The conference proceedings will appear in the Open Access Journal of Physics: Conference Series (JPCS), which is part of IOP Conference Series. All papers published in IOP Conference Series are fully citable and upon publication will be free to download in perpetuity. The journal articles are abstracted in Conference Proceedings Citation Index – Science (CPCI-S) (Thomson Reuters, Web of Science), Compendex, Scopus, Inspec, Chemical Abstracts Service, International Nuclear Information System (INIS), NASA Astrophysics Data System, SPIRES, and VINITI Abstracts Journal (Referativnyi Zhurnal).

Important: please read before you submit a paper

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The licence terms and conditions are available online.

Where to send your paper

Manuscripts, prepared according to the author guidelines, should be added and submitted for reviewing through the conference site at the section Contribution using the assigned user identifier.

When to send your paper

	Adding a manuscript	Submitting the manuscript for reviewing
Regular article	Before 23:59:59 GMT on January 15, 2016	Before 23:59:59 GMT on February 1, 2016
Post-Deadline Article of 1st Type	Before 23:59:59 GMT on March 15, 2016	Before 23:59:59 GMT on March 15, 2016
Post-Deadline Article of 2nd Type	Before 23:59:59 GMT on April 1, 2016	Before 23:59:59 GMT on April 1, 2016

Preparing your paper

Authors are asked to prepare their papers using LaTeX, according to the journal guidelines and templates, and then convert these files to PDF. If you are not familiar with LaTeX, please read Not so Short Introduction to LaTeX2e (opens a new window, size 2.3 Mb). Full instructions on preparing your paper, along with templates, can be found here. As a template for your article you can use the file JPCSLaTeXGuidelines.tex, which can be found at the same archive LaTeXTemplates3.zip. The result of compilation of the file JPCSLaTeXGuidelines.tex in PDF format can be downloaded here.

The number of pages in the article is unlimited.

It is important to ensure that when you submit your paper, it is in its final form ready for publication, and has been thoroughly proofread. IOP do not copyedit papers and will not send out author proofs prior to publication. Please note: post-publication changes are not usually permitted, unless there are exceptional circumstances, so please ensure your paper has been checked for errors.

Attention! Before preparing your paper, please learn the rules how to format your paper correctly (in Russian).

What you need to provide

The PDF file of your paper: when preparing your paper ensure that you follow the author guidelines. When preparing your paper please check that:
- Paper size is European A4.
- Margins are at least 25mm all round.
- The paper includes the author name and affiliation (full address including country).
- There are no page numbers, or headers and footers, within the paper.
- The PDF is free of formatting errors (e.g. corrupt equations, missing or poor resolution figures), since conversion from Word to PDF can introduce formatting errors.
- Text is single spaced, not double spaced.
- The PDF file is editable and not password protected.
- All pages are portrait (landscape pages should be rotated).
- Reference lists are checked for accuracy. References can only be linked via CrossRef if they are correct and complete.
- Figures are placed within the text, not collected at the end of the document.
- A thorough proof read is conducted to check standard of English and ensure wording is clear and concise.
- Ensure that your paper includes an abstract.
Any multimedia files you wish to publish online
- JPCS encourages authors to submit multimedia files to enhance the online versions of published research articles.

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