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INSTRUCTIONS TO AUTHORS
Text and graphics formats
Text files as well as tables must be submitted in either MS Word for Windows (.doc) or Rich Text Format (.rtf). Most text editors for Windows will save to this format.
Please, do not embed figures, graphs, tables or any other objects in your text.
Graphics (photographs, figures and graphs) will be accepted in the following formats:
- GIF - Graphic Interchange Format
- JPG or JPEG - Joint Photographic Experts Group
- PCX - PC Paintbrush
- BMP - Windows Bit Map
- TIF
- PS - Postscript, and
- EPS - Encapsulated Postscript
None of the vector formats (from Corel Draw, Designer, Autocad, Illustrator, etc.) will be accepted.
Do not include title and caption information with your photographs, figures or graphs.
All caption information and titles must be provided in the List of Attachments as a separate file.
Our electronic journal permits the inclusion of non-text appendices such as video files, computer simulation programs or landsat images. Please note that only a limited number of our subscribers have systems that will support these advanced file formatting.
Document style
Fonts, Spacing and Numbering
The following is recommended:
- a 12-point font, preferably Times although 10-point Arial will be acceptable
- single line spacing throughout
- no page numbers (neither automatic nor manual)
Underlining and Italicization
- text underlining is unacceptable (letters, words or sentences)!
- fonts can be italicized or bold
Footnotes
- automatic headers and footers are not acceptable as they cannot be handled by our journal software
- normal footnotes are not permitted. Any footnotes must be typed on the last page of the manuscript as a text document. Annotation numbers referring to the footnotes in the text of the article should be put in parenthesis in the text e.g. <footnote 11>
Greek characters
- Greek characters (original symbols) are not permitted. They are not supported as symbols by most graphic browsers. All Greek characters are to be written out in full (eg. alpha, beta)
Formatting the Main Body of the Manuscript
The manuscript body submitted in MS Word for Windows or Rich Text Format should contain the following elements:
- Title
- Author's name and surname
- Name of the institution where the author is employed
- Address (email address, telephone or facsimile number, full mailing address, address for correspondence)
- Abstract
- Keywords
- Article
- Literature cited
- List of Attachments
List of Attachments
A List of Attachments to be provided must contain all the files attached together with format, namely:
- tables (.rtf)
- figures (.gif, .jpg)
- graphs (.gif, .jpg)
- photographs (.gif, .jpg)
- caption information (captions under photographs and figures, titles to tables, entries for the figure bars)
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