AARL

Instructions to authors

Contributions to Australian Academic & Research Libraries are invited. All substantial articles offered to AARL are peer-refereed. The refereeing process and the numbers of contributions received sometimes lead to a delay in publication.

Manuscripts should not exceed 5 000 words. They should be submitted to the Editor electronically, preferably by email attachment. Files in Microsoft Word format are preferred, but files created by most common word-processors are also accepted. If using less-common software, please also provide a copy saved in RTF.

Authors should indicate their position held, e-mail and postal addresses, and employing institution if applicable. A brief abstract (up to 100 words) should accompany all contributions other than short features, notices, and book reviews.

The best guide to current AARL style is the material appearing in the journal itself.

Footnotes are not acceptable. Explanatory and supplementary material should appear in the text or be omitted; it should not appear in the references. As an Australian scholarly journal, AARL follows the usage of The Macquarie Dictionary and the Chicago manual of style: http://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/home.html.

Copy deadlines for news and reviews are 15 January, 15 April, 15 July and 15 October for the March, June, September, and December issues respectively. Authors of articles need to allow for the inevitable delays caused by refereeing.