Science, Services and Agents on the World Wide Web
Guide for Authors
Submission of your manuscript is welcome provided that it, or any translation of it, has not been copyrighted or published and is not
being submitted for publication elsewhere. Upon acceptance of an article, the author(s) will be asked to transfer copyright of the article
to the Publisher. This transfer will ensure the widest possible dissemination of information. Manuscripts should be prepared for publication
in accordance with instructions given in the "Guide for Authors" (available from the Publisher), details of which are given below.
There is a free hardcopy of the volume available to corresponding authors by the end of the year.
Please follow these instructions
carefully to ensure that the review and publication of your paper is as swift and efficient as possible. These notes may be copied freely.
Submission of manuscripts
Authors are requested to submit their original papers using the submission website. If you use
LaTeX, please use the following template: http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/jws/2007/06/27/jws-latex-template/.
To submit your paper online, please go to http://ees.elsevier.com/jws. Authors interested in online submission are requested
to go to the website and upload their manuscript and its associated artwork. An electronic (PDF) proof is generated and the reviewing
process is carried out using that PDF. The PDF file may be edited after acceptance to follow journal standards. Authors and editors send
and receive all correspondence by email via the website and no paper correspondence is performed.
For any further inquiries please
contact one of the following editors in chief:
General Author Instructions
Manuscripts
should be typed in a single column, with wide margins. Each paper should be introduced by three to five keywords as well as by a selfcontained
abstract of no more than 100 words not counting the formulas. It should also include references. All pages should be numbered consecutively.
The cover page should be a title page stating: title, author(s), affiliation(s), the mailing address, fax number and email address of
the corresponding author. Please make sure that the paper is submitted in its final form. Corrections in the proof stage other than printer's
errors should be avoided: costs arising from such corrections will be charged to the authors. Footnotes should be avoided as much as
possible and be brief. They should be numbered consecutively. References should be listed alphabetically, as in the following examples:
books [1], articles in journals [2], papers in a contributed volume [3,4], unpublished papers [5].
[1] E. Borger, Computability,
Complexity, Logic, North-Holland, Amsterdam, 1989.
[2] D.E. Knuth, Theory and Practice, Theoretical Computer Science 90 (1991) 1-15.
[3] A.K. Lenstra and H.W. Lenstra Jr., Algorithms in number theory, in: J. van Leeuwen, ed., Handbook of Computer Science, Vol. A, Elsevier,
Amsterdam, 1990, pp. 673-715.
[4] M. Li, Lower bounds by Kolmogorov complexity, in: Proceedings of ICALP '85, Lecture Notes in Computer
Science, Vol. 194, Springer, Berlin, 1985, pp. 383-393.
[5] A. Rajasekar, Semantics for logic programs, Ph.D. Thesis, Department
of Computer Science, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, 1989.
Figures should be suitable for photographic reproduction and
reduction. They should be large-size originals, drawn in India ink and carefully lettered, or should be produced using professional quality
graphics software and a laser printer. Handwritten lettering on figures is not acceptable. Photographs and coloured pictures must be
of impeccable quality. Please note that for colour photographs the publisher will charge the printing costs to the author. For specific
enquiries on the preparation of electronic artwork, consult http://www.elsevier.com/artworkinstructions.
Figures should
have an Arabic number and a caption.
Tables must be typed on separate sheets and should have a short title and an arabic number.
In the main text, figrues and tables must be referred to as: see Fig. 1, or Figs. 2 and 3; Table 1, etc.
Page Limit Guidelines
Systems papers are 6 - 8 pages long
Ontology papers are 6 - 8 pages long
Regular papers are 16 - 25 pages long
Survey papers
are 15 - 25 pages long
Keyword Instructions
Please add one to five keywords to your article. Keywords are essential for
the accessibility and retrievability of your article. Keywords assigned to articles will be assembled in a keyword index, which will
both appear on the Internet and be printed in the last issue of each volume and in cumulative indexes. To maximize the consistency with
which such keywords are assigned by different authors, the following guidelines have been drawn up:
Each keyword (which
can be a phrase of more than one word) should describe one single concept. Often words like "and" or "of" should be avoided.
Avoid
very general keywords which become meaningless once in a keyword list. Examples to avoid are "action", "computer", "mathematics". Check
whether the keywords as a whole describe the outlines of the article.
Use natural language: for instance "automatic error
recovery" rather than "error recovery, automatic". Try to use nouns and adjectives as much as possible (i.e. use "automatic error recovery"
rather than "recovering errors automatically").
Avoid the use of abbreviations as much as possible, unless an abbreviation is
so well established that the full term is rarely used (e.g. use "laser" instead of "Light
Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation",
but use "computer aided design" instead of "CAD").
Although these guidelines are not mandatory, they should be adhered to
where possible.
Author Benefits
- No page charge is due.
- The corresponding author, at no cost, will be provided
with a PDF file of the article via e-mail. The PDF file is a watermarked version of the published article and includes a cover sheet
with the journal cover image and a disclaimer outlining the terms and conditions of use.
- There is a free hardcopy of the volume
available to corresponding authors by the end of the year.
- 30% discount on all Elsevier books.
