The International Association of Aquatic and Marine Information Centers (IAMSLIC) is interested in promoting participation in the new peer-reviewed African Journal of Geoinformation. See details, below. --Sue Ann Gardner . } { Sue Ann Gardner, MLS . } 322 Love Library, Cataloging/Maps { University of Nebraska-Lincoln } Lincoln, NE 68588-4100 { . 402-472-3545, 402-472-2534 (fax) } [log in to unmask] { } . . ----- Forwarded by Sue Ann Gardner/Library/UNL/UNEBR on 06/02/2004 11:53 AM ----- Sue, Yes, certainly. Linda Linda-- This announcement is likely to be of interest to readers of MAPS-L. May I forward it to them? --Sue Ann Sue, Yes, certainly. Linda "Linda Pikula" <[log in to unmask]> Sent by: [log in to unmask] 05/28/2004 02:38 PM AST To: [log in to unmask] cc: bcc: Subject: [IAMSLIC:4182] First Issue of the African Journal of Geoinformation-Call for Papers Notice Especially for our AFRICAN Regional Group: AFRICAN JOURNAL OF GEOINFORMATION (AJG) THE NEW OFFICIAL JOURNAL OF THE AFRICAN ASSOCIATION FOR THE REMOTE SENSING OF THE ENVIRONMENT (AARSE) FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS FOR THE MAIDEN ISSUE The African Association for the Remote Sensing of the Environment (AARSE) has previously called for papers for its maiden issue of the African Journal of Geoinformation (AJG) to be published in October 2004. This is its final call to give opportunity to all those who have not submitted manuscripts. The new AJG will be the official journal of AARSE. The purpose of the journal is to stimulate debate on the development of ideas, methods, and techniques in geoinformation and related disciplines; and to discuss how these techniques are being used for the benefit of humankind. The maiden issue of the journal will be in October, 2004, and thereafter the journal will be published in one volume with two issues per year in March and October. Manuscripts reaching the editors by July 30, 2004, peer reviewed, and re-submitted by August 30, 2004 will be considered for publication in the maiden issue. Authors are encouraged to submit manuscripts beyond these dates for subsequent issues of the journal. Electronic submissions should be sent to: [log in to unmask] The Editors of AJG welcome submissions of manuscripts that contribute to the scientific knowledge that is generally of interest to researchers, professionals and other practitioners interested in any field related to geoinformation. They particularly welcome submissions of broad scientific interest; manuscripts of an interdisciplinary nature; and theoretical and conceptual papers with innovative applications. While all submissions in any field of geoinformation will be considered for publication, those that relate to prevalent problems in Africa and attempts to use geoinformation to overcome them will be given priority. The maiden issue will be published just before AARSE's bi-annual conference in Nairobi, October 8-12, 2004 ( http://www.itc.nl/~aarse/aace/) whose theme will be "Geo-Information Sciences in Support of Africa's Development". Manuscripts submitted related to this theme will be particularly welcome for the maiden issue. Submissions might be in the form of completed research papers, brief commentaries, or book reviews (see Guide for Authors attached to this Call for papers). Submission of any manuscript is taken to imply that the manuscript submitted is original and that it is not being considered elsewhere for publication. All submissions will be anonymously reviewed by at least three reviewers. To facilitate publication of high quality articles, the AJG has an Editorial Board of eminent scientists in the field of geoinformation who review manuscripts in their areas of specialization. Other scientists outside the Editorial Board are also requested to assist in reviewing articles from time to time. GUIDE TO AUTHORS A Guide to Preparing Manuscripts for the AJG 1. Introduction Authors are advised to consult these instructions for authors as the only full version. Abbreviated instructions will appear in each issue of the AJG. Once publications of the journal start, authors may get more visual information by following the format of the published articles, except for spacing which should be double in submitted manuscripts. The Editors of AJG expect to receive manuscripts of high quality. Poor submissions will be returned to the authors without review. The author(s) must state, in the cover letter accompanying the submission of the manuscript, that the paper submitted is original and has not been, is not being, and, until the review process of the AJG is completed, will not be submitted for publication elsewhere. 2. Paper length A manuscript presented for a paper article should normally be less than 8000 words or about 31 pages including all tables, figures and references. Short discussions of less than 3000 words may be submitted as Research Notes. Editors will also welcome short comments on papers published in earlier issues under the title Debate. Book Reviews of any recently published book in the field of geoinformation, should be about 1000 words. 3. Structure of the paper The paper should have the following structure · Title page, (with the text center justified) to include the Title of the paper, author(s') name(s) and affiliations (list multiple affiliations one below the other, and mark each with a superscript "a", "b", etc.). In addition the name of the corresponding author, in a case where there are more than one author, should be marked with an asterik superscript (*). A footnote should then be given on this page as, for example " * Corresponding author: E-mail: [log in to unmask]; Tel.: (256) 41 345678; Fax: (256) 41 345679" · Abstract page (at least 200 words) with 4-6 keywords · Introduction (including motivation, aims, overview, and references to related works ; · Main body (explanation of methods, algorithms, data used, results and their critical discussion; · Conclusions; · Acknowledgements · Appendices · References · Tables · Figures · Glossary (if any is considered necessary) 4. General format The paper should be one column. Leave on all sides a 2.5 cm margin and use 12 pts font, Roman Times or Helvetica throughout the manuscript (including Tables and Figures). Double spacing should be used throughout the manuscripts (including Tables). Pages should be numbered at the bottom center. Metric (S.I.) units should be used. Use units instead of words, e.g. "10 m" instead of "10 meter(s)" with a space between numbers and units. Do not abbreviate units (e.g. no "pi" or "pels" instead of "pixel(s)"). Also present units as 1% and 4%, not 1 and 4 %; or 2 mm to 5 mm, not 2 to 5 mm; or 3 km x 3 km, not 3 x 3 km. Only the paper title and main sections titles should be in bold. All subsections titles and "Keywords:" should be in italics. No title should be in capital letters. In section/subsection titles, only the first letter should be capital. All text, with the exception of text on the Title Page (which should be centre justified), should be left justified. To highlight something in the text use italics, never bold. Bold can be used, however, in equations or with symbols in the text. Do not use bullets. Instead use numbering as (1) (2) etc. and treat each numbered item as a new paragraph. Sections and subsections can be numbered up to 3 decimal figures, e.g. 3.3.2.1. All section and subsection numbers should be followed by a period (.), e.g. "4.1. Analysis of the results." Quote sections in text as "Section 4.2" etc., without a (.) after the last number. "Abstract", "Keywords", "Acknowledgements" and "References" should not be numbered. Do not leave one empty line between paragraphs. Indent paragraphs by 0.4 cm. In the "References" do not indent the first line, but all remaining ones of each reference should be indented by 0.3 cm. Footnotes should only be used, if absolutely essential. If used, footnotes should be numbered consecutively throughout the manuscript, indicated by superscript arabic numbers, and kept as short as possible. 5. Presentation, language The paper should be in English. The text must be well structured and understandable. English should be grammatically correct. Set the language paper to UK English. 6. Figures and Tables All figures should be of good quality (sharp, good contrast) with letter size large enough to be clear if reduction is necessary before printing. Figures should be laser prints (at least 400 dpi printer) or for images, original glossy prints. Bar scales must be used and all maps must have a north and a clear coordinate system (e.g. latitude and longitude) indicated. In formatting Tables, do not separate columns with vertical lines but use extra space between the columns. Number Figures and Tables sequentially (e.g. Table 1 etc.) each on a different page. Each Table and Figure should have a brief and clear title. Put all Table titles on one page (marked "Captions for Tables") and insert this at the beginning of the "Tables" section as indicated in Section 3 above. Similarly, put all Figure titles on one page, (marked "Captions for Figures") and insert this at the beginning of the "Figures" section as indicated in Section 3 above. Indicate in the main text of the paper the position where each Figure and Table should be placed e.g. Table 3 here. Ideally immediately after the first position in text where each is quoted. 7. Colour Colour figures cannot be printed in the journal at this time. 8 References In selecting references to quote, give preference to those which are easily accessible to many readers. All references must be quoted in the text and those quoted in the text must appear in the "References" list. The letter font in the reference should be regular. Do not use bold italics. Only the first letter of the title should be capital. Give the full information for a reference as follows: Quote references in text as: (a) ..has been extensively studied (Woldai, 2001a, 2001b; Adeyemi, 2002, p.23); or (b) as reported in Otim (1999) ....List multiple references in parentheses in chronological, not alphabetical, e.g. (AbaNyanba, 1998; Omalanga, 2001; PapaEwusi, 2002; Zikusooka and Zikuvannyuma, 2003). Use et al. in quoting a reference only for more than two authors e.g. (Omara-Ojungu et al., 2004). In the "References", references should be listed in alphabetical order. Where two or more references for the same year are listed for one author(s), these may be differentiated as in the example: Munene, J., 1998a ... Munene, J., 1998b ... Munene, J., Smith, W., and Chou, D., 1997a. ... Munene, J., Smith, W., and Chou, D., 1997b. ... Up to 20 names of all authors should be listed in the reference list; for more than 20 names, use only the first author name and then et al.). For journals, do not abbreviate journal names. Quote journal articles as in the example: Abudelsalam, M. G., Stern, R. J., Shandelmeier, and Sultan, M., 1995. Deformation history of the Neoprotererozoic Keraf Zone in north east Sudan. Journal of Geology, 103, 473-491. For proceedings of conferences quote as in the example: Chanda, M.W., 1998. Caring about the environment or personal survival? Mapping neighbourhood differences in attitudes towards environmental quality in Gaborone. Proc. Int. Conf. Permafrost, 3-4 June, Hakodate, Japan, pp. 18-23. For books give the edition if applicable: For example: Gavin, E., and Gymfi-Aidoo, J., 2004. Environmental information systems development in sub-Saharan Africa. Bosala Books, Johannesburg, 3rd Edition. For URL sites, add, at the end, accessed date, where date is the last date that the site was accessed by you. For example: June 9, 1999. As author give either the author(s) name, if the site has a publication, followed by the publication title, or the title of the page (e.g. product name). For edited books, edited proceedings etc list references as: .."In: Mutendaggulu, S., (Ed.) 2001. The declining importance of Lake Malawi,..p. 38-49." For proceedings and books quote as: In: Kyaka, B.R., Wilson , R., (Eds).. 9. Paper submission Send 4 good quality hardcopies by fast mail (airmail or courier if you wish), or the electronic form (as described below) of the paper. Electronic submissions are preferred because they reduce the time between submission and publication. In the latter case send your paper in A4 format as RTF, Word 97 or Word 2000 file. Files may be compressed by zip. Send hardcopy manuscripts to: Professor Musisi Nkambwe Editor-in-Chief, African Journal of Geoinformation Department of Environmental Science University of Botswana Private Bag 00704 Gaborone, Botswana. Electronic submissions should be sent to [log in to unmask] 10. Submission of revised manuscripts Normally, a manuscript will be returned to the author(s) with comments from the referees. The author(s) will be expected to return revised manuscripts where appropriate to the Editor-in-Chief within the shortest possible time. They should submit two high quality hardcopies AND the electronic files on a DOS-formatted 1.4 MByte high density diskette(s) or a CD. The electronic files should include one file with all paper information. If the file (after compression, if necessary) is too large or if the quality of the figures, in the view of the author(s) is better with individually delivered files, then the authors can deliver one file for each figure in a common format like GIF, JPEG etc. 11. Paper proof ,and reprints One set of page proofs will be sent to the corresponding author to be checked for typesetting/editing. The author is not expected to make changes or corrections that constitute departures from the article that was accepted by the editor. Proofs should be returned within 3 days, preferably by fax. E-mail may be used to return corrections where this is appropriate. The authors will receive two copies of the issue of the AJG in which their article, debate or book review appears. Reprints for articles can be ordered on a reprint order form which will be sent to the corresponding author of the accepted article by the publisher. 12. Copyrights Upon acceptance of an article by the journal, the author(s) will be asked to transfer the copyright of the article to the publisher. This transfer will ensure the widest possible dissemination of information. The author is responsible for obtaining permission to use any copyrighted material or any rights of any company or institute etc which may have copyrights to materials used in writing the manuscript. Once the paper has been prepared in publication format by the publisher, the permission of the publisher is required for any use of the paper. _______________________________________________ UNOOSA-STDM mailing list [log in to unmask] http://www.ungiwg.org/mailman/listinfo/unoosa-stdm