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Author Guidelines

This guide describes how to prepare contributions for submission. We strongly recommend you read this in
full if you have not previously submitted a contribution to CSCanda. We also suggest that before submission
you familiarize yourself with CSCanada's style and content by reading the journals, either in print or online,
especially if you have not submitted to our journals recently.
Table of contents

 1. Formats for CSCanada contributions

o 1.1 Research Articles
o 1.2 Letters
o 1.3 Reviews
o 1.4 Other contributions to CSCanada
 2. Manuscript selection
 3. Format of Research Articles, Letters and Review
o 3.1 Title
o 3.2 Abstract
o 3.3 Text
o 3.4 Methods
o 3.5 End Notes
o 3.6 References
o 3.7 Tables
o 3.8 Figures
 4. Submission
1. Formats for CSCanada contributions

All the manuscripts should be sent by email as an attachment to relative email address and should be typed
in single line spacing and 10 pt.

1.1 Research Articles

Research Articles are innovative reports whose conclusions represent a substantial advance in the
understanding of a significant problem and have directly, far-reaching implications. They should have no
more than 60 references.

Research articles are typically 3,000~20,000 words of text (including references, notes and captions, or ~30
printed pages) are expected to present a major advance.

Research Articles include an abstract, an introduction, up to six figures or tables, sections with brief
subheadings (less than six in total and less than 40 characters). Materials and Methods should usually be
included which will also be needed to support the paper's conclusions.

1.2 Letters

Letters are short reports of creative research focused on an outstanding finding whose importance means that
it will be of interest to scientists in other fields. They should have less than 30 references.

They begin with a fully referenced paragraph, of about 200 words, (definitely no more than 300 words)
aimed at readers in other disciplines. The letters (up to ~2500 words including references, notes and captions
or ~3 printed pages) should include an abstract, an introductory paragraph, up to four figures or tables.
Materials and Methods should usually be included, which should be needed to support the paper's
conclusions.

1.3 Reviews

Reviews (up to 4500 words including references, notes and captions) describe new developments of
interdisciplinary significance and highlight future directions. They include an abstract, an introduction that
outlines the main theme, brief subheadings, and an outline of important unresolved questions. A maximum
of 50 references is suggested. Most Reviews are solicited by the editors, but unsolicited submissions may
also be considered.

1.4 Other contributions to CSCanada

CSCanada also publishes News and Comment, Correspondence, Opinion, Book & Arts, Futures, News and
Views, Perspectives, Insights, Outlooks, Analyses, Hypotheses, and Technology features. Please see
[Link]

2. Manuscript selection

Manuscripts should be clear and simple so that they are accessible to readers in other disciplines and to
readers for whom English is not their first language. Authors are notified of decisions by e-mail or phone.
Repeated submissions of the same manuscript will not be acknowledged. CSCanada treats all submitted
manuscripts as confidential documents. Our peer review process is also confidential and identities of
reviewers are not released. Research papers that are selected for in-depth review are evaluated by at least
two outside referees. Reviewers are contacted before being sent a paper and asked to return comments
within 1 to 2 weeks for most papers. We are able to expedite the review process significantly for papers that
require rapid assessment. Selected papers are edited to improve accuracy and clarity and for length. Papers
cannot be resubmitted over a disagreement on interest or relative merit. If a paper was rejected on the basis
of serious reviewer error, resubmission may be considered. In some cases, reviewers are satisfied that a
paper's conclusions are adequately supported by the data presented, but the general interest of the findings is
not sufficient to justify publication in CSCanada. In such a case, the authors will be offered the opportunity
for publication with additional review required when reviewers have asked for supplementary experiments
during revision. In this case again, reviewers and editors may find an appropriately worded version of the
paper to be acceptable for publication without further in depth review.

CSCanada makes decisions about submitted papers as rapidly as possible. All manuscripts are handled
electronically throughout the consideration process. Authors are usually informed within a week if the paper
is not being considered.

3. Format of Research Articles, Letters and Review

Manuscripts are preferred to be presented in the following order:

1. title
2. abstract and keywords
3. text
4. end notes
5. references
6. appendices
7. figure legends
8. tables (each table complete with title and footnotes)
9. figures

3.1 Title

Titles do not exceed two lines in print. This equates to 90 characters (including spaces) for Letters or 75
characters (including spaces) for Research Articles. Titles do not normally include numbers, acronyms,
abbreviations or punctuation. They should include sufficient detail for indexing purposes but be general
enough for readers outside the field to appreciate what the paper is about.

3.2 Abstract

We suggest each manuscript should accompany a structured abstract to explain to the general reader why the
research was done and why the results are significant. A structured abstract should include such contents:
the purpose of the research, the materials and methods and the results. Please do not include citations or
undefined abbreviations in the abstract. The preferred length of the abstract is less than 300.

3.3 Text

Research articles should fill no more than 5 pages, and Letters no more than 3 pages. A typical Research
article contains about 3,500 words of text and, additionally, up to six small display items (figures and/or
tables) with brief legends, reference list and methods section if applicable. A typical Letter to CSCanada
contains about 2,500 words of text (including the first paragraph of Letters, figure legends, reference list and
the methods section if applicable) and four small display items (figures and/or tables) with brief legends. A
composite figure (with several panels) usually needs to take about half a page, equivalent to about 600
words, in order for all the elements to be visible. Our preferred format for is APA and MSWord is also
acceptable. We prefer the use of a 'standard' font, preferably 10-point Times New Roman. For mathematical
symbols, Greek letters and other special characters, use normal text or Symbol font. Word Equation
Editor/Math Type should be used only for formulae that cannot be produced using normal text or Symbol
font.

3.4 Methods

If brief (less than 200 words), they can be included in the text at an appropriate place. Otherwise, they
should be described at the end of the text in a 400-word (maximum) 'Methods Summary'. Detailed
descriptions of methods already published should be avoided. If more space is required for Methods, the
author should include the section 'Methods Summary' and provide an additional 'Methods' section at the
paper. The Methods section should not normally exceed 1,000 words of text, and should be subdivided by
short bold headings referring to methods used. If both a Methods Summary and additional Methods section
are required, the Methods Summary will appear in print only but will not appear in the online version of the
paper. Therefore, any critical information in the Methods Summary should also be incorporated into the
Methods section.

3.5 End notes

End notes are brief and follow the reference list. Papers containing supplementary information contain a
statement after the reference list:

Acknowledgements should be brief, and should not include thanks to anonymous referees and editors,
inessential words, or effusive comments. Acknowledgements can contain grant and contribution numbers.
Author Contributions: authors are required to include a statement to specify the contributions of each co-
author. The statement can be up to several sentences long, describing the tasks of individual authors referred
to by their initials.

3.6 References

References are each numbered, ordered sequentially as they appear in the text, methods summary, tables,
boxes, figure legends, online-only methods in our nature science and engineering journals. When cited in the
text, reference numbers are superscript, not in brackets unless they are likely to be confused with a
superscript number. The maximum number of references, strictly enforced, is 60 for Research articles and
30 for Letters. Only one publication can be listed for each number. We preferred articles that have been
published or submitted to a named publication in the reference list; papers in preparation should be
mentioned in the text with a list of authors (or initials if any of the authors are co-authors of the present
contribution).Published conference abstracts, numbered patents and preprints on recognized servers may be
included in reference lists, but text, grant details and acknowledgements may not. Please follow the style
below in the published edition of CSCanada in preparing reference lists.
We advise the authors to use the APA style to write the references list. You can visit
[Link] for detail information. There are some examples for APA style.

 Author A. A., Author, B. B., & Author, C. C. (Year). Title of article, Title of Periodical, xx(xx), xxx-
xxx. doi: [Link]
 Author A. A., Author, B. B., & Author, C. C. (in press). Title of article, Title of Periodical. Retrieved
from [Link]
 Article title. (Year, Month). Newsletter source. Retrived from [Link]
 Author, A. A. (Year, Month Day). Article title. Newspaper title. [Link]-xx.
 Author A. A. (Year). Book title [Version]. doi:[Link]
 Author A. A. (Year). Book title [Version]. Retrieved from [Link]
 Author A. A. (Year). Book title. Location: Publisher.

3.7 Tables

Tables should each be presented portrait (not landscape) direction and upright on the page, not sideways.
Tables have a short, one-line title in bold text. Tables should be as small as possible. Symbols and
abbreviations are definite immediately below the table, followed by essential descriptive material as briefly
as possible, all in double-spaced text. We also use APA format on tables you can visit
[Link] for detail information. Here is the example.

Table 1

Error Rates of Older and Younger Groups

Number # Group 1 Group 2 Group 3 Older 1 Younger 1 Total

1 A11 A21 A31 A41 A51 Y1
2 A12 A22 A32 A42 A52 Y2
... ... ... ... ... ... 5
... ... ... ... ... ... ...
n A1n A2n A3n A4n A5n Yn

Top line: 1.5 pt

Middle line: 0.25 pt
Bottom line: 2.25 pt

3.8 Figures

CSCanada requires figures in electronic format.

Figures should be as small and simple as is compatible with clarity. The goal is for figures to be
comprehensible to readers in other or related disciplines, and to assist their understanding of the paper.
Unnecessary figures and parts (panels) of figures should be avoided. Avoid unnecessary complexity,
colorful and over amount of details. For instruction, CSCanada standard figure sizes are 95 mm (single
column) and 190mm (double column) and the full depth of the page is 283mm.
Some brief guidance for figure preparation:

 The figures also are suggested in APA format you can visit [Link] for detail
information.
 Units should have a single space between the number and the unit, and follow SI nomenclature or the
nomenclature common to a particular field. Thousands should be separated by commas (1,000).
Unusual units or abbreviations are defined in the legend.
 Scale bars should be used rather than magnification factors.
 Where possible, text, including keys to symbols, should be provided in the legend rather than on the
figure itself.
 Figure quality

At initial submission, figures should be at good quality to be assessed by referees, ideally as JPEGs, PNGs,
and BMPs. The suggest size of each figure is less than 600KB since we cannot accept large attachments.

4. Submission

Articles now are be submitted on our website [Link] or you can turn in your
paper from Email: sll@[Link], caooc@[Link], sll@[Link].

Please be sure to read the information on what to include as essential content-related issues when putting a
submission together. CSCanada authors must make data and materials publicly available upon publication.
This includes deposition of data into the related databases and arranging for them to be publicly released on
the online publication date.

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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.

1. 1. 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).

2. The submission file is in OpenOffice, Microsoft Word, RTF, or WordPerfect document file
format.
 3. Where available, URLs for the references have been provided.

4. The text is single-spaced; uses a 10-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.

5. The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines,
which is found in About the Journal.

6. If submitting to a peer-reviewed section of the journal, the instructions in Ensuring a Blind

Review have been followed.

Copyright Notice

The authors agree that:

1. Authors of reports of original research should present an accurate account of the work performed as
well as an objective discussion of its significance.
2. The authors should ensure that they have written entirely original works, and if the authors have used
the work and/or words of others that this has been appropriately cited or quoted.
3. An author should not in general publish manuscripts describing essentially the same research in more
than one journal or primary publication. Submitting the same manuscript to more than one journal
concurrently constitutes unethical publishing behavior and is unacceptable.
4. Authorship should be limited to those who have made a significant contribution to the conception,
design, execution, or interpretation of the reported study. All those who have made significant
contributions should be listed as co-authors. Where there are others who have participated in certain
substantive aspects of the research project, they should be acknowledged or listed as contributors.
5. When an author discovers a significant error or inaccuracy in his/her own published work, it is the
author’s obligation to promptly notify the journal editor or publisher and cooperate with the editor to
retract or correct the paper. If the editor or the publisher learns from a third party that a published
work contains a significant error, it is the obligation of the author to promptly retract or correct the
paper or provide evidence to the editor of the correctness of the original paper.
6. The author assigns, conveys, and otherwise transfers all rights, title, interest, and copyright
ownership in this “Work” to our journal when the "Work" is accepted for publication. "Work” means
the material submitted for publication plus any other related material submitted.
7. The assignment of rights to our journal includes but is not expressly limited to rights to edit, publish,
reproduce, distribute copies, prepare derivative works, include in indexes or search databases in
print, electronic, or other media, whether or not in use at the time of execution of this agreement, and
claim copyright in said work throughout the world for the full duration of the copyright and any
renewals or extensions thereof.
8. If the authors cannot obey the previous terms and cause legal problems, the authors will take the full
responsibilities.

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Author Fees

This journal charges the following author fees.

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contribute to review costs.

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With the payment of this fee, the review, editorial decision, and author notification on this manuscript is
guaranteed to take place within 4 weeks.

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