File formats for publications

Research articles should be published as PDF-Files. We recommend using PDF/A. Instructions for Creating PDF files can be found here: Creating PDF Files

Avoid special characters in names of files and folders. These characters hamper compatibility because they lead to undesired effects depending on the operating system

• Avoid the following characters:
  • \ / ? : * " > < | : # % " { } | ^ [ ] ` ~ as well as blanks
  • Non ASCII characters such as ¢ ™ ® , umlauts (ä ö ü), diacritics such as à é ô etc.
• The following ASCII characters are permitted:
  • ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz0123456789
• We are currently not aware of problems with the folllowing characters:
  • ! $ & ' ( ) + , - . ; = @ _