期刊名称：FOUNDATIONS OF SCIENCE
 期刊简介(About the journal)
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编辑部信息(Editorial Board)
About the journal
Foundations of Science focuses on significant methodological and philosophical topics concerning the structure and the growth of science. It serves as a forum for exchange of views and ideas among working scientists and theorists of science, and promotes interdisciplinary cooperation.
The journal presents foundational issues of science in a way that is free from unnecessary technicalities, yet faithful to the scientific content. Its aim is not simply to identify and highlight foundational issues and problems, but to suggest constructive solutions.
While acknowledging that various sciences have their own approaches and methods, the editors hold that important truths can be discovered about and by the sciences and that these transcend cultural and political contexts. The editors believe that the central foundational questions of contemporary science can be posed and answered without recourse to sociological or historical methods.
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Instructions to Authors
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and on diskette to:
Diederik Aerts
Editor-in-Chief Foundations of Science
Center Leo Apostel
Brussels Free University
Krijgskundestraat 33
1160 Brussels
Begium
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least 2 are in Europe, the United States, or Canada.
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abbreviations or unspecified references.
Key Words
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Abbreviations
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Vitae/biography
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details on present position, education, research interests, and some recent publications if relevant.
Article Types
Foundations of Science publishes both review articles and new results. Review papers, covering an
important subject in the foundations of a discipline or interdisciplinary domain, should be written in a
spirit of cross-disciplinary accessibility. Such papers may discuss results that have already been
published in journals specialised in a specific discipline.
Papers presenting new ideas can be of an advanced or complex nature, and use fully the technical
jargon from a specific scientific discipline. However, in order to maintain cross-disciplinary accessibility,
they must obey the following guidelines. Papers that require in-depth exposure to the advanced
technical tools of a specific discipline must have two complementary parts.
The first part, addressed to a multidisciplinary audience, must contain the following material:
• [(a)] Situation of the problem within the context of the problem domain. Ample space may be
used for the description of the context.
• [(b)] Extensive reference to the classical and accepted views.
• [(c)] A clear, critical statement of how the (new) approach or result confirms or questions the
existing results.
• [(d)] A summary in non-technical language of the results described in the second part of the
paper.
Often, the whole can be made understandable by discussing the matter on a meta-level, explaining
explicitly what is understood, why and how it is understood, what is not understood, and, if possible why
and how it is not understood. This means that papers containing completely new and "not-yetunderstood"
matter are also welcome. But in that case, the first part should make it clear that the
problem's present status is "not-understood", and explain why it is nevertheless of scientific importance.
The second part of the paper addressed to a specialised audience, should contain a detailed, formal
exposition of the matter, using the technical tools and jargon of the discipline. This exposition should be
as self-contained as possible. This means that technical jargon and techniques may also be included (if
they have not yet been included in the first part). A high degree of self-containment can be achieved by
including references to good quality expository papers within the field.
Section Headings
Section headings should be numbered (e.g., 1., 1.1, 1.1.1, 2., 2.1, etc.).
Appendices
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sections.
Notes
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numbers in the text. A source reference note should be indicated by means of an asterisk after the title.
This note should be placed at the bottom of the first page.
Cross-Referencing
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reference in parentheses and page number(s) where appropriate. When there are more than two
authors, only the first author's name should be mentioned, followed by "et al.". In the event that an author
cited has had two or more works published during the same year, the reference, both in the text and in
the reference list, should be identified by a lower case letter like "a" and "b" after the date to distinguish
the works.
Examples:
Winograd (1986, p. 204)
(Winograd, 1986a, b)
(Winograd, 1986; Flores et al., 1988)
(Bullen and Bennett, 1990)
Acknowledgements
Acknowledgements of people, grants, funds, etc. should be placed in a separate section before the
References.
References
1. Journal article:
Barlow, D. H. & Lehman, C. L. (1996). Advances in the psychosocial treatment of anxiety disorders.
Archives of General Psychiatry, 53, 727-735
2. Book chapter:
Cutrona, C. E. & Russell, D. (1990). Type of social support and specific stress: Towards a theory of
optimum matching. (In I.G. Sarason, B. R. Sarason, & G. Pierce (Eds.), Social support: An
interactional view (pp. 341-366). New York: Wiley.)
3. Book, authored:
Capland, G. (1964). Principles of preventive psychiatry. (New York: Basic Books)
4. Book, edited:
Felner, R. D., Jason, L. A., Moritsugu, J. N. & Farber, S. S. (Eds.) (1983). Preventive psychology:
Theory, research and practice. (New York: Pergamon Press)
5. Paper presented at a conference:
Phelan, J. C., Link, B. G., Stueve, A. & Pescosolido, B. A. (1996, November). Have public conceptions
of mental health changed in the past half century? Does it matter? (Paper presented at the 124th Annual
Meeting of the American Public Health Association, New York)
6. Patent:
Name and date of patent are optional
Norman, L. O. (1998) Lightning rods. US Patent 4,379,752, 9 Sept 1998
7. Dissertation:
Trent, J.W. (1975) Experimental acute renal failure. Dissertation, University of California
8. Published and In press articles with or without DOI:
8.1 In press
Wilson, M., et al. (2006). References. In: Wilson, Mm (ed) Style manual. Springer. (Berlin Heidelberg
New York: Springer) (in press)
8.2. Article by DOI (with page numbers)
Slifka, M. K.& Whitton, J. L. (2000). Clinical implications of dysregulated cytokine production. Journal of
Molecular Medicine 78,74-80. DOI 10.1007/s001090000086
8.3. Article by DOI (before issue publication with page numbers)
Slifka, M. K. & Whitton, J, L, (2000), Clinical implications of dysregulated cytokine production. Journal of
Molecular Medicine (in press). DOI 10.1007/s001090000086
8.4. Article in electronic journal by DOI (no paginated version)
Slifka, M. K.& Whitton, J. L. (2000). Clinical implications of dysregulated cytokine production. Journal of
Molecular Medicine. DOI 10.1007/s801090000086
9. Internet publication/Online document
9.1. Internet articles based on a print source
VandenBos, G., Knapp, S., & Doe, J. (2001). Role of reference elements in the selection of resources
by psychology undergraduates [Electronic version]. Journal of Bibliographic Research, 5, 117-123.
VandenBos, G., Knapp, S., & Doe, J. (2001). Role of reference elements in the selection of resources
by psychology undergraduates. Journal of Bibliographic Research, 5, 117-123. Retrieved October 13,
2001, from http://jbr.org/articles.html
9.2. Article in an Internet-only journal
Fredrickson, B. L. (2000, March 7). Cultivating positive emotions to optimize health and well-being.
Prevention & Treatment, 3, Article 0001a. Retrieved November 20, 2000, from
http://journals.apa.org/prevention/volume3/pre0030001a.html
9.3. Article in an Internet-only newsletter
Glueckauf, R. L., Whitton, J., Baxter, J., Kain, J., Vogelgesang, S., Hudson, M., et al. (1998, July).
Videocounseling for families of rural teens with epilepsy -- Project update. Telehealth News,2(2).
Retrieved from http://www.telehealth.net/subscribe/newslettr4a.html1
9.4. Stand-alone document, no author identified, no date
GVU's 8th WWW user survey. (n.d.). Retrieved August 8, 2000, from
http://www.cc.gatech.edu/gvu/usersurveys/survey1997-10/.
9.5. Document available on university program or department Web site
Chou, L., McClintock, R., Moretti, F., Nix, D. H. (1993). Technology and education: New wine in new
bottles: Choosing pasts and imagining educational futures. Retrieved August 24, 2000, from Columbia
University, Institute for Learning Technologies Web site:
http://www.ilt.columbia.edu/publications/papers/newwine1.htmlOther Electronic Sources
9.6. Electronic copy of a journal article, three to five authors, retrieved from database
Borman, W. C., Hanson, M. A., Oppler, S. H., Pulakos, E. D., & White, L. A. (1993). Role of early
supervisory experience in supervisor performance. Journal of Applied Psychology, 78, 443-449.
Retrieved October 23, 2000, from PsycARTICLES database
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Foundations of Science
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Editorial Board
Editor-in-Chief:
Diederik Aerts
Free University of Brussels, Belgium
Editorial Advisory Board:
Ryszard W'jcicki, Institute of Philosophy and Sociology, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland; Paul Humphreys, Philosophy Dept., University of Virginia, Charlottesville, USA; Nancy Delaney Cartwright, Philosophy Dept., London School of Economics, UK; Maria Luisa Dalla Chiara, Dip. di Filosofia, Universita Degli Studi di Firenze, Italy; Allan Franklin, Dept. of Physics, University of Colorado, Boulder, USA; Michael Heller, Vatican Observatory, Vatican City State; Andrzej Lewenstam, Laboratory of Analytical Chemistry, Åbo Akademi University, Turku, Finland; Fritz Rohrlich, Dept. of Physics, Syracuse University, USA; Patrick Suppes, Dept. of Philosophy, Stanford University, USA; Bastian C. Van Fraassen, Dept. of Philosophy, Princeton University, USA; Jan Zytkow, Computer Science Dept., Wichita State, USA
Assistant Editors: Jan Broekaert, Brussels Free University, Belgium; Liane Gabora, Brussels Free University, Belgium
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