Instructions to authors for submitting to SILAP 2018 R.S. Marjoribanks1, and H.M. Milchberg2

1 Department of Physics, University of Toronto, 60 Saint George St., Toronto, ON M5S-1A7, Canada 2 Department of Physics, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742-4111, USA

Corresponding author: silap2018@physics.utoronto.ca

AbstractThis document provides the template for the one-page summary to be submitted to SILAP 2018. It starts with a short abstract, which should not exceed a length of 100 words. This page will be displayed in the printed version of the conference program (conference digest). The name of the person who will present the paper at the conference (who is not necessarily the first author) should be underlined.

General Information If accepted, this one-page summary will be

provided in electronic form to the conference attendees on a USB key.

The maximum length for this submission document is 1 page. Please use the following webpage to download the abstract submission files: SILAP2018AbstractTemplate. The abstract document will be converted into PDF document online.

Template information

Please use this Microsoft Word template. LibreOffice is capable of editing this and re-saving in .doc format. Before submitting, you are strongly encouraged to double-check that the abstract is correctly formatted and readable. Abstracts should be in US Letter format (8.5 inches x 11 inches, i.e., 215 by 280 mm). All text and figures must fit within side, top, and bottom margins of 2 cm. Use 11-pt Times New Roman default font or a similar font throughout the abstract. The body text is typed in two-column format with 0.75-cm column separation. The text should be single-spaced and the first line of each paragraph should be indented 3 spaces.

The title should be typed in 14-pt boldface letters and centred. If necessary, use a second line, single-spaced just below the first.

Please insert a short abstract (16 cm wide) at the beginning of the text. Use 0.75-cm spaced lines with 9-pt Roman font for this abstract.

Figure InformationGive each figure a separate and concise caption

(see Fig. 1), in 10-pt font size.

Fig. 1. ELFIE (LULI) intense second-harmonic optical scattering from nanowire targets, showing insufficient ultra-intense laser contrast [1].

Reference InformationReferences in the text should be indicated using

numerals in square brackets [1]. The list of references in 9-pt size letters follows the last line of the text. Authors’ names are first presented, followed by the name of the journal in italic, the volume in bold text, the page and finally the year of publication in parenthesis.

References[1] R.S. Marjoribanks et al., private communication (2016).