Instructions to Authors
May 2010

From Your Computer to the Global Audience ..............................................1
Document Template ......................................................................................1
Manuscript Submission to Springer ..............................................................2
Writing Your Text .........................................................................................2
Book Structure and Headings ........................................................................2
Abstract ......................................................................................................... 3
Technical Terms, Abbreviations....................................................................3
Tables ............................................................................................................ 4
Equations .......................................................................................................4
Literal Text ....................................................................................................5
References .....................................................................................................5
Sources .......................................................................................................... 8
Index .............................................................................................................. 8
Figures and Illustration Data .........................................................................8
Checklist ......................................................................................................10

From Your Computer to the Global Audience
Publishing a book with Springer is more thantypesetting, proofing, and printing. At the end of
the production process you will not only hold thephysical book in your hands but your book will
be available in all feasible formats, be it as an
eBook, a printed copy, a Kindle edition or a lowpriced printed MyCopy for eBook licensees.
Springer’s innovative publishing approach – tomake your work available in as many parallel
formats as possible – of course reflects the preparation of your manuscript.

Document Template
To help you do your work, a document template has been prepared by Springer. The
template supports Word 2003 but can also be used with Word 2007. Predefined styleformats are available for all the necessary structures that are supposed to be part of themanuscript, and these formats can be quickly accessed via hotkeys or special toolbars.
If you wish to create the final page layout in LaTeX, please refer to the respective instructions and macro packages on our homepage.

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Manuscript Submission to Springer• To submit your files, please use a CD-ROM.
• Alternatively, you can use our FTP server (if you wish to do so, please contact
Springer for further information).
• Save each chapter or contribution, including the accompanying references, figurelegends, and tables, in a separate file in *.doc format. The manuscript should additionally be submitted as pdf file with all the fonts embedded, especially if text or
figures contain special characters or unusual fonts.
• Give each individual file your own name (or an abbreviation), the chapter number,and the format suffix, e.g., Miller3.doc.
• Save the figures separately.
• Please enclose a list of all the files with your submission.
• Keep personal copies of the files.
Writing Your Text
• Please use our Word template to prepare your text. All the necessary formatting isalready preset in the template.
• You can basically use all the functions in Word, particularly displayed lists, typestyles such as bold or italics, the indexing function, and the footnote function.
• Only use the return key at the end of a paragraph or after headings, displayed lists,
and the like. Do not insert manual hyphenation and do not use formats such as framing, centering, or shading.
Type• Use a single main font for the entire text. We recommend Times Roman.
• For special characters, please use Symbol or Arial Unicode.
Emphasis• In running text, please set emphasized words or phrases in italic type.
• You can use Springer's document template to mark sentences or passages to begiven special emphasis and quotations or case reports that are to be set in small
type.
Length• Please keep to the manuscript length agreed on with the publisher.
Book Structure and Headings
A well-structured book and meaningful headings make it easier for the reader to get a
general idea of the content. In addition, seamless transformation to various formats suchas the eBook requires a certain structure of the book.
Basic Rules• A book consists of chapters, front matter, and back matter (optional).
• The front matter contains the title page, the table of contents, and the preface. Optional items in the front matter are, e.g., a foreword or a list of abbreviations. An

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introduction does not belong in the front matter, but should appear as the first chapterof the book.
• Chapters contain the actual content of the book, i.e., text, figures, and tables. They
should always include a reference list; this is vital so that readers of single chaptersof the eBook can make full use of the citations.
• Chapters can be organized in parts. If a book is divided into parts, all chaptersshould be within a part, with the exception of an introductory chapter at the beginning of the book. Each part must contain at least one chapter.
• The backmatter can contain an appendix, a glossary, or an index. Wherever possible, a reference list should not be included in the back matter, as references are thennot linked to citations in the chapters.
Headings and Heading Numbering• Please use the decimal system of headings with no more than four levels.
1
Chapter
1.1
Section
1.1.1 Subsection
1.1.1.1 Sub-Subsection• Number the chapters continuously throughout the book (do not re-start with eachpart).
• Parts should be numbered with Roman numerals (Part I, Part II...).
• Additional levels of unnumbered headings can be marked using Springer's document template.
• Please list only the top three levels of headings in the table of contents.
• In cross-references, please give the chapter or section number (e.g., see Sect. 3.5.1).
Abstract
Each chapter should be preceded by an abstract (10–15 lines long) that summarizes thecontent. The abstract will appear online at SpringerLink and be available with unrestricted access. This allows unregistered users to read the abstract as a teaser for thecomplete chapter. It will only appear in the printed edition if this is the style of the particular book.
Technical Terms, Abbreviations• Ensure that the spelling of names, terms, and abbreviations is consistent, including
in tables and figure legends.
• Abbreviations, except for very common ones, must be defined the first time they areused, and a list supplied with the manuscript.
• Please always use internationally accepted signs and symbols for units, so-called SI
units.
• Chemical compounds should be named according to the systematic rules of the
IUPAC or Chemical Abstracts.
Please also note the following:

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Instructions to Authors• Species and genus names, mathematical/physical variables, and prefixes in chemicalcompounds should be set in italic type (cis/trans, d/l, E/Z, o/m/p, R/S, t-Bu, tertbutyl).
• L and D indicating optical activity should be set in SMALL CAPITALS (D- and L-dopa).
Tables• Number the tables consecutively using the chapter number (e.g., Table 1.1) and ensure that all the tables are cited in the text in the correct order.
• Give each table a heading.
• To format the table columns, use the table function.
• Do not use the space bar to separate columns, and do not use Excel to create tables.
• If a table cell is to be left empty, please type a hyphen ( - ) in it.
• Please do not treat simple, one-column lists as tables, but instead set them as part of
the running text. Use the displayed list function instead.
• Save the tables in the same file as the text, references, and figure legends.
Equations• Equations of the type a2+b2=c2 can be written as normal text.
• For all other equations, please use MathType or the Microsoft equation editor, andinsert the graphic into your text file as an object. Prepare the whole equation in thisway and not just part of it.
Note: If you use Word 2007, do not create the equations with the default equation
editor. Use MathType or the Microsoft equation editor instead which can be accessed via Insert Object from the Insert ribbon.
• Please ensure the different styles are defined in the program itself:
Style
Text
Function
Variable
L.C.Greek
U.C.Greek
SymbolVector-Matrix
Number

Font
Times
Times
Times
SymbolSymbolSymbol
Times
Times

Bold

Italicxxx• When entering your equation, select the appropriate style for each character from themenu. Do not change the style settings in Style/Define. "Math" in the Style Menu
covers the entries “Function”, “Variable” and “Number”; the program will automatically style the character according to one of these styles.
• Do not insert the equation number from the equation editor.
• Please do not insert symbols or special characters that are not part of equations asgraphics or using the formula editor if they are available as Symbol or Unicode
fonts.
• Formulas/equations are numbered chapterwise. The formula number is given in parentheses as right aligned text next to the formulaInstructions to Authors

5(a+b)2 = a2+2ab+b2(3.1)• If the equation is part of a sentence, the equation itself should end with a punctuation
mark (not after the equation number).
Literal Text
In order to distinguish the literal text of computer programs from running text, we recommend using a font such as Arial or Helvetica.
If you need a font for your programs in which every character has the same width,
please use Courier.
References
Reference Citations
References may be cited in the text in two different ways:• Author name/s and year of publication in parentheses:
one author: (Miller 1991),
two authors: (Miller and Smith 1994),
three authors or more: (Miller et al. 1995);• Reference numbers in square brackets either sequential by citation or according to
the sequence in an alphabetized list:[3, 7, 12].
Reference List
Each chapter should contain a reference list of its own. Entries in the list must be listed
alphabetically except in the numbered system of sequential citation. The rules for alphabetization are:• first, all works by the author alone, ordered chronologically by year of publication,• next, all works by the author with a coauthor, ordered alphabetically by coauthor,• finally, all works by the author with several coauthors, ordered chronologically by
year of publication.
The reference list style depends on the subject of your book. Please refer to the information below and ask your Springer contact if you are not sure which style should
be used.

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Medicine, Biomedicine, Life Sciences, Chemistry, Geosciences, Computer
Science, Engineering, Economics
Journal article
Gamelin FX, Baquet G, Berthoin S, Thevenet D, Nourry C, Nottin S, Bosquet L (2009) Effectof high intensity intermittent training on heart rate variability in prepubescent children. Eur J
Appl Physiol 105:731-738. doi:10.1007/s00421-008-0955-8
Ideally, the names of all authors should be provided, but the usage of “et al” in long author lists
will also be accepted:
Smith J, Jones M Jr, Houghton L et al (1999) Future of health insurance. N Engl J Med
965:325–329
Journal article only by DOI
Slifka MK, Whitton JL (2000) Clinical implications of dysregulated cytokine production. J Mol
Med. doi:10.1007/s001090000086
Book
South J, Blass B (2001) The future of modern genomics. Blackwell, London
Book chapter
Brown B, Aaron M (2001) The politics of nature. In: Smith J (ed) The rise of modern genomics,
3rd edn. Wiley, New York
Online document (no DOI available)
Marshall TG, Marshall FE (2003) New treatments emerge as sarcoidosis yields up its secrets.
ClinMed NetPrints. http://clinmed.netprints.org/cgi/content/full/2003010001v1. Accessed
24 June 2004
Dissertation
Trent JW (1975) Experimental acute renal failure. Dissertation, University of California

Please do not put commas between names and initials, and do not put periods after
initials or abbreviations.
Always use the standard abbreviation of a journal's name according to the ISSN Listof Title Word Abbreviations, see http://www.issn.org/2-22661-LTWA-online.php.
For authors using EndNote, Springer provides an output style that supports the formatting of in-text citations and reference list. Please use SpringerBasicNumber for
numbered citations or SpringerBasicAuthorDate for citations with name and year.
Mathematics, Physics, Statistics
Journal article
Hamburger, C.: Quasimonotonicity, regularity and duality for nonlinear systems of partial differential equations. Ann. Mat. Pura Appl. 169, 321–354 (1995)
Journal article only by DOI
Sajti, C.L., Georgio, S., Khodorkovsky, V., Marine, W.: New nanohybrid materials for biophotonics. Appl. Phys. A (2007). doi:10.1007/s00339-007-4137-z
Book
Geddes, K.O., Czapor, S.R., Labahn, G.: Algorithms for Computer Algebra. Kluwer, Boston(1992)
Book chapter
Broy, M.: Software engineering — from auxiliary to key technologies. In: Broy, M., Denert, E.
(eds.) Software Pioneers, pp. 10–13. Springer, Heidelberg (2002)
Online document (no DOI available)
Cartwright, J.: Big stars have weather too. IOP Publishing PhysicsWeb.
http://physicsweb.org/articles/news/11/6/16/1 (2007). Accessed 26 June 2007

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Always use the standard abbreviation of a journal's name according to the ISSN Listof Title Word Abbreviations, see http://www.issn.org/2-22661-LTWA-online.php
For authors using EndNote, Springer provides an output style that supports the formatting of in-text citations and reference list. Please use SpringerMathPhysNumber for
numbered citations or SpringerMathPhysAuthorDate for citations with name and year.
Social Sciences, Psychology
Journal article
Harris, M., Karper, E., Stacks, G., Hoffman, D., DeNiro, R., Cruz, P., et al. (2001). Writing labs
and the Hollywood connection. Journal of Film Writing, 44(3), 213–245.
Journal article only by DOI
Kreger, M., Brindis, C.D., Manuel, D.M., & Sassoubre, L. (2007). Lessons learned in systems
change initiatives: benchmarks and indicators. American Journal of Community Psychology.
doi:10.1007/s10464-007-9108-14.
Book
Calfee, R. C., & Valencia, R. R. (1991). APA guide to preparing manuscripts for journal publication. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.
Book chapter
O'Neil, J. M., & Egan, J. (1992). Men's and women's gender role journeys: Metaphor for healing, transition, and transformation. In B. R. Wainrib (Ed.), Gender issues across the life cycle(pp. 107–123). New York: Springer.
Online document (no DOI available)Abou-Allaban, Y., Dell, M. L., Greenberg, W., Lomax, J., Peteet, J., Torres, M., & Cowell, V.
(2006). Religious/spiritual commitments and psychiatric practice. Resource document. American Psychiatric Association. http://www.psych.org/edu/other_res/lib_archives/archives/200604.pdf. Accessed 25 June 2007.

For authors using EndNote, Springer provides an output style that supports the formatting of in-text citations and reference list (SpringerSocPsychAuthorDate).
Humanities, Linguistics, Philosophy
Journal article
Alber, John, Daniel C. O’Connell, and Sabine Kowal. 2002. Personal perspective in TV interviews. Pragmatics 12:257–271.
Journal article only by DOI
Suleiman, Camelia, D. C. O’Connell, and Sabine Kowal. 2002. ‘If you and I, if we, in this later
day, lose that sacred fire...’: Perspective in political interviews. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research. doi:10.1023/A:1015592129296.
Book
Cameron, Deborah. 1985. Feminism and linguistic theory. New York: St. Martin’s Press.
Book chapter
Cameron, D. 1997. Theoretical debates in feminist linguistics: Questions of sex and gender. In
Gender and discourse, ed. Ruth Wodak, 99-119. London: Sage Publications.
Online document (no DOI available)
Frisch, Mathias. 2007. Does a low-entropy constraint prevent us from influencing the past?
PhilSci archive. http://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/archive/00003390/. Accessed 26 June 2007.

Please note that both initials or full given names can be used.
For authors using EndNote, Springer provides an output style that supports the formatting of in-text citations and reference list (SpringerHumanitiesAuthorDate).

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SourcesIf you copy text passages, figures, or tables from other works, you must obtain permission from the copyright holder (usually the original publisher) for both the print andonline format. Please enclose the signed permission with the manuscript. Please beaware that some publishers do not grant electronic rights for free and that Springer will
not be able to refund any costs that may have been incurred in receiving these permissions. As an alternative, material from other sources should be used.
The source must be acknowledged in the legend or table heading. If the source is in aforeign language, please provide a translation.
Index
Please use the indexing function in Word. Indicate, on average, one or two keywords
per manuscript page to be included in the index.
• Information should be listed under the term that most readers will probably look at
first. Use cross-references to list variations or written-out versions and abbreviations/acronyms.
• Use no more than two levels – main entry and subentry.
• A main entry should always be a noun (or compound noun) and begin with a capitalletter.
• Subentries begin with lowercase letters unless the term is a proper noun.
• Index entries are formatted as in the text (e.g., italics for genus and species names).
• Abbreviations at the beginning of a term must be written out. For example, A. fumigatus should be Aspergillus fumigatus.
Figures and Illustration Data
Digital Illustrations

For the best quality final product, it is highly recommended that you submit all of yourartwork – photographs, line drawings, etc. – in an electronic format. The publishedwork will directly reflect the quality of the artwork provided.
Electronic Figure Submission• Name your figure files with your name, "Fig", and the figure number, e.g., MillerFig1.eps.
• Indicate what graphics program was used to create the artwork.
• For vector graphics, the preferred format is EPS; for halftones, please use TIFF format. MS Office files are also acceptable.
Line Art Black and white graphic with no shading.
• Check that all lines and lettering within the figures are legible at final size. All lines
should be at least 0.1 mm (0.3 pt) wide.
• Line drawings should have a minimum resolution of 1200 dpi.
• Vector graphics containing fonts must have the fonts embedded in the files.

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Halftone Art Photographs, drawings, or paintings with fine shading, etc.
• If any magnification is used in the photographs, indicate this by using scale bars
within the figures themselves.
• Halftones should have a minimum resolution of 300 dpi.
Combination Art A combination of halftone and line art, e.g., halftones containing
line drawing, extensive lettering, color diagrams, etc.
• Combination artwork should have a minimum resolution of 600 dpi.
Color Art Color art is free of charge for online publication.
• If black and white will be shown in the print version, do not refer to color in the captions and make sure that the main information will still be visible. A simple way tocheck this is to make a photocopy to see if the necessary distinctions between the different colors are still apparent.
• Color illustrations should be submitted as RGB (8 bits per channel).
Figure Lettering• To add lettering, it is best to use Helvetica or Arial (sans serif fonts) and avoid effects such as shading, outline letters, etc.
• Keep lettering consistently sized throughout your final-sized artwork, usually about
2–3 mm (8–12 pt).
• Variance of type size within an illustration should be minimal, e.g., do not use 8-pt
type on an axis and 20-pt type for the axis label.
• Do not include titles or captions in your illustrations.
Figure Captions and Numbering• Number the figures consecutively using the chapter number (e.g., Fig. 1.1). Figure
parts should be denoted by lowercase letters (a, b, c, etc.).
• Each figure should have a concise caption describing accurately what the figure depicts. Include the captions in the text file of the manuscript, not in the figure file.
• Figure captions begin with the term Fig. in bold type, followed by the figure number,also in bold type.
• No punctuation is to be included after the number, nor is any punctuation to beplaced at the end of the caption.
• Identify all elements found in the figure in the figure caption; and use boxes, circles,
etc., as coordinate points in graphs.
• Identify previously published material by giving the original source in the form of areference citation at the end of the figure caption.
Figure Size
• When preparing your figures, size figures to fit in the page width.
• For most books, the figures should be 78 mm or 117 mm wide and not higher than
198 mm.
Print Masters

If you do not compile your illustrations on a PC, please send us good-contrast black andwhite prints or transparencies or the original drawings.

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Checklist
Title page

Table of contents

Abstract
Text
References

Abbreviations
Figures

TablesElectronic manuscript

Title
Name(s) of author(s)Mailing address(es)e-mail address(es)Decimal numbers
Headings the same as in text
Chapters continuously numbered throughout the book
Abstract for each chapter included
Text in Times, special characters in Symbol or Unicode
Reference lists included at the end of each chapter
Citations in text agree with the reference list
All entries in the reference list mentioned in the text
References follow the guidelines
Journals abbreviated according to ISSN (if applicable)
List of abbreviations included
All figures mentioned in text enclosed, complete and as separate files
Consecutively numbered within a chapter
Consecutively cited in text
Legends included in the text
Prepared with the table function
Consecutively numbered within a chapter
Consecutively cited in text
Title of the book and author’s name noted on label
Text files saved in original format
Each chapter saved as separate file
Graphics saved as separate files in original format and in EPS
or TIFF format
PDF file with all the fonts embedded

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