Guidelines of ITC13 Manuscript Preparation
for Contributed and Invited Papers

1. Introduction
All papers presented at ITC13 will be considered, via peer review, for inclusion in a special
issue of the Journal of Plasma and Fusion Research published by the Japan Society ofPlasma Science and Nuclear Fusion Research. Details of this journal and society can befound at http://jspf.nifs.ac.jp/index-e.html. To make a timely publication of these proceedings,
the Editorial Office has come up with the following guidelines for manuscript preparation.
Authors’ cooperation will be greatly appreciated. Contributed papers which are not presented
at the poster session will be automatically excluded from the publication in the Journal. Thepresentation does not necessarily guarantee the publication in the Journal.
2. Manuscript preparation
Language and material: Manuscripts should be written in clear English on white vertical A4
size paper (210X297 mm) with a 25 mm margin on all sides. The text should be typed in one
column format with 12 pt font size. Times roman font or equivalent is recommended. Page
numbers should appear at the center of the bottom of pages.
Title: The title should be set centrally at the top of the first page in 14 pt bold letters.
Authors and affiliations: Set centrally beneath the title with the family name in upper-casefollowed by the first name such as “LANGMUIR Irving”. Affiliations should be written initalics. If authors’ affiliations are more than one, correspondence between authors andaffiliations must be specified by superscript 1), 2), etc.
E-mail: Corresponding author’s e-mail address should be written beneath the affiliations initalics.
Keywords: Five to ten keywords of the manuscript should be placed beneath the abstract. Puta comma after each keyword and type them in lower-case except for special cases such asabbreviations.
Length limit: The total length will be limited to 8 journal pages for plenary talks, 6 journal
pages for invited and oral talks, and 4 journal pages for contributed papers presented inposters, including figures and tables. A journal page is printed in two-column format except
for title, affiliation, abstract and keywords. One column contains 51 linesX53 letters (inaverage) in 76X221 mm rectangular. The height of one line in a journal page is 4.3 mm. A
sample of a journal page is available on our web page http://itc.nifs.ac.jp. Any papers longer
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than this limit will not be published. Please rigorously check the length of your manuscript
before submission by utilizing the length-check (two-columns) sample file.
References: References should be included at the end of the text, and cited in the text like this[1]. They must be listed in order that they appear in the text in the following manner:[1] T.Kakuyugo et al., J. Plasma Fusion Res. 79, 9999 (2003).
The number in bold letters indicates the volume number, followed by the page number and theyear of publication in round brackets.
Figures and tables: All figures and tables should be prepared in black-and-white (or in grayscale) and arranged in numerical order such as Fig. 1, and drawn one by one in separate
pages. The captions should be below the figures and tables. Note that figures and tables will
be reproduced in one column size (76 mm-width) or two column size (161 mm-width) injournal pages. A figure of an aspect ratio 1:1 in one column size is approximately equivalent
to 20 lines except for a caption.
3. Manuscript submission
3.1 Submission for review
Bring with you to the conference and turn in your original manuscript and two copies at thepublication desk. The original will be retained at the Editorial Office and the copies will be
forwarded to reviewers. Manuscripts will be checked in terms of length and format, etc.
Please be advised that if these guidelines are severely violated, manuscripts will not be
forwarded to reviewers, in which case these manuscripts can not be considered for thepublication. Again, authors’ cooperation would be appreciated from the timely publication
point of view. Reviewers’ comments will be forwarded to authors as soon as they becomeavailable.
3.2 Submission for publication
Responding to reviewers’ comments, authors are requested to revise and re-submit theirmanuscripts to the Editorial Office, whereby the acceptance for publication will be decided.
For the journal publication, the Editorial Office needs to collect author’s revised manuscripts
and also their electronic files. In preparing electronic files, both PC and Mac files areacceptable. Submission of figures in EPS (Encapsulated PostScript) or

PostScript files isrecommended. Again, equations must be prepared using the software compatible with theseplatforms.
Type of manuscript file: Microsoft WORD file or LaTeX file is recommended. Equations
must be prepared using the software compatible with these word processors.
LaTeX Sample file: A LaTeX sample file is available on our web page http://itc.nifs.ac.jp.
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LaTeX users can prepare the manuscript according to this file. One page of this sample
manuscript is approximately equivalent to 0.6 journal page.
WORD Sample file: A WORD sample file is also available on our web page
http://itc.nifs.ac.jp. WORD users can prepare the manuscript according to this file. One pageof this sample manuscript is approximately equivalent to 0.6 journal page.
Reproduction: If manuscripts contain any reproduction from other sources, authors arerequested to furnish the Editorial Office with a document of the original publisher’sagreement.
If you have any questions, please contact us ( itc13_proc@nifs.ac.jp ).

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