Author guidelines

When writing the paper please remember to use either British, or US, spelling but not a mixture of the two, i.e., if you choose British spelling it would be colour not color; behaviour (behavioural) not behavior; [school] programme not program; [he] practises not practices; centre not center; organization not organisation; analyse not analyze, etc.

All acronyms should be spelled out the first time they are introduced in text or references. Thereafter the acronym can be used if appropriate, e.g. 'The work for the Organization of United Nations (OUN)...'. Subsequently, 'The OUN studies on...', in a reference ... (Organization of United Nations [OUN] 1989).

• Equations must be written preferably with the same word processor used for the rest of the text, without hand written symbols in order to aid legibility. Equations must be numbered sequentially with their numbers in parenthesis and right justified.
• Tables and figures must be embedded in the paper text, close to the location of their first appearance. All tables and figures must be referred to in text as follows: Figure 1, Table 1, i.e. 'As seen in Table [or Figure] 1 ...' (not tab., fig. or Fig). All figures must be numbered in the order in which they appear in the paper (e.g. Figure 1, Figure 2). Please ensure that tables do not split over the page.
• Each table should have a descriptive title (using the current style) and each column an appropriate heading. Each table and/or figure must have a title that explains its purpose without reference to the text. Do not type the caption to a figure on that figure; the legends to any illustrations must be typed separately following the main text and should be grouped together. Table legends must be placed above the table; diagram or figure legends below the diagram or figure.
• Tables should be formatted as Table 1 (below): left justified text for first column and centred columns thereafter, if possible. Only horizontal table grid lines should be used. Add one empty paragraph of the style following a table.

Table 1 Table layout. Captions for Tables are placed above. [Table title].

	Cell one	Cell two
Second Row	1	2
Third Row	2	3
Fourth Row	4	5

Short quotations within the text should be marked with double quotation marks: Lawson also has a broad understanding of design when he mentions: “Professional designers such as architects, fashion designers and engineers” (Lawson, 2004, p.5). Longer quotations of more than one line should be formatted as below, again within double quotation marks:

“More of the goods and services produced for consumer across a range of sectors can be conceived of as ‘cultural’ goods, in that way they are deliberately inscribed with to generate desire for then amongst the end uses sold to consumers in terms of particular clusters of meaning indicates the increased importance of ‘culture’ to production circulation of a multitude of goods and services.” (du Gay, et al, 1997, p.24)

Where possible please make images:

• Large enough to see clearly;
• Of good resolution (200dpi);
• Optimized to be less than 350Kb;
• Cropped appropriately.

If you are using diagrams, info graphics, or other schematics please ensure that:

• You present information clearly;
• You use the Times new Roman font;
• All text is legible;

After you insert an image into your document, select it and use the style named “Picture”. Images are followed by a caption with figures numbered sequentially – Figure 1, Figure 2, etc.

Captions are placed under the pictures. Ensure that your caption adequately describes what you want your reader to see in the picture, highlight any areas that they should focus on or relationships that you might want them to see.

• The whole citation should follow the APA style, enclosed within parentheses (author surname, year) if not a natural part of the surrounding sentence; the year should be enclosed within parentheses if the names do form a natural part of the surrounding sentence.
• Citations of works by two authors should have ‘and’ (not an ampersand) between the names. Citations of works by three or more authors should have the first author followed by et al in italics with no trailing stop.
• In-text lists of references should be listed in chronological order (e.g. author1, 2002, author2, 2004, author3, 2008). Publications by the same author(s) in the same year should be identified with a, b, c (e.g. 2008a, 2008b) closed up to the year.
• When a cited work has three or more authors in the text, the form (main author et al. year) is used (Don’t forget to italicize et al.).
• A reference list should appear at the end of the paper under the heading "References". All the references should be arranged in alphabetical order with the DOI number. Please follow the examples below (cf. References).

Any acknowledgments that authors wish to make should be included in a separately headed section at the end of the manuscript, but before the list of references. This may include the Funding Institutions and other resource persons who assisted the research.

[For an article in a journal] Senarathna, L. E., Medagoda, J. T., Jayarathna, L. W. and Wijesekara, M. J. (2015). Estimating stable carbon isotope values of microphytobenthos in the Asia for application to food web studies. Polar Biol. DOI 10.1007/s00300-015-1800-2.

[Book] Belhuloya, L. (1996). The red-winged blackbird : the biology of a strongly polygenous songbird. Academic press, London. 314 pp.  ISBN-13: 978-0120847457

[Chapter in a book] Pathirana, L. and Fernando, V. (1996). Thermal evolution of ectotherm body size: why get big in the cold? In: Johnston, I.A. and Bennett, A.F. (eds.). Animals and temperature: phenotypic and evolutionary adaptation. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, pp. 265-292. ISSN: 1540-7063

[Report, proceedings, and unpublished literature (a)] Tan, H., Gershwin, S., and Athans, M., (1979), Hybrid optimization in urban traffic networks. MIT Report Dot-TSC-RSPA-79-7.

[Report, proceedings, and unpublished literature (b)] Asakura, Y., and  Sasaki, T., (1990). Formulation and feasibility test of optimal road network design model with endogenously determined travel demand. Proceedings of the 5th World Conference on Transport Research, Yokohama, Japan, July, pp. 351-365

[Report, proceedings, and unpublished literature (c)] Yang, H., Bell, M. G. H., and Meng, Q., (1997), Equilibrium zone reserve capacity under network capacity constraints. Working paper, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.

[Newspaper] Smith, A., (1996, April). Labour ditches plans to re-regulate buses. Financial Times, 167(15), 3-40.

[Magazine] Tumulty, K. (2006, April). Should they stay or should they go? Time, 167(15), 3-40.

[Internet source (with title, date of access and the universal resource locator in full)] Simmons, B. (2015, January 9). The tale of two Flaccos. Retrieved from http://grantland.com/the-triangle/the-tale-of-two-flaccos/

[Government legislation (a)] US CONGRESS, Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, (1956). The Mutual Security Act of 1956, 84th Congress, second session, report 2273.

[Government legislation (b)] UNITED KINGDOM PARLIAMENT, Committee on the Working of the Monetary System [Radcliffe Committee] (1960), Principal Memoranda of Evidence , vol. 2, Cmd 1958.

[Government legislation (c)] UNITED NATIONS GENERAL ASSEMBLY, Secretariat for Economic Affairs, (1951),  Methods of Financing Economic Development in Less Developed Countries, report II B2.

• Add your tables and figures or captions separately as formatted in earlier instructions
• Name them accordingly to the table or figure number and description