NOTICE TO AUTHORS

ROMANIAN ASTRONOMICAL JOURNAL appears twice a year and is open to original contributions in Astronomy and related disciplines. The contributions – in English or French – can be accepted only if they were neither published before nor destined to another publication.

Manuscripts should, preferably, be submitted as e-mail attachments to roaj@aira.astro.ro, to the Editor in Chief (vmioc@aira.astro.ro), or to one of the members of the Editorial Board.

They must be written in a well-known editor, preferably a recent version of Word. Authors who cannot submit an electronic version of their manuscript should sent it to the Editorial Board. In this case two copies of the manuscript (along with the text of the article on floppy disk) are required. The first page should contain: article’s title (brief and informative), author’s name and affiliation, followed by an Abstract in English and Key words. The text should be clear and concise (it is recommended not to exceed 10 pages). The Abstract will present clearly the principal conclusions on the work, in no more than 10–15 lines.

Chapters and Paragraphs. Papers, except short notes, should be divided into chapters, numbered by Arabic numerals. Chapters may be divided into paragraphs denoted by the number of the chapter and the number of the paragraph; each chapter and each paragraph should have a short descriptive title (e.g. "3.2. Results").

Formulae have to be centered and numbered consecutively in Arabic numerals, too, but included in brackets on the right-hand side of the manuscript.

Tables should be numbered consecutively in Arabic numerals; they should be introduced in the text at their appropriate place.

Figures and Illustrations should be submitted separately, in such a form as to permit reproduction without retouching. Any lettering should be large enough to be legible after the figure has been reduced in size for printing. Captions should be introduced in the text at their appropriate place. All figures should be numbered consecutively in Arabic numerals and referred to in the text, e.g. Fig. 2 or Figs. 2–5. Photographs should be given only if essential and should be enlarged enough to permit clear reproduction.

References are indicated in the text by the author’s name and year of publication. They should be listed in alphabetic and chronologic order at the end of the paper, as follows: name and initials of the author(s), year of publication, suitable abbreviation of the journal (or title of the book and editing house), its volume and page.

The fonts to be used are: 11 for the text proper, 13 for the paper title, 9 for author's name and affiliation, abstract, key words, titles of chapters and paragraphs, figure captions, tables, running titles, and references.

Detailed instructions for the preparation of manuscripts can be found at http://www.astro.ro/~roaj. See model form.

Please pay attention to these recommendations; the manuscripts that do not observe them will be returned to the authors.