Postgraduate Conference 2004

Paper submission guidelines for after the conference

What you should submit

Content

Your paper should, of course, be an accurate reflection of what you covered in your talk. It should not be enormously long: as a guide, for previous PGC proceedings the rule was no longer than 12 pages of 12pt, normal spaced text, including figures and references. Note that this is a suggested upper limit: it can of course be shorter than this.

Style

Ideally, as with any proceedings, all submissions should follow the same style guidelines (whether or not you like the look of them!).

LaTeX

Using the suggested LaTeX packages should make this quick and easy enough. Thanks to Dan Wedgwood, these packages are detailed (and demonstrated) in the PGC2000 Stylesheet (.ps). If you want to check (or criticise) how that was produced, you can download the LaTeX source file.

Others (Windows or Mac)

Look through the PGC2000 Stylesheet (.ps), and use your word processing package to produce something similar. You can do this either:

• Using a Microsoft Word template (.dot) and an example (.dot), kindly provided by Susana M Cortes Pomacondor. This should make all the major formatting business automatic;
• Or, emulating the overall style of the document in your own way.

On the other hand, given the nature of these proceedings as an online archive of papers, it's much more important that we get something from you than that what we get is perfectly uniform in every detail. It's certainly not the idea of this proceedings to waste your time on presentational details. The idea is simply to have a decent-looking, reasonably standardised written record of what was presented at the conference.

Format

You may use any word processing package to write up your paper, but it must be submitted in the form of a portable document format (.pdf) file.

LaTeX

You need to produce your .dvi file first. Then, re-log in to 'monolith.ling.ed.ac.uk' by typing:

$ ssh monolith

$ dvipdfm yourfile.dvi

If you are interested in making a compact and beautiful .pdf file, you can refer to the following webpage.

• How to make a compact beautiful PostScript or PDF file from a TeX file

Windows

At one of the terminals connected to the scanner in B10, open your .doc file, and choose [File]-[Print] to open Print dialog box. Select Adobe Distiller from the Name box. Click OK.

Alternatively, especially for home users, you can refer to the following webpage.

• Creating PDF Files Using Only Available Free Software

Mac

If you use Mac OS X, open your file and choose [File]-[Save As PDF]. That's it.

If you use an earlier version than Mac OS X, consult the following page.

• PrintToPDF

Send your file to: PGC Organisers (pgc@ling.ed.ac.uk) as an email attachment with its name as: your_name04.pdf

The deadline for submissions will be announced at a later date, but is likely to be in September 2004.

If you have any questions or difficulties, please let us know: PGC Organisers (pgc@ling.ed.ac.uk)