AARL

Instructions to authors

Contributions to Australian Academic & Research Libraries are invited. All substantial articles offered to AARL are peer-refereed. The refereeing process and the numbers of contributions received sometimes lead to a delay in publication.

Manuscripts should not exceed 5 000 words. They should be submitted to the Editor electronically, preferably by email attachment; submission on an IBM-compatible 3.5 inch disk is also acceptable. Files in Microsoft Word format are preferred, but files created by most common word-processors are also accepted. If using less-common software, please also provide a copy saved in RTF.

Authors should indicate their position held, e-mail and postal addresses, and employing institution if applicable. A brief abstract (up to 100 words) should accompany all contributions other than short features, notices and book reviews. Charts, diagrams, line drawings, plans and photographs should be placed at the end of the article, with appropriate reference to them in the text.

The best guide to current AARL style is the material appearing in the journal itself. In particular, bibliographic references should be kept to a minimum, consecutively numbered, and appear as endnotes.

References in Harvard style are not acceptable. Explanatory and supplementary material should appear in the text or be omitted; it should not appear in the references. As an Australian scholarly journal, AARL follows the usage of The Macquarie Dictionary and the Style Manual for Authors, Editors and Printers, 6th ed., Wiley 2002. Examples of the bibliographic style required are:

1. S Zuboff In the Age of the Smart Machine Oxford Heinemann Professional 1988.
2. P Lyman \'The Emerging Electronic Library\' Australian Academic & Research Libraries vol 22 no 3 1991 pp159-66
3. Canberra Times 9 August 1991 p19
4. L Webb \'Networks\' in N D Lane and M E Chisholm (eds) Information Technology Boston G K Hall 1991 pp27-40
5. A F Maag Some Correlates of Program Change in Large University Libraries PhD Thesis Ohio State University 1975
6. Australia Department of Employment and Industrial Relations Annual Report 1983-84 Canberra AGPS 1984
7. Australia House of Representative Debates 1981 vol HR 183 pp2-9
8. ibid p251
9. Webb \'Networks\' pp45-6
10. The ARL's Checklist for Drafting Electronic Information Policies is at http://www.arl.org/newsltr/196/checklist.html [accessed 25 November 1998]

Copy deadlines for news and reviews are 15 January, 15 April, 15 July and 15 October for the March, June, September and December issues respectively. Authors of articles need to allow for the inevitable delays caused by refereeing.