ASCILITE95 Guidelines for Papers

The Abstract should be no more than 300 words in addition to title, authors and affiliation. A fast-track for works-in-progress will be kept open until November 3 - abstracts only will be published. In all cases, presentations may be either oral or by poster.

Include a cover sheet with:

• Title of submission
• Names of all contributors
• Preference for oral (30 min) or poster presentation
• Preference for publishing in full (subject to refereeing) or as a work-in-progress Abstract
• Address, phone number and email address of main author (or contact person)

You may also submit full papers by sending a Microsoft Word file as an attachment to your email message. Please note that if your mailer does not automatically uuencode attachments, you will need to do this yourself.

Alternatively, full papers and abstracts may be submitted by ftp. A template for full papers is available from this site (see below).

To submit your paper or abstract, follow these steps:

1. FTP to ASCILITE95.unimelb.edu.au
2. Login as ASCILITE
3. Password is ascilite (lower case letters)
4. Set your ftp client to binary mode
5. Put your file into the Incoming directory
6. Email us at ascilite95@unimelb.edu.au to let us know you have submitted your paper or abstract.

Guides and Templates for full papers

• Guide for papers (Version 6 for Mac or Windows)
• Guide for papers (Version 5 for Mac or Windows)

• Microsoft Word 6 (Mac or Windows)
• Microsoft Word 5 (Mac or Windows)
• Rich Text Format (most word processors)

Guidelines for ASCILITE'95 Papers

The following is a document which authors submitting papers for the ASCILITE'95 conference should follow. The authors of this guide have taken the common approach of presenting the guidelines in the form of a paper, as if it were to be presented at the meeting. So if the reader has trouble following the directions he or she may directly refer to the way this document has been composed and laid out. Help in submission may also be gained by going to the ASCILITE'95 home page on the World Wide Web. The url for the home page is http://www.ascilite.org.au/ascilite95/info.html. When there, just click on the button "Submit a Paper". Good luck!

1. Introduction

To help us prepare the proceedings in time for the conference, we must have your paper before September 1, 1995. Papers will be sent out for refereeing. Should any referees require changes to be made, your paper will be returned to you by October 2 with a requirement for a final paper to be re-submitted by October 13. This schedule is tight and will be adhered to strictly! Please present your paper according to the instructions in Table 1.

(1) Three camera ready paper copies by mail and (2) electronic version, by: FTP - follow these steps: FTP to ASCILITE95.unimelb.edu.au Login as ASCILITE, password is ascilite (lower case letters) Set your ftp client to binary mode and put your file into the Incoming directory Email us at ascilite95@unimelb.edu.au to confirm your submission. or email your paper to ascilite95@unimelb.edu.au (please encode it first with binhex or uuencode; some mail systems do this automatically for enclosures, e.g. QuickMail). or Mail a Macintosh or IBM 3.5" floppy disc, clearly labelled with title of paper and authors names. (See contact details).

2. Electronic Format

3. Format of Paper

3.1 Length

3.2 General format

• the page should have a top margin of 3 cm; left, right and bottom margins of 2 cm.
• do not include any page numbering, headers or footers in the document.
• do not include any footnotes or end notes in the document.
• use a "Times" typeface (e.g. Times, Times New Roman, etc.).
• apart from the title, all text should be 12 point.
• the title should be centred, 18 point and bolded using a sans serif font (e.g. Helvetica).
• leave 2 blank lines between the title and authors' names.
• authors' names should be centred (and presenter's name underlined if there is more than one author)
• department, institution and email address should follow on the next 3 lines and be italic and centred.
• leave 2 blank lines before the heading Abstract which should be centred.
• leave 1 blank line before the paragraph of the Abstract .
• leave 2 blank lines before the heading Keywords which should be centred.
• leave 1 blank line before the line of keywords (up to six) which should be italicised.
• leave 2 blank lines before starting the first main heading.

3.3 Main headings and Subheadings

• each main heading should be numbered (1, 2, etc.) and in bold style, 12 point, and aligned left. Leave 2 blank lines before each main heading and 1 blank line after.
• subsequent subheadings to be numbered in decimal form (1.1, 1.2, etc.), in 12 point italic.
• leave 1 blank line before these subheadings and 1 blank line after.
• avoid headings appearing in the last few lines of the page- move to next page.

3.4 Main text, tables and figures

• text should be left aligned and non-justified.
• leave no indent at the start of each paragraph.
• leave 1 blank line between each paragraph.
• ensure that any graphics are fixed relative to the text, not relative to the page.
• tables and figures should be numbered separately and each given a title. This information should be placed below the figure or table and centred.

3.5 References

• indicate these in the text using authors family name(s) and date. For example...in describing the use of bathtubs in universities, Thistle, Nettle and Thorn (1993) found that...or ... the frequency of bathtub use in universities has recently been reviewed (Thistle, Nettle and Thorn, 1993).
• at the end of the text, leave 2 blank lines, insert a bold heading References, then list the references in the following manner: Author(s), initials. (year). Title, journal/book title in italics, volume, publisher, place. For an example see below under References

4. Summary

5. References