Style Sheet

Please note: The BCIS Journal welcomes inquiries on all issues. E-mail requests as to our interests in particular submissions are welcome at barlowj@pacificu.edu and will be answered promptly.

All submissions
While we welcome hard copy and disk copies of submissions, we prefer that they reach us via e-mail. Files are easiest to handle if they arrive as attachments rather than pasted into the body of a long e-mail message. It is helpful if there are clear indications as to what platform was used to produce the material (Usually PC or Mac) and which word processor was used as well. If you use Microsoft Word, as many do, it is important that you do not use the autoinsert function for any footnotes or citations, which you wish to include---these will usually be lost in electronic submission. Rather, hand-enter the ordinals and the citations at the end of the piece. Payment and Copyright: All payments will be made following publication. Copyright belongs to the Berglund Center for Internet Studies.

Length
Submissions should be no more than five pages in length, single-spaced, including all notes and references. This should be about one thousand to fifteen hundreds words, excluding notes and references.

HTML Formatting
If you wish to do your own HTML formatting, in general, we prize clarity and organization of content over creative displays of formatting and technology, though we recognize the importance of graphic presentation within an electronic format. It is our goal to keep this journal accessible to the widest possible electronic audience while maintaining high professional standards. We reserve the right to reformat HTML materials according to our standards. Several submissions have been posted on the web site of the author, and we have taken them from that site with formatting intact. However, the need to edit to our own format inevitably will introduce changes.

Anchors
If the text includes anchors or links to external sites, these should be included if at all possible in the bibliography or in an additional "Resources" file rather than imbedded in the text itself. While this may not be the optimum use of hypertext it will keep our readers from becoming lost on the web before they have finished reading in our site. You are responsible for testing addresses, which are included in your file; we cannot search the web for 404s. Please take great care in testing your links!

Graphics
We encourage appropriate graphics to be included in submissions. However, these must be graphics to which you have clear rights of use. Legal responsibility for your work resides with you. The placement of graphics is one of the most complicated and time-consuming problems we face in our editing; all the assistance which authors can give us is appreciated.