Notes for Contributors - Interdisciplinary Science Reviews

Editor: Professor Willard McCarty, Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London

Book Reviews Editor: Dr Julianne Nyhan, European Science Foundation

Scope

Interdisciplinary Science Reviews is a quarterly journal that aims to set contemporary and historical developments in the sciences and technology into their wider social and cultural context and to illuminate their interrelations with the humanities and arts. ISR seeks out contributions that measure up to the highest excellence in scholarship but that also speak to an audience of intelligent non-specialists. It actively explores the differing trajectories of the disciplines and practices in its purview, to clarify what each is attempting to do in its own terms, so that constructive dialogue across them is strengthened. It focuses whenever possible on conceptual bridge-building and collaborative research that nevertheless respect disciplinary variation. ISR features thematic issues on broad topics attractive across the disciplines and publishes special issues derived from wide-ranging interdisciplinary colloquia and conferences.

Tables of contents, abstracts and some free content may be found at www.ingentaconnect.com/content/maney/isr.

Contributions

ISR publishes contributions in three broad categories. Papers may be anything up to 10,000 words in length, with notes and references as appropriate. Essays are shorter pieces and need not be referenced. Book reviews are mostly no more than 2000 words long. Proposals for contributions are welcome at any time. Since many issues of the journal are themed, unsolicited submissions should be in summary or draft form.

Submission

Authors will be expected to supply an electronic version of their final text in Word or a compatible format. Email submission is preferred, except for illustrations with very large file sizes, when a CD ROM should be supplied. Hard copy is not required.

Formatting

In preparing the electronic version there is no need to format the article to a specific template, but include italic or bold type where necessary. Manuscripts must include a synopsis of up to 150 words and about 100 words of biographical information on each author, including full contact information.

Spacing, punctuation and spelling should be consistent; ISR uses UK English spelling with the 'ise' convention, e.g. 'characterise' rather than 'characterize'. Disable autohyphenation.

Ensure section and subsection headings are clearly differentiated, using a structured numbering system if necessary (although numbering will not appear in the printed version).

Notes and references

Footnotes should be used very sparingly. Citation of literature references follows the Chicago (author-date) style. 

Citations in the text have the form (Mahoney 2004), (Bolter and Grusin 1999), (Hashagen et al. 2002).

References should be listed at the end of the paper in alphabetical order of first author, according to the following conventions.

Journals
Mahoney M. S. 2004. 'Finding a history for software engineering'. IEEE Annals of the History of Computing 26 (1): 8-19. 

Books
Bolter J. D. and Grusin R. 1999. Remediation: Understanding New Media. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

Hashagen A., Kieil-Slawik R. and Norberg A., eds. 2002. History of Computing: Software Issues. Berlin: Springer Verlag.

Tomayko J. E. 2002. 'Software as engineering'. In History of Computing: Software Issues, ed. U. Hashagen et al., 65-76. Berlin: Springer Verlag.

Reports
English Nature. 2003. England's Best Wildlife and Geological Sites: the Condition of SSSIs in England in 2003. Peterborough: English Nature.

Theses
Havea, R., S. 2001. 'Constructive spectral and numerical range theory'. PhD thesis, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand.

Conference presentation
Ballet, J., Dubois, J., Mahieu, F. 2003. 'Le developpement socialement durable'. Paper presented at 3rd Conference on the Capability Approach, September, at University of Pavia, Italy, Paper 6.

Online resources
Kroker K. and Kroker M. 'Digital delirium', ctheory.net/book_default.asp.

Perseus Digital Library. http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/ (accessed 20 July 2007).

For further information, consult The Chicago Manual of Style (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 15th edn, 2003) or www.chicagomanualofstyle.org.

Illustrations

High quality illustrations that enhance or complement the impact of the text are welcome.

All illustrations should be supplied in digital form and be suitable for print reproduction in black and white. Ensure that lettering and any other important features will be legible when reproduced in the journal (column width is 32 picas or approximately 13.5cm). 

Electronic versions of photographs should be supplied, each as a separate tiff or jpeg file, with a resolution of at least 300 dpi (dots or pixels per inch) at the intended size of reproduction (please do not save at the default screen resolution of 72 or 96 dpi). Line drawings should be supplied as high quality tiff or eps files of at least 800 dpi resolution at final size. Crop any unwanted white space from around the figure before sizing.

Policy on colour

Colour is generally available in print only if the author is prepared to pay the additional cost of colour reproduction.

Colour illustrations are published free in the online version of the journal, provided the figures involved are supplied in the correct electronic format. In these circumstances, it may be necessary to supply two separate files, optimised for black and white and colour reproduction respectively. Figures with coloured lines and keys, contour maps, etc. may not convert satisfactorily to greyscale. In particular, red and blue convert to similar grey levels and will not be distinguishable. Colour photographs generally convert without difficulty, but optimisation for greyscale reproduction may improve the final result. 

Permissions

Authors are responsible for obtaining permission to reproduce any material or illustrations for which they do not hold copyright.

Proofs

Proofs will be supplied in pdf format by email, and authors are requested to deal with them promptly. They should be checked thoroughly, and clear details of any essential corrections supplied, preferably by email. Alterations at proof stage are expensive and should be avoided wherever possible.

Copyright

Authors must transfer copyright in papers as published to the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining. Published papers may be posted on personal websites, provided copyright is acknowledged, the correct citation is given, and a link is provided to the ISR homepage, www.ingentaconnect.com/content/maney/isr.

E-prints

Authors receive a screen-resolution pdf file of the published version of their paper. Orders for printed offprints may be made on the form supplied at the time proofs are distributed.

Enquiries

All correspondence and enquiries should be directed to the Editor, Professor Willard McCarty, Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London, 26-29 Drury Lane, London WC2B 5RL, UK, tel. +44 (0)20 78482784, willard.mccarty@kcl.ac.uk.