Author Checklist before submitting
a paper.
1.
Read the instructions below carefully;
2.
Use the referencing and citation style of JRPIT;
3.
Provide a PDF or ASCII Postscript file;
4.
Provide a classification of your paper according to the ACM
Computing Classification Scheme;
5.
Suggest the most appropriate Associate Editor to handle your
paper;
6.
Suggest up to 5 referees (not Associate Editors) for your paper.
If your paper is accepted for
publication in JRPIT, you will be then asked:
1.
To sign a Copyright Transfer Form;
2.
Provide your manuscript in Microsoft Word or LaTeX format;
3.
Provide a hard copy of your manuscript;
4.
Provide a short narrative biographical note (about 100 words);
5.
Provide a high resolution (at least 300dpi) passport
style photograph in jpeg format;
The Journal of Research and Practice in
Information Technology (JRPIT) is published quarterly by the Australian
Computer Society and invites original contributions in all areas of Information
Technology including Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information
Systems, Computer Systems, Information Engineering, and
Telecommunications. These may be
research papers, expository tutorial papers, industry case studies, book
reviews, or short communications.
Each paper should comply with accepted
practice, style and organisation for scientific papers; must be in English; and
must be certified by the author that it is his or her own original work, that
it has not been copyrighted, published or submitted for publication elsewhere.
If the work described has been sponsored, the paper must be cleared for publication
by the sponsoring organisation. Each author is asked to agree to assign
copyright for the paper to the Australian Computer Society Incorporated. Where
there is more than one author, each should sign the agreement regarding
copyright.
Papers are submitted to the Editor-in-Chief,
who will normally pass the paper on to an Associate Editor. The Associate
Editor will decide if the paper is likely to be suitable for publication in
this Journal and if appears to be, it will be formally evaluated for accuracy,
originality and relevance by at least two referees. The refereeing process may take up to six
months, and occasionally longer.
The first page should contain the title,
author information (which should include affiliation, postal and email contact
addresses), abstract and cross-referencing information. The title of the paper
should characterise the contents of the paper in as short a span as possible.
Author names should include no titles or degrees. If there is more than one
author, the principal author should be listed first. For each author, a
sufficient postal address (possibly including the name of an employer) should
be supplied. The abstract should be informative and summarise the paper as
concisely as possible in about 100 words.
Since an abstract may be republished
separately, it should contain no uncommon acronyms, footnotes or reference
citations. Cross-referencing information should consist of a list of Key Words
and Phrases, and a classification of the paper according to the ACM Computing Classification
System.
The main text should be clearly written and
preferably follow the English conventions for spelling and punctuation.
Subheadings and paragraphs should be clearly shown. Major and minor sections
may be numbered at the author's discretion. Footnotes should not be used.
(Reference citations should conform to the Harvard style with Author and Editor
names capitalised - see below).
Tables should be constructed carefully and
should be numbered consecutively. Each table should have a brief explanatory
heading, and column headings should be brief and clear. Camera-ready copies for
each figure, diagram or flow chart should be supplied. Drawings should be about
twice the expected finished size. Legends and labels should be clearly drawn,
positioned suitably and large enough to remain legible after reduction.
Programs that illustrate the text or that convey important algorithms may be
published. The proper location for each table and figure should be noted in the
margin of the text.
Careful adherence to the Journal's style for
citation and quotation of references is required. This is the Harvard style and
has several advantages; the citations are not intrusive, they are often enough
for the reader to recognise the work without further effort, and they may be
added or deleted easily during drafting without disturbing any prearranged
numbering scheme.
Citations in the main text should be made as
in the following examples: 'It was shown by Agrewal et al. (1996) that...' or
'It has been shown elsewhere (Fayyed, 2001) that...' or 'It may be shown (e.g.
see Knuth, 1973a) that...'. Note that the citation is
composed of the author's last name and the year of publication. Where this is
ambiguous, different works by the author(s) in the same year are distinguished
by adding a single lower case letter to the year.
Only one level of parenthesis is used. The
author's name appears outside the parentheses if the reference is direct, or
inside if the reference is indirect. In the latter case, the name and year are
separated by a comma. If there are two authors, both names are used. If there
are three or more authors, then names for all authors should appear in the
initial citation but subsequent citations may be abbreviated by replacing the
second and later author narnes by the phrase 'et al.'.
Thus, for example, a second citation of the book 'Newey, Stanton and Wolfendale
(1978)' may be made as 'Newey et al. (1978)'.
References to unpublished works or private
communications should be avoided. If these are desired, they should appear
within the main text as e.g. 'Lone and Ryder (to appear)' or 'F.G. Smith
(private communication)'. No accompanying entry should appear in the final
reference list unless publication has already been arranged. Electronic sources
should list author, title, URL and date accessed.
Full details for all references cited in the
text (and no others) should be given in a Reference section at the end of the
paper. Each entry must be sufficient to allow an ordinary reader to locate the
reference without undue difficulty. Entries should be arranged so that the
textual citations can be located readily, i.e. ordered alphabetically by author
name and then year. The following illustrates the style of a reference list:
References
ALLEN, J.F. (1983): Maintaining knowledge about temporal intervals. Communications
of the ACM 26(11):832-843.
AGRAWAL, R., IMIELINSKI, T. and SWAMI, A. (1993): Mining Association Rules
Between Sets of Items in Large Databases. Proc. ACM SIGMOD International
Conference on Management of Data,
BIRD, R. and WADLER, P. (1988): Introduction to functional programming. Prentice-Hall.
BRODIE, M.L. and RIDJANOVIC, D. (1984): On the design and specification of
database transactions. In On Conceptual Modelling
Perspectives from Artificial Intelligence Databases and Programming Languages.
BRODIE, M.L., MYLOPOULOS, J. and SCHMIDT, J.W. (eds).
CLIFFORD, J. (1982): A logical framework for the temporal semantics and natural
language querying of historical databases. Ph.D. thesis.
HAN, J., ZAIANE, O.R. and FU, Y. (1994): Resource and Knowledge Discovery in
Global Information Systems: A Multiple Layered Database Approach. Technical Report CSS/LCCR TR94-24. Database Systems
Laboratory, School of Computing Science,
MYSQL. (2001): The MySQL System. http://www.mysql.com.
Accessed
STONEBRAKER, M. (ed) (1994):
ZOBEL, J. and DART, P. (2000): Partitioning Number Sequences into Optimal
Subsequences. Journal of Research and Practice in Information Technology
32(2):121-129.
Authors are responsible for ensuring the
accuracy of all details of all references quoted. Author names are capitalised (for
prominence) with initials following the principal name; the year of publication
is enclosed in parentheses and followed by a fullstop. For books and
monographs, the fullstop is followed by the title (underlined or italicised ), a page reference (if appropriate), the name of
the publisher, and the place of publication. For journal articles the fullstop
is followed by the full title of the article (not underlined and without
quotation marks), the name, or a standard abbreviation for the name, of the journal
(underlined or italicised ), the volume number, the
issue number within the volume, and the page number, range (introduced by the
symbol 'pp.'). Journal titles appearing in citations should be abbreviated in
accordance with accepted standards.
When a paper is accepted, authors will be
required to provide (i) an electronic version of the paper, (ii) a hard copy of
the paper, and (iii) any original versions of photos, artwork etc.
Each author is asked to supply a short
narrative biographical note (about 100 words) and a high resolution (at least 300dpi) passport
style photograph in jpeg format for publication.
Papers that are accepted for publication will
be typeset and, shortly before publication, a proof copy will be sent for
checking to the (first) author. Symbols for correcting proofs may be found in
the Style Manual published by the Commonwealth Government Printer, Canberra,
pp.76-79 or, more conveniently, as neatly summarised by Conrad Taylor in PDF here.
Authors should note that proof reading is intended to correct errors introduced
by the editing and typesetting processes. Extensive changes or additions to an
article introduced during proof reading may delay publication and be charged to
the author. Corrected proofs must be returned promptly or publication cannot be
guaranteed.
Fifty reprints of articles and a copy of the
final journal issue will be supplied free of charge.
The acceptance
and copyright form must be completed and sent hardcopy to the
Editor-in-Chief.
Professor
Sidney Morris, Editor-in-Chief
Journal of Research and Practice in
E-mail: jrpit@ballarat.edu.au
Authors are encouraged to submit their
papers electronically. Electronic submissions
are acceptable only in PDF or ASCII postscript. Authors are advised to send
both formats, if possible.
If sending files electronically is difficult
for some reason, send four copies of the paper to the Editor-in-Chief .
There should be a covering letter which
includes the names and addresses of all authors and suggests which of the
Associate Editors is most appropriate to select referees for your paper.
If you feel that it will be difficult to find
referees for your paper, you are encouraged to suggest the names of about 5
competent referees (although there is no guarantee that any of these referees
will be used).