You should have been assigned an editor in your field to work closely with you on developing the story and making revisions. All drafts must be in the form of plain text or Microsoft Word files, and submitted as email attachments during correspondence with your editor.
The article should include an introduction with enough background information to give a general understanding of the subject, along with a brief survey of the current state of research in the field, followed by a description of the author's research. We recommend adopting a narrative style similar to articles in Scientific American. Abstracts are not needed, and will not be published. Materials and methods should be incorporated into the text where appropriate, and not placed in a separate section.
A maximum of 4 figures will be accepted
per article. Figures should be supplied as *.jpg or *.tif files, at no
less than 300dpi, and should be submitted as individual attachments via
e-mail along with the article file. Figures should be clear and
understandable as black and white images, since the UCLASR does not publish
color images at this time.
Each
figure must be accompanied by a caption. Captions should provide
a brief description of the figure, including a legend that explains symbols,
lines, and characters. More detailed detailed discussion should be saved
for the article text, where the figure must be referenced. Figure
captions should be included in the article file, after the body but before
the references. The design and layout team will incorporate the
captions with the figures during publication. If a figure
has multiple parts, each part should be labeled as a, b, c, etc.
Figures taken from previously published work, whether
the author's work or someone else's, may not be used. If a figure from
previously published work is required, then it must be changed substantially,
labeled as "adapted from..." and the article where the figure originally
appeared must be cited.
The use of tables should be avoided. It is strongly recommended
that tabular data instead be represented in histogram or bar graph format
as much as possible. Use of 3-D histograms and bars is also discouraged,
unless the data itself is three-dimensional.
No more than 15 citations should be
used and references should follow the Chicago Manual of Style <link>.