Society of Glass Technology

It is a condition of acceptance that any work submitted shall not have been published or considered for publication elsewhere. The only exception to this rule is that a work that has been offered to another journal and rejected solely on the grounds that its subject matter was inappropriate for that journal may be submitted for consideration. The author should be satisfied that no copyright is infringed and it is his responsibility to obtain permission to reproduce any material. Three copies of the paper, communication or letter should be sent direct to the Editor of the journal that the author considers appropriate:

Publications Editors

Glass Technology Physics and Chemistry of Glasses

Dr R J Hand Mr David Moore

Society of Glass Technology Society of Glass Technology

Unit 9, Twelve O clock Court Unit 9, Twelve O clock Court

21 Attercliffe Road 21 Attercliffe Road

Sheffield S4 7WW Sheffield S4 7WW

UK UK

Preparation of papers

The text should be typed double spaced with wide margins on one side of the paper only. Tables, figure titles and references should be typed separately from the main text. The title and abstract should together be as informative as possible and should avoid vague phrases such as "An investigation of...". If new quantitative data are reported an attempt should be made to include them but the abstract should not exceed about 200 words. The title and abstract may be widely used in information storage and retrieval systems and care in their preparation is thus very desirable.

Symbols and formulae should be typewritten if possible. The use of dots, bars and similar characters over symbols or the use of dots as multiplication signs and bars for brackets should be avoided. Suffixes (subscripts) and indices (superscripts) must be clearly indicated. Complicated suffixes and indices also should be avoided where possible.

References should be numbered in the text where they occur, and a complete list of references given at the end of the paper. The Society's publications use the BSI Numeric System for references-e.g. author(s), title of contribution, title of periodical, book, report or conference, year of publication, volume number, issue number, page numbers. Illustrations should be kept to a minimum. When the paper is first submitted they can be clear prints or graphs, sketches or photographs. If the paper is accepted, authors are asked to provide the original drawings if possible and clear, glossy photographs. All diagrams should be produced to the same scale.

Preparation of communications and letters

Communications and letters should not normally be more than two journal pages in length, i.e. approximately 2000 words of text including their equivalent in diagrams. An abstract is required for contributions submitted as a communication but not for a letter.

Refereeing

All papers submitted are sent to referees who are asked for their opinions on the value of the paper and any ways in which it might be improved. The reports of the referees are sent (anonymously) to the authors, possibly with editorial comments. The author's replies to these comments are taken into account before deciding to accept, reject or ask for revision of the paper. If revision is required, the final decision will be taken after the Editor has had the opportunity to study the revised version of the paper.

Publication

Once a submission has been accepted it is forwarded to the Managing Editor who will deal with scheduling of publication, proofs and reprints and will indicate in which issue the paper is expected to appear. The Society will always publish papers within nine months of acceptance, communications and letters will be published in the next available issue and never more than six months after acceptance.

Reprints

Authors will receive an Adobe Acrobat (PDF) file representing the final version of their paper. Authors are freely entitled to distribute or print this file.

Journal production

The Society's journals are prepared in-house using PageMaker desk top publishing software on the Windows operating system. Most disk formats (DOS, Apple, OS/2, etc) can be read, most word processing packages can be transferred. Speed of production is greatly helped by authors submitting electronic versions of their papers either on disk or as an attached file to an e-mail message.

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The objects of the Society of Glass Technology are to encourage and advance the study of the history, art, science, design, manufacture, after treatment, distribution and end use of glass of any and every kind. These aims are furthered by meetings, publications, the maintenance of a library and the promotion of association with other interested persons and organisations.