Full paper

The page limit for the paper is 12 pages with the possibility of adding at most 2 extra pages for an extra fee.

1) Copyright form

All authors submitting papers must grant Springer specific permission to publish the work "Consent to publish".

• Download the “Consent to publish” form

• Fill the form with the title of your paper as well as the names of the authors at the top of the form and sign it

• Save “Consent to publish” form in a PDF file and upload it in the submission system

2a) LaTex Manuscript

• Use the LaTex template, available here

  - You can add packages to this template but do not remove any that are already included

• If your manuscript is separated into several .tex files, combine them into a single, cohesive .tex file before the submission

  - Bibliography can be submitted separately as .bib or included in your main .tex file (do not use input, include or externaldocument)

  - Figures should be placed in the directory containing the .tex manuscript (not in subdirectories). Therefore, the includegraphics command should contain only the filename, es.:
  includegraphics[]{figure_name}

  - We accept only EPS and TIFF (at least 600 dpi) files

  - Since figures are uploaded separately from your .tex file, remove EPS figures generated in the LaTeX file.

• Generate the PDF file

2b) Word Manuscript

• Format the manuscript according to the Word template available here

• Generate the PDF file