Instructions to Authors

Authors wishing to submit articles to be considered for publication in the Journal should send them as an e-mail attachment to: journal@publicuni.org

Manuscripts should be sent in Microsoft Word, RTF, or WordPerfect format, and be between should be between 4500 and 6000 words in length. A short abstract of the article and author contact details should be supplied as well.

The Journal uses Australian spelling and grammar conventions.

Articles should use no more than two levels of heading. The use of bullet-points, or other forms of point listing, is discouraged in favour of a discursive statement of ideas the author wishes to convey.

Authors are requested to keep to an absolute minimum the styling and formatting functions of the word processing software they use. If figures or diagrams are to be included in the article, they should be sent as separate attachments in "gif", "jpg" or "png" format. If the article will include tables, these should be constructed using the table-building functions available in most word processing software, rather than being constructed manually.

Citation Format:

The Journal uses a modified Chicago style for references and for the formatting of bibliographies. Notes should be included at the bottom of the page. A bibliography should be included at the end of the article.

Footnotes:

Journal articles:

²³ John Smith, “Twenty Things to Do With String,” The Fibres and Filaments Journal, volume 23, issue 5, Winter, 2003, pp.15-16.

Books:

²⁴ John Smith, Twenty Things to do With String: A Reading of the Fibrous and Filamentary. (Melbourne: Cognoscenti Press, 2003), pp.15-16.

²⁵John Smith, “Twenty Things to do With String,” The Fibres and Filaments Journal, volume 23, issue 5, Winter, 2003, pp.15-16.

Subsequent references:

Immediately thereafter:

Ibid. or Ibid., p.17.

Cited later, but with an interim citation of other sources:

Op. cit., Smith, p.17.

If more than one source cited has been authored by the same person:

Op. cit., Smith, “Twenty Things,” p.17.

Internet-sourced materials:

Internet-sourced materials should be cited using the conventions for print-based sources, but be followed by the URL where they were located and the date of the researcher accessed the site in question:

²³ John Smith, “Twenty Things to do With String,” http://www.unidracht.de/contrib/Smith.html, accessed 31/01/2002.

Bibliographic entries:

Bloggs, Joseph. Reading Across the Woof: Deconstructing the Culture of Fibriosity. Melbourne: Cognoscenti Press, 2001.

Bloggs, Joseph. Reading Across the Warp: A Reconsideration of the Deconstruction of the Culture of Fibriosity. Melbourne: Cognoscenti Press, 2002.

Smith, John. “Twenty Things to do With String,” The Fibres and Filaments Journal, volume 23, issue 5, Winter, 2003, pp.9-28.

Multiple authors:

Smith, John and Joseph Bloggs, Towards an Understanding the Fibriosity Debate. Melbourne: Cognoscenti Press, 2003.