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Author Guidelines
Submissions to CSI/ÉCI should be submitted online as Microsoft Word, Word Perfect, or Rich Text documents. The text should be single-spaced.
Submissions should not exceed 6,000 words and should follow The MLA Handbook of Style. Please use embedded references and where necessary use endnotes rather than footnotes. At the end of your paper include a list only of Works Cited in the paper. A good online MLA style guide is found at: http://www.dianahacker.com/resdoc/humanities/english.html
All article submissions are peer-reviewed. Please be careful to remove any author identification and use "Author" and year in the bibliography and footnotes, instead of authors' names, titles, etc. The author's name must also be removed from the document's Properties, which in Microsoft Word is found in the File menu.
Please submit as supplementary files along with your manuscript any Web-ready images, sound, or audio clips, that you would like to include in your online publication. The total number of sound samples should not exceed 4 minutes. Do not list your name as creator or owner of the file in order to protect the blind peer review.
Submissions must not have been previously published nor be before another journal for consideration. In any other circumstance, an explanation must be provided in Comments to the Editor
Submission Preparation Checklist
As part of the submission process, authors are required to check off their submission's compliance with all of the following items, and submissions may be returned to authors that do not adhere to these guidelines.
- The submission has not been previously published, nor is it before another journal for consideration (or an explanation has been provided in Comments to the Editor).
- The submission file is in Microsoft Word, RTF, or WordPerfect document file format.
- All URL addresses in the text (e.g., http://pkp.ubc.ca) are activated and ready to click.
- The text is single-spaced; uses a 12-point font; employs italics, rather than underlining (except with URL addresses); and all illustrations, figures, and tables are placed within the text at the appropriate points, rather than at the end.
- The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines, which is found in About the Journal.
- The text, if submitted to a peer-reviewed section (e.g., Articles), has had the authors' names removed. If an author is cited, "Author" and year are used in the bibliography and footnotes, instead of author's name, paper title, etc. The author's name has also been removed from the document's Properties, which in Microsoft Word is found in the File menu.
Copyright Notice
Copyright for articles published in this journal is retained by the authors, with first publication rights granted to the journal. By virtue of their appearance in this open access journal, articles are free to use, with proper attribution, in educational and other non-commercial settings.
Manuscripts submitted to CSI/ECI should be original works that have not been published elsewhere. Note that authors are responsible for obtaining permission to include copyrighted material in any article or review published in CSI/ECI.
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