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Guidel<strong>in</strong>es for authors<br />

Submissions are <strong>in</strong>vited <strong>in</strong> the follow<strong>in</strong>g categories:<br />

• Peer reviewed publications: a) Full length articles (4000 - 7000 words), b) Short articles, Critiques and Case studies (up to 3000 words)<br />

• Book reviews<br />

• Software reviews<br />

• Website reviews<br />

All peer review publications will be refereed <strong>in</strong> double-bl<strong>in</strong>d review process by at least two <strong>in</strong>ternational reviewers with expertise <strong>in</strong> the<br />

relevant subject area. Book, Software and Website Reviews will not be reviewed, but the editors reserve the right to refuse or edit review.<br />

• Each peer review submission should have at least follow<strong>in</strong>g items: title (up to 10 words), complete communication details of ALL<br />

authors , an <strong>in</strong>formative abstract (75-200 words) present<strong>in</strong>g the ma<strong>in</strong> po<strong>in</strong>ts of the paper and the author's conclusions, four - five<br />

descriptive keywords, ma<strong>in</strong> body of paper (<strong>in</strong> 10 po<strong>in</strong>t font), conclusion, references.<br />

• Submissions should be s<strong>in</strong>gle spaced.<br />

• Footnotes and endnotes are not accepted, all such <strong>in</strong>formation should be <strong>in</strong>cluded <strong>in</strong> ma<strong>in</strong> text.<br />

• The paragraphs should not be <strong>in</strong>dented. There should be one l<strong>in</strong>e space between consecutive paragraphs.<br />

• There should be s<strong>in</strong>gle space between full stop of previous sentence and first word of next sentence <strong>in</strong> a paragraph.<br />

• The keywords (just after the abstract) should be separated by comma, and each keyword phrase should have <strong>in</strong>itial caps (for example,<br />

Internet based system, Distance learn<strong>in</strong>g).<br />

• Do not use 'underl<strong>in</strong>e' to highlight text. Use 'italic' <strong>in</strong>stead.<br />

Head<strong>in</strong>gs<br />

Articles should be subdivided <strong>in</strong>to unnumbered sections, us<strong>in</strong>g short, mean<strong>in</strong>gful sub-head<strong>in</strong>gs. Please use only two level head<strong>in</strong>gs as far<br />

as possible. Use 'Head<strong>in</strong>g 1' and 'Head<strong>in</strong>g 2' styles of your word processor's template to <strong>in</strong>dicate them. If that is not possible, use 12 po<strong>in</strong>t<br />

bold for first level head<strong>in</strong>gs and 10 po<strong>in</strong>t bold for second level head<strong>in</strong>g. If you must use third level head<strong>in</strong>gs, use 10 po<strong>in</strong>t italic for this<br />

purpose. There should be one blank l<strong>in</strong>e after each head<strong>in</strong>g and two blank l<strong>in</strong>es before each head<strong>in</strong>g (except when two head<strong>in</strong>gs are<br />

consecutive, there should be one blank like between them).<br />

Tables<br />

Tables should be <strong>in</strong>cluded <strong>in</strong> the text at appropriate places and centered horizontally. Captions (maximum 6 to 8 words each) must be<br />

provided for every table (below the table) and must be referenced <strong>in</strong> the text.<br />

Figures<br />

Figures should be <strong>in</strong>cluded <strong>in</strong> the text at appropriate places and centered horizontally. Captions (maximum 6 to 8 words each) must be<br />

provided for every figure (below the figure) and must be referenced <strong>in</strong> the text. The figures must NOT be larger than 500 pixels <strong>in</strong> width.<br />

Please also provide all figures separately (besides embedd<strong>in</strong>g them <strong>in</strong> the text).<br />

References<br />

• All references should be listed <strong>in</strong> alphabetical order at the end of the article under the head<strong>in</strong>g 'References'.<br />

• All references must be cited <strong>in</strong> the article us<strong>in</strong>g "authors (year)" style e.g. Merrill & Twitchell (1994) or "(authors1, year1; authors2,<br />

year2)" style e.g. (Merrill, 1999; Kommers et al., 1997).<br />

• Do not use number<strong>in</strong>g style to cite the reference <strong>in</strong> the text e.g. "this was done <strong>in</strong> this way and was found successful [23]."<br />

• It is important to provide complete <strong>in</strong>formation <strong>in</strong> references. Please follow the patterns below:<br />

Journal article<br />

Laszlo, A. & Castro, K. (1995). <strong>Technology</strong> and values: Interactive learn<strong>in</strong>g environments for future generations. <strong>Educational</strong> <strong>Technology</strong>,<br />

35 (2), 7-13.<br />

Newspaper article<br />

Blunkett, D. (1998). Cash for Competence. Times <strong>Educational</strong> Supplement, July 24, 1998, 15.<br />

Or<br />

Clark, E. (1999). There'll never be enough bandwidth. Personal Computer World, July 26, 1999,<br />

http://www.vnunet.co.uk/News/88174.<br />

Book (authored or edited)<br />

Brown, S. & McIntyre, D. (1993). Mak<strong>in</strong>g sense of Teach<strong>in</strong>g, Buck<strong>in</strong>gham: Open University.<br />

Chapter <strong>in</strong> book/proceed<strong>in</strong>gs<br />

Malone, T. W. (1984). Toward a theory of <strong>in</strong>tr<strong>in</strong>sically motivat<strong>in</strong>g <strong>in</strong>struction. In Walker, D. F. & Hess, R. D. (Eds.) Instructional<br />

software: pr<strong>in</strong>ciples and perspectives for design and use, California: Wadsworth Publish<strong>in</strong>g Company, 68-95.<br />

Internet reference<br />

Fulton, J. C. (1996). Writ<strong>in</strong>g assignment as w<strong>in</strong>dows, not walls: enliven<strong>in</strong>g unboundedness through boundaries, retrieved July 7, 2002<br />

from http://leahi.kcc.hawaii.edu/org/tcc-conf96/fulton.html.<br />

Submission procedure<br />

Authors, submitt<strong>in</strong>g articles for a particular special <strong>issue</strong>, should send their submissions directly to the appropriate Guest Editor. Guest<br />

Editors will advise the authors regard<strong>in</strong>g submission procedure for the f<strong>in</strong>al version.<br />

All submissions should be <strong>in</strong> electronic form. The editors will acknowledge the receipt of submission as soon as possible.<br />

The preferred formats for submission are Word document and RTF, but editors will try their best for other formats too. For figures, GIF<br />

and JPEG (JPG) are the preferred formats. Authors must supply separate figures <strong>in</strong> one of these formats besides embedd<strong>in</strong>g <strong>in</strong> text.<br />

Please provide follow<strong>in</strong>g details with each submission: Author(s) full name(s) <strong>in</strong>clud<strong>in</strong>g title(s), Name of correspond<strong>in</strong>g author, Job<br />

title(s), Organisation(s), Full contact details of ALL authors <strong>in</strong>clud<strong>in</strong>g email address, postal address, telephone and fax numbers.<br />

The submissions should be sent via email to (Subject: Submission for <strong>Educational</strong> <strong>Technology</strong> & <strong>Society</strong> journal): k<strong>in</strong>shuk@ieee.org.<br />

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