NOTES Contributor guidelines <strong>The</strong> Journal of <strong>Sustainable</strong> Product <strong>Design</strong> is targeted at Environmental directors, managers, <strong>Design</strong> managers, Product designers, Academics and Environmental coordinators in local and central government worldwide. Submissions Three copies and a 31 / 2” Macintosh – or IBM compatible disk should be sent to: Martin Charter <strong>The</strong> Journal of <strong>Sustainable</strong> Product <strong>Design</strong> <strong>The</strong> <strong>Centre</strong> <strong>for</strong> <strong>Sustainable</strong> <strong>Design</strong> Faculty of <strong>Design</strong> <strong>The</strong> Surrey Institute of Art & <strong>Design</strong> Falkner Road Farnham Surrey GU9 7DS UK. Email submissions should be sent to: mcharter@surrart.ac.uk. A black and white photograph of the author(s) should be supplied. Presentation Articles submitted to the Analysis section (peer reviewed) should be between 2,500–5,000 words. Shorter articles of 1,000–1,500 words are also requested <strong>for</strong> the Case Study and Innovation sections. Manuscripts should be typed in journal style, double spaced (including footnotes and references) with wide margins, on one side only of good quality A4-size paper. Manuscripts should be arranged in the following order of presentation. First sheet: Title, subtitle (if any), author’s name, affiliation, full postal address and telephone, fax number and email. Respective affiliations and addresses of co-authors should be clearly indicated. Please also include approximately 100 words of biographical in<strong>for</strong>mation on all authors. 66 THE JOURNAL OF SUSTAINABLE PRODUCT DESIGN · JANUARY 1999 Second sheet: A self-contained abstract of up to 150 words summarising the paper and its conclusions. Subsequent sheets: Main body of text, footnotes, list of references, appendices, tables (on separate sheets), and illustrations. Authors are urged to write as concisely as possible. <strong>The</strong> main title of the article should be kept short, but may be accompanied by a subtitle. Descriptive or explanatory passages, necessary as in<strong>for</strong>mation but which tend to break the flow of the main text, should be expressed as footnotes or appendices. Bibliographic references: All bibliographical references should be complete and comprising of authors and initials, full title and subtitle, place of publication, publisher, date, and page references. References to journal articles must include the volume and number of the journal. <strong>The</strong> layout must adhere to the following convention: Author, A., and B. Author, ‘Title of book: Subtitle’ (Place of publication: publisher, date), pp.xx–xx. or Author, A., and B. Author, ‘Title of Journal Article: Subtitle’, in Journal, Vol.x No. x (January 19xx), pp. xx–xx. <strong>The</strong>se should be listed, alphabetically by author surname, at the end of the article. If referring to works in the main body of the article, please use the ‘short title’ method in parentheses. Footnotes: <strong>The</strong>se should be numbered consecutively in Arabic numerals and placed be<strong>for</strong>e the list of bibliographical references. <strong>The</strong>y should be indicated in the text by use of parentheses, eg. ‘(see Note 1)’. Tables, graphs, photographs etc: All graphs, diagrams and other drawings should be referred to as Figures, which should be numbered consecutively in Arabic numerals and placed on separate sheets at the end of the manuscript. <strong>The</strong>ir position should be indicated in the text. All figures must have captions. Authors should minimise the amount of descriptive matter on graphs and drawings, and should refer to curves, points, etc. by their symbols and place descriptive matter in the captions. Scale grids should not be used in graphs, unless required <strong>for</strong> actual measurement. In all figures taken or adapted from other sources, a brief note to that effect is obligatory, below the caption. Please ensure any photographs taken are of good quality. <strong>The</strong>y may be supplied as prints or transparencies, in black and white or in colour. Copyright Be<strong>for</strong>e publication, authors are requested to assign copyright to <strong>The</strong> <strong>Centre</strong> <strong>for</strong> <strong>Sustainable</strong> <strong>Design</strong>. This allows <strong>The</strong> <strong>Centre</strong> <strong>for</strong> <strong>Sustainable</strong> <strong>Design</strong> to sanction reprints and photocopies and to authorise the reprint of complete issues or volumes according to demand. Authors traditional rights will not be jeopardised by assigning copyright in the manner, as they will retain the right to re-use. Proofs Authors are responsible <strong>for</strong> ensuring that all manuscripts (whether original or revised) are accurately typed be<strong>for</strong>e final submission. One set of proofs will be sent to authors be<strong>for</strong>e publication, which should be returned promptly (by Express Air Mail if outside UK). Copy deadlines Issue 9: 19 March 1999 Issue 10: 18 June 1999 Issue 11: 15 October 1999
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