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• Text and illustrations should fill, but not extend beyond, an area of 118 x 192mm.
• Use a 10-point font size with line spacing of 2pts (see specimen page).
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• Text should be justified on both left and right margins, not ragged.
• Please do not type page numbers on the CRC - please number the pages in pencil on
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• Do not use running heads.
• If page depth is too short, add space above and below subheadings.

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PAGE LAYOUT
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ABSTRACTS, PARAGRAPHS, FOOTNOTES
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SUBHEADINGS
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ILLUSTRATIONS

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REFERENCES
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• The text citations and the reference list must tally.

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SPRINGER PAGE GRID

 1. Introduction (example of 2nd-level heading)

The rapid expansion in wide area and local area networking has led to the establishment of a global internetwork linking millions of systems [1]. Through this network a limited range of basic network functions are available.

1.1 Prevention of Virus Attack (example of a 3rd-level heading)

Viral infection can be prevented by controlling the ingress of viral material into the controlled environment which represents the company computers.

Such environments can be broad, encompassing the entire company (including PCs removed by the user for home working), or restricted, covering a minimal range of PCs in a controlled access and closely supervised area [2].

1.1.1 Physical Access Constraints (example of a 4th-level heading)

The most effective way to prevent viral code spreading is to isolate systems physically and electronically, then to control the movement of viral code*.

Viral Infection. This is a 5th-level heading, indicated by a line space above with the heading in normal type, not indented. The text runs on in normal roman type.

References

1. Mehlhorn K. Data structures and algorithms, vol 1, Sorting and searching. Springer Berlin Heidelberg New York, 1984

2. de Kleer J. An assumption-based TMS. Artificial Intelligence 1986; 28:127-162

APPENDIX. REFERENCES IN COMPUTING BOOKS

Text Citations

• Number references consecutively in the order in which they are first mentioned in the text. References cited only in a table or figure legend should be numbered as though they were cited in the first text cross-reference to the relevant table or figure.

• Identify references in the text, tables and figure legends by arabic numerals in square brackets (e.g. "... as has been demonstrated recently [19].").

• List the references in numerical order.

• If a work has more than six authors, list only the first three, followed by "et al.".

• The following styles are used for the main categories of references. Journal titles are abbreviated in accordance with BS 4148 (1970, 1975), which is compatible with ISO 833 and ANSI Z39.5 (1969).

Journal article

1. de Kleer J. An assumption-based TMS. Artif Intell 1986; 28:127-162

Book

2. Mehlhorn K. Data structures and algorithms, vol 1, Sorting and searching. Springer-Verlag,     London, 1984

3. Mellish CS. Computer interpretation of natural language descriptions. Ellis Horwood, Chichester,    1985

Chapter in a book (or paper in a proceedings)

4. Quint V, Valton I, Bedor H. Grif: an interactive environment for TEX. In: Desarmenien J (ed) TEX    for scientific documentation. Springer-Verlag, Heidelberg, 1986, pp 145-158 (Lecture notes in    computer science no. 236)

Thesis

5. Fagin BS. A parallel execution model for Prolog. PhD thesis, University of California, Berkeley,    1987