The manuscript should be prepared in 1.5 spaced text, 12-point Times New Roman font, numbered pages with all margins 2.5 cm wide. Acceptable manuscript format is MS Word, pdf is not allowed. Manuscript length Manuscripts should be no longer than about 6500 words (16 A4 pages of 1.5 line spaced text). Manuscript structure Title, Keywords, Introduction, Experimental procedure, Results, Discussion, Conclusions, References, Correspondence address Please, leave a blank line between each paragraph. Section headings Main headings should be in bold with the first initial letter capitalized. Sub-headings should not be in bold or italic. All sections of the manuscript, starting with the Introduction, should be numbered in the style 1. 2. 2.1. 2.2. etc. Language The publication language is English. Illustrations Images should be delivered in separate files. Recommend formats: TIFF, EPS, high quality JPG, GIF, or MS Office files – Powerpoint, Word, Excel. Images cannot be accepted in pdf files. Suggested resolutions: for TIFF and MS Office - resolution of ≥1000 dpi for line images, ≥300 dpi for grey-scale and colour images and ≥500 dpi for combinations of line and grey-scale. Details of manuscript structure The first page should contain: author names, affiliations, manuscript title, abstract and keywords only. Author names Please use full first and last names of all authors. Affiliations Should include the name, town and country, not a full postal address: Zbigniew Kowalskia, Piotr Nowakb a Department, Institution, Town, Country (no street names & numbers or postcodes) b Department, Institution, Town, Country Short and informative title of the manuscript Please use words in lower case and bold font. First letter of first word should be capitalized. The title is followed by the abstract without the heading “Abstract”. No abbreviations are allowed in the abstract section. The abstract should not be longer than 10 lines. Keywords: Keyword1; …………..; Keyword5 Please indicate max. of 5 keywords; first letter of the keyword should be capitalized; not italic The main text of manuscript should start on page 2. If considered appropriate, the “Results” and “Discussion” sections can be combined. 1. Introduction 2. Experimental procedure 3. Results 4. Discussion 5. Conclusions The heading “Acknowledgements” should be not used. Please include a short paragraph acknowledging help, support, funding etc. References Journals: [1] J. Kowalski, M. Nowak: Int. J. Mater. Res. 33 (2024) 944. Books: [2] H. Kowalski: Electron Microscopy, Springer-Verlag, Warsaw (2016). Books or proceedings with an editor or editors: [3] R. Kowalski, J. Nowak, in: P. Nowak, T. Kowalski (Eds.), Scanning Electron Microscopy, Vol. 6, VTU, Warsaw (2025) 113. [4] G. Kowalski, J. Nowak, in: P. Kowalska, O. Nowak (Eds.), Proc. Int. Conference of Electron Microscopy, AGH University of Science and Technology, Poland (2014) 212. Internet resources: [5] http://www.em2014.agh.edu.pl Correspondence address: (please delete the italicized headings when adding your details but retain the Tel, Fax and e-mail headings). Academic title and name Full postal address Tel: Fax: e-mail: List of figure and table captions