bib database file and processing them by running bibtex to produce a .bbl file. (The ws-rv-van.bst style is activated by including the line "\bibliographystyle{ws-rv-van}" in your .tex file. This gets incorporated into the .aux file when you run latex, and the .aux file is read by bibtex to learn which references you want to use, in which order, and in what style.)
  4. Figures: These should be in black and white or greyscale at high resolution: 600 dpi for line drawings (black and white) or 300 dpi for halftones (grey scale) with labels that can be clearly read (see World Scientific's General Instructions for Authors on this and other stylistic issues). Please notify the Editor if you are using previously published material that will need permission from the copyright holder of that material.