Scientific Communication CITS7200

Lecture 8Publishing

Types of publication

• Conference papers• Journal Articles• Book Chapters

All part of the Australian Government audit administered by DEST

Conference publications

• Common refereed venue for CS and SE

• Fast turnaround• National and international• Counted in UWA output audit

Choosing the conference

• Costs (registration, travel, accommodation)

• Venue• Size• Prestige• Degree of specialisation• Attendees

• Unrefereed conferences (e.g. Yanchep)

• Refereed abstracts• Refereed full papers (e.g. ACSC)

• Oral Presentation• Poster Presentation

• Camera-ready copy• Template usage

ACSC2012, Melbourne, Jan/Febhttp://acsc.csse.uwa.edu.au/cfp.html• The Thirty-Fifth Australasian Computer Science Conference, ACSC

2012, will be held in Melbourne, Victoria, in January/February, 2012 as part of the Australasian Computer Science Week.

• Submission to ACSC 2012 will only be accepted electronically (using EasyChair) via the conference web page at http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=acsc12.

• By submitting to the conference authors accept that they are aware of the Guidelines on Research Practice in Computer Science by the Computer Research and Education Association (CORE) and the policy listed on the CRPIT web site (http://crpit.com).

• A sample Word style file, LaTeX style file and LaTeX document are available.

• Each paper will be judged on its originality, significance, technical quality, relevance to ACSC, and presentation. Papers should be no more than 10 pages in length conforming to the formatting instructions for the Australasian Computer Society (ACS) - Conferences in Research and Practice in Information Technology (CRPIT) Australian Computer Science Communications series. Instructions available from the ACSC2012 web site main page.

DICTA2003, Sydney December• Prospective authors are invited to submit their full

papers electronically at the conference web site (http://www.tip.csiro.au/dicta2003 ) before 11 August 2003.

• Papers are limited to a maximum of eight (8) pages. Authors of accepted papers, or at least one of them, should be registered and are expected to present their work at the conference.

• The conference proceedings will be available at the conference in paper and CD forms. Papers will also be available on the web.

• Authors of best papers will be invited to submit revised versions of their papers to be considered for publication in a special issue of the Image and Vision Computing journal published by Elsevier.

Journal publications

• Types of articles– Full length articles: typically 5000

words, a series of experiments– Short notes: typically 2000 words,

one or two stand-alone experiments– Generally, one solid paper is better

than two or three short notes– Articles in journals are better than

chapters in books

• Choosing your journal– Choose a good quality, high prestige,

international journal for maximum exposure

– Journal of the ACS is JRPIT – Journal of Research and Practice in Information Technology

– Excellence in Research Australia journal rankings: http://lamp.infosys.deakin.edu.au/era/

• Quality is often measured by a journal’s Impact Factor, which is a measure of the average number of citations made to articles published in the journal

• B = 1998 citations to articles published in 1996-7

• C = number of articles published in 1996-7

• 1998 Impact = B/C

• Seek advice on where to publish• Review recent issues to see if your

topic matches contents• Examine the references section in

your paper for common journals• Check time-to-publish

• Submitting a paper– Follow instructions– Use correct format or template– Provide correct number of copies– Include required info in covering

letter

• People involved: – Managing Editor (deals with

administration) – Editor (selects reviewers; makes final

decision on acceptance) – Reviewers (experts in the paper topic)

Reviewing• Is the paper too long? • Is the paper well organised? • Are the design and analysis sound? • Do the conclusions follow from the results? • Has the author cited all relevant references? • Are all the tables and figures necessary? • Are the title and abstract fully descriptive of

the text?

JRPIT reviews

• Technical content (1-5)• Originality (1-5)• Writing quality (1-5)• Appropriate to JRPIT (1-5)• Overall assessment (1-5)• Comments to authors• Comments to editor

Possible recommendations:

• Accept with few or no revisions • Accept provided that revisions are

carried out according to the reviewers’ (and/or editor’s) specific comments

• Reject but allow re-submission after major revision

• Reject

Revising your paper

• Check the time limit• Write a cover letter addressing ALL

reviewers’ comments• Don’t attack the reviewer or the

editor• Don’t be intimidated by either• Stand up for your viewpoint if you

think you are right

Re-submitting your paper

• Follow instructions carefully• Proof-read carefully• Generate high-quality laser copies• Date your work

• unmatched parentheses, • wrong fonts, • misspelt words, • repeated words, • missing punctuation, especially commas, • incorrect hyphenation, • a widow header or word, • O for 0, l for 1, etc. • bad line breaks in mathematical equations, • incorrect formatting, • missing symbols, • errors in numbers in tables, and • incorrect citation numbers

Proofs

• Unless using a typesetting template, galley proofs arrive shortly before publication

• Cross-check carefully• Return within 24 hours!• Indicate precise changes in cover

letter and on proofs using correct mark-up

Rejection

• Acceptance rate is usually below 33%

• Everyone gets rejected• Wait before trying again• Don’t be discouraged• Re-submit to another journal within

a month

Good practice• Keep

– a copy of your manuscript– a re-print– all reviewers’ and editor’s comments

• Make sure you have all info for audit• Don’t give up• Start now• Make downloads available through

web

Posters

• Same amount of material as a ten-minute talk

• Different from a talk or a paper• Visual presentation designed to

stimulate discussion

Contents

• Introduction and motivation• Outline of materials and methods• Results• Conclusions

A good poster is

• readable• legible• well organized• succinct

• Layout and design crucial• Check space constraints• Usually landscape with 1-2m2 , but

sometimes portrait

Layout

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Materials and methods

Results Conclusions

Title, in sentence capitalisationName — School of Computer Science & Software Engineering, The University of Western

Australia

Literature cited

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• Usually about 20% text, 40% graphics and 40% space

• Must have right angles, straight lines, perfect spacing between entities

• Plan your layout on paper first

Design• Use strong colour contrast• Muted colours best for background,

strong colours for borders• Related background colours will unify

the poster• Use light background with dark photos,

dark background with light photos• Use neutral (grey) background to

emphasize colour, and white to reduce colour impact

• Images and graphs preferable to tables

• Use professional tools– Guillotine– Spray adhesive

• Design for reading

• Sans serif fonts easiest to read• Section headings in Helvetica,

Boldface, 36pt• Supporting text Helvetica, 24pt• Should be readable from 1m