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Instructions for Authors
The instructions below are specifically directed at authors that wish to submit a manuscript to Journal of Location Based Servicesa. For general information, please visit the Publish With Us section of our website. Journal of Location Based Services considers all manuscripts on the strict condition that they have been submitted only to Journal of Location Based Services, that they have not been published already, nor are they under consideration for publication or in press elsewhere. Authors who fail to adhere to this condition will be charged with all costs which Journal of Location Based Services incurs and their papers will not be published. Contributions to Journal of Location Based Services must report original research and will be subjected to review by referees at the discretion of the Editorial Office. Manuscript preparation - General guidelines
- Papers are accepted only in English. British English spelling and punctuation is preferred.
- There is no formal limit on the length of research articles or reviews, but short communications should be limited to a maximum of 2000 words.
- Manuscripts should be compiled in the following order: title page; abstract; keywords; main text; acknowledgments; appendixes (as appropriate); references; table(s) with caption(s) (on individual sheets); figure caption(s) (as a list).
- Abstracts of 200-300 words are required for all papers submitted.
- Each paper should have three to five keywords.
- Section headings should be concise and numbered sequentially, using a decimal system for subsections.
- All the authors of a paper should include their full names, affiliations, postal addresses, telephone and fax numbers and email addresses on the cover page of the manuscript. One author should be identified as the Corresponding Author.
- Biographical notes on contributors are not required for this journal.
- For all manuscripts non-discriminatory language is mandatory. Sexist or racist terms should not be used.
- Authors must adhere to SI units. Units are not italicised.
- When using a word which is or is asserted to be a proprietary term or trade mark, authors must use the symbol ® or TM.
- Style guidelines
If you are not able to use the template via the links or if you have any other queries, please contact authortemplate@tandf.co.uk - Figures
- It is in the author's interest to provide the highest quality figure format possible. Please be sure that all imported scanned material is scanned at the appropriate resolution: 1200 dpi for line art, 600 dpi for grayscale and 300 dpi for colour.
- Figures must be saved separate to text. Please do not embed figures in the paper file.
- Files should be saved as one of the following formats: TIFF (tagged image file format), PostScript or EPS (encapsulated PostScript), and should contain all the necessary font information and the source file of the application (e.g. CorelDraw/Mac, CorelDraw/PC).
- All figures must be numbered in the order in which they appear in the paper (e.g. figure 1, figure 2). In multi-part figures, each part should be labelled (e.g. figure 1(a), figure 1(b)).
- Figure captions must be saved separately, as part of the file containing the complete text of the paper, and numbered correspondingly.
- The filename for a graphic should be descriptive of the graphic, e.g. Figure1, Figure2a.
- Colour
The Journal has no free colour pages within its annual page allowance. Authors of accepted papers who propose publishing figures in colour in the print version should consult Taylor & Francis at proof stage to agree a financial contribution to colour reproduction costs. Figures that appear in black-and-white in the print edition of the Journal will appear in colour in the online edition, assuming colour originals are supplied.
- Reproduction of copyright material
Contributors are required to secure permission for the reproduction of any figure, table or extensive extract (more than fifty words) from the text of a source that is copyrighted or owned by a party other than Taylor & Francis or the contributor. This applies to direct reproduction as well as 'derivative reproduction', where the contributor has created a new figure or table that derives substantially from a copyrighted source. Authors are themselves responsible for the payment of any permission fees required by the copyright owner. Copies of permission letters should be sent with the manuscript upon submission to the Editor(s).
- Supplementary online material
Authors are welcome to submit animations, movie files, sound files or any additional information for online publication.
Manuscript submission All submissions should be made online at the Journal of Location Based Services Manuscript Central site. New users should first create an account. Once logged on to the site, submissions should be made via the Author Centre. Online user guides and access to a helpdesk are available on this website. Authors should prepare and upload two versions of their manuscript. One should be a complete text, while in the second document all information identifying the author should be removed from files to allow them to be sent anonymously to referees. When uploading files authors will be able to define the non-anonymous version as "File not for review". Please follow these guidelines carefully to avoid delays to the review process. Each submitted manuscript is assigned to one of the Editorial team, who manages the review process and makes publication recommendations. If you wish to suggest an Editor to manage your submission based on their specific expertise, please indicate this in the submission workflow where prompted. The Editors and their affiliations are: Editor-in-Chief: Jonathan Raper - Department of Information Science, City University, London, UK Associate Editors: Georg Gartner - Cartography and Geo-Mediatechniques, Department of Geoinformation and Cartography, Technical University of Vienna, Austria Hassan Karimi - School of Information Sciences, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA Chris Rizos - School of Surveying & Spatial Information Systems, The University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia Authors are encouraged to submit manuscripts electronically. Electronic submissions should be sent as email attachments using a standard word processing program. If email submission is not possible, please send an electronic version on disk. Copyright and authors' rights It is a condition of publication that authors vest or license copyright in their articles, including abstracts, in Taylor & Francis Ltd. This enables us to ensure full copyright protection and to disseminate the article, and the Journal, to the widest possible readership in print and electronic formats as appropriate. Authors may, of course, use the material elsewhere after publication providing that prior permission is obtained from Taylor & Francis Ltd. Exceptions are made for authors of Crown or US Government employees whose policies require that copyright cannot be transferred to other parties. We ask that a signed statement to this effect is submitted when returning proofs for accepted papers. Reprints Corresponding authors will receive free online access to their article through our website (www.informaworld.com). Reprints of articles published in the Journal can be purchased through Rightslink® when proofs are received. If you have any queries, please contact our reprints department at reprints@tandf.co.uk. Page charges There are no page charges to individuals or institutions.
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