Publication of Conference Proceedings

The proceedings of AMS-10 will be published as a special issue of Nuclear Instruments & Methods in Physics Research, Section B (NIMB). All presenters at AMS-10 are encouraged to submit manuscripts for consideration.

The editors wish to ensure that each manuscript published in NIMB has the full quality of a paper published in an international refereed journal. Accordingly, contributed papers may not be less than 4 (four) printed pages. This rule is to prevent published papers from degrading into extended abstracts. In addition, all submitted manuscripts must be represent work that has been neither copyrighted or published, nor submitted for publication elsewhere.

Instruction to Authors may be found either on the NIMB website or on the back inside cover of the journal. In particular, note the rules about the numbers of authors given. Publication in NIMB presupposes the use of the SI-system for units and nomenclature.

Manuscript submission
Manuscripts must be submitted by December 1, 2005. Hard copy or electronic (preferred) manuscripts are to be sent to:

Nanette Sorensen
Center for Accelerator Mass Spectrometry, L-397
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
7000 East Ave.
Livermore, California 94550-9234
USA
sorensen5@llnl.gov

Manuscript review
Please provide the names and addresses of 3 referees with each submission. It is the desire of the editors to have all manuscripts reviewed, revised and submitted to the publisher by February 1, 2006.

Units & Nomenclature: Subunits like mm, GW etc. are of course allowed, as is cm. A few non-standard units like eV and Å are so engrained that use may continue. Prefixes and abbreviations must be correct, i.e. keV, not KeV, cm, not cms, µg, not mkg, etc. Finally dose may only be used where appropriate i.e. for absorbed (deposited) energy density. Otherwise fluence should be used. Note that the dimension of dose is energy/mass (J/kg or Gray, Gr) while the dimension of fluence is particles/area (most often cm^-2).