Submission Instructions

Instructions for Authors

1. Submissions

Contributions and correspondence should be sent to the Editorial Assistant, Diane Bowden (BowdenD@Cardiff.ac.uk). Submissions are accepted at any time; there is an open call for papers.

2. Types of Submissions

CEBE Transactions is a peer reviewed journal publishing case studies, project reports, essays, research findings, reviews and other work relating to teaching, learning, scholarship and the research-teaching-consultancy link in Built Environment disciplines. It is a means of rapidly disseminating innovation, ideas and good practices and submissions will be refereed principally on the basis of usefulness.

Submitted papers should contain sufficient information for readers to understand the nature of the practices described. There should be sufficient information for readers to judge its usefulness in guiding practice in another situation. Contributions do not have to be systematically located within published literature - the body of knowledge about teaching and learning practices in the Built Environment is not as well organised as substantive research knowledge. Papers should, however, contain references to other work that helps contextualise the issues discussed.

Length

There are no strict page limits since Transactions aims to publish a range of contributions from reports to short essays. Submissions will be judged on a fitness for purpose basis. A report of 10,000 words may be acceptable if it focuses on issues, evidence and discussion but may be too long if it contains information of limited interest to a wider audience. Short essays, case studies and guides to good practice of 2-3,000 words may equally be acceptable if they make a succinct and useful contribution.

The general order of the components of a paper are:

• First Page
• Text including tables and figures
• References
• Appendices

The first page should include

• Title of paper
• Full names of all authors
• Positions and affiliations of all authors
• Email and postal address of corresponding author
• Abstract of no more than 200 words
• Up to five keywords

A manuscript should be in Transactions style when first submitted. Nonconforming submissions may be refereed, but authors will be asked to reformat their work later if it is accepted for publication. Submissions should be written in a user-friendly manner - professional, efficient and informative rather than over-formal and academic. The language should be understandable for an English-speaking audience. Words and phrases of foreign origin should be italicised, unless they are in common use as English idioms.

3. Style Guidelines

Authors are requested to use the downloadable template for submission of Transactions papers. You should download this template and the relevant formatting guidelines, which are available as MS Word files. You can either type directly into the template, or paste text in from another document. When saving your paper, you should name the file with your surname followed by your initials (eg smithaj).

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4. Copyright Issues

It is a condition of publication in Transactions that authors grant to Cardiff University the exclusive licence to publish their paper. This enables us to ensure full copyright protection and to disseminate the paper to the widest possible readership. For further details please see the terms of the Licence to Publish. Contributors are responsible for obtaining permission to reproduce any material in which they do not own copyright. Authors will receive a copy of the Licence form to sign and return on acceptance of their paper.