Guidelines to contributors to ICfE 7

There are four types of contributions to the International Confereence on f Elements, ICfE 7, possible: 
Plenary Lectures (PL, 40 min., only invited), 
Session Lectures (SL, 30 min., will be chosen from the intended oral contributions), 
Oral Contributions (OC, 20 min.) and 
Posters (P). 
All contributions will only be accepted if an Abstract is submitted, either together with registration or later, but no later than May 5, 2009.  

With on-line registration, you need to fill in at least all fields which are marked with a red asterisk. You may then upload your abstract file (see template and sample abstract under “Contributions”, only .rtf files are accepted). Graphics should be embedded but you should make sure that the files do not exceed 10 MB; uploading may take a while, so be patient). Invalid files cause complete cancellation of your submission. In case you do not receive any confirmation, please contact tgonline@gdch.de. 

Please make sure that the layout of your abstract is perfectly in the style of the template/sample abstract which you should just work on, it is an .rtf file. Additions or corrections will not be made by the editorial team. The abstracts will be available for Conference participants as soon as the program is online. You will need the registration code (which you will receive with registration and after having paid the conference fee) to read the abstracts. You will also get a printed copy of the abstracts with your Conference package. The abstract booklet will appear with the NWT-Verlag, Bornheim, www.nwt-verlag.de, and will have an ISBN number. It is also  available on demand for non-participants although not free of charge.

The program committee reserves the right to accept or reject contributions, to decide on oral or poster presentation, and to assign them to the most appropriate sessions. Please choose from the keywords which you find in the box on the sample abstract four keywords which seem most appropriate to your contribution, for example, Chemistry; Solid State; Synthesis. 

There will be no Conference Proceedings in a commercial Journal. However, we will publish also with the NWT-Verlag an open access journal named Terrae Rarae 2009 to which every contributor to the ICfE 7 is invited to contribute one paper for each lecture or poster. Papers will be refereed and the editors will make a final decision for acceptance. All contributions must be at my office (per e-mail: gerd.meyer@uni-koeln.de) as .rtf files written into the template of the sample paper which you will find under “Contributions”. After acceptance, the papers can be downloaded free of charge from the webpage of the Conference, www.icfe.de. A DVD or printed version may be purchased at low cost from the NWT-Verlag.