Submissions to the HCi Journal of Information Development

We invite interested authors to submit articles for publication in the HCi Journal of Information Development. Set out below are the guidelines that we would like you to follow.

Scope

The scope of the HCi Journal is Information Development, which covers all forms of business and technical communication as well as the contexts in which good, clear, written communication is critical to organisational and productive activity.

Here is a laundry list of subjects that fall within this definition.

• technical communication
• technical writing styles and techniques
• software user and maintenance documentation
• process documentation and policies and procedures
• knowledge management
• internet and intranet design and development
• document management
• performance support documentation
• electronic performance support systems
• quality management and process improvement
• quality assurance
• organisational compliance management and associated legislation and standards

We would be delighted to have articles submitted on any of these themes, and are happy to look at material in related areas.

Format

One of the advantages of the format of the HCi Journal is that there is no practical limit on the size of articles - we can easily publish anything from 100 words to 10,000 words. To make our lives a little easier we'd like to see submissions in Word, with embedded diagrams as necessary - but we're happy to take submissions in almost any format.

Deadline

The HCi Journal is published four times a year, on or near 15 February, 15 May, 15 August, and 15 November. If you have an article that must go into a particular issue for timeliness, we'd like to see it in the month prior to the issue that you feel it should go into.

Author and byline

Submissions to the HCi Journal must be from individuals acting in their private capacity, rather than as employees. When submitting an article, you should include a proposed byline of the form: "by John Smith", or "by John Smith, Austin, Texas". If you do not wish a byline, please say so.

Copyright

In submitting a work, you are guaranteeing that it is your own work and that you own copyright to it, and agree to indemnify HCi against all claims to the contrary. In submitting a work, you agree to grant HCi the right to publish that work in the HCi Journal, for no payment.

HCi often grants the rights to others to re-use material from the HCi Journal for free (usually to academics) and in submitting a work, you agree to grant HCi the right to do that with your work also. HCi also sells copyright of the works in the HCi Journal. HCi will not sell the rights to your submitted work without first negotiating a suitable fee with you.

Editorial policy

The HCi Journal is central to HCi's standing in the technical communication community, and so the decision of HCi regarding the suitability, format, wording, illustration, or any other aspect of the publication of a submitted work is not negotiable. However, work published under a byline will be submitted for approval to the author in its final, edited, form for checking, and will not be published in the HCi Journal until the author has given approval for that final form.

Submission

Papers should be submitted to

Submission must include:

• full text and illustrations of the proposed article
• author's name
• requested byline

This article may be reproduced only with the permission of HCi (email HCi ). Copyright HCi, 2001-2.