NIR2009 Manuscripts
Instructions for Authors**SUBMISSION DEADLINE: NOV 12, 2009 at the Conference**
Article details
All articles should be written in English and will be subject to review by the Editor of the Proceedings. Please note the following, strict
requirements.

• Articles must be a maximum of 1300 words in length, including title, authors, affiliations,references, and figure captions.
• A maximum of four tables and figures is allowed: to avoid doubt that is four in total, i.e.
two figures and two tables or three tables and one figure.

The manuscript---Your manuscript should be provided in Microsoft Word in the same way as those submitted for JNIRS. The Times News
Roman Font with the size of 12pt with double space and line number must be used.
Illustrations should be embedded at the end of the document (not within the flow of text) or included with the document as
separate files. We can accept illustrations in computer readable form, such as PDF, TIFF, PCX or EPS format.
Please ensure that the highest quality settings are used for their creation and that any fonts are embedded or converted to outlines. Bitmaps should be at least 300 dpi for tone images and at least 1200 dpi for line work. Please avoid JPG format: each time
you save a file as a JPG it loses quality. If you do not save with the highest quality settings, your figure will be very blurry.
Please consider that illustrations will be reduced in size when preparing them, and ensure that all text is large enough to standreduction. Only greyscale illustrations are acceptable, unless the author is prepared to bear the cost of colour printing (US$250per page, which must be paid in advance).
- Please ensure that any levels of grey used to distinguish between parts of your illustrations are sufficiently different to be clearlyidentifiable.

Symbols, mathematics and formulae-This is an area where care should be exercised. You should use SI units whenever possible.
Please use the following conventions: all symbols which are variables should be italicised, all constants should be normal(Roman) text and vectors and matrices should be bold.
Complex formulae should be inserted using Word’s built-in equation editor. TeX or derivatives are NOT acceptable.

Units
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Units of measurement should be separated from the number by a space.
Please avoid the use of the solidus (/) or “per” and use a superscript –1, i.e. 5 mg L–1, not 5 mg/L.

References-References should be cited in the text by a superscript Arabic number, i.e. spectroscopy,1 and listed at the end of the article.
Please give full bibliographical information, but do NOT include the titles of papers and book chapters. This is due to space
restrictions.
Please see the examples below:

For edited books:
1. G.D. Batten, A.B. Blakeney and C.R. Blatt, in Near Infrared Spectroscopy: The Future Waves, Ed by A.M.C. Davies and P. Williams.
NIR Publications, Chichester, p. 107 (1996).
For journals:
2. T. Næs, K. Kvaal, T. Isaksson and C. Miller, J. Near Infrared Spectrosc. 1, 1 (1993).
For authored books:
3. B. Osborne, T. Fearn and P.H. Hindle, Practical NIR Spectroscopy with Applications in Food and Beverage Analysis. Longman
Scientific and Technical, Harlow, UK (1993).
It is the responsibility of the author to ensure that permission is obtained from the copyright holder to reproduce copyright material. Thecopyright holder is almost always the publisher of the work. Forms for this purpose are available from the conference website. Copies ofany signed Permission Forms should accompany the manuscript and the necessary wording of acknowledgement requested by thecopyright holder should be included in the caption.

TablesTables should be numbered in a separate sequence from the illustrations as Table 1 etc. All tables should be portrait (tall) rather thanlandscape (wide) format.

Copyright
Authors are required to assign the copyright in their article to the Publisher. A completed and signed Copyright Form must be lodged with
the Publisher before the article can be published.

Submission of articles-Your article should be submitted to the manuscript submission desk at the conference orto the conference secretary, Dr. Sirinnapa Saranwong, at nir2009@naro.affrc.go.jp byNovember 12, 2009***-

After acceptance, your article will be copy-edited, typeset and proofed to the first named author (unless otherwise requested).
The proof should be checked carefully for typographical errors and to answer any questions raised by the Copy Editor. The proof
stage is not an opportunity for the author to make changes to the article. Any significant changes from the original accepted
manuscript may only be accepted on payment of the correction costs.

Addresses
CONFERENCE SECRETARY:
Dr. Sirinnapa Saranwong
National Food Research Institute2-1-12 Kannondai, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8642 JAPANTEL: 81-29-838-8088
FAX: 81-29-838-7996
E-mail: nir2009@naro.affrc.go.jp
SCIENTIFIC EDITOR:
Dr. Phil Williams
PDK Projects, Inc.
5072 Vista View Crescent, Nanaima, BC V9V1L6 CANADA
E-mail: philwilliams@pdkgrain.com
COPY EDITOR:
Mr. Ian Micheal
IM Publications
6 Charlton Mill, Charlton, Chichester, West Sussex PO18 0HY, UK
Tel: 44-1243-811-334
Fax: 44-1243-811-711