Guidelines for Submitting Notebooks to arXiv.org
|
arXiv.org is an electronic archive and distribution server for research
papers. Areas on arXiv cover physics and related disciplines, mathematics,
nonlinear sciences, computational linguistics, and neuroscience. Last year,
over 30 thousand papers were submitted and
an estimated 15 million preprints were downloaded from arXiv and its
mirror sites.
|
| 
|

|
arXiv.org, the e-print
server hosted by Los Alamos National Laboratory, now accepts notebook
submissions. Authors can submit notebooks as supplemental materials
or as an entire article. Notebooks can be created with
Mathematica or Publicon, and they can be viewed with
Mathematica or Publicon.
To ensure readability of notebook submissions for a wide
audience, please follow these guidelines when submitting notebooks to arXiv.
Use standard fonts: Times, Courier, Helvetica, and the Math
fonts that come with Mathematica.
The arXiv script that converts
notebooks to different formats will not work with other fonts.
Choose the smallest picture format for any images.
Small images result in faster downloads and, consequently, greater accessibility
to your work. Depending on the image and the type of bitmapping chosen,
bitmap images are usually smaller than PostScript images. However, when
image quality is critical, remember that PostScript images look better
than bitmap images in PostScript and PDF files. Mathematica's
native bitmap format is platform independent. To convert an image to a
Mathematica bitmap, select the image, and then select Bitmap from
the
Convert To option in the Cell menu.
Do not include platform-specific bitmap formats, such as Windows
Metafile or Macintosh PICT.
After importing a non-PostScript
graphic, such as JPEG or GIF, into your notebook, convert the graphic to a
Mathematica bitmap.
Remove unnecessary animations.
Animations greatly increase file size.
Do not include platform-specific objects.
For example, if you
use Windows, do not include OLE objects in your notebook.
Use a commercially released version of Mathematica
Version 3 or later.
The arXiv script that converts notebooks into different
formats will not work with other versions.
Embed either the arXiv style sheet
or the default style
sheet in the notebook.
To embed a style sheet, select "Edit Style Sheet..." from the Format menu;
then click "Import Private Copy". You can also use a customized style
sheet.
However, note that customized style sheets may not work with the arXiv
script, and notebooks using these style sheets may not be viewable to all
people who browse arXiv.
Indicate that your submission is a notebook when completing the
Comments field on the arXiv submission form.
arXiv users with
access to Mathematica will know that they can run the calculations
in your submission.
Additional file submission
guidelines and information
are available on arXiv.
| |