Guidelines and editing procedures for ETEN publications

Conference papers are 2000 to 4000 words in length, with authors bringing sufficient copies for distribution at the ETEN conference. TIG leaders provide electronic copies of papers to the editors two weeks after the conference. We receive about 50 papers which are edited and published in the Conference Proceedings. Each paper is read by the editors, the higher quality papers, generally 20 to 25, are read by two members of our refereeing panel, those papers accepted for publication in JETEN (generally 12 to 15) are returned to the authors together with editorial comments, these revised papers are allowed a maximum of 5000 words, including a 100 word abstract. We use APA referencing procedures.

In most professional publications authors receive a "camera ready" copy before final publication: we do not do this. The communication to authors, the editing, formatting papers and the design, publishing and distribution of each publication is undertaken by two people without any administrative support. We do not have the resources to undertake a more comprehensive, detailed approach. Consequently, as editors we retain the right to edit your paper to meet all the constraints of written expression, physical presentation, and the like. For example, we edit papers to improve their written expression, to make them briefer and to save on publication and distribution costs. That is, your paper may not be exactly the same as the one you gave to us, of course your meaning is retained, but your written expression and the physical presentation of your paper may have been altered.

Page setup
Top and bottom margins 2.5cm
Left and right margins 3.0cm
A4, portrait
Times New Roman, font size 10
Single spacing between lines
Single spacing between words

Headings
Title: Times New Roman, font 10, bold, centred
Authors and affiliation: authors' names on the second line, not titles or qualifications, Times New Roman, font 10, Institutional affiliation on the third line, city and country on the fourth line.

Use headings throughout the paper. Headings are in bold. Only the first letter of a heading is in upper case, all other letters in lower case except where the word is a proper noun (name), or the first letter following a colon. If there are sub-headings, then use bold and italics together.

Paragraphs
Each paragraph starts on the extreme left of the page, there is no indentation. There is a blank line between paragraphs to indicate the start of a new paragraph to the reader. At the end of the last paragraph there are two blank lines before the next heading, but only a single blank line if it is a sub-heading.

Tables and figures
Tables are to be kept to a minimum, centred within the page, and single spaced. Tables are to be labelled at the top, for example ... Table 1: Students' responses to learning activities

All picture based material is to be kept to a minimum, and will be reproduced only in black and white. Such figures are to be labelled at the top, for example ... Figure 1: Samples of students' work

Autoformatting
Please do not use any kind of autoformatting, not for headings, not for spacing, not for paragraphing. Some papers have unusual formatting characteristics, and while it may be easy to alter autoformatting in general, when editing fifty papers each of about 4000 words autoformatting is a nuisance, time consuming and annoying.