Following are the physical components required by NADCA from each author for the submittal of a paper. Together, these items make up a complete submission of a paper for review, for publication in TRANSACTIONS, for the Congress Preview in Die Casting Engineer, or other publications and for presentation.

1. ELECTRONIC FILES
NADCA requires that an electronic file in Microsoft Word format containing all text of the paper be submitted through the author website.  

2. FORMATTING
All Papers and PowerPoint Presentations must be submitted using the Templates.

3. GRAPHICS
All graphics should be embedded in the submitted paper. All artwork must be free of commercialism; no company names or trade names should appear on them.

4. CAPTIONS
All captions must be formatted per the Paper Template.

5. FORMULAS
Because formulas require special typesetting and cannot be reproduced from the manuscript, they require special handling in the manuscript. Formulas should be identified by placing a numeral within parenthesis at the end of each formula text.

6. ANIMATIONS
Any animations that are sent for the presentation of the paper must be sent as separate files, not embedded files in PowerPoint or Word. The files need to be an .AVI, .MPEG or .MOV.

7. AUTHOR’S BIOGRAPHY
The author’s biography will appear, together with the abstract, in the NADCA Show Issue. The biography should contain the author's education, previous and current positions and other relevant professional background information such as patents, awards, publications, etc.

NOTE: Papers that do not adhere to the guidelines above will be returned.