Proceedings of the Eleventh
Marcel Grossmann Meeting on General Relativity,
edited by H. Kleinert, R.T. Jantzen and R. Ruffini,
World Scientific, Singapore, 2008
World Scientific book web page
approximate publication date: July-August, 2008
final pagination table of contents file
updated: JULY 24, 2008
This page will be updated during the evolution of the proceedings towards
publication
with current announcements given below in the News section.
These proceedings will be published by World Scientific as has the previous series.
Submission for LaTeX source zipped files will be on-line, while MS Word
document
submissions (in the appropriate World Scientific template) must be
submitted via email.
The on-line submission page will be ready to accept
submissions in early September,
2006, if not before.
[Note that on-line LaTeX submission is preferred, with MS Word seen
primarily as an
exceptional case for long documents with many graphics not so easily converted
to
the .eps format required for site-independent LaTeX documents.]
Any questions can be addressed to bob:
robert.jantzen@villanova.edu
with a very specific
subject header including the string "MG11 proceedings".
When in doubt, email bob.
Page limits are as follows:
Articles must be prepared with the
World Scientific proceedings macros/templates for
9.75" x 6.50"
trim size (second row in the table)
in LaTeX2e or with MS Word.
1) LaTeX
The LaTeX macro .cls "class" file ws-procs975x65.cls
[DO NOT USE THE ONE from the WS website]
requires the additional style files chapterbib.sty and cite.sty
which are not in the zip
file from World Scientific.
It also seems that they have
forgotten
to include a sample of a scientific article to
make it easier for you to format
your
own article. This sample author contribution file
procsample.tex (extracted and
modified
from their Editor macros available at the
same location:) can be obtained
by clicking on its filename link here, as can the
chapterbib.sty
file and cite.sty file (use
"Ref.~\citen{...}" for
explicit references to the unformatted
reference number instead of a superscript), and they have all
been
included in the following
linked zipped file for your convenience
ws-procs975x65_2e.zip.
The instruction file ws-procs975x65.tex must still be consulted for its
content
and the LaTeX coding examples.
WARNING: The titlepage material formatted with the commands
\title \author \address
is slightly nonstandard in this package, with no
\maketitle command, but instead a \bodymatter command preceding
the body of the article.
An \email command is now used inside the \address command on a new
line (after "\\")
for an email address (used in the procsample.tex file although not in the
ws-procs975x65.tex file).
If you do not use the \section commands, you can begin with just \bodymatter\bigskip
after the abstract environment \begin{abstract}...\end{abstract}.
2) MS Word
MS Word has a template and instructions which must be downloaded and used.
MS Word submissions cannot be accepted by on-line upload but MUST
be
emailed to
mg11@icra.it with SUBJECT heading:
MG11 Proceedings MS Word submission: Session XXX
where XXX is PLS for a plenary contribution or the parallel session abbreviation given
in the
parallel session list for a parallel session contribution.
AND in all cases the BODY of the email message contains:
All participants who delivered a talk at the meeting will be emailed a username and password
for web upload in early September 2006, with a link to the conference proceedings site:
http://robot.icra.it:8080/menu.html
Once you enter the site, go to the upload article link at the top center of the webpage to
upload your article. Once there you will see a list of your contributions, if more than one,
identified by session. Click on the upload icon to the left of each item to insert the required
information for each contribution and upload the file for it.
Note: the name of the TEX file to be LaTeXed must be "main.tex",
even if you are submitting a single file, and
even a single file must be zipped
with the file
extension .zip to be processed by our server robot.
When submitting your article, it is extremely important that the suggested
Authors entry format
be followed so that the proceedings author index can be alphabetized correctly,
separating multiple authors by a semicolon ";".
Example:
Calcio Nuovo, Sebastiano; Jantzen, Robert T.; Fang, Li-Zhi
Please correct the author list, article title and
abstract
supplied by the robot if necessary.
Your uploaded file will then be processed and converted into pdf and ps formats for you to
check that it has
compiled correctly.
You will receive an email with the latex log file when
complete (usually only
minutes). You may then
return to the same upload page, reload it, and
see links to the pdf and
ps files. You may check them
with the free Abobe Acrobat Reader
(http://www.adobe.com) or
Ghostscript
(http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost) software.
[Note that Adobe Distiller converts PS into PDF files.]
It is important that the submitting author verify that the PDF and PS files look
correct
when initially generated by the robot at submission time since glitches can
occur in the
robot typesetting process.
You may continue uploading corrected
files until the
submission deadline. Once the submission
deadline has passed and your article is
reviewed by the
editors and accepted, it will then be
viewable to the world from the link 'published proceedings'
to the webpage
for the search engine for the
on-line proceedings.
It is very important that when entering your data for each upload, you type your name and
coauthor's names and session talk title correctly, since discrepancies with the data base lead to
problems that are very labor intensive to correct. Your own name should already have been
supplied from the data base in the correct form. If it needs correction, please email the conference
mailbox
mg11@icra.it with the subject heading "MG11: author upload name correction" to alert
us to this problem
with the database information.
LOST USERNAME/PASSWORD:
If you accidentally lose the email with this information, or did not receive such an email by
September 15, send an email to the conference website
mg11@icra.it with the subject heading:
"MG11: need username/password". Be sure to document the session name and abbreviation to
which your talk was submitted, and the chairperson's name if possible.
Submission of a manuscript does not mean that it will automatically be
included in the proceedings.
After the final deadline, chairpersons will receive instructions to review the papers submitted to their
session; certain papers
may be sent to referees at the discretion of the editors and/or chairpersons.
When your file is
successfully typeset initially, a confirmation will be sent to the e-mail address used
to
submit it.
Otherwise a
request for a corrected electronic version of your paper will be made to
that
e-mail
address.
Once articles have been released to the public by the chairpersons and editors
("published on-line"),
they may be viewed by anyone in PDF or PS format at the "published
proceedings" link at:
http://robot.icra.it:8080/menu.html .
Once released to the public, contributions may be searched by author name, title, keywords,
or the parallel
session abbreviation
(see the
parallel program for these abbreviations) or by the
plenary session
abbreviation PLS which
produces the list of all plenary sessions. To access the
PDF or PS files one
clicks on the "open folder"
icon in the leftmost column of the desired listing
from the search results and
selects either one or the
other. [Shift clicking allows saving of the file
locally to view full screen
without the browser banner
and webpage frame reducing the available
window.]
Chairpersons may release contributions at any time after submission. If a
participant wishes his
or her contribution to be made public, the chairperson can be contacted and
requested to
check it for release.