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Please follow these guidelines for formatting your paper

This document provides details on the layout requirements for final manuscript submission to ISCCL Proceedings.

Formatting Requirements for the Document

  • Page size should be 8.5 x 11 inches or A4.
  • All margins (left, right, top and bottom) should be 1.0 inches (3.8 cm), including your tables and figures.
  • Single space your text.
  • Use a single column layout and left justify the text.
  • Font:Main Body—12 pt. Times or the closest comparable font available
  • Do not include page numbers, headers, or footers.
  • Do not use footnotes or endnotes.
  • Write your article in English (additional language versions can be added after acceptance of the paper).
  • Use (author date) citation format for in-text citations
  • Use Headings and Sub-headings to arrange your paper into sections. These should be descriptive of the contents of that section.

    • When you are Uploading your file(s) for review:

  • Uploading your file: Please do not include a title page or abstract. (Begin the document with the introduction; a title page, including the abstract, will be added from other information you submit.)
  • Submit everything except images, including tables, bibliography, appendices, etc., as a single file (Word, or RTF files are accepted) EXCEPT FOR IMAGES.
  • Please submit images separately as individual files. These can be submitted in the screen following the submission of the text file.
  • If figures are included, use high-resolution figures that are .jpg, .tif or .png. Please submit each figure as a separate file.
  • Review and copyedit your manuscript.

Additional Requirements

Indenting, Line Spacing, and Justification

Indent all paragraphs except those following a section heading. An indent should be at least 2 em-spaces.

Do not insert extra space between paragraphs of text with the exception of long quotations, theorems, propositions, special remarks, etc. These should be set off from the surrounding text by additional space above and below.

All text should be left-justified (i.e., flush with the left margin—except where indented).

Language & Grammar

All submissions must be in English.

Authors should use proper, standard English grammar. The Elements of Style by William Strunk, Jr. and E. B. White (now in its fourth edition) is the "standard" guide, but other excellent guides (e.g., The Chicago Manual of Style, University of Chicago Press) exist as well.

Article Length

Because this Proceedings publishes electronically, page limits are not as relevant as they are in the world of print publications. We are happy, therefore, to let authors take advantage of this to include material that they might otherwise have to cut to get into a print journal. This said, authors should exercise some discretion with respect to length.

Text Color

Set the font color to black for the entire text – do not use other colors in the text. We encourage authors to take advantage of the ability to use color in the production of figures, maps, etc., however, you need to appreciate that this will cause some of your readers problems when they print the document on a black & white printer. For this reason, you are advised to avoid the use of colors in situations where their translation to black and white would render the material illegible or incomprehensible.

Please ensure that there are no colored mark-ups or comments in the final version. (You may need to "accept all changes" in track changes or set your document to "normal" in final markup.)

Emphasized text

Whenever possible use italics to indicate text you wish to emphasize rather than underlining it. Do not use color to emphasize text.

Font faces

Except, possibly, where special symbols are needed, use Times or the closest comparable font available. If you desire a second font, for instance for headings, use a sans serif font (e.g., Arial or Calibri).

Font size

The main body of text should be set in 12pt. Avoid the use of fonts smaller than 6pt in all tables and figures.

Foreign terms

Whenever possible, foreign language terms should be set in italics rather than underlined. For writing other scripts in the Latin alphabet, please use a standard transliteration system (https://www.iranicaonline.org/pages/guidelines)

Headings

Headings (e.g., start of sections) should be distinguished from the main body text by their font size, not by using small caps. Use the same font face for all headings and indicate the hierarchy by reducing the font size. There should be space above and below headings.

Main text

The font for the main body of text must be black and, if at all possible, in Times or closest comparable font available.

Titles

Whenever possible, titles of books, movies, etc., should be set in italics rather than underlined.

Footnotes

Do not use footnotes.

Tables and Figures

Tables and figures should be indicated with their caption (Figure 1: The gate to the ... (Smith 2004)) in the document near where they are referenced in the text. Figures should be uploaded as separate files, not included in the document. Large tables should be put on pages by themselves. Avoid the use of overly small type in tables. Also avoid wordiness in tables. All tables and figures must fit within 1.0" margins on all sides (top, bottom, left and right) in both portrait and landscape view.

Mathematics

Roman letters used in mathematical expressions as variables should be italicized. Roman letters used as part of multi-letter function names should not be italicized. Whenever possible, subscripts and superscripts should be a smaller font size than the main text.

Short mathematical expressions should be typed inline. Longer expressions should appear as display math. Also expressions using many different levels (e.g., such as the fractions) should be set as display math. Important definitions or concepts can also be set off as display math.

Equations should be numbered sequentially. Whether equation numbers are on the right or left is the choice of the author(s). However, you are expected to be consistent in this.

References

It is the author's obligation to provide complete references with the necessary information. References should appear right after the end of the document, beginning on the last page if possible. Each reference should give the last names of all the authors, their first names or first initials, and, optionally, their middle initials. The hierarchy for ordering the references is:

  1. Last name of first author
  2. First name of first author
  3. Last name of second author (if any). Co-authored work is listed after solo-authored work by the same first author (e.g., Edlin, Aaron S. would precede Edlin, Aaron S. and Stefan Reichelstein).
  4. First name of second author
  5. Publication date. For forthcoming (in press) books, put expected year of publication and add "forthcoming."
  6. Order cited in text

The information to be given with each citation in the references is as follows:

Articles in traditional journals:

Required: Author's (authors') name(s). Year (or "n.d." if no date). Title of article, name of journal, volume#: Issue#, page numbers.

For forthcoming (in press) articles, put expected year of publication and substitute "forthcoming" for the volume and page numbers.

As relevant: A DOI or hyperlink to the article.

Books:

Required: Author's (authors') name(s). Year. Title of book. City(Country): Publisher, edition (if not first). For forthcoming (in press) books, put expected year of publication and add "forthcoming."

Chapters in collections or anthologies:

Required: Name(s) of author(s) of Chapter. Year. Title of chapter, in name(s) of editor(s) of book (eds), title of book, City (Country): Publisher.

Working papers:

Required: Author's (authors') name(s). Year. Title of working paper. Location (e.g., "Department of Economics Working Paper, University of California, Berkeley" or "Author's web site: http://www.someurl.edu/author." If the working paper is part of series, then the series name and the number of the working paper within the series must also be given.

Other works:

Required: Author's (authors') name(s). Year. Title of work, and information about where the reader can access it e.g. the URL.

Formatting of Citations:

Smith, Adam. 1776. The Wealth of Nations, . . .
 

Use hanging indents for citations (i.e., the first line of the citation should be flush with the left margin and all other lines should be indented from the left margin by a set amount). Citations should be single-spaced with extra space between citations.

Within the text of your manuscript, use the author-date method of citation. For instance, 

"such as these examples (Smith 1776)."
 
"As noted by Smith (1776)."
 

When there are two authors, use both last names. For instance,

"Edlin and Reichelstein (1996) claim . . . "
 

If there are three or more authors give the last name of the first author and append et al. For instance, a 1987 work by Abel, Baker, and Charley, would be cited as

"Abel et al. (1987)."
 

If two or more cited works share the same authors and dates, use "a," "b," and so on to distinguish among them. For instance,

"Jones (1994b) provides a more general analysis of the model introduced in Example 3 of Jones (1994a)."
 

When citations appear within parentheses, use commas—rather than parentheses or brackets— to separate the date from the surrounding text. For instance, 

" ...(see Smith, 1776, for an early discussion of this)."