13th International Laser Ranging Workshop

In order to make the assembly of the proceedings to the 13th International Workshop on Laser Ranging as easy as possible, all contributions must adhere to these instructions. Deviations from these instructions will only cause delays and may cause material to be printed in a manner other than that intended by the authors.

1. Application

The applications to be used for electronic transmission to the editor are listed below in the decreasing order of desirability:

a. Microsoft Word
b. plain ASCII text

2. Page Setup

2.1 The page size should be US standard 8 1/2 inches by 11 inches.
2.2 Body text should be formatted in a single column, 6 1/2 inches wide.
2.3 Top and bottom margins should be 1 inch (see below).
2.4 Body text should be justified. Bullet text should be left justified /ragged right. Table text should be set left, right, or centered justified as required.

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3. Text Format

3.1 Body Text should be Times Roman 12 point.
3.2 Headings should be in Times Roman 12 point bold.
3.3 Titles should be limited to 45 characters.

4. Graphics

To preserve graphics quality in the final printing phase, all contributions should beaccompanied by separate, stand-alone graphics files (or figures) in native format (Illustrator, etc.), or PICT, TIFF, EPS, PS (postscript), JPEG or GIF files.

4. Authors Names

All Authors names and affiliations should be included.

5. Illustrations, Tables, and Footnotes

5.1 Figure(s) may be embedded into the text document, but should also be submitted as self-standing, "native" art files in native format (MacDraw, Canvas, etc.), or PICT, TIFF, EPS, PS (postscript), JPEG or GIF files. These separate graphics files may be sent as a *.zip file (*.bin or *.hqx for Macs) and labeled accordingly.

5.2 Placement of Illustrations and Tables

a. Try to place figures and tables at the top of a page.
b. If a figure or table is less than 6 1/2 in. (162 mm), center it within the 6 1/2 in. (162 mm) image area. Do not turn a figure or table to landscape unless it is wider than 6.5 in. (162 mm). If a figure or table must be turned, the top should be at the left margin, the caption should run along the right margin.
c. Figure(s) must be legible after reduction (if necessary) to fit an image area nogreater than 6 1/2 by 9 inches.
d. Figure captions must be in 12 point Roman, single spaced, and clearly tie thefigure to the title or content of the text.

6. References

References should appear at the end of each section.

7. Submission

Completed contributions must be submitted (uploaded) to an FTP server at the following web address:

ftp://cddisa.gsfc.nasa.gov/incoming/lw13/proceedings

8. Filenames

The name of files uploaded to the ftp site should be in the form:

Lastname_section_doctype_version#.filetype

where:

Lastname is the main author's name
section is the section number in the table of contents
doctype indicates the kind of document (e.g., paper for the main submission document, fig1 for Figure 1 in the paper, tab1 for Table 1, etc.)
version# would be 1 for the initial submission, incremented for later versions
filetype would be the type of file (e.g., doc for Word, xcl for Excel, ai for Adobe Illustrator, zip for compressed file, gif for GIF-formatted graphics file, etc.)

Contributions must be submitted by November 15, 2002.

Any questions regarding submission of contributions for the proceedings should be directed to: Carey Noll at: noll@cddisa.gsfc.nasa.gov.