October 2006 Volume 9 Number 4

Guidelines for authors
Submissions are invited in the following categories:
• Peer reviewed publications: a) Full length articles (4000 - 7000 words), b) Short articles, Critiques and Case studies (up to 3000 words)
• Book reviews
• Software reviews
• Website reviews
All peer review publications will be refereed in double-blind review process by at least two international reviewers with expertise in the
relevant subject area. Book, Software and Website Reviews will not be reviewed, but the editors reserve the right to refuse or edit review.
• Each peer review submission should have at least following items: title (up to 10 words), complete communication details of ALL
authors , an informative abstract (75-200 words) presenting the main points of the paper and the author's conclusions, four - five
descriptive keywords, main body of paper (in 10 point font), conclusion, references.
• Submissions should be single spaced.
• Footnotes and endnotes are not accepted, all such information should be included in main text.
• The paragraphs should not be indented. There should be one line space between consecutive paragraphs.
• There should be single space between full stop of previous sentence and first word of next sentence in a paragraph.
• The keywords (just after the abstract) should be separated by comma, and each keyword phrase should have initial caps (for example,
Internet based system, Distance learning).
• Do not use 'underline' to highlight text. Use 'italic' instead.
Headings
Articles should be subdivided into unnumbered sections, using short, meaningful sub-headings. Please use only two level headings as far
as possible. Use 'Heading 1' and 'Heading 2' styles of your word processor's template to indicate them. If that is not possible, use 12 point
bold for first level headings and 10 point bold for second level heading. If you must use third level headings, use 10 point italic for this
purpose. There should be one blank line after each heading and two blank lines before each heading (except when two headings are
consecutive, there should be one blank like between them).
Tables
Tables should be included in the text at appropriate places and centered horizontally. Captions (maximum 6 to 8 words each) must be
provided for every table (below the table) and must be referenced in the text.
Figures
Figures should be included in the text at appropriate places and centered horizontally. Captions (maximum 6 to 8 words each) must be
provided for every figure (below the figure) and must be referenced in the text. The figures must NOT be larger than 500 pixels in width.
Please also provide all figures separately (besides embedding them in the text).
References
• All references should be listed in alphabetical order at the end of the article under the heading 'References'.
• All references must be cited in the article using "authors (year)" style e.g. Merrill & Twitchell (1994) or "(authors1, year1; authors2,
year2)" style e.g. (Merrill, 1999; Kommers et al., 1997).
• Do not use numbering style to cite the reference in the text e.g. "this was done in this way and was found successful [23]."
• It is important to provide complete information in references. Please follow the patterns below:
Journal article
Laszlo, A. & Castro, K. (1995). Technology and values: Interactive learning environments for future generations. Educational Technology,
35 (2), 7-13.
Newspaper article
Blunkett, D. (1998). Cash for Competence. Times Educational Supplement, July 24, 1998, 15.
Or
Clark, E. (1999). There'll never be enough bandwidth. Personal Computer World, July 26, 1999, retrieved July 7, 2004, from
http://www.vnunet.co.uk/News/88174.
Book (authored or edited)
Brown, S. & McIntyre, D. (1993). Making sense of Teaching, Buckingham: Open University.
Chapter in book/proceedings
Malone, T. W. (1984). Toward a theory of intrinsically motivating instruction. In Walker, D. F. & Hess, R. D. (Eds.), Instructional
software: principles and perspectives for design and use, California: Wadsworth Publishing Company, 68-95.
Internet reference
Fulton, J. C. (1996). Writing assignment as windows, not walls: enlivening unboundedness through boundaries, retrieved July 7, 2004,
from http://leahi.kcc.hawaii.edu/org/tcc-conf96/fulton.html.
Submission procedure
Authors, submitting articles for a particular special issue, should send their submissions directly to the appropriate Guest Editor. Guest
Editors will advise the authors regarding submission procedure for the final version.
All submissions should be in electronic form. The editors will acknowledge the receipt of submission as soon as possible.
The preferred formats for submission are Word document and RTF, but editors will try their best for other formats too. For figures, GIF
and JPEG (JPG) are the preferred formats. Authors must supply separate figures in one of these formats besides embedding in text.
Please provide following details with each submission: Author(s) full name(s) including title(s), Name of corresponding author, Job
title(s), Organisation(s), Full contact details of ALL authors including email address, postal address, telephone and fax numbers.
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email to (Subject: Submission for Educational Technology & Society journal): kinshuk@ieee.org. In the email, please state clearly that the
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