INSTRUCTION FOR CONTRIBUTORS 

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Contributions should be (preferably) in English, French or German.
Under the paper title, the name(s) of the author(s) should be given while the full name, official title, institute or company affiliation and the like should be placed at the end of the paper together with the exact mail and e-mail address, as well as short (running) title of paper.
Manuscript format. A brief abstract of approximately 100 to 150 words in the same language and a list of up to six key words should precede the text body of the manuscript. All the authors apart from foreign ones should also submit a complete manuscript in Serbian. Manuscripts should be prepared as doc. file, Word version 6.0 or higher. Manuscript should be prepared using a Word template (downloaded from web address http://facta.junis.ni.ac.rs/mech/mech.htm).
Manuscript length. Brief articles and discussions (10 pages or less) are encouraged. Otherwise, papers should present well-focused arguments of approximately 16 pages.
Style requirements.  Letters, figures and symbols should be clearly denoted.
Equations should be typewritten and, with the number, placed in parentheses at the right margin. References to equations should be in the form "Eq. (2)" or simply (2). For equations that cannot be entered in a single line, use the Equation Editor in MS Word.  In equations and in the text, italicize symbols that are used to represent variables or parameters, including subscripts and superscripts. Only use characters and symbols that are available in the Equation Editor, in the Symbol font or in Times New Roman.  
All illustrations (figures, photographs, line drawings, graphs) should be numbered in series and all legends should be included at the bottom of each illustration. All figures, photographs, line drawings and graphs, should be prepared in electronic form and converted in TIFF or JPG (max quality) file types, in 300 dpi resolution, for superior reproduction. Figures, line drawings and graphs prepared using elements of MS Drawing or MS Graph must be converted in form of pictures and unchangeable. All illustrations should be planned in advance so as to allow reduction to 12.75 cm in column width. Please review all illustrations to ensure that they are readable.
All tables should be numbered with consecutive Arabic numbers. They should have descriptive captions at the top of each table and should be mentioned in the text.
The references should be numbered in the order in which they appear in the text, at the end of the manuscript, in the same way as the following examples (a paper in a journal, for a book, paper in a contributed volume and for an unpublished paper):
Reference to a journal publication:  
Kozin, F., Milstead, R. M., 1979, The Stability of a Moving Elastic Strip Subjected to Random Parametric Excitation, ASME Journal of Applied Mechanics, 46, pp. 404-410  
Reference to a book:  
Timoshenko, S., 1936, Theory of Elastic Stability, McGraw-Hill, New York.  
Reference to a chapter in an edited book:  
Chen, W. F., Atsnta, T., 1976, Elastic Restrained Beams, pp. 89-96, Theory of Beam-Columns, Vol.2: Space Behavior and Design, McGraw-Hill, New York  
Conference proceedings:  
Parks, P. C., Pritchard, A. J., 1969, On the Construction and Use of Liapunov Functionals, Proc. Fourth IFAC Congress, Technical Session 20, Warszawa, pp. 59-73.
Electronic submission. Papers for consideration should be submitted to the Series Editor in electronic form via the Internet. Please e-mail attached files (maximum size of message is 3 Mb) with Subject Header "Submission for Facta Universitatis, Series Mechanics" to: facta@ni.ac.rs
Manuscripts are not returnable. Contributors should keep a copy for reference.

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