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Interim-Final Manuscript Submission
After you receive review comments on your draft manuscript, you have until Sept. 15 to submit an Interim Final Version to address their comments and any changes that you want to make. If for some reason you do not receive any feedback from the respective subcommittee by Sept. 15, feel free to submit any changes that you and your co-authors want to make.
The conference proceedings editors reserve the right to make editorial and format changes to the submitted biographies and manuscripts to provide consistent style, grammar, and presentation throughout the proceedings book. No changes to substantive content will be made by the editors. After the conference proceedings are assembled, authors will be provided an opportunity to review and modify their manuscripts and biographies before the proceedings book is finalized and goes to press.
Please be sure that you upload ALL supporting materials (sources-cited, images, etc) with your interim-final manuscript.
To submit your interim-final manuscript, you will be asked to enter the title of the manuscript, which should match the title of the abstract and draft manuscript you submitted; your name and email address. You also will need to indicate the topic session for which your abstract has been accepted. The session topics are:
- Water Remediation
- Soil and Sediment Remediation
- Air & Water Pollution Control
- Nano-enabled Sensors
- Environmental Fate & Transport
- Toxicity
Please read the submission guidelines below. When you are ready, you can submit your interim-final manuscript by clicking here .
¹ The conference proceedings editors reserve the right to make editorial and format changes to the submitted biographies and manuscripts to provide consistent style, grammar, and presentation throughout the proceedings book. No changes to substantive content will be made by the editors. After the conference proceedings are assembled, authors will be provided an opportunity to review and modify their manuscripts and biographies before the proceedings book is finalized and goes to press.
Manuscript Submission Guidelines
- Preparing Your Manuscript
- Style and Tone
- Format for Cited References
- Manuscript Text Format
- Preparing Your Graphics
- Technical Specifications
Preparing Your Manuscript
The editors prefer simple, clear grammar and format. Authors should avoid overuse of bold, italics, underscore, indent, and any other special formatting devises. If deemed useful by the authors, an illustrative fully formatted version of the manuscript with incorporated graphics may be submitted along with the required simplified text and separate graphics files.
Complete manuscripts are to consist of 3 types of files: 1) a text only file (i.e., "manuscript text") which shall be 3 pages or less in length; 2) a "Literature Cited" file which contains the full references to all literature cited in the manuscript; and 3) graphics files each of which will contain an individual graphic whether table, graph, photograph, diagram, or other. Thus, only the manuscript text counts toward the 3-page. Further, the manuscript text is to be organized in typical scientific format possessing the following elements: title, author names and affiliations, keywords, abstract, introduction, methods, results, discussion, and conclusions.
Style and Tone
- Write in active instead of passive voice wherever possible. For example "an article was sent" is passive whereas "the writer sent an article" is active.
- Parenthetically define or explain technical terms and other discipline-specific jargon immediately following their initial use.
- Spell out abbreviations on their first use.
- Use gender-inclusive language ("he or she" rather than just he, "chairpersons" rather than chairman).
- Your writing should be crisp and clear with the goal of conveying information to the reader. Try not to hide your point behind long complex sentences that the reader must read twice to comprehend.
- Remember the goal is to keep the reader interested and reading forward towards a clear conclusion.
Format for Cited References
Pages in a book:
- Rockwell, W., and H Chang (1999). The handbook of Environmental Toxicology (3rd edition, volume 11, pp.101-102) New York, N.Y., Chemical Publishing Co., INC.
Chapter in a Book:
- Schmitt, R. (2004b). "Nano-engineered Materials: Releases and Detection in the Working Environment." in New Developments in Nanotechnology, S. Chambers, R. Morales, T. Chang & G. Howard, Hollywood, FL: University of Hollywood Press.
Journal Articles:
- Jordan, J., and M. Wilmer. (2008). "Environmental Effects II: Understanding the Influence of Ambient Temperature on the Physical and Chemical Properties of Fullerenes." J. Phys. Chem. Prop. Nanomaterials 209 (5), 1006-1119.
- M. Winters, J. Kaplan, G. Lane, and Maurice Jones. (2008) "Principles of Nanotechnology I: Chemistry and Toxicity in the Environment." Scientific Overviews in Government 919 (12), 12-45.
Web Site:
- United States Environmental Protection Agency. (October, 2008). "International Environmental Nanotechnology Conference: Applications and Implications." http://emsus.com/nanotechconf/.
Manuscript Text Format
- Limit bolded or italicized text.
- Do not use different type fonts within the same manuscript.
- Do not indent text except to begin a new paragraph.
- Do not use tabs around or within text.
- Do not capitalize text for emphasis.
- Page Setup
- 8.5 inch x 11 inch page size
- 1 inch top, bottom, and side margins
- page number
- in the lower right corner of each page
- 1 inch from the bottom
- on a separate line and with a blank line above it
- Arabic numbers, i.e., 1, 2, 3
- single-spaced, left justified lines with ragged-right margins
- 12-point font (preferably Times New Roman)
- When using footnotes, do not imbed them into the text file document. Place an Arabic numeral (no Roman numerals, letters, Greek symbols, etc.) in parentheses at the place in the text where the footnote is referenced. Place the footnote text with corresponding parenthetical Arabic numeral at the end of the manuscript.
Preparing Your Graphics
- Use tables and figures or other graphics only if they enhance reader understanding of the manuscript.
- Do not include more than five graphics (tables, pictures, graphs, diagrams, clip art, etc.) per manuscript.
- Do not include more than one color graphic with your manuscript. If you do choose to include a color graphic, only do so if the use of color improves the graphic such that a black and white image would be extremely difficult to understand. Please avoid the use of pale colors such as pink, yellow, cream, etc.
- The editors reserve the right to convert any color graphic image to a black and white image without consulting the author(s).
- Do not imbed graphics (tables, pictures, graphs, diagrams, clip art, etc.) within the text file document. Instead, make each graphic its own file document and label each file as shown in the following examples:
- pg1tab2.doc (this is the document name for table #2 located on page1).
- pg2pic1.doc (this is the document name for picture #3 located on page 2).
- pg3grf4.doc (this is the document name for graph #4 located on page3).
Technical Specifications
- Enter your completed manuscript on the International Environmental Nanotechnology Conference: Applications and Implications website. http://www.emsus.com/nanotechconf/manuscripts/.
- The editors prefer that manuscripts be generated using Microsoft Word, because this is the Agency standard for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. If Microsoft Word is not available to the authors, the editors prefer the use of Plain Text files rather than other word processing programs.
- EPS and TIF are the preferred formats for graphics files. JPG or GIF files are acceptable if necessary, but lower final graphic resolution may result with corresponding poorer quality.