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1. Introduction The impact of all papers and the effectiveness of the search-and-retrieval capabilities offered by their electronic publication will depend upon the care used by authors in preparing their manuscripts. It is essential that authors prepare manuscripts according to the IICJ established format and style specifications. These are detailed below, in Section 5, and its associated documentation. Failure to follow these specifications will result in your paper being delayed during, or even rejected from, the peer review process. Therefore, prospective contributors are required to read through these specifications carefully before preparing a manuscript for submission, and to check the manuscript for compliance with these specifications before submitting it for consideration for peer review. Further information about the journal including links to the online sample copy and contents pages can be found at www.iicj.net 2. Submitting a Paper to the International In-house Counsel Journal Papers for consideration for peer review must be submitted in abstract form via the International In-house Counsel Journal web-site on the "submit an abstract" page, full instruction is given on this page. Papers for consideration for peer review must be submitted via the International In-house Counsel Journal web-site on the Submit an Abstract page, full instruction is given on this page. 3. General Guidelines The International In-house Counsel Journal considers all manuscripts on the strict condition that they have been submitted only to the International In-house Counsel Journal, 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condition will be charged with all costs, which International In-house Counsel Journal incurs and their papers will not be published. There are a limited number of colour pages within the annual page allowance, which is normally restricted to two colour pages for any research paper, review article, technical note, or Letter. Authors should therefore restrict their use of colour to situations where it is necessary and not merely cosmetic, grounds. Writing your paper
4. Copyright It is a condition of publication that authors vest or license copyright in their articles, including abstracts, in IICJ. 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 IICJ. Authors are themselves responsible for obtaining permission to reproduce copyright material from other sources. To view our Copyright Transfer FAQs please read Copyright Permissions 5. Notes on Style and File Formats For a full description of the Journal's style (including referencing) see Further notes on style and format 6. Offprints and Reprints Offprints and reprints of articles published in International In-house Counsel Journal can be purchased on line 7. Page Charges There
are no page charges to individuals or institutions. 1.
General style
1.1.
Authors are asked to take account of the diverse audience of the journal.
Please avoid the use of terms that might be meaningful only to a local or
national audience, or provide a clear explanation where this is
unavoidable. However, papers that reflect the particularities of a social
and cultural system are acceptable. Note that EU is preferred to Common
Market or EC; US is preferred to American, USA to United States, and UK to
United Kingdom. 1.2.
Conventional British spelling, based on the Concise Oxford Dictionary, is
preferred, for example, colour not color; behaviour (behavioural) not
behavior (behavioral); [school] programme not program; [he] practises, not
practices; centre not center; organisation not organization; analyse not
analyze, and so on. 1.3.
Single quotation marks rather than double are used unless the quotation is
"within" another. 1.4.
Punctuation should follow the British style, e.g. quotation marks precede
punctuation. 1.5.
Punctuation of common abbreviations should adhere to the following
conventions: e.g.; i.e.; cf.. Note that such abbreviations should not
generally be followed by a comma or a (double) point/period. 1.6.
Dashes: Spaced N- or en-rules ( ) are used for parenthetical dashes, that
is, to extract a part of a sentence: The idea and it was her idea was
exciting. Otherwise, un-spaced N-rules () are used when the first part of
a compound does not modify the second, and are used in place of 'and' or
'to', for example, the researchpractitioner interface; redgreen shift; the
period 19201930. Un-spaced M- or em-rules () are only used to indicate the
omission of a name, part of a name or date, for example, Mr S entered the
class.. 1.7.
Hyphenation should be used sparingly. Generally, prefixes usually require
hyphens: pre-, mid- (eg, mid-1960s, pre-1978). 1.8.
Upper case characters in headings and references should be used sparingly,
e.g. only the first word of paper titles, subheadings and any proper nouns
begin upper case; similarly for the titles of papers from journals in the
references and elsewhere. 1.9.
Apostrophes should be used sparingly. Thus, decades should be referred to
as follows: The 1980s [not the 1980s] saw.... Possessives associated with
acronyms (e.g. APU), should be written as follows: The AVHRRs findings
that ..., but note the plural of AVHRR is AVHRRs. 1.10.
All acronyms for national agencies, examinations, etc., should be spelt
out the first time they are introduced in text or references. Thereafter
the acronym can be used if appropriate, e.g. The work of the National
Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) in the early 1980s... and
subsequently, The NOAA studies of achievement...; in a reference (Jet
Propulsion Laboratory [JPL] 1989a). 1.11.
Brief biographies of significant national figures should be outlined in
the text unless it is quite clear that the person concerned would be known
internationally. Some suggested editorial comments in a typical text are
indicated in the following with square brackets: From the time of H. E.
Armstrong [in the 19th century] to the curriculum development work
associated with the Nuffield Foundation [in the 1960s], there has been a
shift from constructivism to heurism in the design of [British] science
courses. 1.12.
The preferred local (national) usage for ethnic and other minorities
should be used in all papers. For the USA, African-American, Hispanic and
Native American are used, e.g. The African-American presidential
candidate, Jesse Jackson.... The term Least Developed World should be used
in place of Third World. 1.13.
Material to be emphasised by italicisation in the printed version should
preferably be italicised in the typescript rather than underlined. Please
use such emphasis sparingly. 1.14.
To indicate the size of a data set, n (not N), % (not per cent) should be
used in typescripts. 1.15.
Numbers in text should take the following forms: 300, 3000, 30 000 (not
30,000), spell out numbers under 10 unless used with a unit of measure,
e.g. nine pupils but 9 mm (nota bene: do not introduce periods with
units). For decimals, use the form 0.05 (not .05, 0,05, × 05 or 0× 05). 1.16.
Appendices should appear before the references section and after any
acknowledgments section. The Appendix title is as follows: 2.
Abstracts
2.1.
Structured abstracts of 100 150 words, summarising the significant
coverage and findings of the paper are required for all papers, and should
be submitted as detailed below, following the title and authors names and
addresses, preceding the main text. 2.1.1.
For papers reporting original research, state the primary objective and
any hypothesis tested; describe the research design and your reasons for
adopting that methodology; state the methods and procedures employed,
including where appropriate tools, hardware, software, the selection and
number of study areas/subjects, and the central experimental
interventions; state the main outcomes and results, including relevant
data; and state the conclusions that might be drawn from these data and
results, including their implications for further research or
application/practice. 2.1.2.
For review essays, state the primary objective of the review; the
reasoning behind your literature selection; and the way you critically
analyse the literature; state the main outcomes and results of your
review; and state the conclusions that might be drawn, including their
implications for further research or application/practice. 2.2.
Format: The Abstract does not require its own title. Abstract text should
be indented on both sides. 3.
Headings
3.1.
Three levels of numbered headings should be used, as described below. (A)
Headings = Bold. Uppercase first word only 2. Study area and data set The
first paragraph of text following an A heading should not be indented. All
consecutive paragraphs should be indented. (B) Headings = Bold Italic.
Uppercase first word only 2.1. Study area The first paragraph of text
following a B heading should not be indented. All consecutive paragraphs
should be indented. (C) Headings = Bold. Uppercase first word only,
followed by full point, and the text runs on. 2.2.1 AVIRIS data and
atmospheric correction. The Airborne Visible and Infrared Imaging
Spectrometer (AVIRIS) is a whiskbroom scanner with … 4.
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