Instructions to Authors

 

Style Guide

 

Timetable

 

¥ Full papers due June 28th 2004

¥ Response to papers by late July 2004

¥ Revised papers due August 23rd 2004

 

Academic Process

 

LIMITS will have a double blind peer review of the full written paper. At least one of these peers will be external to the conference committee. All papers accepted for presentation will be published in Proceedings, which will be distributed to subscribers and for sale.

 

General instructions

 

¥ The word length for the proceedings is 3,500 with 4000 as a strict limit. This does not including footnotes. Footnotes should be limited to citations where possible.

¥ Include the paper's title but not your name.

¥ You can submit two illustrations with your text. You must have copyright for any images that you send. If the copyright is not yours you must attach a letter from the copyright owner giving permission. If an image is in your copyright state this.

¥ Copyright of your paper and any images of yours will be retained by you. LIMITS will have copyright over the Proceedings as an edited collection

¥ The presentations will be strictly 20 minutes with 10 minutes for questions.

 

Document Form

 

Data Form

¥ Your submission must be in data form, using Microsoft Word 98 or later

¥ Scan your hard disc for viruses before you begin. Start with a new blank document.

¥ Name your computer document using your ID number, which you will see on your abstract. Use the naming form <ID number_LIMITS_paper>

¥ Submit the paper as an email attachment. Put the document name:

<ID number_LIMITS_paper> in the subject line

¥ Submit your paper as a Microsoft Word file attached to an email send to: sahanz04@rmit.edu.au

 

Document layout

¥ The document should be set up with 2cm margins, on single A4 pages. IE: no header or footer, no gutter, no odd/even format, no special first page, no page numbering

¥ Commence the paper with an updated abstract titled "Abstract". This should be as close as possible to 200 words, (on top of the paper word limit). The abstract may be printed separately to the papers so please do not integrate the abstract into your introduction.

¥ Use no styles or hierarchical headings, only use 'normal style' and make this 12 point Times, with 1.5 line spacing. Make paragraph breaks with two returns. Do not use indents, tabs, or 'space before/after' for paragraphs

¥ Quotes longer than 3 lines should be 'blocked' by indenting them by 1cm on the left margin only.

¥ Use italic for bibliographic references or foreign language terms only. Do not use bold, or underlining or vary the font size

 

Footnotes

¥ The notes system used will be endnotes rather than footnotes. Use the Footnote function in Word and set it to 'endnotes', with an Arabic numbering from 1. Do not use Bibliographic software such as Endnote to format your citations. Endnote will leave in control characters, which could make layout difficult

¥ The Citation Style is that used by the SAHANZ Journal Fabrications.

 

Bibliographical Formatting Examples

Books

John Smith, The Theory of Architecture, Sydney: Sydney University Press, 1994, p. 21 (or pp. 21-24)

Short cite: Smith, Theory of Architecture, p. 35.

Use the full form on the first citation and the shortened form on subsequent citations. Do not use op. cit. and ibid.

 

Edited Books

Mary J Brown, 'Urban Design Revisited,' in Peter Jones & Mary Smith (eds), The History of Urban Design, Melbourne: Architectural Publications, 1995, pp. 108-116.

Short cite: Brown, 'Urban Design Revisited,' p. 110.

 

Journal Articles

John Smith, 'The Urban Malaise,' Urban Design Quarterly, 21, 3 (August 1990): 64-82.

Short cite: Smith, 'Urban Malaise,' pp. 73-74.

 

Conference Papers

From published proceedings, as per Journals

 

Archival collections

Should be referred to in a consistent manner. Where possible, reference should be made to document titles, box or files numbers, manuscript or archive collection, and place of lodgement, in that order.

 

Spelling

 

Spellings should follow those used in The Oxford English Dictionary or The Macquarie Dictionary.