How we handle your item

Soon after your article or item is received, we will acknowledge it. The first step we take is to check it against others “in the pipeline” to see whether it has a related subject. If so, we may try to publish the two together (e.g. in a “theme” issue). We may contact you about any special requirements that you may have stipulated. Otherwise we will make assumptions described later in these notes.

The item is then sent, as appropriate, for typing and/or drafting. Artwork is sent away for redrafting into the style that ensures consistency from issue to issue. The article will be checked from a technical viewpoint. Sometimes we will contact an author at this stage — for example to discuss the possibility of expanding an aspect that we find particularly interesting.

Just before each issue of AME is laid out, articles receive a final copy editing to ensure they are easily readable and that grammar, punctuation, abbreviations and terms are consistent. When the article is ready, text and graphics are imported into page-layout software as the issue is laid out electronically.

The issue is then sent on CD to the printers for printing.

How we handle your item
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How we will edit
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For any further information, please feel free to contact the Managing Editor at:

Australian Model Engineering
P.O. Box 4721,
HIGGINS, ACT, 2615

Email: Click Here Telephone: (02) 6254 1641
Fax: (02) 6254 1641

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