A contract with the Astronomical Society of the Pacific (http://www.astrosociety.org/index.html) has been arranged to publish the proceedings  of our conference.

Talk Contributions:
We will have ample space for including the high number of talks in our proceedings. Since we  have just two basic types of talks ("normal" talks of 20 minutes and review talks of 40 minutes length), we intend to scale the written contributions as follows:

Review talks :  10 - 12 pages
Normal talks :      6 - 8 pages

Although we refrained from the more and more popular policy to request the written contributions already before the conference, we want to publish the proceedings fast. Therefore, we need the cooperation from the authors. Please plan some time for writing your contribution within two months after the end of the conference.

DEADLINE: November 23, 2007

This will help us a lot in order to obey the tight schedule given to us by the ASP publishers.
The contributions have to be written in LaTeX, the figures should preferentially be done as encapsulated postscript files (eps). We provide here a zip file containing a template LaTeX file to be used by the authors, the ASP style file, and some documentation: MSF07.zip
(Note that the style file is slightly altered by us according to the latest recommendations recently given by the ASP publishers. Therefore, it might not be identical to the one downloadable on the ASP homepage.)

You can submit your final paper either via ftp:
ftp ftp.mpia-hd.mpg.de
Login as anonymous with your email as password.
cd pub/MSF07/incoming
Put your paper there as a single tar-file with a name clearly identifying the author. Please, send a confirmation email to beuther(at)mpia.de. If the files are not too large, you can also directly submit them via email to beuther(at)mpia.de.

PLEASE NOTE: Figures and images will be printed in black & white, unless the authors explicitly ask for colour printing. Note that images may be printed in colour at a cost of $975.00 for the first image in the volume and $500.00 for each additional image. These additional costs have to be covered by the authors of the contribution. So, choose wisely if colour is really necessary.  (For uploading your contribution to the preprint server it is of course at your discretion to use a colour version of your graphics.)

FURTHERMORE NOTE, that for the proceedings contribution to be published in printed form, we need a filled out and signed copyright form from you.  The copyright form is included as a PDF document in the above mentioned MSF07.zip archive file. The first author should fill out the form. Use as title for the proceedings: "Massive Star Formation: Observations confront Theory", H. Beuther et al. (eds.).
You can fax the form to us. Our fax number is: +49 (0)6221 528 246
Please mark clearly on a cover page, that the fax is  c/o H. Beuther/MSF07 to avoid confusion, since this fax machine is used by many people at MPIA.


Poster Contributions:
Due to the high number poster contributions registered, it will not be possible to include these in the printed version of the proceedings. However, pdf-files of the posters will be made available on our conference website. The posters are a substantial contribution to our conference. To highlight this further, there was a Poster Summary Talk by Malcolm Walmsley at the end of the conference, and the two creators of the best posters (chosen by a small committee) have been given the opportunity to give a short oral presentation of the poster content after the Poster Summary Talk.