Instructions for Authors
Length
- Abstracts submitted must be between 2,000 to 7,000 characters without spaces for the body.
- Maximum of two figures.
- Follow abstract submission format.
Text
- Generally speaking, the term "geoinformatics" is not capitalized.
- Spell out an abbreviation or acronym the first time it is mentioned (in each abstract, regardless of how common it may be). Put the abbreviation or acronym in parentheses immediately after the spelled-out term, as in the following example: U.S. Geological Survey (USGS).
- For each abstract, include a list of the acronyms used and put it at the end of the abstract for eventual inclusion in a compiled listing at the end of the publication.
- Place any punctuation (comma, period, semicolon, etc.,) before any superscripted number; an example of this is in footnoted author affiliations: S.R. Brady,1 Fox, P.,2 .
- When referring to scales within a map image, use figures (for example, use 1:1,000,000 or 1:1,000,000 scale instead of "1 million" or "1 million scale").
- When making references within the text, where appropriate, use "and others" instead of "et al."
- Use "for example," instead of "e.g.," within the text.
- Affiliations for each author should be spelled out and formatted as shown in the following examples:
- 1U.S. Geological Survey, Reston, Va.
- 2Scientific Computing Division (SCD), National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), Boulder, Colo.
- 3Department of Geosciences, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, Va.
- 4Department of Computer Science, University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, TX.
- Refer to the following examples for formatting the references within the "References Cited" sections:
- Billings S.D., Beatson, R.K., and Newsam, G.N., 2002, Interpolation of geophysical data using continuous global surfaces: Geophysics, v. 67, p. 1810-1818.
- Brock, J.C., Wright, C.W., Kuffer, I.B., Hernandez, R., and Thompson, P., 2006, Airborne lidar sensing of massive stony coral colonies on patch reefs in the northern Florida reef tract: Remote Sensing of Environment, v. 104, p. 31-42.
- Cox, S.J.D., ed., 2006, Observations and measurements: Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc. document OGC 05-087r4, version 0.14.7, 168 pages, available online at http://portal.opengeospatial.org/files/?artifact_id=17038. (Accessed June 18, 2007.)
- Fox, P., Gundersen, L., Lehnert, K., McGuinness, D., Sinha, K., and Snyder, W., 2006, Toward broad community collaboration in geoinformatics: Eos, v. 87, no. 46, p. 513.
- Fox, P., McGuinness, D.L., Middleton, D., Cinquini, L., Darnell, J.A., Garcia, J., West, P., Benedict, J., and Solomon, S., 2006, Semantically-enabled large-scale science data repositories, in Cruz, I., and others, eds., The Semantic Web—ISWC 2006, Proceedings of the Fifth International Semantic Web Conference, Athens, Ga., November 5-9, 2006: Lecture Notes in Computer Science, v. 4273, p. 792-805.
- Ludäscher, B., Altintas, I., Berkley, C., Higgins, D., Jaeger, E., Jones, M., Lee, E.A., Tao, J., and Zhao, Y., 2005, Scientific workflow management and the Kepler system, in Concurrency and computation: Practice and experience, special issue on workflow in grid systems: New York, John Wiley and Sons, Ltd., v. 18, no. 10, p. 1039-1065.
- McGuinness, D., Fox, P., Cinquini, L., West, P., Garcia, J., Benedict, J.L., and Middleton, D., in press, The Virtual Solar-Terrestrial Observatory: A deployed semantic Web application case study for scientific research, in Proceedings of the 19th Conference on Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence (IAAI-07), Vancouver, B.C., Canada, July 22-26, 2007.
- McGuinness, D., and Pinheiro da Silva, P., 2004, Explaining answers from the Semantic Web: The inference Web approach: Web Semantics: Science, services and agents on the World Wide Web, v. 1, no. 4, p. 397-413.
- McGuinness, D.L., Sinha, A.K., Fox, P., Raskin, R., Heiken, G., Barnes, C., Wohletz, K., Venezky, D., and Lin, K., 2006, Towards a reference volcano ontology for semantic scientific data integration, in Proceedings of American Geophysical Union Joint Assembly, Baltimore, Md., May 23-26, 2006.
- Medjahed, B., Bouguettaya, A., and Elmagarmid, A., 2003, Composing Web Services on the Semantic Web: Very Large Data Bases (VLDB) Journal, v. 12, no. 4, p. 333-351.
- Raskin, Rob, 2006, Ontologies for earth system science, in Sinha, A.K., ed., Geoinformatics: From data to knowledge: Geological Society of America Special Paper 397, p. 195-199.
- Sinha, A.K., Heiken, G., Barnes, C., Wohletz, K., Venezky, D., Fox, P., McGuinness, D.L., Raskin, R., and Lin, K., 2006, Towards an ontology for volcanoes, in Brady, S.R., Sinha, A.K., and Gundersen, L.C., eds., Geoinformatics 2006—Abstracts: U.S. Geological Survey Scientific Investigations Report 2006-5201, p. 52.
Illustrations
- Use 300 dpi for the best resolution.
- CMYK is used for printed publications.
- All text should be submitted using Word.
- Put graphics into separate documents from the text (not into a Word file and not into PowerPoint). [Note: The reason for this is that Word and PowerPoint converts illustrations to RGB.]
- Photos -Save in jpg or eps files.
- Graphics -Save in TIFF (tif) or eps files.
- Screen shots - Screen captures cannot be saved at more than 72 dpi and will always be RGB. If a suitable capture cannot be made, the illustration may have to be removed and the abstract rewritten to remove reference to the illustration.
- Possible fix 1: If the source is from a Web site, provide the URL so we can try to get a new capture, if necessary.
- Possible fix 2: Send a clear, printed copy of the screen shot and we can try to scan it in at a higher resolution
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