Here are the files that each author will need to download in order to prepare their papers for the Conference Proceedings to be published by Astronomical Society of the Pacific Conference Series (ASPCS). Your Registration Fee entitles you to a copy of this proceedings which will be directly mailed to you by ASPCS once the book is published.

This proceedings book will use the LaTeX2e mark-up language and each of you will need to download and edit the file called asptemplate.tex. Before you do anything else, rename this file as "last_name_first_initial_N".tex, where "N" is to be used only if you are first author on more than one paper. For instance, if I was submitting only one paper, the name of my file would be

and if I was submitting two papers, my files would be named

ASPCS requires that all papers have a PUBLICATION AGREEMENT AND COPYRIGHT ASSIGNMENT form filled out and signed. Please download either the PDF (.pdf) version of the form or the Microsoft Word (.doc) version of the form. Bring the completed (and signed) form with you to the meeting where it will be collected at the registration desk.

Should your manuscript contain figures, they must be in Encapsulated PostScript (EPS) format. Please do NOT include color figures in your manuscript (the cost for color figures is far too expensive). The filenames of your figures should be of the form "last_name_first_initial_N_f_P".tex, where the "P" marker represents the numeric value of the figure in your manuscript and the "N" marker is described above. For instance, in the filename examples above, let's say the first paper has 3 figures, then their filenames would be

and let's say that the last two papers had a single figure and 2 figures respectively. Then the filenames for these figures would be

If you are unfamiliar with LaTeX, useful information about using LaTeX and installing LaTeX is given in the aspauthor2006.pdf file. In order to compile your LaTeX code, you also will need to download asp2006.sty. Note that due to various security issues on Microsoft machines, this style file is stored on this web site as "asp2006.tex", make sure to rename this file to asp2006.sty once you download it and make sure it is in the same directory as your "last_name_first_initial_N".tex file (this is true of all the LaTeX "style" files on this web site -- this web page lists these files with a file suffix of ".sty" but the actual file is stored with a ".tex" file suffix).

The maximum number of printed pages you are allowed is given in the following table.

The authors MUST submit their final manuscript LaTeX files (and associated figure EPS files) by August 15, 2007. However if at all possible, we would appreciate getting these files as soon as possible, preferably by July 30, 2007. Your LaTeX and EPS files should be sent as email attachments to coolstars@etsu.edu by the date(s) listed above.

The following table has a list of files that are either required (see "Importance" column) in order for you to LaTeX your manuscript or is an optional file which may assist in your Conference Proceedings document preparation as described in the aspauthor2006.pdf file. Click on the name of the file to download it. Note that if you plan on using figures that are published elsewhere, you will need to get permission from that publisher -- download the permission.pdf file and submit it to the publisher in question (and do this ASAP).