GUIDELINES  FOR  CONTRIBUTORS

Authors should send to the Editor-in-Chief via email (assinik@unipi.gr) the paper in attached file(s) using “winzip32” for compression, with a description in the body of the message, and by post a printed copy along with the electronic file(s) submission on a 3½ diskette which should conform the following requirements :

1. Manuscripts must be submitted in English and spelling should be adapted with The Concise Oxford Dictionary. Original papers (not published or not simultaneously submitted to another journal) will be reviewed by three anonymous referees. Upon acceptance of an article by the journal, the author(s) will be asked to transfer copyright of the article to the publisher which it will insure the widest possible dissemination of information under applicable copyright law.

2. The disk should be in IBM PC format; the files should be saved in Microsoft Word for PC, version XP for Windows. Any other word-processing package will not be approved for submission. For artwork, figures and tables should only use the Ms-Office XP package facilities and must be grouped and pasted, in the proper place, into the Word document.

3. Papers should be typed on one side of the paper. The pages should be numbered consecutively at the bottom centre of the page. The length of the paper should not exceed 10 journal pages (or about 5000 words), and hence manuscripts should not exceed 15 typed single-space A4 (printing area 14.7 x 24.7 cm) pages including title page, abstract, text, figures, tables and references. The number of artworks, figures and tables must be kept up to a minimum. Do not start a new page after the title information and abstract. Do not use tab for the first text line of each main section. Paragraphs should be both right and left justified.

4. The fonts (typeface) is Times New Roman. The text type size should be 11 points. Please use the page set-up command to ensure that your paper is prepared on A4 size paper (21 x 29.7 cm) using the default format for text and margins at the top and the bottom of the page for Microsoft Word XP.

5. The title should be written on the first line of the first page, left justified in upper and lower case letters (20-points bold). The authors’ names should be left justified two lines below the full title in upper and lower case letters (14-points). Affiliation and mailing address (including email) should follow left justified also in upper and lower case letters (11-points).

6. Two lines below the author’s name and affiliation start an abstract as the first paragraph of the paper. The abstract should follow the title, author’s name, and mailing address on the first page (10-points) and must be up to 150 words. At the end of the abstract, skip a line and then, left justified, type “Keywords” (10-points bold) : followed by up to three (3) sets of words that describe the focus and contribution of the paper (10-points). The first set of keyword must be one of the topics of interest to JASS. Skip two lines and then begin the body of the paper (after an Introduction heading if required) immediately after the abstract.

7. All major headings are left justified. They are to be written in 12-points bold font and numbered consecutively followed by a period and the default tab, with Arabic numerals, e.g., 1. Introduction. Do not put a period after the text of the heading. Leave two lines above a major heading and one line before the start of the next paragraph or second-level heading. Subheadings are flush left in 11-points bold. There should be one line space before and after this level of heading. The paragraph should be numbered as a subsection of the previous major heading and the default tab e.g., 7.1 Subheadings. Sub-subheadings are flush left, in italics and in 11-points type. The paragraphs should be numbered as a sub-section of the previous subsection heading and the default tab e.g., 7.1.1 Sub-subheadings. There should be one line space before this level of heading and after this level of heading and the following paragraph.

8. The electronic version of the art should be included in the attached files and on the diskette, and it must be incoprorated into the word-processing file. Figures should be labeled in the text as “Figure x”. Figure captions should be typed directly below the figure, in upper and lower case (11-points), and centred.

9. Table captions should be centered above the table. Tables should be included in the manuscript proper and referred to in the text as “Table x”.

10. When numbering equations, enclose numbers in parenthesis ( ) and place them flush with the right-hand margin. Refer to them in the text as “Equation (x)”.

11. Papers should be written without the use of footnotes.

12. Mathematical expressions and Greek or other symbols should be typed using the facilities of Ms-Word 97 and must be written clearly with ample spacing. Use the widely accepted symbols and abbreviations following the style of BS 1991 Part 2 1954.

13. All papers should end with a conclusion which summarizes the value of the work end, where appropriate, indicates possible directions for future developments.

14. References must be indicated in the text by brackets [ ]. Identify references in the text of the paper by typing the corresponding surname (or first surname) and year in brackets e.g.: [Aauthor (1998)]. They are listed alphabetically at the end of the paper under the major heading “References” (12-point bold font) left justified. List authors alphabetically by the first letter of the first author’s surname name. Book titles and names of journals should be printed in italics. Please adopt the following style for references :

Aauthor, A. (1998). Title of Book. XYZ Press, New York.
Bauthor, B. and Aauthor, A. (1999). Title of Paper. Journal vol. 3(2), 1-20.
Cauthor, C., Aauthor, A., Bauthor, B., and Jones, G. (1996). Title of Paper, in Title of Book, (E. Editor, ed.). XYZ Press, New York, 47-82.
For multiple papers in the same year by the same author(s):
Bauthor, B. and Aauthor, A. (1995A). Title of PaperA. JournalA vol. 3(5), 1-20.
Bauthor, B. and Aauthor, A. (1995B). Title of PaperB. JournalB vol. 6(9), 56-80.

15. If material has been published elsewhere, authors must obtain the consent of the earlier publisher. Authors wishing to use material from the JASS should consult the Editor-in-Chief.

 

 

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