Normas de estilo de publicación en Cybermetrics: International Journal of Scientometrics, Informetrics and Bibliometrics

Normas de Estilo de la Publicación

GUIDE FOR AUTHORS
Instructions
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Cybermetrics is a fully peer reviewed journal. Unsolicited contributions are welcome on the basis that they are original contributions. Two or three anonymous referees review papers previous to acceptance and publication. Un-refereed discussion is allowed in a special open forum.
All contributions must be sent in electronic format on 3'5" diskettes or by e-mail. The preferred format is Microsoft Word for Windows/Macintosh or RTF. Consult the editor about special formats. Other rich formats or even ASCII could be acceptable. Images and scanned photographs (b/w or color) should be supplied as separate files in tiff, bmp, or better, gif or jpeg format. Java applets and other demo software could be also considered for e-publication. Original programs to support calculations, draw informetric or scientometric distributions or other quantitative oriented tasks are also suitable for publication on the basis on non-exclusive free distribution.
The official language is English. Other languages could be used for extra keywords and supplementary summaries if the authors provide them.
There are three kinds of contributions:
I.- Open Forum: Correspondence
Non-refereed section where notes, discussions and debates are welcomed. Cybermetrics publishes short "position statements" of up to 2,000 words, discussing methodologies or new approaches to scientometric research.
II.- Refereed Section: Full papers (4,000-5,000 words)
The article should comply with the common rules of publication, with a title no longer than 40 words, complete name and institutional address (including electronic one) of all the authors and the text subdivided in formal categories:
Abstract. Maximum 200 words.
Keywords. Four to six keywords should be also provided.
Introduction and background.
Methods. Detailed information of novel methodologies or shorts descriptions of old ones, explicit citation of commercial software used or details about in-house developments.
Results. Tables, figures and other graphic materials are welcomed.
Discussion.
Conclusions.
Acknowledgements. Brief, very brief.
References. Reference list should include only citations to published papers or Web pages (max. 50). Unpublished material and ftp or Usenet addresses should be included in the main text.
See Citation styles below.
III.- Comments
Electronic publishing opens opportunities to some exploratory proposals. Authors have the option of providing short additional or complementary comments to previously published contributions. Nevertheless, all published papers are final versions and no other system of "revising" such e-material will be allowed.
Exceptionally, invited papers will be published in an Editorial section.
Citation styles
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No general agreement exists about citation styles and that situation is worst referring to electronic sources. For further information we advise to consult the excellent IFLA pages devoted to this subject. Other valuable contributions in English, French or Spanish are also useful. Cybermetrics accepts MLA-Style Guidelines, with the brackets option for citing URLs, as shown in these examples:
Burka, Lauren P. "A Hypertext History of Multi-User Dimensions." MUD History. 1993. (5 Dec. 1994).
Miller, Allison. "Allison Miller's Home Page" Lkd. EKU Honors Program Home Page, at "Personal Pages". (11 Nov. 1995).
However, we prefer when possible to add the date between parenthesis after the authors name. This is also valid for printed publications that should follow these other examples:
Moed, H.F., and R.E. De Bruin (1990), International scientific cooperation and awareness: a bibliometric case study of agricultural research within the European Community, in: C.L. Borgman (ed.), Scholarly Communication and Bibliometrics, Sage, London, 1990, 217-232.
Nederhof, A.J. (1990). Between accomodation and orchestration: the implementation of the science policy priority for biotechnology in The Netherlands, Research Policy, 19: 379-386.
Katz, J.S. & Hicks, D. (1996). A systemic view of British science. Scientometrics, 35: 133-154.