Proceedings

Proceedings of the 6th International Workshop on Surface Physics “Functional Materials” will be published by Elsevier in the journal Applied Surface Science. Guest Editors of this issue are Grażyna Antczak, Robert Kucharczyk and Leszek Markowski. Applied Surface Science is Elsevier's journal devoted to applied physics and chemistry of surfaces and interfaces. For details, please visit http://www.journals.elsevier.com/applied-surface-science.

We invite you to contribute to the IWSP-2013 Proceedings. Papers should represent original and not previously published work within the scope of Applied Surface Science. Manuscripts based on the invited lectures are welcome to present a wider context and possibly contain some perspective view. The usual style and format requirements of the journal should be met. In preparing your manuscript, we direct your attention to the 'Guide for Authors' available at http://www.elsevier.com/journals/applied-surface-science/0169-4332/guide-for-authors.

However, we would like to stress out the following specific requisites:

• ONE SUBMISSION PER PRESENTING AUTHOR:
  As a rule, every presenting author is permitted to submit only one contribution to the Proceedings, despite the actual number of their accepted conference presentations. Of course, they may co-author more than one proceedings paper, providing that the other contributions are presented and submitted by other IWSP-2013 participants.
• RESTRICTED MANUSCRIPT LENGTH:
  Due to constrained total volume of the Proceedings issue, papers should be limited to about 10 printed journal pages per invited and about 6 printed pages per contributed paper.
• SUBMISSION PROCEDURE:
  All submissions must be done via Elsevier’s Editorial System (EES) at http://ees.elsevier.com/apsusc/. To ensure that all manuscripts are correctly identified for inclusion into the special issue containing the IWSP-2013 Proceeedings, it is important that you select “SI:IWSP-2013” when you reach the “Article Type” step in the submission process. NOTE: Submission window for the IWSP-2013 Proceedings will be open as of September 1, 2013.
• SUBMISSION DEADLINE:
  All papers should be submitted by September 30, 2013. In order to publish the IWSP-2013 Proceedings in a timely fashion, we ask all authors to meet this deadline strictly.

All contributions to the IWSP-2013 Proceedings will be refereed according to the regular peer review procedure of Applied Surface Science. We encourage you to provide a list of potential referees when submitting your manuscript.

Should you have any questions concerning the manuscript preparation and/or the publication procedure, please do not hesitate to contact Dr. Robert Kucharczyk (rku@ifd.uni.wroc.pl) representing the guest-editorial team.

We look forward to your contribution.

Grażyna Antczak, Robert Kucharczyk and Leszek Markowski,
Guest Editors of the IWSP-2013 Proceedings