Società Astronomica Italiana

XLVI Congresso Nazionale

Programma

Istruzioni per gli autori

Elenco dei Poster

Iscrizioni

Organizzazione

I luoghi del convegno

Informazioni alberghiere

Come arrivare a Padova

INSTRUCTIONS FOR AUTHORS

An example (pdf document)

Introduction

MEMORIE della SocietAstronomica Italiana is a professional journal devoted exclusively to the publication of Conference Proceedings and invited review papers. As a norm, review papers are published as part of issues dedicated to single specialized topics. All papers should be written in English.

Proposing to publish

Conference organizers and proceedings editors seeking to publish on this journal should send an e-mail to the Editor (bonifaci@ts.astro.it) stating the title and date of the conference, a short scientific rationale (1 page maximum) for the conference and a tentative list of speakers. They should also indicate a date by which they guarantee to have collected the proceedings volume.

The acceptance stage

The material sent to the Editor is circulated among the Scientific Council. The Editor and the Scientific Council will communicate, within one month, whether or not the proposed proceedings are suitable for publication on this journal. The decision will concern the scientific merit of the conference as well as the technical possibility of producing a timely publication, thus taking into account previous commitments of the MEMORIE. A proceedings volume is then at this stage provisionally accepted for publication and it is assigned a time-slot for publication, together with a deadline by which the volume must be delivered to the editorial office. Once the volume is delivered it will be reviewed by the Editor and the Scientific Council to check that it is consistent with what was proposed and that it meets the required scientific standard. If the scientific standards are not met, the volume or parts of it, could be rejected at this stage. The volume will be also checked by the editorial staff to check that it meets the required typographic quality; if not it will be sent back to the volume editor for amendment. Once the volume has passed successfully these checks it will be definitely accepted. If the deadline is not met the time-slot assigned to the volume is considered to be lost and its publication is shifted to the next available time-slot; the resulting delay in publication is unpredictable.

Preparing the manuscripts

The volume editor will provide the editorial office with the articles in the form of L^ATEX2_e files using the document class mem.cls, available from the journal's web site (www.sait.it/Memorie.html) or directly from the Editor. The articles will be typeset in a two column format except for articles containing long mathematical formulae. It will be the decision of the editorial staff whether a given article is typeset in one or two column format. The document class mem.cls has been derived from the document class aa.cls of Astronomy & Astrophysics, with kind permission of EDPSciences. The style is the same of that of Astronomy & Astrophysics, and the bibliography should be typeset using the package natbib.sty and the style aa.bst, available from the site ftp.edpsciences.org/pub/aa/readme.html. Figures will be only accepted in postscript or encapsulated postscript, the L^ATEX2_e source code must include the commands necessary for inclusion of the figures. L^ATEX2_e files which fail to compile or to produce an output compatible with the journal style will be sent back to the volume editor for amendment.

Costs for authors

There is no charge for publication in the MEMORIE up to a maximum of 150 pages; pages in excess of this limit will be charged 15.5 EUR each. Colour figures, shall be charged separately on a case by case basis.