Cultivate Interactive Guidelines for Authors
The role of Cultivate Interactive is to publish
interesting and readable articles about the projects in the EU
DIGICULT programme, along with articles of general interest
(technology, news briefs, etc.) to inform, inspire, motivate; to
provide a forum for discussion for Cultivate 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 (5
sentences), built around the keywords found in the article. The
abstract may also be used to form the leading paragraph.
- Submit all references (see format below)
- News Briefs: average 50-250 words in length
(to be included in a general news area)
A single file, containing the article (without pictures,
graphics or figures) should be sent via email as an
attachment/file to the editor as listed.
Document Format and Available Templates:
The file format should be submitted in one of three
formats:
Note: Any pictures, diagrams or other
graphics should be sent as individually separate email
attachments/files i.e. not embedded in Word files, since these
files expand enormously when they contain images.
These files should be in gif, jpg, tif or .wmf (Windows
metafile) format, and not exceed 1MB in size.
WORD/RTF:
Use the 'Properties' dialogue box to enter the necessary
author and document information. To fill in the details, select
File | Properties, then fill in details as shown in the example
below:
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| Figure 1: Properties Dialogue Box |
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
cultivate-editor@ukoln.ac.uk
Organisation of Article
- Title, catchy, using title case
- Byline (by author(s) name)
- Subheading, elaborating on title or explaining subject, using title case
- 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:
- Cascading Style Sheets -
level 2 (CSS2) Specification, W3C
URL: <http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-CSS2/>
- XML.COM,
Organisational Home Page
URL: <http://www.xml.com/>
- 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:
Bertland, L.H. (1991) Using Circulation Statistics as a Collection
Development Tool. School Library Media Quarterly 19, Winter 1991, 90-97.
- From a book:
Fisher, N.A. and others. (1986) Publishing Patterns of the
Next Decade, Libraries of the Future, vol. 2 (Westport,
Conn.: Coranada Univ. Pr.
- Conference proceedings:
Culver, M.R. (1989) 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,
URL: <http://www.bedfordstmartins.com/hacker/resdoc/history/footnotes.htm>
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:
Shinto & Buddhism: Wellsprings of Japanese Spirituality, Paul Watt, AskAsia.org, 1996.
URL: <http://www.askasia.org/frclasrm/readings/r000009.htm>
Article in an electronic journal (ejournal):
Embedded Visuals: Student Design in Web
Spaces, Tonya Browning, 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>
Article in an electronic magazine / web magazine
Confessions of a Cybershaman, Nathan Myhrvold, Slate, 12
June 1997.
URL: <http://www
.slate.com/CriticalMass/97-06-12/CriticalMass.asp>
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
Cultivate 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 Cultivate
Interactive readers who want to research the subject more
deeply.
Graphics Guidelines
Other
For the sake of consistency could the following words be written as follows:
- Web
- Web site
- home page - use of this word should be avoided due to its ambiguous nature
Names when written in normal paragraphs should be in italics e.g. Philip Hunter.
Quotations should also appear in italics.
