Submission of final papers for SLSP 2014

Detailed technical instructions

Instructions for LNCS authors are available here. Before submitting your files please verify the following checkpoints. The next recommendations follow the order we construct our document.

• Use as few .tex files as possible, a single file is best, name it main.tex, it helps the assembling task.
• Use \documentclass[runningheads, envcountsame, a4paper]{llncs} and only these options; some packages modify the paper format to letter if a4 is not specified.
• Use Algorithm2e for listings of algorithms.
• pdflatex processes a bit better than the sequence latex, dvips, pspdf. You might find useful to add \usepackage{epstopdf}, \usepackage[hyphens]{url} and \usepackage{microtype}.
• Titles: In English, the first word and the last word of titles should be capitalized. In addition, all nouns, pronouns, adjectives, verbs, adverbs, and subordinate conjunctions should be capitalized. Articles and coordinating conjunctions are not capitalized. Traditionally, prepositions are not capitalized. Use the same conventions for all titles of sections, subsection, etc.
• In \author use \and as separator between authors names.
• Give all the affiliation (the entries in this order, one entry per line), department, university, street address (including country), e-mail. Do not use comma or dot at the end of each affiliation line.
• British authors should use UK to avoid too many variations such as U.K. or England.
• In email if you use {author1,author2,...}@... please use \email{$\{$author1,... $\}$@...}.
• Use \fnmsep (i.e. footnote mark separator) to separate \thanks by \inst.
• \titlerunning could be shorter than Title, please check to see if it fits in the header, if not, then you should shorten it up.
• Inside the \authorrunning{} field of your article, please use only the initial of your first name, followed by a dot. The word "and" between two authors is used without a comma. If there are three or more authors, there is a comma before "and". If headings with author names are not fitting well in the page, then you should use "et al." after the first author.
• Use \toctitle and \tocauthor, they are important fields defining your paper in the proceedings Table Of Contents.
• For \tocauthor use ~ between first name and name to avoid a break line inside author's names.
• After \maketitle \setcounter{footnote}{0} to start footnotes from 1 after \thanks.
• LNCS recommends keywords, within the abstract (before \end{abstract} just type \keywords{your list}. Please flag in which of the categories announced in the call for papers does your paper fit better, as the first keyword. If none of the announced categories fits, then with the first keyword just define your new topic. Please, use significant keywords (not needed titlecase for keywords).
• Normally, captions of tables, figures, should end without a dot. If you feel that dots are needed, please be consistent along the whole article. Table captions are above the tables, while figures have captions below.
• For Acknowledge please use \section*{Acknowledgments}.
• Please use BIBTEX: it is a computer program taking care about consistency of bibliography, (within the paper and cross papers). For information about using BIBTEX please consult this link. There exists also an automatic conversion tool from bibitem to bibtex, yet not all formats are recognized. Note that Googling for a title together with the word "bibtex" usually gives good results.
• Check the names in bibliography, some accents could be missing, no capital letter for Turing, RNA, etc., wrong hyphenations, etc. To correct we should add a new level of {...} in the bib file.
• Check spelling errors and English mistakes for the whole paper. You are the last one checking for spelling errors before your paper is published.
• For color pictures, check they print well on a black and white printer, the volume will be printed like this.