Instructions to Authors

Please follow the manuscript requirements listed below to prepare your paper. We only accept paper submissions in electronic form over the web.

Detailed instructions for preparation of papers in electronic form including style files are provided.

Manuscript Style Requirements

1. Manuscripts should be written in English. Manuscripts should be typed on one side of the paper, in double spacing, with ample margins. The pages should be numbered consecutively. Electronic submission of papers is mandatory. No submissions by regular mail are accepted.


2. Papers should not normally exceed 14 Journal pages (about 8000 words).


3. The authors' names and addresses should not appear in the body of the manuscript, to preserve anonymity.


4. At the head of each paper there should be a summary of not more than 200 words. This should be self contained and understandable by the general reader outside the context of the full paper. The summary is followed by a selection of keywords.


5. Sections and subsections should be clearly distinguished with a two-level numbering at most.


6. Papers must be written without the use of footnotes.


7. Mathematical expressions and Greek or other symbols should be written clearly with ample spacing.


8. References in the text are indicated by authors' names and year of publication in parentheses. If a referenced paper has three or more authors the reference should always appear as the first author followed by et al. The references are listed alphabetically at the end of the manuscript. Journal titles should not be abbreviated.
   
   Journal
   
   

   L. FRAZIER, J. D. FODOR The sausage machine: A new two-stage parsing model. Cognition, 6 (1978), 291-325.

   Book
   
   

   M. NAGAO Knowledge and Inference. Academic Press, Boston, 1988.

   Contributed volume
   
   

   E. S. CORDINGLEY Knowledge elicitation techniques for knowledge-based systems. In Knowledge Elicitation: Principles, Techniques and Applications (D. DIAPER, Ed.), (1989) pp. 179-194. Ellis Horwood, Chichester.

   Conference paper
   
   

   R. L. WATROUS, L. SHASTRI Learning phonetic features using connectionist networks: An experiment in speech recognition. Presented at the Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Neural Networks, (1987) San Diego, CA.

   Unpublished reports/theses

   J. W. ROZENBLIT A conceptual basis for model-based system design. PhD. Thesis, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan, 1985.


Proofs and reprints


9. Authors will be required to proof the paper before publishing. It will not be possible to accept major textual changes at this stage.


10. 30 offprints of full-length papers will be provided free to the corresponding author. Additional offprints may also be ordered. If the offprint forms are not received until after the issue has gone to press, charges for reprinting will necessarily be higher. Offprints of short notes, book reviews and letters are not available.


Copyright


11. The copyright of all material published is vested in the Journal.


12. The author must complete and fax the copyright form, once the paper is accepted.


13. Authors wishing to submit papers which have been published elsewhere in a foreign language should approach the original publisher before submission.


14. Authors wishing to use material previously published in CIT should consult the Publishers.


Accepted paper


15. When the paper is accepted, the authors will be required to electronically submit source files of the paper in ASCII or TEX/LATEX format. Each figure should also be supplied in two separate files, one in figure's original graphical format, and another in Postscript (.PS or .EPS) or .TIFF format.