Guidelines for the Preparation of Manuscripts for the
Computer Simulation Column in Computing in Science and Engineering
Harvey Gould and Jan Tobochnik, editors

  1. The column is intended for undergraduate seniors and first-year graduate students in the sciences and engineering and is meant to be a tutorial rather than a review article.

  2. The choice of topic should reflect your interests, although not necessarily your research interests. Of course some topics are more interesting than others, especially to undergraduate students.

  3. The column should present at least one algorithm that implements a physical process. The algorithm should be listed in sufficient detail so that a student fluent in a computer language could implement the algorithm based on your presentation.

  4. A set of 3-4 problems should be included to help explain the relevant physical concepts. The maximum requirement of cpu time for most of these problems should be equivalent to several hours on a PowerPC, Pentium computer, or entry level workstation. Ideally, at least one of these problems would be suitable for a mini-research project.

  5. A typical column can have 3-5 black and white or color figures. We can help you prepare the figures in black and white or color if you send us the data. Figures should be in postscript or in .gif or .tiff format, although we prefer postscript. The suggested style for figures is that the labels on the axes should run parallel to the axes and tick marks should be included on the right and top borders.

  6. Due dates for the final manuscript to be submitted to CiSE are approximately ten weeks before the publication of the journal. Because we need to be at least one column ahead, we would like to receive your first draft three months before the time we will actually submit it for publication. We submit manuscripts to CiSE in the order that they are completed.

  7. You may write the first draft using any word processor as long as you send us both a printed copy and a copy of the ascii file, preferably by email. We will then convert your file to a TeX file. The length of the column is equivalent to approximately 10--12 pages using a 12 point font.

  8. It is CiSE style that article citations should contain all authors' names, title, publication name, volume and number, publication month and year, and inclusive page numbers. Note that the requirement of titles, publication number and month, and last page differs from AiP style.

  9. You are welcome to write the article by yourself (with the unseen editing of Tobochnik and Gould) or in collaboration with us. Even better would be writing the column with a student.

  10. Our role as editors is different than the editor of a journal. We will make many suggestions for changes to improve the clarity of the manuscript. And we will probably ask you many questions about the physics so that we can mutually work to make your column as accessible as possible.

  11. After you submit the manuscript to us, you may post an electronic preprint version which should include the following notice:
    This work has been submitted to the IEEE for possible publication. Copyright may be transferred without notice, after which this version may no longer be accessible.

    When CiSE accepts the work for publication, the author should add the following IEEE copyright notice to any previously posted electronic versions of the paper submitted and provide CiSE with the URL of the primary electronic posting. The copyright notice must be displayed on the initial screen.

    IEEE Copyright notice: © (200x) IEEE. Personal use of this material is permitted. However, permission to reprint/republish this material for advertising or promotional purposes or for creating new collective works for resale or redistribution to servers or lists, or to reuse any copyrighted component of this work in other works must be obtained from the IEEE.

    When CiSE publishes the work, the author must replace the previous electronic version of the accepted paper with either (1) the full citation to the IEEE work or (2) the IEEE-published version, including the IEEE copyright notice and full citation.

  12. Authors and/or their companies shall have the right to post their IEEE-copyrighted material on their own servers without permission, provided that the server displays a prominent notice alerting readers to their obligations with respect to copyrighted material and that the posted work includes the IEEE copyright notice. An example of an acceptable notice is
    This material is presented to ensure timely dissemination of scholarly and technical work. Copyright and all rights therein are retained by authors or by other copyright holders. All persons copying this information are expected to adhere to the terms and constraints invoked by each author's copyright. In most cases, these works may not be reposted without the explicit permission of the copyright holder.
    More information about posting manuscripts electronically is available.
Updated 27 December 1999.