The next issue of the Journal, which has just gone to the printers, will be a special in which we feature the six best papers from the recent Research Students' Conference at Canterbury University.
The current issue is a special covering the Computer
Science Research Students' Conference, held in Christchurch in April
2001. See here
for details.
Articles and papers for publication in future issues of
the Journal are hereby invited.
We aim to produce a publication which includes, broadly,
two sorts of item:
articles, which report on events, give information about
research projects or generally talk about items of interest to the computer
science community. These articles will be vetted for relevance, standards
of presentation and so on, but will not be subjected to the usual peer
review process expected of academic writing. We particularly encourage
the submission of brief tutorial articles on your field of expertise. Think
of this section as your opportunity within the NZ community to publicize
your accomplishments and raise interest in your field;
research papers, which will be peer reviewed to the usual
international standards and which should report on the results of research
projects which have a particular relevance to a New Zealand computer science
audience. The results of scientifically conducted surveys within New Zealand,
which may not be of interest to those in other countries, would make a
good subject for such a paper.
By including these two classes we hope to produce a Journal
which has a wide readership and a wide set of contributors.
In either case you MUST use the following templates and
keep to them absolutely.
A template Word file is available here.
The LaTeX things are: nzjcart.cls,
a class file for the overall style; nzjc.bst,
the style for the bibliography; example.tex,
an example file that uses the correct style; papers.bib,
a very short bibliography.
(All the hard work on this LaTeX stuff was done by Paddy
Krishnan from Canterbury.)
Any submissions not adhering to these templates will not
be accepted.
Please note that if you include complicated diagrams (which
use lots of shading etc.) or if you include photographs in your paper we
will probably ask you to think again—such figures do not re-produce well.
To get an idea about whether a figure you want to include will look OK
in the published version, photocopy it and see how it looks. If the photocopy
is OK, the final version will probably be OK too.
We can't do anything will colour—so please don't use it!
Please make clear whether your submission should be viewed
as an article or a paper (see the definitions in the previous section).
Submissions should be emailed to [email protected],
as should any enquiries about the Journal.
Sally Jo Cunningham
Introduction
After a brief hiatus in publishing, the New
Zealand Computer Society is pleased to report that the New Zealand
Journal of Computing (NZJC) is being re-launched, and the current
issue (volume 8(3), June 2001) will appear later this month. We expect to produce
two (regular) issues a year.
Submission guidelines
Both articles and papers must be submitted electronically
to one of the editors (addresses below) as Word RTF files
or as LaTeX2e files.
Steve Reeves
Co-editors, New Zealand Journal of Computing