Guidelines

1.              Guidelines for Paper Preparation  

1.1  General Instruction

•       Manuscripts should be prepared concisely and clearly in English using Times New Roman, font size 12, double spaced, single-column typing  (or Nepali: Preeti or Nepali Unicode, Font size 16 & line spacing is 1.5) on A4 size (210 min X 297 mm) paper. English: Times New Roman, Font size 12 & line spacing is 1.5 only.

·      Only British English spelling and terminology should be followed consistently throughout the article.

·      Length of manuscript (including the abstract and references) should be approx. 5000 words.

·      Please ensure that the language is corrected before submission.

1.2  Organization of Manuscript

The manuscript submitted for proceedings (both as hard and soft copy) should contain the following items, in exactly the given order:

      i.         Title Page

The title page should include:

•       A concise and informative title of the paper  in capital letters only

•       Authors name (initials or first names before surnames) grouped together, separated by commas and each followed by a superscript letter (a etc.), referring to the respective address.

•       The affiliation(s) and address(es) of the author(s)

•       Valid e-mail address, telephone and fax numbers of the corresponding author

    ii.         Abstract (length suggested 300 words & should not contain any undefined abbreviations or unspecified references).

  iii.         Keywords (4 to 6 keywords) which can be used for indexing purposes of the Proceedings

   iv.         Body of the text:

·      For headings and sub headings of the text, decimal system should be used.

·      Abbreviations of international standard should be defined at first mention and used consistently thereafter

·      All units and measurements must conform to the international standard system (SI-system)

·      In complex groupings of units, please use the negative index system (e.g. ms^-1)

·      Each illustration must be specifically referred in the text

·      Footnotes should be avoided

     v.         Acknowledgments: Acknowledgments of people, grants, funds, etc. should be placed in a separate section before the reference list. The names of funding organizations should be written in full.

   vi.         References:

·      The list of references should only include works that have been cited in the text and must be published or in press.

·      Personal communications and other unpublished works may be mentioned only in the text.

·      Two or more references at one place in the text should be cited chronologically and separated by comma)

A description of the format for each type of reference is as follows:

         

Ø  Journals

Lenzi, M.A., Mao, L., Comiti, F., 2006. Effective discharge for sediment transport in a mountain river: computational approaches and geomorphic effectiveness. J.Hydrol. 326, 257–276.

Ø  Books

M. Tinkham, Group Theory and Quantum Mechanics, McGraw-Hill, New York, 321, 1964.

Ø  Reports

K. Tasaka, et al., JNDC: Nuclear Data Library of Fission Products – Second Version, 1320, Japan Atomic Energy Research Institute (JAERI), 1990.

Ø  Proceedings

R. Caplar and P. Kulisic, Proc. Int. Conf. on Nuclear Physics (Oct. 3 -5, 1973, Munich, Germany), vol 1 (Amsterdam: North-Holland/American Elsevier), 517,1973.

 vii.         Tables, Figures and Photo:

·      All tables, figures and graphs should be provided on a separate page and properly numbered using Arabic numerals.

·      Tables and graphs should also be cited in text in consecutive numerical order.

·      For each table, please supply a table caption (title) explaining the components of the table.

·      Original source (in the form of a reference) should be given for any previously published material at the end of the table caption.

·      Footnotes to tables should be indicated by superscript lower-case letters (or asterisks for significance values and other statistical data) and included beneath the table body.

·      Figures should be submitted separately as high-resolution TIFF/JPG or power point slide.

·      Photo should be submitted separately in electronic format (TIFF/JPG).