PROCEEDINGS
The proceedings of INSAP III will be published by Memorie della Societa' Astronomica Italiana. All registered
participants will receive a free copy.
The deadline for the receipt of papers is March 31 2001. There is a limit of 12 pages for invited review and keynote
papers (45 min. talks), and 4 pages for other oral oral contributions and posters. The page limit includes black
and white figures, graphs and tables. Colour figure will be accepted at a cost for the authors. The Proceedings
will also be available on a CD-rom attached to the volume, in which links will be provided to any additional material
authors want to show (including colour pictures).
Please, submit your draft electronically to insap3@oapa.astropa.unipa.it,
and send a hardcopy to the following address:
INSAP III
Osservatorio Astronomico di Palermo
Piazza del Parlamento 1
90134 Palermo, Italy
The manuscrips will be refereed by the Scientific Organizing Committee, and sent back to the authors for the final
version.
If you have problems, do not hesitate to send an e-mail to insap3@oapa.astropa.unipa.it
INSTRUCTIONS FOR AUTHORS
MEMORIE della Società Astronomica Italiana is a professional journal devoted exclusively to the publication
of Conference Proceedings and invited review papers. As a norm, review papers are published as part of issues dedicated
to single specialized topics.
The typescript provided by the author will be photographically reproduced. There is no need for special paper
sheets. However, the typescript must be absolutely clean and conform to the following instructions.
Type all material single-spaced on one side only of a white paper sheet within a frame of 15x22 cm. In the
final reproduction the typed area will be reduced by 20%. The Font to be used for the text is Times New Roman (10
points for the text, 8 for the abstract). Arial (14 points) should be used for the title.
If you use MS Word, open the fileTEMPLATE.dot, save it in your hard disk and use it
as a model for preparing your manuscript.
The first page of each contribution should include: a) The title of the paper, in capital letters, either centered
or starting at the left, and with appropriate space above and below; b) the authors' name and affiliations; c)
a short abstract; d) the main text to follow.
Manuscripts should not be numbered, except with a pencil on a corner. Running headlines and page numbers will
be added by the publisher. For the same reason, reference to page numbers should not be made within the text.
Illustrations should be mounted within the text, with captions written immediately below them. High resolution
images are to be used for illustrations. In no case large size illustrations and drawings will be reduced and mounted
in the text by the publisher. Black and white photographs are accepted. Colour photographs will be printed only
at the author's expenses.
It is the responsability of the author to obtain permission from the copyright holder before using material
such as illustrations taken from other sources.
References should be typed following the same rules as for major astronomical journals such as Astron. Astrophys.,
Ap. J. or Monthly Notices. Within the text, refer to a paper giving its author(s) and year of publication
in parenthesis (Black and White, 1899) or, if necessary, authors in the text and year of publication in parenthesis.
Do not forget to acknowledge your grant and all those who have helped. Are you sure that you hold copyright clearance
for all the material you are using?
Each paper will start with a right (odd) page. This should be taken into account when writing the text and
planning the layout of illustrations. Avoid to finish the paper with a few lines at the top of a right (odd) page.
The Editor reserves the right not to accept papers that do not conform to these instructions or that are not
properly prepared in camera-ready form.