GENERAL

The Journal reserves the right to subject submitted papers to peer review depending on content. Authors will be informed immediately of any such action.

SUBMISSION

In addition papers may be submitted on an IBM compatible 3-inch diskette containing a plain ASCII format file version of the manuscript. Please note that the diskette file should not contain any form of formatting or be software dependent. For example, any editor can be used to produce the file, but carriage-returns must be hardwired and no other control sequences must appear. Sectioning of the text should be indicated by appropriate numbering, main section titles being in capitals. The Journal is produced using LaTeX macros and therefore authors who are familiar with this system can provide suitable commands for the correct formatting of sections, subsections, tables, figures, equations, italics, bold face or mathematical fonts. These should not be contained in the submitted electronic version of the manuscript; the manuscript should act as a guide for our typesetting the unformatted electronic version. The editors will accept in lieu of diskettes the submission of text by electronic mail to the Journal's email address. Paper copy of the manuscript should follow as soon as possible. Please remember to also supply a postal address, and possibly a contact Telephone and TeleFAX number.

On completion the paper should be addressed to the Editor-in-Chief at the editorial address and mailed under hard-cover including the diskette, figures and manuscript in triplicate. A covering note is not essential but would help administratively.

THE MANUSCRIPT

Title page

1. The initial(s) and name(s) of the author(s) in the style and order in which they will appear in the Journal.
2. If required a subtitle may be included but this must be clearly indicated as such. Series of papers must be numbered consecutively from 1 using roman numerals. Only papers published in the IAJ can form part of a numbered series of papers.
3. The complete postal address of each author including any zip or post code. An author's address should follow their name rather than being indicated by a numeral or other symbol. Where possible email addresses should also be given.
4. Footnotes, acknowledgements and/or affiliations pertaining only to the title must follow the authors and addresses.
5. A running title of not more than 35 characters must be given which will form part of the Journal page header. If no running title is given for a paper one will be chosen by the Editors.

Text

Sections should be numbered consecutively with arabic numerals and subsections numbered 1.1, 1.2, 1.3 etc, and then 1.1.1, 1.1.2 etc. Main sections should be titled in capitals and subsections in lower case. Papers should begin with an introduction and end with a conclusion followed by acknowledgements (if appropriate), citation list, figure captions, table captions and footnotes.

Figures

Figures submitted for the IAJ should be of good quality to ensure clear and accurate reproduction. Most figures will be reproduced in the Journal's two-column format and authors should be aware of the amount of reduction that will be necessary to achieve this size. If resolution of the figure at this size is severely effected then reproduction may be possible as a single-column figure. Dashed or dotted line types can become particularly confusing on reduction. Where possible lines and text in all figures should be sufficiently bold and sized to allow the possibility of reduction to two-column format. Authors should be particularly aware of the frequent problems encountered by technical editors in the size of labels on axes.

All figures should have concise captions supplied on a separate page in double-spaced format. Figures should be numbered consecutively with arabic numerals and referred to as ``Figure 4" etc. Figures in appendices must be numbered with the same scheme as the main body of the text.

Tables

All tables should have concise captions supplied on a separate page in double-spaced format. Tables should be numbered consecutively with arabic numerals and referred to as ``Table 4" etc. Tables in appendices must be numbered with the same scheme as the main body of the text.

Mathematics

References

Papers by two authors should be given as the names of both authors separated by an ampersand (&) followed by the date. Papers by more than two authors should be given as the name of the first author followed by et al. (which is italicized) and the date. Two or more citations given together should be separated by a semicolon (;).

If two or more papers by the same author are given together the name is given once followed by the dates separated by a comma. Papers by the same author in the same year should be distinguished be appending the letters a,b,c... successively as required.

The citation list must follow the main body of text, ordered alphabetically by first author (and by initial, for two authors of the same name). Multiple entries with a single authorship must be listed in chronological order, and entries with the same authorship and date must be listed in order of their appearance in the text (see above). Entries should be listed as follows:

1. Name(s) followed by initials of the author(s). A space must be left between name and initials and between initials. A comma is placed between authors except for the final author name which is separated by an ampersand (&). If there are more than six authors give the name and initials of the first author followed by a comma and et al. (in italics).
2. The year of publication of the references must be preceeded and followed by a comma. The year may be followed by a distinguishing character as mentioned above.
3. Short title of the periodical. Table 1 lists the more common abreviations used in the astronomical literature.
4. Volume number in arabic numerals (with series number, where appropriate, following in parentheses).
5. The beginning page number of the reference followed by a full-stop (period).

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