Legal requirements
The authors guarantee that the manuscript will not be published elsewhere in any language without the consent of the copyright owners, that the rights of third parties will not be violated, and that the publisher will not be held legally responsible should there be any claims for compensation.
Authors wishing to include figures or text passages that have already been published elsewhere are required to obtain permission from the copyright owner(s) and to include evidence that such permission has been granted when submitting their papers. Any material received without such evidence will be assumed to originate from the authors.
Editorial procedure
Authors should submit their manuscripts to the Editorial Office online to facilitate even quicker and more efficient processing. Electronic submission substantially reduces the editorial processing and reviewing times and shortens overall publication times.
Please log directly onto https://www.editorialmanager.com/ante. Upload your manuscript following the on-screen instructions.
Support: if you face any problems while submitting your manuscript, please contact:
bernhard.schueller@springer.com
Manuscript preparation
General remarks
The articles submitted are accepted in English only. The length of the article file should not exceed 50000 characters. 30000 to 40000 characters is a reasonable length. To help you prepare your manuscript, Springer offers the macropackage LaTeX document class svjour3. Springer also offers a Word template (see Sect. 4).
Title page : the title page should include:
- The name(s) of the author(s)
- A concise and informative title
- The affiliation(s) and address(es) of the author(s)
- The e-mail address, telephone and fax numbers of the communicating author
Abstract
Each paper must be preceded by an abstract presenting the most important results and conclusions in no more than 180 words.
Keywords
Five to ten keywords should be supplied after the abstract for indexing purposes
Abbreviations
They should be defined at first mention in the abstract and again in the main body of the text and used consistently thereafter.
Footnotes
Essential footnotes to the text should be numbered consecutively and placed at the bottom of the page to which they refer.
Appendix
If there is more than one appendix, they should be numbered consecutively. Equations in appendices should be designated differently from those in the main body of the paper, e.g. (A.1), (A.2) etc. In each appendix, equations should be numbered separately.
References
The list of references should only include works that are cited in the text and that have been published or accepted for publication.
Citations in the text should be identified by numbers in square brackets, and the list of references at the end of the paper should be numbered.
Examples:
- Journal articles
[1] Nguyen, T.M.T., Boukhatem, N., Ghamri, Y., Pujolle, G.: Service Level Negotiation and COPS-SLS Protocol. IEEE Communication Magazine, pp. 158-165 (May 2002).
[2 ] Ganek, A.G., Corbi, T.A.: The dawning of the autonomic computing era. IBM Systems Journal, vol. 42, No 1, pp. 5-18 (2003).
- Books
[3] Hencen, C.: Phased Array Antennas. John Wiley & Sons, New York (1998).
- Multiauthor books
[4] Minkler, M., Wallerstein, N.: Improving health through community organization and community building. A health education perspective. In Minkler, M. (ed.) Community organizing and community building for health, New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, pp. 30-52 (1997).
- Papers published online but not (yet) in print
They can be cited using the Digital Object Identifier (DOI). The DOI should be added at the end of the reference in question. Example:
[5] Daza, V., Herranz, J., Sáez, G.: Protocols useful on the Internet from distributed signature schemes. Int. J. Inf. Secur. DOI 10.1007/s10207-004-0043-y
Papers which have been accepted for publication should be included in the list of references with the name of the journal and "in press".
References such as "personal communications" or "unpublished data" cannot be included in the reference list, but should be mentioned in the text in parentheses: this also applies to papers presented at meetings but not yet published or accepted for publication. A date should be given for both "personal communications" and "unpublished data".
Figures and Tables
All figures (photographs, graphs or diagrams) and tables should be cited in the text, and each numbered consecutively throughout. Lowercase letters (a, b etc.) should be used to identify figure parts.
Figure legends must be brief, self-sufficient explanations of the illustrations. Tables should have a title and a legend explaining any abbreviation used in that table. Footnotes to tables should be indicated by superscript lower-case letters (or asterisks for significance values and other statistical data).
Technical instructions for preparing your manuscript
Text and figures must be sent as separate files.
Text
The preferred formats are LaTeX and Word.
LaTeX: The electronic version should include the original source (together with all style files and figures) and a pdf or ps version containing all figures and tables. Authors who prepare their papers with LaTeX are encouraged to use Springer's macro package svjour3. Instructions and a list of available documentation are outlined in the users guide file that comes with the package. Click on the link "LaTeX macro package" on the Authors tools page to download the packet zip archive..
Word: If you are not familiar with LaTeX, please use Springer Word template to prepare your article. Instructions are provided in the readme-journ file that comes with the package. Click on the link "Word template" on the Authors tools page to download the packet zip archive.
Figures
The preferred figure formats are EPS for vector graphics exported from a drawing program and TIFF for halftone illustrations. EPS files must always contain a preview in TIFF of the figure. The file name (one file for each figure) should include the figure number. Figure legends should be included in the text and not in the figure file.
Scan resolution: Scanned line drawings should be digitized with a minimum resolution of 1200 dpi relative to the final figure size. For digital halftones, 300 dpi is usually sufficient.
Colour illustrations: Store colour illustrations as RGB (8 bits per channel) in TIFF format.
Vector graphics: Fonts used in the vector graphics must be embedded. Please do not draw with hairlines. The minimum line width is 0.2 mm (i.e., 0.567 pt) relative to the final size.
Proofreading
Latex files are slightly modified during the Latex-editing process so that the general presentation rules of the journal are adhered to.
Word files are converted and should be proofread carefully by the author. Authors should make their proof corrections on a printout of the pdf file or use the online correction facilities provided with the proof. Corrections should be clear; standard correction marks should be used. Corrections that lead to a change in the page layout should be avoided.
The author is entitled to formal corrections only. Substantial changes in content, e.g. new results, corrected values, title and authorship are not allowed without the approval of the responsible editor.
After online publication, further changes can only be made in the form of an Erratum, which will be hyperlinked to the article.
