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Author Guidelines

TJA guidelines for authors

Source: Managing and Executive Editors, TJA

Write to the TJA audience. TJA is a multi-disciplinary journal whose readership comprises professionals across a range of disciplines in both academia and industry, including telecommunications and Internet engineering, law, economics, social sciences and humanities. Your challenge is to avoid most jargon, to explain the essential acronyms and specialist terminology when first introduced (with citations of fuller explanations if appropriate), and most importantly, to write in clear English for an interested, well-educated reader who may not share your disciplinary background.
Use the TJA template

Download template (.dot)

All submissions should use the template in MS Word, with illustrations submitted as separate files (see 12 below). Please do not assume that editors/reviewers have the latest version of Word. If you save your document in ‘.doc’ format, this will be satisfactory. Articles should normally be less than 5,000 words long (excluding references and endnotes: see below).

Structure your article. Articles, especially longer articles, are made much more readable by being structured with headings and subheadings, usually beginning with an ‘Introduction’. A ‘Conclusions’ section is essential, and the points made in the Conclusions should echo or draw upon those made in the main body of your article. An Abstract (no more than 150 words) is also essential as part of your article.
Single column format.
Text MUST be submitted in a single column format.
Headings and sub-headings.
Style level headings are provided in the template.
Italics
Italics should be used for the titles of books and for the names of journals, and similar material.
Italics can be used for emphasis but they should be used very sparingly.
Italics are also used to signify foreign words or phrases that are not in common usage in English. If the word or phrase appears in The Macquarie Dictionary 5th edition, then its usage is considered common enough not to warrant italics.
Italics or capitals that appear in the original source of a quotation should be retained.
Capitals. The word ‘Internet’ should always be capitalised; also ‘Government’ when referring to a particular government, e.g. the Federal Government or the NSW Government, but not for governments in general.
Line breaks
Do not use manual line breaks. If a line break is needed, a new paragraph should be created.
Non-standard characters
Non-standard characters should not be used unless their inclusion is vital to the integrity of the message.
Tabs
Do not use tabs – use tables instead
Tables
Tables may be inserted in the text unless special symbols are used in them. In this case submit tables as illustrations.
Acceptable file types for tables:
.doc format (Word) (can be embedded in the main document)
.xls format (Excel) (must be supplied as a separate file)
Tables may be converted to images by the layout editor
Figures and Illustrations
Figures include all of the following: photographs, maps, diagrams (including Word-generated diagrams), charts and graphs, etc, as well as symbols inserted using special fonts in Word or using any maths programs, such as MathML.
Figures and illustrations should be submitted as separate PNG, TIFF or JPEG files, labelled with the figure number. Resolution of at least 300 dpi at reproduction size is desirable.
References, in-line citations and Notes
It is important to use in-line citations to give due credit to others’ work in the field, including official reports and original online commentary where relevant. All articles cited should appear in the References, listed at the end of the paper. References and citations should use the Chicago system, as found in The Chicago Manual of Style 14th edn.
Inline citations should follow the ‘author-date’ system. They should not be numbered, nor should there be any intervening material between the author and the date, except a parenthesis if required.
All notes must be included as endnotes only, not footnotes, and endnotes should be kept to a minimum. Only explanatory text may be used in endnotes; references, including references cited within explanatory endnotes, must be handled by in-line citations.
- In-line citation examples
  "His first task was to evoke the Australian suburb (Boyd 1977, 13–14). More recently, Patrick Troy, editor of A History of European Housing in Australia, also placed housing history within an urban context (Troy 2000)"
  
  Books
  Correct:
  Van Seters, John. 1992. Prologue to history: The Yahwist as historian in Genesis. Louisville, Kentucky: Westminster John Knox.
  
  Van Seters, John. 1999. The Pentateuch: A social-science commentary. Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press.
  
  Incorrect:
  Van Seters, John. 1992. Prologue to history: The Yahwist as historian in Genesis. Louisville, KY: Westminster John Knox.
  
  ———. 1999. The Pentateuch: A social-science commentary. Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press.
  - Book titles should have maximum capitals.
  - All authors, editors and translators should be listed by last name, then first name.
  - Where there are multiple authors, do not separate authors by ‘and’. Separate them with a semicolon: Trinca, Matthew; Wehner, Kirsten.
  - Where a publication has multiple authors and initials only are being used for the first names, do not put full stops between the initials, and separate the authors with a semi-colon. Only the final author’s final initial should have a full stop.
  - If an author name is repeated in subsequent references, always include the author’s name for each reference.
  Journal articles
Conference proceedings:

Wheeler, P J; Peterson, J A. 2005. ‘Time-series delta changes at Lakes Entrance, Victoria, Australia (1889–2005): Correlation with catchment management events’. A poster paper presented at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) GeoTools ’05 Spatial Technology Conference. 7–10 March; Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. Accessed 23 November 2005. Available from: http://www.arts.monash.edu.au/ges/research/Gis/public/conf.html.

Kunapo, J; Chandra, S; Peterson, J; Brady, C. 2005. ‘Optimisation of process flow for high resolution DEM generation via digital photogrammetry: Test of options with and without ancillary data’. Proceedings of SSC 2005 Spatial Intelligence, Innovation and Praxis: The National Biennial Conference of the Spatial Sciences Institute. September; Melbourne, Victoria: 1388–1392.

Reports and discussion papers (examples):

Eardley, T. 1998. ‘Working but poor? Low pay and poverty in Australia’. SPRC Discussion Paper No. 91. Social Policy Research Centre, University of New south Wales.

Junakaw, P; Kapuscinski, C. 1992. ‘The costs of unemployment in Australia’. Economic Planning Advisory Council Background Paper no. 24. Canberra: AGPS.

Senate Community Affairs Reference Committee. 2004. ‘A hand up not a hand out: Renewing the fight against poverty’. Report on Poverty and Financial Hardship. Canberra: Senate Community Affairs Reference Committee.

Web pages
Note: if the publication date is not known, the year and the date that the web page was accessed is cited in lieu of the date of publication.

Bureau of Meteorology. 2005. ‘Significant weather – June 1998’. [Internet]. Australian Government. Accessed 27 July 2005. Available from: http://www.bom.gov.au/inside/services_policy/public/sigwxsum/sigw0698.shtml.

Bush, George W. 2002. ‘President promotes compassionate conservatism’. [Internet]. San Jose, California: The White House. Released online 30 April 2002. Accessed 14 March 2004. Available from: http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2002/04/20020430-5.html.

Burchell, D. 2002. ‘The western Sydney factor’. Australian Policy Online. Accessed 11 March 2004. Available from: http://www.apo.org.au.

Submission Preparation Checklist

As part of the submission process, authors are required to check off their submission's compliance with all of the following items, and submissions may be returned to authors that do not adhere to these guidelines.

This is a new TJA submission.
If you want to upload a revised version
click here (or view quick video on how to do this).
The submission has not been previously published, nor is it before another journal for consideration (or an explanation has been provided in Comments to the Editor).
The submission has used the TJA template and is in DOC format.
The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines.
(illustrations, figures, and tables should also be uploaded as seperate Supplementary Files).
Where available, URLs for the references have been provided.
If submitting to a peer-reviewed section of the journal, the instructions in Ensuring a Blind Review have been followed.

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