The Australian Model Engineering Magazine

AME Authors Guide

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If you have access to a computer or word processor and can provide us with a 3.5" floppy disc or email, you’ll be very popular! Alternatively you mail e-mail documents ot text to us at Click Here (see separate notes for photographs). Preferred formats are:

Microsoft® Word (any version). Prepare the article with your word processor, then save it as a “.DOC” file.

If you can’t save a file as Microsoft Word, then save in your own word processor file format.

As a safeguard in text translation, we would appreciate it if you can save the file — in addition — as plain text (ASCII) without line breaks. Name the file with “TXT”, such as MYLOCO.TXT. (This preference also applies to Macintosh® documents). In your word processor file, use single line spacing. On the floppy disc label, please indicate the word processing software you used. In addition, if sending a disk, please provide a copy of your article printed on paper so that we can resort to it if we have a problem with your disk.

When formatting a word processor file, do not use any form of page style sheet or page layout: use normal text and left justified and only use the ‘Return’ or ‘Enter’ key for a new paragraph.

Please do not attempt to present the page in column form or with large headings, bold, italics, etc. These make extra work for us because the page layout software generally strips out all formatting.

If you have any doubts about the word processing procedures described, please don’t hesitate to ask: we’re only a phone call or e-mail away. Do not import or embed pictures or drawings into your text. Keep pictures and drawings as separate files and indicate their location in the text.

How we handle your item
Normal time-frames
How you should write
How we will edit
Using other published material
Copyright of your material
Imperial or metric?
What we’d like you to send us
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Photographs - Digital Images
Drawings
Your checklist

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

(If calling from overseas, replace the (02) in the phone and fax numbers with your overseas dialing code followed by 612)