SUBMISSIONS & NOTES
FOR AUTHORS

Submission

Papers should be submitted to ijwis@troubador.co.uk with a covering email clearly staring the name, address and affiliation of all authors. Papers may be submitted for review as PDF, PostScript, word processor or Tex files. Other formats are not acceptable. For papers that are accepted for publication, authors will be asked to submit Tex source files for publication (see below).

Papers should ideally not exceed 5000 words in length. The Editors should be consulted before submitting a paper which exceeds this length.

Peer Review

The journal operates a double-blind review process, ensuring anonymity for both the authors and referees.

All papers meeting the criteria for submission (below) will be subject to a fair and unbiased double-blind peer review.

The Editors reserve the right to request that revisions be made to papers prior to publication, or to reject papers on the following grounds:

i. The paper is not sound.
ii. The paper has not been revised satisfactorily.
iii. The paper does not meet the aims and scopes of the journal.
iv. The paper contains other inadequacies (i.e. in presentation).

Preparation

Authors are requested to prepare their papers for publication using the IEEEtran.cls Tex file supplied on this web site. A sample IJWIS paper typeset using this style file is also given for reference. The IJWIS-TexFiles.zip file on this web page provides all the necessary files, plus notes on preparation. This should be read in conjunction with the notes below.

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Papers must be submitted using good quality English, having been carefully checked for errors and inconsistencies before submission.

Refer to yourself and your work in the third person throughout (i.e. not ‘our previous work’, but ‘the work of Black and White [1]’).

Papers should be organised as follows:

i. Title
ii. Authors, affiliation and full contact details (email, fax, postal address)
iii. Keywords (up to five per article)
iv. The main body of the text, suitably presented and organised
v. Acknowledgements (if relevant)
vi. References in Vancouver style(i.e. name, date)

References in the text should appear in the format "….see Black and White [1]", or "in recent work [1] it was proven…" References to Web sites should include the full Web address and the date on which it was last visited by the authors.

Notes to items in the text should appear as Endnotes placed before the References section, not Footnotes. Notes should be indicated using superscript numerals.

Figures, tables and graphs can be included. Colour figures will only be printed where the use of full colour is necessary to understand the picture.

All figures, graphs and tables should have descriptive captions, and they must be cited in the main body of the paper.

All pages of the paper should be numbered.

Ensure that references are complete with full titles, dates and page numbers for each.

Should your paper be accepted for publication, we will need the source files from which to typeset your paper. At that stage only, please supply all Tex source files used, including any style or class files.

Copyright

Submission of your paper to IJWIS implies that the paper has not been published in the same or very similar form elsewhere, and is not under submission for publication elsewhere.

Should your paper be published in the journal, you will be asked to assign copyright to Troubador Publishing Ltd. Your rights as author will be retained in terms of the rights to reuse and veto third party publications.

It is the responsibility of the authors to seek written approval to reproduce material that has been published elsewhere. Permission from third parties to reuse material previously published must be obtained in writing, and a copy of the permission letter sent with yourinitial submission.

Proofs and Offprints

Author proofs will be sent to the corresponding author in PDF format via email. It is the author's responsibility to check the proofs carefully and return them within the time scale indicated in the covering letter. Annotated proofs should be returned via fax, or a list of corrections sent via email.

Authors receive one copy of the journal in which their article appears free of charge. The journal does not supply free offprints, but they can be ordered when your author proofs are returned. A scale of charges will be sent with proofs.