LECTURE NOTES IN COMPUTER SCIENCE
Advice to Authors for the Preparation of
Contributions to LNCS Proceedings
PRINTING AREA:
Using 10-point font size for the main text the printing
area should be 12.2 x 19.3 cm. With these settings,
the interline distance should be
arranged in such a way that some 42 to 45 lines occur on a
full-text page.
TYPEFACE and SIZE:
We recommend the use of Times or one of the similar
typefaces widely used in phototypesetting. (In Times and
similar typefaces the letters have serifs, i.e., short
endstrokes at the head and the foot of letters.) Please do
not use a sans-serif typeface for running text, except for
computer programs.
The text should always be justified to occupy the full line
width, so that the right margin is not ragged. For normal
text please use 10-point type size and one-line spacing.
Small print (abstract and affiliation) should be set in
9-point type size. Please use italic print to emphasize
words in running text; bold type in running text and
underlining should be avoided.
Headings should be capitalized (i.e., nouns, verbs and all
other words with at least five letters should have a
capital initial) and should, with the exception of the
title, be aligned to the left. The font sizes are as
follows:
FIGURES:
If possible, originals should be pasted into the manuscript
and centered between the margins; if no originals of the
required size are available, figures may be reduced in
scale and pasted into the text. For halftone figures
(photos), please forward high-contrast glossy prints and
mark the space in the text as well as the back of the
photographs clearly, so that there can be no doubt about
where or which way up they should be placed. The lettering
of figures should be in 10-point font size. Figures should
be numbered. The legends also should be centered between
the margins and be written in 9-point font size as follows:
Fig. 3. (text follows)
PAGE NUMBERING:
Your paper should show no printed page numbers; they are
decided by the volume editor and finally inserted by the
printer. Please indicate the ordering of your pages by
numbering the sheets (using a light blue/green pencil) at
the bottom of the reverse side. There also should be no
running heads.
PRINTING QUALITY:
For reproduction we need sheets which are printed on one
side only. Please use a high-resolution printer, preferably
a laser printer with at least 300 dpi or higher resolution
if possible. It is desirable that on all pages the text
appears in the middle of the sheets.
REMARK 1:
If your typesetting system does not offer the variety of
font sizes needed for the preparation of your manuscript
according to these instructions, you may choose a different
(larger) font size and a correspondingly scaled printing
area (12-point font size for the running text, for example,
corresponds to a printing area of 15.3 x 24.2 cm and to a
final reduction rate of 80%).
REMARK 2:
You are encouraged to use LaTeX or TeX for the preparation
of you camera-ready manuscript together with the
corresponding Springer style files "llncs" (for LaTeX).
These files can be found on the Springer ftp-server or using
the following links:
Archived version:
The individual files:
Oct 18, 1996 - Michael Berthold