Conference Publication Information

The proceedings of this conference will be published as part of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific conference series. The title of the publication is expected to be Virtual Observatories of the Future and will be edited by Robert J. Brunner, S. George Djorgovski, and Alexander Szalay. All registered conference attendees will receive a copy as part of their registration fee. If you have online material relating to, or including your presentation (e.g., PowerPoint presentations), feel free to send us the link and we can link to it on the online conference program.

Author Instructions

General Information:

Anyone submitting a manuscript for publication must complete the ASP copyright agreement found in the registration folder. We strongly encourage you to return this completed form to us prior to the completion of the conference. You can always inform us of changes to the title or author list at a later date.
Submission Deadline is August 1, 2000.
Strict page limit will be enforced:

4 Pages for poster presentations.
6 pages for 15 minute oral presentations and working group reports.
8 pages for longer oral presentations and general discussions.
Special exemptions will be considered on a case-by-case basis.

You must use LaTex and the new PASP LaTex style file.

Obtaining the Latex Template and Style files:

The style file and a template LaTex article can be obtained from the ASP web page:

http://www.aspsky.org/pubs/authors.html

Preparing the paper:

Prepare your paper following the instructions in the newpaspman.tex files.
The stated page limits will be strictly enforced.
Include at least 3 keywords in your LaTeX file that are appropriate for your manuscript. We need these keywords to construct the index for the volume.
Check your paper carefully.

Submitting your paper:

Identify your paper by using the last name plus the first name initial of the first author:

smithj.tex.

Any EPS figures should be identified in a similar way:

smithj1.eps, smithj2.eps.

Authors with multiple papers will need to follow a similar convention:

smithj1.tex, smithj1_1.eps.

tar and gzip your files before submitting (replace smithj with your name!):

% tar -cvf smithj.tar smithj.tex smithj1.eps smithj2.eps

% gzip smithj.tar

Deposit the gzipped tar file by ftp:

% ftp ftp.astro.caltech.edu

ftp> [log in as anonymous]

ftp> [use your email address as the password]

ftp> cd incoming

ftp> bin

ftp> put smithj.tar.gz