20th American Peptide Society Symposium
June 26 - 30, Montréal, Quebec, Canada

 

Manuscript Submission Information

Every Symposium Attendee will receive a free CD-Rom version of the Proceedings. The Proceedings Book will be sold at a discounted rate to delegates of the 20th APS Symposium. An ordering form will be available online soon and should be returned to the Springer booth during the Symposium. Forms will also be distributed during the Symposium.

1. Download instructions and template (Template & Instructions)

2. Remember to fill out and fax or submit on site the copyright transfer form.

3. Check the allocated length of your manuscript:

Poster Presentations only	2 pages
Young Investigators Mini Symposium	2 pages
Oral Presentations	3 pages
Plenary Lectures	5 pages
Keynote Lectures	8 pages
Makineni Lecture	8 pages
Merrifield Award Lecture	12 pages

4. Format your manuscript carefully following the detailed instructions accompanying the manuscript template and shown below

5. Once your manuscript is completely formatted, upload the manuscript as a PDF file in the abstract submission website.

You will have to login using your username and password that you created. Then open the abstract that was accepted. Click on upload file to upload the PDF of your abstract.

**ALL MANUSCRIPTS MUST BE SUBMITTED ACCORDING TO THE TEMPLATE AND IN PDF FORMAT.**

Instructions:

The manuscripts for the Symposium Proceedings volume must be submitted not later then 4:00 pm, FRIDAY, June 29, 2007. We will not accept a manuscript unless at least one of the co-authors participated in the meeting and the manuscript was presented in the meeting.

Acceptance of manuscripts for publication in the Proceedings of the 20th American Peptide Symposium is pending review by an Editorial Board. To maintain the quality of the Proceedings Volume, manuscripts that are scientifically unsound and/or do not comply with the requested format will be rejected. When necessary, a manuscript will be returned only once to the author for editing with a firm deadline for completing the requested minor revisions.

All manuscripts must be submitted in their final version (fully complying with the template, instructions and length) and exclusively electronically through the abstract submission link of the website. To achieve our goal of shipping the CD-Rom version of the Proceedings volume before the end of 2007, deadlines will be strictly applied (no exceptions).

IT IS ESSENTIAL TO FOLLOW EXACTLY THE INSTRUCTIONS ON MANUSCRIPT PREPARATION BELOW.

* Open the accompanying manuscript template (an MSWord file).

* After you open the downloaded file, edit as needed. The best way to edit is to write your manuscript in a separate file and then copy and paste your text into the template. Copy title, authors, affiliations, text, and references separately - this way you will retain the styles defined in the template and be able to view your manuscript exactly as it will appear in the book. You may apply the styles defined in the template by placing the cursor in the appropriate paragraph and clicking the style needed (ApsProcTitle, ApsProcAuthors, ApsProcAffil, ApsProcText, ApsProcRef).

* Do not change the size of the defined page.

* Do not change the margins.

* Do not change the font definition. (If you try to "squeeze in" a little more text by changing the page size, margins, or font size, your manuscript will be returned to you for editing - the net result being unnecessary delays or the omission of your work altogether.)

* Use the same title for your manuscript as the corresponding abstract. The abstract titles will be used as the titles in the Table of Contents for the Proceedings book.

* Use the same style for references as shown in the template.

* Electronically generated graphics should be stored in TIFF format in actual size (as it would appear in the printed manuscript) before inserting into the template with the resolution 600 dpi.

All material will be printed in black and white. Do not submit colored PDF files.

* When you are satisfied with the manuscript, save it as a PDF file and upload it to the web on the last page of your corresponding abstract submission page.

* Make sure the information you have filled out the keywords and abbreviations boxes, as necessary. This information will be used to create indexes for the Proceedings book. If you do not fill in this information, your keywords and abbreviations will be omitted from the Proceedings Book.

* If you are submitting more than one manuscript, you must submit a manuscript for each abstract.

* Download the copyright transfer form., print it out, fill it out completely and fax it to attn: Susan Del Valle (505) 646-6004.

Any inquiries can be communicated to: Susan Del Valle at 20thAPS@umontreal.ca