期刊名称：AUSTRALIAN LIBRARY JOURNAL
 期刊简介(About the journal)
投稿须知(Instructions to Authors)
编辑部信息(Editorial Board)
About the journal
The Australian Library Journal has been reaching discerning and influential Australian libraries since 1951. Published quarterly, it contains a wide coverage of Australian library issues ranging from ongoing research to day-to-day news from the workplace.
It is the acknowledged flagship publication of the Australian Library and Information Association, and an appropriate vehicle for publishers, suppliers and services wishing to reach the decision-makers. The journal is available through subscription.
Instructions to Authors
We are frequently requested to give guidance to nervous or inexperienced contributors. By now it will be apparent to readers of the current Journal that this is a question about which the editor is quite relaxed. Nonetheless, and in the interests of potential contributors, we are developing some notes on style which we hope will be of assistance.
What follows is intended in the nature of interim advice.
- Do not be hung up regarding exact compliance with real or imagined stylistic criteria. ALJ is not an academic organ, and you will not be penalised, nor your contribution regarded any the less highly if it fails to comply with some real or imagined protocols. The important thing is to write.
- Nonetheless, there are certain conventions which will make the editor's and typesetter's tasks easier; the most important of these is to give us a disk version of your contribution, preferably in MicroSoft Word for Windows format.
- The AGPS Style Manual and the Macquarie Dictionary are our lodestones. If in doubt, follow them and you will not err irretrievably. Secondary sources such as The Cambridge Australian Style Manual are also useful, as is Stephen Murray-Smith's Right words.
- Citation and reference styles are probably the most contentious issue; we use the Chicago referencing system. We do not like footnotes and would prefer that you separate the body of your references from the text proper.
- Layout and other apparatus -- a considered glance at a current article will show you what is needed: the title of the article, a brief abstract [100 words] and a similarly brief biographical note, including (if you wish) contact details, position held, and of course the body of the article itself.
- Some simple stylistic requirements:
- no double spaces between a full stop and the following sentence
- contractions do not need a full stop following as in Dr or vol
- abbreviations are rarely written - do not use don't
- acronyms are written without full stops, for example RSPCA, ACT
- avoid double paragraph returns
- do not underline for emphasis - use italics
- use single quotes throughout except for embedded quotes [that is, quotes within quotes]
- Policy on refereeing - a clarification. We have recently been made aware that DETYA requires a that articles should be refereed by persons who are not members of the relevant journal's editorial board, that is, by independent peers. This in fact, has been this Journal's policy since the practice of refereeing was introduced in 1996.
Editorial Board
Helen Partridge
ALJ editor [interim]
Faculty of Science and Technology
Queensland University of Technology
GPO Box 2434
Brisbane 4001
ph (07) 3138 9047
alj@alia.org.au.nospam
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