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CAMERA-READY INSTRUCTIONS LAAR

(Times New Roman – 14 pt. ALL CAPS BOLD FACE CENTERED)

X.X. ALPHA† and Y.Y. BETHA‡

(Initials and Surname in ALL CAPS, Font Times New Roman 12, Centered)
† Chemical Engng. Department, Caltech, Pasadena, CA 91125, USA.
xalpha@caltech.edu
‡ Dto. de Ing. Mecánica, Univ. Nac. del Litoral, 7500 Santa Fe, Argentina
ybetha@intec.edu.ar

Authors affiliation Times New Roman 10 pt italics, centered.

Abstract These instructions are presented to
assist authors in preparing a typescript which is
suitable for direct photo-offset reproduction. The
abstract should not exceed 200, 150 and 50 words for
Review Papers, Articles and Notes respectively.
Keywords Up to five keywords should be
provided.
I. INTRODUCTION
The authors are fully responsible for the printing quality
of their papers, and are kindly requested to observe
carefully the following instructions for the preparation
of their manuscripts. This document is itself an example
of the desired layout for camera-ready papers.
LAAR publishes Review Papers, Articles and Notes
which should be limited to a length of 10, 6, and 4
pages, respectively. Authors requiring to submit longer
manuscripts should contact the Editor, who has the right
to accept them or not depending on the value of the
paper.
II. METHODS
A. Typing Instructions
Manuscripts must be typed in a two column format
within a box of 165 mm  245 mm. Column width
should be 80 mm with a 5 mm space between both
columns. Margins are: top and bottom 27 mm, left and
right 22.5 mm. Authors should provide a Word (or
compatible with Word) file, as well as an electronic
version (in *.pdf or *.ps files) of their revised final
version.
B. Font Size and Spacing Lines
Manuscripts must be typed with single line spacing.
Increase line spacing only when necessary for subscripts
and/or superscripts. Font size in text and any drawings
should be, at least, of approximately 2 mm high. The
minimum font size for the body of the text is 10 point (1
point=0.35 mm). Use font Times New Roman.
C. Illustrative Materials
Illustrations must be originals or photographic prints of
originals; if reproduced from an external source, it is
required to have a permit and explicitly included in the
manuscript. Arrange them throughout the paper and do
not group them together at the end. Figure captions must
be typed beneath a figure.
Tables can be typed directly onto the sheets. Table
headings should be as brief as possible and typed
directly above the table.
The words “Figure” and “Equation” should be
shortened to “Fig.” and “Eq.” whenever they occur
within a sentence. They should, however, be written in
full when they appear at the beginning of a sentence and
in captions. Equations, figures and tables must be
numbered in Arabic numbers. The number of the
equation should be aligned to the right margin
ẋ=f 1 ( x 1 ,t )+αx 2 sin(θ ) (1)
and the equation itself should be centered.
D. Additional material at the Copyedit stage
Apart from the camera ready file submitted initially, we
are now asking authors to provide additional material as
soon as the article reaches the copyedit stage in order to
produce the best possible quality articles. For initial
submission, only the camera ready file and the list of
potential reviewers must be provided.
Illustrations:
Please provide large size illustrations reproducible in
greyscale all together in a separate zip file. Names of
each file inside the zip must be “figure x” being x the
number of the corresponding figure.
Tables:
Also a separate file with the tables would be desirable
but not compulsory. Each file inside the zip should be
named “table x” being x the table number. This material
will be used if the camera ready is of poor quality.
Manuscript file:
A word document with the manuscript file without
formatting can also be uploaded. This file should
contain equations in an editable format but not figures
and tables. Instead, just the figure or table captions
should appear in the text.
Supplementary files can also be submitted when

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uploading the manuscript. These files will be made  Also, do not leave large blank spaces in the
available to readers for downloading. document.
E. Example of second page  If possible place figures and tables at the top or
bottom of the pages.
Bear in mind that due to the journal layout, headers and
footers are different in first, odd and even pages. In this  Do not use color in figures unless unavoidable.
template this is taken into account. LAAR is printed in greyscale only, so color
Header contains bibliographical information. Please figures could be unreadable after printing. The
do not change any settings in order of speed up the figures, however, will be available in color in
publication process. Distance of header from top should the online version.
be 0,99 cm (0.38”) and distance of footer from bottom  Do not change font size in tables to allow them
2,03 cm (0.8”). This is already set up in this template. to fit in one column. They can be prepared in
Please verify that these settings are not changed during two-column width. Do not interrupt text with
your production of the camera ready manuscript. Page changes of section to include two column
number is centered in the footer, using font Times New drawings or tables unless placed at the top or
Roman 10 pt. bottom of the page. Use column breaks if
If using sections (which is not advised but necessary.
sometimes unavoidable), please be sure that you adhere  Avoid the use of vertical lines in tables.
to this rules by setting “same as previous” in the header  Figures should use the same font type and size
and footer formatting. than text (Times New Roman 10 pt.)
The layout of text is responsibility of authors but editors
F. Other formatting details
can change it to improve readability and appeal of the
Please: manuscript. It is the author´s responsibility to check the
 Avoid “widow or orphan” sentences. galley proof to verify that everything is correct before
 Avoid titles at the end of a column with text in printing the article in the journal.
the following column or page.
Table1. Example of one column table (Caption Times New
Roman 9 pt.)
H Identification #10 #15 #20
H R2 H Titanium dioxide (rutile) 10.0 10.0 10.0
C R1 Calcium carbonate 40.0 40.0 40.0
C C Dispersion (50 % w/w) 10.0 15.0 20.0
H C
H Additives and water to get 100.0 100.0 100.0
H
O C Properties
Solid content (% w/w) 55.0 57.5 60.0
double bond O Solid content (% v/v) 22.8 25.7 27.8

Figure 1: Example of figure.

(Caption Times New Roman 9 pt.)

Table 2. Example of two-column table (Caption Times New Roman 9 pt.)

Sample V (wt %) Theoretical Sg (m2 /g) V 2p3/2
Monolayer BE
coverage a (%) (eV)
Al2O3 - - 132 -

V1.4/Al2O3 1.4 12.7 133 515.7

V2.7/Al2O3 2.7 24.9 131 516.0

V4.3/Al2O3 4.3 40.2 103 516.2

V5.1/Al2O3 5.1 48.1 125 516.6

V2O5b - - - 516.9

a
Assuming a surface area of 0.10 nm2 per VO43- species

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b
FLUKA p.a. reactive
III. RESULTS
G. Example of Third page
This is a typical odd page. Header contains authors
names, separated with commas, without symbols
indicating filiation. Font of header is all caps Times
New Roman 10 pt. Page numbering is same as previous.
H. Format of References
References must be prepared following Harvard norm.
If you use Mendeley desktop to manage your reference
list, just choose “Harvard” style. Within the text, the
references should be quoted by author’s surname and
year. Use both authors’ surnames if two, first author and
“et al.” when more than two. Depending on sense, either
the year only is placed in parentheses, or the author's
surname and year separated by a comma are placed
together in parentheses as shown below. For example:
“Komatsue (1977a) discovered...”. “Recent results
(Arnikar et al., 1970; Holland, 1981) indicate...”.
“Komatsue (1977a, b) found...”. “Early investigators
(Komatsue and Simand, 1987) thought...”. As an non-
exhaustive example, there is a list of a prepared
reference list at the end of this document. The list of
references should be typed in alphabetical order
unnumbered. Journal names must be abbreviated using
the standard abbreviation list for scientific journals. Use
italics for journal names and avoid bold face fonts.
IV. CONCLUSIONS
It is important to adhere to these instructions so that the
volume can be produced quickly, efficiently and in a
fully appealing readable form.
Please insert a continuous break at the end of the
manuscript so both columns end at approximately the
same height.
REFERENCES
Arnikar, H.J., Rao, T.S. and Bodne, A. (1970) A gas
chromatographic study of the kinetics of the
uncatalysed esterification of acetic acid by ethanol.
J. Chromatog. 47, 265-268.
Holland, C.D. (1981) Fundamentals of Multicomponent
Distillation. McGraw-Hill, New York.
Komatsue, L. (1977a) Application of the relaxation
method for solving reacting distillation problems.
J. Chem. Eng. Japan. 10, 200-205.
Komatsue, L. (1977b) A new method of convergence
for solving reacting distillation problems. J. Chem.
Eng. Japan. 10, 292-297.
Komatsue, L. and Simand, J. (1987) Simulation of
reactive distillation by the inside-outside method.
Proc. 37th Chem. Eng. Conf., Montreal, Canada,
365-367.