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Guidelines for Submissions

1.     SUBMISSIONS: Submissions should be made to the chief editor ( This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it ) or managing editor ( This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it ). We accept electronic submissions only.

2.     COVER SHEET: Prepare a cover sheet with paper title, author’s name, and contact information (postal address, email address, and telephone numbers). You may provide a running header on this page as well.

3.     PAGE 1 OF MAIN TEXT: The first page of the main body of the paper should include the paper title, an abstract, and key words. Author’s byline should NOT appear on this page.

4.     FORMATTING TEXT: We accept rtf files and Word doc files [avoid docx files, please]. Prepare text using a common font, preferably Times or Times New Roman. Indent paragraphs. Single space lines.

5.     APA STYLE: Please consult an APA (5^th ed.) style-sheet for guidance in the preparation of reference entries, in-text citations, and in the proper use of italics and quotation marks. Note that APA does not use single quotation marks except in the instance of a quotation within a quotation. You may request a style-sheet detailing common APA guidelines as used by this journal by contacting the associate editor ( This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it ).

6.     FIGURES AND TABLES: Maximum width of figures and tables is 5 inches. See APA for proper formatting of tables. Figures should appear in the appropriate place in the text AND each figure should be provided in a separate file saved in an appropriate graphics format (jpg; tif; png; pdf). Resolution: Our standard is 300 ppi.

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8.     FOOTNOTES: Should appear at the bottom of the relevant page.

9.     JARGON AND ACRONYMS: Our readership is diverse; text should be aimed at an intelligent but non-specialized reader. Jargon should be avoided. Acronyms should be used only if repeated frequently throughout the text; they should be defined when first introduced.

Guidelines for Guest Editors

1.     THEMES: Acceptable themes for guest-edited issues include [but are not limited to]: Peircean semiotics, biosemiotics cybersemiotics, cybernetics, autopoiesis, self-organizing systems, Batesonian and second-order cybernetics, complex adaptive systems (CAS), and systems theory. Contact the chief editor ( This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it ) or managing editor ( This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it ) to propose a guest-edited issue.

2.     RESPONSIBILITIES: Contributing editors provide the main body of text for the issue: for a single issue approximately 60 pages of text; for a double issue approximately 160 pages of text. A page of text (excluding figures and tables) is approximately 530 words.

The Web edition of Cybernetics and Human Knowing is edited by Søren Brier.
Rev. 05.11.1997