Submission
Conference proceedings in English will be published in the journal IOP Conference Series: Materials Science and Engineering (MSE), indexed by Scopus / WoS databases.
General Paper Style Requirements for IOP Conference Series are:
articles are presented in PDF format. IOP Conference Series uses author-supplied PDFs for all online and print publication. Authors must prepare their papers using Microsoft Word or LaTeX, according to the guidelines and templates, and then convert these files to PDF;
articles should contain the results of scientific research not published previously in other journals. Articles are checked for originality twice (by the Conference reviewers and editors of IOP Publishing ), and articles may be rejected due to illegallity checking at any stage of verification);
articles must be written in correct English. Please check the content by a native English speaker;
by submitting a paper an author and all co-authors are assumed to agree with the terms of the IOP Proceedings Licence.
General Requirements for Preparing your proceedings paper:
Paper size is European A4.
Margins are 4cm (top), 2.5cm (left and right) and 2.7cm (bottom).
The paper includes the author name and affiliation (full address including country).
There are no page numbers, or headers and footers, within the paper.
The PDF is free of formatting errors (e.g. corrupt equations, missing or low-resolution figures), since conversion from Word to PDF can introduce formatting errors.
Text is single spaced, not double spaced.
The PDF file is editable and not password protected.
All pages are portrait (landscape pages should be rotated).
Reference lists are checked for accuracy. References can only be linked via Crossref if they are correct and complete.
Figures are placed within the text, not collected at the end of the document.
A thorough proofread is conducted to check the standard of English and ensure wording is clear and concise.