Exploit Interactive - Guidelines for Authors

Exploit Interactive Guidelines for Authors

Exploit Interactive will have a pan-European focus with a readership of library and information, and IT professionals. Its role is to publish interesting and readable articles about the projects in the EU Telematics for Libraries programme, along with articles of general interest (technology, news briefs, etc.) to inform, inspire, motivate; to provide a forum for discussion for Exploit Interactive users, writers and project partners.

Submission of Articles, News Briefs and Author Biographies - Author Responsibility

• All articles must be in English, but authors and contributors are encouraged to provide additional versions in the languages of the pan-European community
• Brief author biographies must accompany articles. An organisational biography and corporate logo can be substituted for the author biography. Authors are encouraged to provide photos (author or organisation)
• Check all statements, names, and references for accuracy
• Spell check and proof-read completed article and author biography

Submission Format

• Feature articles: normally anywhere from 800-3000+ words in length
• Write a brief abstract approximately 50-75 words, built around the key words found in the article
• Submit all references (see format below)
• News Briefs: average 50-250 words in length (to be included in a general news area)

Metadata

• Provide a list of 5-10 keywords to be used in the metadata for resource description and retrieval
• If articles are submitted in languages other than English, keywords for use in metadata are to be provided in the respective language (character set)

Submission Process

The initial submission process uses email, as described below.

• Send all articles or news briefs as attachments to an email message (MIME format only, not binhex).
• Send articles to exploit-editor@ukoln.ac.uk

Organisation of Article

• Use article templates (HTML and WORD versions available at: http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/isg/exploit/guidelines/)
• Title, catchy
• Byline (by author(s) name)
• Subheading, elaborating on title or explaining subject
• Author data: name, job title, organisation name, URL for organisation web site (optional), telephone (optional), author's email
• Introduction: puts the article in context or explains its significance to the reader
• Body of the article, which should be organized into major topics and sub-topics; Major topics will be preceded by a major heading, sub-topics by a sub-heading
• Summary/conclusion
• Keywords: provide a list of 5-10 keywords. If the article is in a language other than English, include the keywords in the respective language (character set)

References within Article

References (bibliographic or hyperlink) within the article normally link to the listing of references at the foot of the article as shown in the example below:

Excerpt from Article:

The national workshops on Institutional Web Management held at the University of Newcastle in September 1998 [1] and King's College London in July 1997 [2] attracted a variety of people involved in running institutional web services.

References at foot of Article:

1. Cascading Style Sheets, level 2 (CSS2) Specification, W3
   URL: < http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-CSS2/>
2. XML.COM, Organisational Home Page
   URL: < http://www.xml.com/>
3. The SGML/XML Web Page, Organisational Home Page
   URL: < http://www.oasis-open.org/cover/xml.html>

Reference Style for Print Resources

• From a publication:
  Linda H. Bertland. "Using Circulation Statistics as a Collection Development Tool." School Library Media Quarterly 19 (Winter 1991): 90-97.
• From a book:
  Neville A. Fisher and others, Publishing Patterns of the Next Decade, Libraries of the Future, vol. 2 (Westport, Conn.: Coranada Univ. Pr., 1986).
• Conference proceedings:
  Michael R. Culver. "Cataloging at Home with a Microcomputer," in Technical Services Tomorrow: Proceedings of a Colloquium on March 13, 1988, ed. Charles R. Datum (Chicago: ALA, 1989), 205-25.

Reference Style for Electronic Resources

The following examples use Chicago Style and are taken from Citation Styles Online, <http://www.smpcollege.com/online-4styles~help/cite7.html>

The citations below include the following information:

• author's name (if known)
• title of document, in quotation marks
• title of complete work (if applicable), in italics,
• date of publication or last revision (if known)
• URL (on a separate line), in angle brackets prefaced by the term URL:
• date of access, in parentheses

• From a general web site:
  
  Leslie R. Shade, "Gender Issues in Computer Networking," 14 February 1994
  URL: <http://www.mit.edu:8001/people/sorokin/women /lrs.html> (26 November 1997).
  
• Article in an electronic journal (ejournal):
  
  Tonya Browning, "Embedded Visuals: Student Design in Web Spaces," Kairos: A Journal for Teachers of Writing in Webbed Environments 3, no. 1 (1997)
  URL: <http://english.ttu.edu/kairos /2.1/features/browning/index.html> (21 October 1997).
  
• Article in an electronic magazine / web magazine
  
  Nathan Myhrvold, "Confessions of a Cybershaman," Slate, 12 June 1997
  URL: <http://www .slate.com/CriticalMass/97-06-12/CriticalMass.asp> (19 October 1997).

Copyright

Copyright: All material submitted must be the original work of the author unless otherwise noted. Permission is granted to the Exploit Interactive editors:

• to edit and publish the material;
• to republish the material, or any part of it, in any future Exploit Interactive publication; to grant permission to persons and organizations who formally request the right to reprint the material, in whole or in part.

Bibliography

We also encourage writers to provide short bibliographies for possible publication. This will be a great help for Exploit Interactive readers who want to research the subject more deeply.