Each the registered participant can present one abstract.

PREPARATION OF ABSTRACTS

Electronic version of abstracts should be presented through the site of the Russian Mineralogical Society www.minsoc.ru. The procedure consists of the two steps: 1) registration at the site of the Russian Mineralogical Society, and 2) registration for the conference www.minsoc.ru/km2007. One can use the chapter “Help” (sub-chapters “Conference Help”, “Abstract Submission”) of the conference site.

Deadline is May 10, 2007. We ask you kindly to present your materials earlier the May 1, 2007.
You may correct  the presented abstracts and application forms till May 10, 2007

Format: text should be in *.rtf (preferably) or *.doc; figures and tables should be inserted in to the text. The prepared abstract (see below) should be compressed by means of  *.zip or  *.rar and passed via web-form on the conference site (you can find this form on the page “my conferences and abstracts”).

The size of an abstract: up to 2 pages A4 (including tables, figures and references)
Margins: 3 cm on the left; 1,5 cm on the right; 2 cm on the top and on bottom
Font: Times New Roman 12 pt
Interval between lines: 12 pt (single)
Paragraphs should be indented 1 cm without a blank line
Hyphenation should be excluded

The abstract example:

THE TITLES SHOULD BE TYPED IN BOLD CAPITALS AND CENTRED
THE BLANK LINE SHOULD FOLLOW THE TITLE

The initials and surnames of the authors are typed by the italics bold
lower-case and centred. Those of the presenting author are underlined
The city, institution and e-mail address of the author(s) should be typed
at the next line without a blank one by the italics lower-case and centred

Asterisks should be used to indicate authors of different institutions. Then leave one line blank. The text is typed as indicated by the principal information above. Then leave one line blank. References in the text are indicated by consistent numbers in square brackets typed in bold [1]. List of references (if necessary) follows the text after the blank line in succession without indents. The references are indicated also by the bold numbers in square brackets.

Acknowledgements and mentions of grants (if necessary) are typed at the end of the text before literature list by the lower-case italics (Times New Roman 12 pt) and divided from the text by a blank line.