Authors Guidelines

Please send text and figures as separate files.

Specialist Articles
The text should be no longer than 5 pages DIN A 4 (referring to courier 12 point or similar = 20,000 characters). The articles in our journal start with an abstract consisting of three or four sentences summarising content and results. The first section should outline the goal of the investigations. The last section should contain final remarks e. g. about the relevance for practice or necessary further investigations. It should not be a summary.

Mentioning of companies or products can only be used in a general context of the investigation as they were part of the project.

Please, limit the number of figures and tables to seven. Files should be tif-, bmp or jpg format (uncompressed) in 300 dpi.

Reports
The text should be no longer than 2½ pages DIN A 4 (referring to courier 12 point or similar = 10,000 characters). These articles are usually dealing with the application of joining and cutting. The article must be free of publicity content. Companies and/or product names should only be included if necessary for the understanding.
Please, limit the number of figures and tables to seven. Files should be tif-, bmp or jpg format (uncompressed) in 300 dpi.

From Companies
The text shouldn't be longer than about 1 page DIN A 4 (referring to courier 12 point or similar = 6,000 characters). These articles are usually dealing with the application of joining and cutting in relation to company's products and technology. Companies names and product names can be used in the article. Please, limit the number of figures and tables to three. Files should be tif-, bmp or jpg format (uncompressed) in 300 dpi.