©Foundations of Information Systems E-journal: HOW TO SUBMIT

HOW TO SUBMIT AN ARTICLE TO:
FOUNDATIONS OF INFORMATION SYSTEMS

February 15, 1997
CONTENTS
1.0 GENERAL CONCEPTS
2.0 SECTIONS and ORGANIZATION
3.0 TABLES and FIGURES
4.0 REFERENCES
5.0 DOWNLOAD YOUR SUBMISSION KIT [fiskit.htm] HERE
6.0 QUESTIONS?

1.0 GENERAL CONCEPTS

The FIS submission process involves 5 steps:

  1. Read these instructions carefully.
  2. Download the Submission Kit (see below)
  3. Cut and paste the sections of your paper into the format provided in the FISKIT.HTM file
  4. Save the file (pick your own filename for the resulting HTML file) on YOUR server
  5. E-mail Courtney or Porra with the URL of your paper

2.0 TITLE, ABSTRACT, SECTIONS and GENERAL ORGANIZATION

We attempt in FIS to provide a standard format for all papers. This format is predicated on the idea that:

  1. All papers appear in a single file -- thus they are amenable to printing
  2. All papers carry the FIS logo and conform to a particular artistic style

FIS papers have a standard title format (the format of this section's title is an example). The title box is an HTML table. The HTML code is:

<table border="4" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">
<tr><td width="1%"><img src="fislogo.gif" border="0"></td>
<td width="99%">
<center><p><font size=4 FACE="Times New Roman">
<b>YOUR TITLE GOES HERE IN ALL CAPS</b></center></td></tr>
<tr><td><p><center><font size=4 FACE="Times New Roman"><b>MONTH, DAY, YEAR FORMAT</b></center></td>
<td><font size=4 FACE="Times New Roman"><center><p><b>AUTHOR #1 NAME AND AFFILIATION<br>
AUTHOR #2 NAME AND AFFILIATION, etc.</b></center></td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2"><font size=4 FACE="Times New Roman"><center><p><b>ABSTRACT</b> <p></center></td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2"><font size=4 FACE="Times New Roman">
<b>TEXT OF THE ABSTRACT GOES HERE</b></td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2"><center><b><font size=4 FACE="Times New Roman">CONTENTS</b></center>
<ol>
<li><a href="#s1"><font size=4 FACE="Times New Roman">INTRODUCTION</a>
<li><a href="#s2"><font size=4 FACE="Times New Roman">SECTION 2 HEADING</a>
<li><a href="#s3"><font size=4 FACE="Times New Roman">SECTION 3 HEADING</a>
<li><a href="#s4"><font size=4 FACE="Times New Roman">SECTION 4 HEADING</a>
<li><a href="#sx"><font size=4 FACE="Times New Roman">SECTION X etc.</a>
<li><a href="#ref"><font size=4 FACE="Times New Roman">REFERENCES</a>
</ol>
</td></tr></table>
</center>

Beyond the title, author(s), date and abstract information, this format provides a table of contents that allows forward links into the body of the paper. Each section begins with a HTML NAME tag to provide an anchor to the beginning of the section. Similarly, a link is provided to the reference list at the end of the paper. Each section begins with the following HTML code:

<A NAME="#sX">
<p>
<table border="4" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="100%">
<tr><td width="1%"><img src="fislogo2.gif" border="0"></td>
<td width="*" align="middle"><center><p><p><font size=3 FACE="Times New Roman"><b>X. SECTION HEADING<BR>
</FONT></b></center></td></tr></table>
<P>

Note that the X in the NAME tag and the SECTION NUMBER correspond to the section number in the table of contents.

3.0 TABLES and FIGURES

The following sample table:


SAMPLE TABLE

row 1 col1row 1 col2row 1 col 3
row 2 col1row 2 col2row 2 col 3
row 3 col1row 3 col2row 3 col 3

is produced by this HTML code:

<center>
<table border="4" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">
<tr><td width="100%" colspan="3"><br><center><font size=4 FACE="Times New Roman"><b>SAMPLE TABLE</b></center></FONT><p><p></td></tr>
<tr><td>row 1 col1</td><td>row 1 col2</td><td>row 1 col 3</tr>
<tr><td>row 2 col1</td><td>row 2 col2</td><td>row 2 col 3</tr>
<tr><td>row 3 col1</td><td>row 3 col2</td><td>row 3 col 3</tr>
</table>
</center>

4.0 REFERENCES and FOOTNOTES

The following examples should be used for book and article citations:

Jeeves, Mahatma Kane (1968) I Was A Teenage Werewolf, Addison-Wesley, New York, USA.

La Fong, Car (1990) "I was Not A Teenage Werewolf", Journal of Wierd Research, Vol. 3 No. 5, pp 56-99.

Do not attempt to link the citations in the paper to the reference list.

5.0 DOWNLOAD YOUR SUBMISSION KIT

Click on the following three files, then save them on your own disk:

  1. Click here for the FIS Sample paper

    You will see a sample FIS paper in your browser.
    Click FILE, then SAVE AS to save the file to you disk.

  2. Click here for the FIS logo (fislogo.gif)
  3. Click here for the small FIS logo (fislogo2.gif)

    You will need them both. Be sure to save these two files in the same directory as your fisample.htm paper

6.0 QUESTIONS

Send e-mail to parks@uh.edu