Author's Check-List for Preparing a Final 'Text'

The queries listed below are intended to serve as a guide for authors preparing the text of a JCS paper. A complete style-sheet is available.

Are the article's title, author's name(s), telephone and fax numbers, and e-mail address printed on a separate 'information sheet'?

Is a brief bionote (no longer than three sentences for each author, including present position, full mailing address, research interests and latest publication) included on the information sheet?

Is your abstract printed (double-spaced) on a separate page?

Is the abstract as concise as possible (with the upper limit 150-200 words)?

Have all bolding and italics been removed from your text and your reference list? (Use underlining for emphasis, titles, etc.)

Has your use of 'we' in the text been confined to references to authors of the JCS paper (in cases in which there are more than one author)?

Do quotation marks precede periods and commas within your text?

Are single quotes (rather than double) used for quotations from other scholarly sources ('unless the "quote" is within a quote')?

Have all wordings and page numbers in your in-text quotations (from other scholarly references) been checked for accuracy against the original scholarly sources (please do not take accuracy for granted)?

Are in-text references within parentheses ordered by year (not alphabetically by authors' names)?

Are your acknowledgements (if any) included (in very spartan form) in a separate section immediately preceding endnotes/references?

Do all notes appear as endnotes (not footnotes) in a section immediately preceding your list of references?

Is the endnote section typed as part of the text (and not generated by your computer's endnote system)?

Do in-text references match your reference list, and are all (and only) in-text references included in the reference list?

Has the format of books, articles, papers, etc. in your reference list been checked against JCS requirements?

In a book in your reference list, is any sub-title included?

In a book title and sub-title, are first letters printed upper-case?

Have periods been removed at the end of book-titles in the reference list?

In a scholarly journal in your reference list, is the issue number &endash; as well as the volume number &endash; included?

In a scholarly article, are all words in the original title and in any sub-title included?

In an unpublished paper in your reference list, is the ERIC number added (where available, but have you checked)?

In an unpublished paper, is 'location' included &endash; author's institution, author's homepage (provide URL), or conference (provide year and city)?

For a chapter in an edited book, are page numbers added?

Have you printed three copies of the final version (for initial submissions six copies) &endash; one side only, double-spaced, justified only on the LEFT-hand side?

Have you also included a version on diskette?

For further details, please contact the editor you will be submitting your paper to.