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Guide
for S&G Authors
Simulation
& Gaming:
An Interdisciplinary Journal of Theory, Practice and Research
Editor: David
Crookall, Université de Nice Sophia Antipolis
Publisher: Sage Periodicals
Press - http://sag.sagepub.com
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NB - Please
follow all indications regarding ms ID, writing,
etc.
If instructions are not followed, this significantly increases processing time.
Thank you for your attention to
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All standard manuscripts submitted to
S&G
for publication must be written within the spirit, scope and format of the journal.
All submissions must be original work, except of course citations.
To make sure that your manuscript is correctly written, please consult both:
- recent issues of the journal or
several already published articles and
- this Guide for S&G
Authors.
Before submitting your ms, you must obtain
a Ms ID.
The Guide is couched in rather dogmatic terms because it is
vital that the instructions are followed carefully at the outset. Submissions will
not be processed until they conform to this Guide.
This Guide is in several sections. These are
clustered into three broad areas:
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Overview. The scope of
S&G, the substance of articles, the
types of article published in S&G.
It also contains special author guides for reviews and for
ready-to-use games.
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Process: The things that you
must do, such as getting a ms ID, having your
ms
reviewed, and sending the author agreement.
Before you send a ms, you must request a ms ID.
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Structure: The things
that you must include in your ms, to get your ms into shape for review and
publication, such as laying out your ms in certain ways or including certain
elements (abstract, keywords, etc.). The check
list will help you here.
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Follow-up:
How to get cited.
You may wish to consider guest editing a
symposium (special issue) of S&G.
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Guest: Notes to help you
prepare a proposal to guest edit a symposium issue of S&G.
To navigate
the pages of this Guide for S&G Authors, you may use the following:
- the
header of
these pages.
- the
panel to the left.
- the
Table of Contents.
- the
links in each page.
Other
information regarding S&G is in other parts of this web:
- About
S&G: The
editorial Board, contacts, subscription, past issues, organizations, ... .
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- Resources:
Bibliographies, articles, CFPs, links, searches, ... .
Some thoughts to guide our simulation/gaming
endeavours
I do not know what I may appear to the world;
but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and
diverting myself in now and then finding of a smoother pebble or a prettier
shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before
me. Sir Isaac Newton (1642-1727) English physicist,
mathematician.
The aim of science is to seek the simplest
explanation of complex facts. We are apt to fall into the error of thinking that
the facts are simple because simplicity is the goal of our quest. The guiding
motto in the life of every natural philosopher should be "Seek simplicity and
distrust it.'' Alfred North Whitehead (1861-1947) English
mathematician and philosopher. Concepts of Nature, p. 163.
All of physics is either impossible or
trivial. It is impossible until you understand it, and then it becomes trivial.
Ernest Rutherford (1st Baron Rutherford of Nelson)
(1871- 1937) English physicist, born in New Zealand. Nobel prize for chemistry
1908.
- The most beautiful experience we can have
is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle of
true art and true science. Albert Einstein
(1879-1955) U. S. physicist, born in Germany.
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- One thing I have learned in a long life:
that all our science, measured against reality, is primitive and childlike and
yet it is the most precious thing we have. Albert
Einstein (1879-1955) U. S. physicist, born in Germany.
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- Whoever undertakes to set himself up as
a judge in the field of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of
the gods. Albert Einstein (1879-1955) U.
S. physicist, born in Germany.
The Guide for S&G Authors was
prepared by David Crookall (Editor, S&G).
Many thanks to Kate Peterson (Sage Publications) & to Warren Thorngate (Carleton
University) for comments on earlier versions
of this guide.
©
1999 & 2004, by David Crookall &
Sage Publications
Copyright restrictions apply to this Guide for S&G Authors.
Please read the notice below.
This Guide for S&G Authors may be
reproduced by others for non-profit purposes without prior written permission on condition
(1) that full acknowledgment of the source is made in the document reproducing this Guide
and (2) that a copy of the document is sent to the S&G Editor.
Profit-oriented users must contact the Editor beforehand, providing a description of the
intended use.
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