Information for Authors

1. The language of the Scientific Journal of Orienteering is English. Contributions must be supplemented by an abstract in English and German.

2. Papers submitted are considered for publication by members of the editorial board.

3. Contributions should be typed with a double line spacing and a large correction margin. Please refrain from footnotes if possible. Accepted papers should be sent on a disc (PC) as DOS or WINDOWS file. Please add a hardcopy.

4. Figures and tables must be numbered each separately and be furnished with a short explanatory caption. Please send figures, tables and captions on a separate sheet. Figures should be camera-ready.

5. Original Contributions and Research Reports should meet the standard of scientific papers. Please follow the guidelines of the American Psychological Association (APA). The name(s) of referenced authors have to be written with the year of publication in parentheses, e.g. Nilsson (1980). Citations in the text comprise the name, the year of publication and the page, e.g. "... to improve contour interpretation" (Barrell & Cooper, 1981, p. 91).

6. An alphabetical list of references is added at the end of the article. It contains only literature referred to in the preceding text. The specifications are requested as precise as possible. In particular, they contain name(s) and initial letter of the Christian name(s) of all authors, year of publication in parentheses, exact title and subtitle. Monographs quote place of publication and publisher, articles in journals quote the name of the journal, volume, number in parentheses, and pages. Articles in collected editions quote the name(s) of the editor(s), the title of the book, pages from - to in parentheses, place of publication, and publisher.

7. Summaries should impart question, methods, results and conclusions of previously published articles or unpublished papers (e.g. university thesis, research reports). Reviews present an article and give a personal opinion of the reviewer. Bibliographical references indicate new articles, papers, or books. The content is generally presented by an abstract. A review or a summary is reserved to a next issue. An English and German translation of the title, exact bibliographical data, and addition of two copies of the summarized, or referred original paper is requested.

8. The author gets two reference copies. Reprints on request at the cost of the author.