submission

Papers should be submitted to ices@troubador.co.uk with a covering email clearly staring the name, address and affiliation of all authors. Paper submissions are accepted in either PDF or PostScript formats, or word processor files saved in Rich Text Format (RTF). Other formats are not acceptable.

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

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

Papers are double blind refereed, so it is important that you refer to yourself and your work in the third person throughout (i.e. not 'our previous work', but 'the work of Black and White (1998)'), to avoid revealing your identity to the referees.

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 (1999)", or "in recent work (Black and White, 1999), 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.

Figures, tables and graphs can be included, but only in black and white ­ do not use colour.

All figures, graphs and tables should have descriptive captions.

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, please supply text files (eg. Word, RTF, Tex, .txt), plus graphics files at 600 dpi minimum (eg. JPG, TIF, GIF). Graphics files embedded in documents such as Word are not acceptable.

copyright

Submission of your paper to ICES 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.