Guidelines for Preparing Accepted Chapters

The chapter, references and authors' biographies must be submitted on diskette. The format of your diskette must be IBM Word or ASCII text or Macintosh-compatible files. Please label your disk with your last name, IBM or Macintosh, & software used.

The text of your chapter should be edited for proper use of English language with clear, concise sentences. Proofread the copy for typographical, grammar and spelling errors or obtain the assistance of a professional copyeditor.

All text on the disk version should be left justified in 12 point Times or Times Roman type. Please put all primary section titles in UPPER CASE letters and subheading in both Upper and Lower Case letters. Do not number your titles (for example, 1.0 Introduction; 2.0 Background). Do not use the tab key to indent text such as paragraphs of quotes or lists because the page layout program overrides your left margin with its own, and the tabs end up in mid-sentence.

APA (American Psychological Association) style will be followed. When you use the source in the text, author's name and year of publication should appear (Ex., Travers, 1995). Endnotes only will be used. For full guidelines for manuscript submission, please refer to the IGP website at http://www.idea-group.com

If your paper includes figures and tables, they should be submitted in camera ready format, even if they already appear on the disk version of your paper. Sometimes in converting to the page layout program, figures & tables become distorted. Please make the figures and tables in conservative sizes. The printable-page size (the image area) of this IGP publication is 4 1/2" x 7 1/4" so DO NOT submit figures or tables that are larger than this because during reduction, details are often lost or type becomes so small that it is hard to read in the printed book. In addition, DO NOT use gray shading or color in your figures or graphs because if it is necessary for IGP typesetters to reduce the size of your figures, the gray shaded or color areas become washed out and in some cases disappear altogether.

On the hard copy of your final version of your case, please highlight, with a highlighter pen, the first reference only of words that you consider to be keywords for the book index.

Please use only endnotes, if needed. They will be placed before the references at the end of each chapter. Footnotes at the bottom of a page will not be allowed.

A one paragraph biographical sketch of about 100 words for each author should be submitted on disk.

For any tables, models, graphs, or other materials directly extracted from previously published materials, you must have written permission from the publisher of that material for reprint use. A copy of that permission release must be submitted with your chapter. IT IS THE INDIVIDUAL AUTHOR'S RESPONSIBILITY TO ATTAIN THIS PERMISSION.

A signed copy of Idea Group Publishing's Author's Warranty and Transfer of Copyright Agreement must be submitted with the final copy of your chapter. Before the publisher can legally proceed with typesetting of your chapter they must have this signed release in their possession.

We appreciate your case submission and look forward to the receipt of your signed copyright transfer, chapter, chapter author checklist and diskette.

If you have any further questions, contact: Hussein A. Abbass, abbass@cs.adfa.edu.au