Author Guidelines

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Guidelines for authors for publication in Acta Astrophysica Taurica

The Journal is published  in English.

Papers should be made in LATEX2E with article class file aat.cls (with options) and with bibliography style file aat.bst for authors wishing to use BibTeX.

A new manuscript should be submitted by author through the electronic system in the following order: first, you need to upload the original file of the article in PDF format and enter the submission's metadata. Keywords are limited to 3-5 words or short phrases that will allow proper and convenient indexing. Then, if the submission has passed the review stage successfully, you should upload a zip archive containing:

  • A file of the manuscript text. Acceptable format LaTeX.
  • An EPS file for each figure. Figure files should be named Figx.eps where x is the figure number.

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The total volume of the manuscript must not exceed 10 pages. Guidelines for authors and a simple template paper are available at the links below.

 

Language editing

Depending on whether you are using American (US) or British (UK) style in your paper, please apply spelling and grammar conventions throughout and avoid mixing them.

Note that UK convention calls for the use of single quotation marks when formatting speech, titles, or when endowing a phrase with special meaning, whereas US convention calls for double quotation marks in these instances.

 

Requirements of Papers

The manuscript should consist of the following elements:

  •   Title page
  •   Abstract
  •   Keywords
  •   Text
  •   Figures (if any)
  •   Tables (if any)
  •   Acknowledgments
  •   References

 

Title

The title of the paper should be concise yet informative.

Authors and addresses

For every manuscript, all authors and all addresses should be listed.

Template:
Department, Institution, Street Address, City Postal Code, Country

Addresses should contain e-mail addresses where possible. A number should precede each address and the authors' names should be marked with the appropriate numerical superscript.

Abstract

Authors should provide an abstract normally of not more than 230−250 words. The abstract should be self-contained, summarizing concisely the content and conclusions of the paper.

Key words

4−6 key words should be given following the abstract.

Main Text

Manuscripts should be divided into sections and subsections. All sections must have a short title. Abbreviations of concepts, methods, instruments, observatories, etc., may be used throughout the text but the full wording with the abbreviation in parentheses should be given once in the Abstract (if appropriate) and/or once at the first place of mention in the main text.

Figures and tables

All figures and tables must be numbered, accompanied by a suitable caption, and be mentioned in the text in the correct numerical order. The author should insert the figures and tables to where the figures and tables should appear in the article. Tables should be prepared using LaTeX. Do not divide columns in a table by vertical lines. The heading and the end of the table should be divided by horizontal lines; if the table width exceeds the margins, you can minimize the font size, but not less than \footnotesize.

Figures must be of very good quality, and should preferably be in vector format (PDF or EPS). These files must be named Fig1.pdf, Fig2.eps, etc., where the number corresponds to the figure number. Raster formats are permitted with a minimum resolution of 300 dpi for photographs.

Mathematics

Scalar variables are italic; vectors are bold italic (no arrows); matrices are bold font. Differential d, complex i, exponential e, sin, cos, tan, log, etc., are roman (not italic). Use periods rather than commas in decimals. Sub/superscripts that are physical variables are italic, while those that are merely labels are roman (e.g. Ct and Fν but Teff and bmax). Equations should be punctuated as part of the sentence. Numbering of equations should follow the convention (1), (2)… throughout the whole paper.

The LaTeX template and author guidelines are provided below. For reference formatting, refer to the Reference Instructions section.