GUIDELINES FOR CAMERA-READY COPIES

This file contains the guidelines for camera-ready copies for the proceedings of RANLP. On RANLP's web page we have put a demo pdf file (ranlp-demo.pdf) which gives one an idea about how things should look. Below there are some comments for people using LaTeX. If you don't use LaTeX ignore these comments.

RELEVANT FILES FOR LATEX USERS (AVAILABLE ON THE WEB):

ranlp.sty style

   defining the layout of the paper 

ranlp.bst

   bibliography style 

ranlp-demo.tex

   simple demo file 

LaTeX users are not meant to change anything in their files apart from the relative positioning of elements (e.g., figures, tables, equations, etc.). If you cannot access the files - we can mail them to you.

DO NOT NUMBER PAGES (for the camera-ready copy)!

NO DATE!

Aim for the height of the title, author name, affiliation, etc. to be lees than 5.5cm (2.25in).

MAIN TEXT

The body of the text should be in double-column, single-spaced format; size: 11pt (those authors that cannot use 11pt could use 10pt; If MS Word users cannot use Computer Modern font they can use Times Roman 10pt).

ABSTRACT

The word 'Abstract' should be centred, bold; 14pt. The body of the abstract should be one paragraph and indented 6.25mm (0.25in) from the left and right margin of the first column. The first sentence should not be indented. The font size of the body of the abstract should be smaller (10pt) or the same as the main text. If you use 12pt for the main text you could use 10pt for the text of the abstract. If the abstract is longer than half the textheight perhaps you are trying to say too much.

DO NOT PROVIDE A LIST OF KEYWORDS! They are useful for the reviewing stage mainly.

SECTION TITLES

If the section title is long and has to be on two (or more) lines then indent the other lines are indented like this:

INDENTATION

No indentation of:

	 the paragraph after section headings; 

	 first paragraphs on new pages; 

	 first paragraphs of second column; 

	 paragraph after itemized environments (lists); 

  	 paragraphs after figures/tables/equations. 

FIGURES/TABLES

Figures/tables should be preferably within the text body and appropriately enumerated. Under the contents of the Figure/Table there should be a centered line which has the following format:

Figure [Space] [Number]: [Space] [Caption]

Example:

				... ... ..

Figure 2: Architecture of the system

If the figure/table is wide you may consider placing it so that it spans the width of the two columns. In LaTeX one could use:

\begin{figure*}[...]

... 

\end{figure*}

\begin{table*}[...]

... 

\end{table*}

REFERRING TO FIGURES/TABLES:

The word Figure/Table should start with an initial capitals. Use: "we show the control in Figure 3. The data is presented in Table 2."

FOOTNOTES

Length of the rule: 2cm (0.8in). Every footnote should be indented 0.5cm (0.2in). Font size of text - 10pt (or smaller if the size of main body is 10pt).

CITATIONS

Citation format for in line citations (in the body of the main text):

	(author-last-name year) 

	(author-last-name & author-last-name, year) 

	(author-last-name et al. year) 

Multiple citations should be separated with a semi-column and a space.

REFERENCES

The word 'References:' should be left-aligned, bold; 14pt. It should not be preceded by a number. The actual references should be 8pt (or 9pt if you have enough space), labeled and alphabetically ordered according to the content of the labels. The label should be the same as the in-line citation in the main text. All lines of a single bibliographic reference except the first one should be indented 0.5cm (0.2in). Write the title of the paper/monograph in italics. Do not underline it! If the authors are more than 2 please use the form: (Shieber et al. 90) If you cite two different publications by the same author which appeared in the same year use the form: (Nirenburg 94a) (Nirenburg 94b), etc.

EXAMPLES (italicalised elements are not shown in this plain text document):

(Hutchins & Somers 92) J. Hutchins, H. Somers, An Introduction to
Machine Translation, Academic Press, 1992.

(Ingria & Stallard 89) R. Ingria, D. Stallard, A computational
mechanism for pronominal reference. Proceedings of the 27th Annual
Meeting of the ACL, Vancouver, British Columbia, 26-29 June 1989.

(Nirenburg et al. 92) S. Nirenburg, J. Carbonell, M. Tomita and K. Goodman,
Machine Translation: a knowledge-based approach, Morgan Kaufmann
Publishers, 1992.

LaTeX:

	\bibliographystyle{ranlp} 
	\begin{scriptsize} 
	\bibliography{[your_bibtex_file]} 
  	\end{scriptsize} 

Ignore warning messages like:

	You can't pop an empty literal stack for entry ... 
	while executing---line 1275 of file ranlp.bst 
	when you bibtex your source. In your .bib file do not use: 
	AUTHOR = {John Smith and others}, 
	because then the original style produces a wrong label:
	(Smith & et al. 69). If there are two authors - specify the 
	names of both authors. The label then looks like: 
	(Smith & Jones 69). If there are more than two authors specify
	the names of at least three authors. The label then looks like:
	(Smith et al. 69) as one would expect.

LENGTH OF PAPERS

	Regular paper: no more than 8 pages 
	Short paper: no more than 7 pages	
	Poster: no more than 5 pages

Do not worry if you have not used up the maximum number of pages. Shorter, substantive papers are welcome!

SPELLCHECK THE SOURCE!

OTHER

Print on one side of the sheet only. On the reverse side of the sheet please write (with a pencil) your name, title of paper, and the number of the page.