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Submission Guidelines and Downloadable Style Sheet
by Sloan-CSloan-C Template instructions for submissions for publication
Please use this style guide and attached template to format your paper submission for publication by Sloan-C. Using the template will make it much easier for Sloan-C to publish your paper in multiple formats. Please note that we follow the Chicago Style for referencing. Before submitting your paper to Sloan-C, please be sure to proofread and spell check your article.
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To attach and apply the Sloan-C template to your paper, please follow these instructions:
1. Save the template file as "Sloan-C Template.dot". Be sure to save it as a template .dot file rather than as a document .doc file.
2. Open the document you want to format for Sloan-C submission.
3. In your open document, open the Templates and Add-ins dialogue box under the Tools menu. Click on Attach and browse to find the Sloan-C Template.dot you saved earlier. Click OK. The template is now attached to your document.
4. Go back to Tools>Templates and Add-ins and click on Organizer. This opens the Organizer dialogue box.
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5. In the Styles Available in pull-down menu, select Sloan-C template.dot (Template).
6. Highlight all the styles in the Sloan-C Template in the left-hand column of the dialogue box. These styles should all begin with "sc_".
7. Choose the Copy option to copy these styles to the right-hand column and your Normal template. Click "Yes to All" to over write your existing styles.
8. In the Styles Available in pull-down menu, switch back to your original document that you wish to format for Sloan-C. To make the process easier, you may want to delete any old styles that are associated with your paper.
9. Highlight the "sc_" styles you just copied into your Normal template in the right-hand column, and copy the styles into your original document using the Copy button in the dialogue box. Again, click "Yes to All" to overwrite existing styles.
10. Again, highlight the "sc_" styles in the normal template in the right-hand column, and use the Delete button to delete these styles from your normal template if you do not wish for all new documents to have Sloan-C styles in their style menus.
11. Close the Templates and Add-ins dialogue box.
12. You are now ready to apply the Sloan-C styles to your document. To do this: Highlight the text in your document to which you wish to apply formatting. Go to the Styles pull-down menu on your toolbar or to Style... under the Format menu. Select the appropriate Sloan-C style from the drop-down menu. This will apply the style to your highlighted text.
13. Finish formatting your entire document with the appropriate styles. Please note the Page Setup and the Styles In Use are defined in the template provided. The setup and styles and their descriptions are listed on the Definitions page below as reference.
All articles should include an Introduction or Historical Background section, Summary/Conclusions, References, Acknowledgments section, if applicable, and final section About the Author(s).
References, tables, figure legends, and furnished art should be embedded in the manuscript such that the manuscript is in final form when submitted. Sloan-C will accept manuscripts with either embedded graphics or linked graphics. If the latter is submitted, please make absolutely sure that all the links referenced in the manuscript are included. All the figures should be submitted in GIF or JPEG formats with the article.
Tables and figures: Tables and figures should be used only when they can present information more effectively than in running text. Care should be taken to insure that tables can be effectively presented in html, since articles will be in both html and acrobat. Legends should be at the bottom of each table (10pt bold).
Illustrations: Figures should be numbered in series and all legends should be included at the bottom of each figure (10pt - italic). Symbols (open or closed circles, triangles, squares) and lettering must be clear when rendered in GIF or JPEG format. Please review all figures after converting to GIF or JPEG format to insure that they are readable. If the author wishes to use color figure, (s)he may do so since this is an online journal and no additional costs are incurred for color. (Please note that if the material is eventually published in print, all color illustrations will be translated into grayscale illustrations.) If the author uses MS Word or any other editor that permits linking of GIF or JPEGs images to the manuscript, we will accept the manuscript with these files. PDF files should have GIFs or JPEGs embedded. Interlaced 89a GIF is preferred.
Line drawings and graphs: Original line drawings and graphs should be submitted as GIF or JPEG files.
Photographs: Photographs can be accommodated as GIF or JPEG files; authors should carefully crop images prior to saving as files. Remember that the smaller and fewer GIFs or JPEGs in the paper, the more quickly the paper can be downloaded.
Formulae and Equations: Mathematical equations should be arranged to fill the width of a single column. Subscripts and especially superscripts (i.e. exponents) should be written with care. All signs such as +, -, =, <, or > should be spaced, but the components of mathematical products should not be spaced. Do not use multiple lines unnecessarily. In order to avoid errors, it is important that all formula matter be carefully arranged with special attention paid to correctness of symbols, location of subscripts and superscripts. Note that we would prefer any complex equation to be rendered as a GIF or JPEG image.
Copyrighted Material: Authors who want to make use of artwork already published are required by copyright law to ask the owner of the copyright (usually the publisher) for permission to do so. Please be careful to assign proper credit; for example, in the legend of a figure "...from (reference); reproduced by permission of...." If any verbatim quotations of text amount to more than a few words, the same procedure should be followed. If authors use material from their own published work, permission must be obtained from the publisher. If an article is accepted for publication the author must provide the copyright permissions for already published material. If the author receives permissions faxed from the permission grantor, (s)he may fax or mail these permissions to us.
Sloan-C believes authors must secure permissions from information that is on the Web. Although copyright law is not completely clear on this point, for the JALN and other Sloan-C publications the author must secure permission for anything that is reprinted.
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Submissions: Submit properly formatted manuscripts to kathryn.fife@sloan-c.org.
Author's Warranty and Transfer of Copyright: Please fill out the accompanying form "AuthorCopyright.pdf" and submit to kathryn.fife@sloan-c.org or fax to 781-292-2505.
Please note that we require that submissions be original work that has not been published previously, nor is currently under review for publication elsewhere.
Questions: Contact kathryn.fife@sloan-c.org, (voice) 781-292-2524.
Definitions
Page Setup
Margins: Top, Bottom, Left and Right margins are all be 1 inch.
Header and Footer are both 0.5 inch from edge.
Paper Size: Letter, 8.5 inches wide x 11 inches tall, portrait orientation
Layout: Section Start: New page
Headers and Footers: Different Odd and Even
Vertical Alignment: Top
Style
SC_TITLE- times new roman (tnr) 20, bold, all caps, flush left, 6 pt before and 6 pt after
sc_author- TNR 11, italic, flush left, 0 pt before, 3 pt after
sc_author_affiliation- TNR 11, regular, flush left, 0 pt before, 3 pt after
Address
Telephone:
Fax:
Email:
SC_ABSTRACT/KEYWORDS_TITLE- TNR 12, bold, all caps, flush left, 0 pt before, 3 pt after
sc_abstract/keywords_text- TNR 11, justified, 0 pt before, 3 pt after
I. SC_PRINCIPAL_HEADING- tnr 14, bold, all caps, centered, 6 pt before and 6 pt after, auto numbered I, II, II
sc_text/normal- TNR 11, justified, single spaced, 0 pt before, 3 pt after
A. sc_subheading1- TNR 14, bold, flush left, 6 pt before, 3 pt after, auto numbered A, B, C
1. sc_subheading2- TNR 12, bold, flush left, 6 pt before, 3 pt after, auto numbered 1, 2, 3
a. sc_subheading3- TNR 11, bold, flush left, 6 pt before, 3 pt after, auto numbered a, b, c
sc_tablefiguretitle- TNR 9, bold, centered
1. JALN References- Author name Bold, TNR 11, justified, single spaced, left indent 0.1 inch, hanging indent 0.25 inch, 0 pt before, 0 pt after, auto numbered 1, 2, 3
2. Author Name Bold. Sample reference text. Sample reference text. Sample reference text.
Note on References: We use IEEE style of documentation. References to the literature and all notes regardless of their nature (except those in tables) should be numbered in one consecutive series in the order they occur in the paper, rather than in alphabetical order. Repetition of references will be avoided by using a reference number, which corresponds to the original reference. Reference numbers in the text should be typed with brackets (e.g. [1]) and numbered sequentially in the reference list.
Please do not use footnotes. Do not use bibliographic references to classified documents and reports or to unpublished material not generally available to the scientific public. Literature references should be arranged and punctuated as follows:
Examples: (please note the use of italics and bold)
a. Journal articles: References to journals should include author(s), the title of the article, the journal abbreviations, volume number, relevant page numbers and year published.
3. Doe, J., J. Smith and M. Wright. A Model for OnLine Learning Networks in Engineering Education. Journal of Engineering Education. ASEE 83(3): 253-262 (July 1996).
b. Books: References to books should include author(s), title, volume/edition number, place of publication, publisher, relevant page ranges, and date of publication:
4. Kulacki, F. A., Vlachos, E., and Johnson, G., Engineering Curriculum: The Contextual Basis for Reform in the Information Age. In: Bourne, J., Brodersen, A., and Dawant, M. (Eds.), The Influence of Technology on Engineering Education, CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL, 17-35, 1995.
5. Shigley, J. E., Mechanical Engineering Design, 3rd ed., New York: McGraw-Hill, 1977.
Italic or boldface type should be included, and Greek or unusual characters should be explicitly included or explained by annotations. Simple fractional expressions may be written with a slant line or as a fraction, as desired. For example: 1/3 or ¼. Do not include uniform resource locator (URL) information in the body of the paper.
c. References online: References should be supplied in the same form as other references, with the addition of a URL. For example:
6. Oakley, B., II., A Virtual Classroom Approach to Teaching Circuit Analysis, IEEE Transactions on Education, 96, 448-453, 1996. www.aln.org/alnweb/journal/vol2_issue2/jaln2_2_matter.pdf
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