Manuscript Submission

First Steps

Before the actual submission of a manuscript to the Editorial Support Office for peer-review, the author is kindly requested:

• to study the General Terms and the Service Charges for this journal,
• to study the Manuscript Preparation for this journal,
• to agree and obey the General Obligations for Authors,
• to register his/her manuscript  in order to receive a manuscript number (ms_no, e.g. eE-2007-0001) for preparing the files of his/her publication in the way outlined below before their actual submission, and to receive a link for uploading their manuscript files directly into the COSIS system. The registration also defines the manuscript subject areas and index terms as the basis for the editor assignment (see below).

File Submission for Review Process

After the manuscript registration, authors are kindly asked to upload those files which are necessary for the peer-review process. These are at least the abstract and the complete manuscript, both as *.pdf.

Please use the following naming conventions:

• The abstract (sample ) named ms_no-ab.pdf (e.g. eE-2007-0001-ab.pdf)
• The complete manuscript (abstract, text, tables, figures) named ms_no-ms.pdf (e.g. eE-2007-0001-ms.pdf)
• Any supplementary material (if available) as *.zip archive or single *.pdf file named ms_no-sp1.zip (e.g. eE-2007-0001-sp1.zip)
• The author's response, in case of "minor" or "major" revisions requested by the editor (email notification to the author), as a separate file (*.pdf) named ms_no-rp.pdf (e.g. eE-2007-0001-rp.pdf)

File Submission for Production Process

After the acceptance of a manuscript, authors will be informed by email and are kindly asked to complete the file upload for the publication production process. Then, please submit the following files using the respective naming conventions:

• The actual text followed by the table(s) and figure caption(s) prepared in the way as outlined in the Manuscript Preparation as one file (LaTeX format *.tex or MS WORD format *.doc) named ms_no-tx.doc (e.g. eE-2007-0001-tx.doc)
• The figures f01, f02, ..., f11, f01a, f01b, ... prepared in the way as outlined in the Manuscript Preparation in separate files (*.pdf, *.ps, *.eps, *.jpg, *.png, *.tif, *.gif) named ms_no-f01a.pdf (e.g. eE-2007-0001-f01a.pdf)

Editor Assignment