Only authors of accepted
abstracts or authors of invited papers are allowed to submit full papers.
Submitted manuscripts may
take the form of reports of original studies or reviews of significant
prior work in a given area. All manuscripts are subject to reviews
to assure accuracy, clarity, and long-term value.
Manuscripts
are to be submitted in the style and format out-lined below and in
electronic format only. Manuscripts should be submitted on-line
via upload-form at www.rio12.com.
All authors must sign the "Transfer of Copyright" agreement before
the article can be published. This transfer agreement enables Rio Solar Ltd
to protect the copyrighted material for the authors, but does not relinquish
the author's proprietary rights. The copyright transfer covers the exclusive
rights to reproduce and distribute the article, including reprints, photographic
reproductions, microfilm or any other reproductions of similar nature and translations.
This includes the right to adapt the article for use in conjunction with computer systems and programs, including reproduction or publication in machine-readable form and incorporation in retrieval systems. Authors are responsible for obtaining from the copyright holder permission to reproduce any figures for which copyright exists.
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General
The text of each paper must
be single-spaced, single column, with margins of 2.5 cm on each side,
and a font size of 12 pt is required. Paper size is A4. The font
should be Times or Times Roman. The corresponding author should be
identified (including a fax number and e-mail address). Full postal
addresses must be given for all co-authors. The article should not
exceed six pages.
Abstract
The essential contents of
each paper must be briefly recapitulated in an abstract. References
should not appear in the Abstract.
Text
Each manuscript should be presented
in the following order: Title, Authors, Affiliations, Abstract, Keywords,
Main text, Acknowledgements, Appendix, References. The text should
be organized under appropriate section headings (single numbers should
be used for headings of main sections, two or three numbers, separated
by a dot, should be used for to indicate subheadings e.g. 1.2 or 1.2.2).
All headings should be placed on the left-hand side of the text, with
a single line space above and below.
Main headings should be in bold. All measurements should be given in metric (SI) units.
The corresponding author should be identified with an asterisk and footnote. The technical description of the methods used should only be given in detail when such methods are new, although it can be presented in the appendix.
Appendix
Mathematical analyses and
other material, the details of which are subordinate to the main theme
of the paper, should normally be put into one or more appendices. Equations
in appendices are labelled (A1), (A2), etc. Figures and Tables are
labelled with an "A" as well (Fig. A1, Table A1).
References
All publications cited in
the text should be presented in a list of references following the
text of the manuscript. In the text refer to references with the author's
name (without initials) and year of publication (e.g. Henderson, 1982).
For three or more authors, use the first author followed by "et
al.", in the text (e.g. Davis et al., 1996). The list of references
should be arranged alphabetically by authors' names. The manuscript
should be carefully checked to ensure that the spelling of authors'
names and dates are exactly the same in the text as in the reference
list.
For journal references:
Feugard, D.C., Abner, R., Wayland, D., 1994. Modelling daylight illuminance.
J. Climate Appl. Meterol. 23, 93-109.
For books:
Duffie, J.A., Beckman, W.A., 1991. Solar Engineering of Thermal Processes,
second ed. Wiley Interscience, New York, pp. 54-59.
For chapters in edited books:
Marcus, B.C., Nemo, A., 1992. Estimation of total solar radiation from cloudiness
in Spain. In: Winchester, F., Yu, S., Pfaff, S.W., Major, K. (Eds.), Global
Solar Radiation, vol. 2. Raven Press, New York, pp. 1393-1399.
Page(s) in a Proceedings:
Weber, D.J., Hess, W.M., 1985. Simple solar model for direct and diffuse irradiance.
In: Bilgen, E., Hollands, K.G.T. (Eds.), Proceedings of ISES® World Congress,
Montreal, Canada, pp. 123-132.
Tables
All tables should be numbered
and should have a caption. Rows of tables should be separated by of
horizontal lines, with a bold line after the first row. Vertical lines
should be avoided. Each table must be referred to in the text. Column
heads and units of measure must be clearly indicated. Tables (along
with their footnotes or captions) should be completely intelligible
without reference to the text.
Illustrations
All illustrations should
be provided in suitable for reproduction (with a resolution of 300
dpi for photos and 600 dpi for line graphs). Photographs, charts and
diagrams are all to be referred to as "Figure(s)" and should
be numbered consecutively in the order to which they are referred.
Each figure must be provided with a caption that permits the figure
to be understood without reference to the text.
All authors must sign the "Transfer of Copyright" agreement before
the article can be published. This transfer agreement enables Rio Solar Ltd
to protect the copyrighted material for the authors, but does not relinquish
the author's proprietary rights. The copyright transfer covers the exclusive
rights to reproduce and distribute the article, including reprints, photographic
reproductions, microfilm or any other reproductions of similar nature and translations.
This includes the right to adapt the article for use in conjunction with computer systems and programs, including reproduction or publication in machine-readable form and incorporation in retrieval systems. Authors are responsible for obtaining from the copyright holder permission to reproduce any figures for which copyright exists.
Agreement for Transfer of Copyright (PDF)