Paper Requirements

11th International Conference
Teaching mathematics: retrospective and perspectives

May 6 - 7, 2010, Daugavpils, Latvia

Submission

The papers must be submittted electronically as email attachments. The filename of the submitted paper should contain the last name of the first author.

Submission address: tm2010@du.lv

Ssubmission deadline: September 1, 2010.

General typesetting guidelines

Please prepare and submit the paper according to the following requirements:

• language: English
• size: do not exceed 8 pages (including heading, abstract and references)
• file format: Microsoft Word
• page size: A4
• margins: 2,5 cm
• row spacing: single
• heading: title (letter size 14pt, bold, centered), author or list authors with the affiliation (letter size 12pt, full name and surname, institution, address of the institution, email address),
• abstract: short description of the problem under investigation and the author’s contribution (letter size 12pt, justified),
• subtitles: introduction, goals, methods, conclusions etc. (letter size 12pt, justified),
• references (letter size 10pt, see pattern below).

Reference guidelines

References should be given according to the following pattern:

• for a journal paper:

[N1] Author F.N., Coauthor F.N. (year) Title of the paper. Title of the journal, volume number, page numbers.

• for a conference paper:

[N2] Author F.N., Coauthor F.N. (year) Title of the paper. In Editor F.N, Coeditor F.N. (Eds.) Title of the conference proceedings (vol. volume number, pp. page numbers). Place of publishing: publisher.

• for a monograph or book:

[N3] Author F.N., Coauthor F.N. (year) Title of the book. Place of publishing: publisher.

References in the Latin alphabet must be sorted in the alphabetic order by the last name of the first author. References in the Latin alphabet may be followed by references in other alphabets sorted in the respective alphabetic orders. References must be numbered as a single list.

Quality and review

Paper quality, review and publication guidelines:

• papers must contain original and significant research or other activity report  related to mathematical education which has not been published elsewhere,
• a resarch paper must contain the research goals or hypotheses, the research plan and metods, results and conclusions,
• an activity or historical paper must contain a detailed desctiption of the subject and conclusions,
• papers must be complete, proofread and prepared for publication,
• papers which do not satisfy the above preparation (typesetting) requirements will not be accepted,
• papers satisfying the requirements will be rewieved by the editorial committee which will take the decision about the publication of selected papers in the conference proceedings.