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Acoustics Australia is published three times per year and includes:

• Technical Articles,
• Review Papers,
• Technical Notes,
• Book Reviews,
• New Products,
• News,
• Acoustical Activities
• and much more...

Information for Authors

Acoustics Australia is the journal of the Australian Acoustical Society. It publishes general technical articles in all areas of acoustics of interest to members of the Society, together with relevant news and views. Review papers, covering particular fields of acoustics and addressed to a non-specialist acoustics readership, as well as papers of a “tutorial” nature dealing with important acoustical principles or techniques are most welcome. Acoustics Australia does not aim to be a primary scientific journal, and therefore does not normally publish primary research papers, with the exception of those that apply specifically to Australia.

Submission of an article carries the implication that it has not been published in the same form elsewhere, and is not currently under consideration by another publication. Upon acceptance, authors will be asked to transfer copyright to Acoustics Australia (to enable us to deal easily with requests for reprint permission) but the author will retain rights to use the material freely.

Peer-reviewed articles should generally not exceed five journal pages in length. This implies a maximum of about 5000 words, with each normal single-column diagram being counted as 300 words, and pro-rata for diagrams of other shapes and sizes. Authors submitting longer articles may be asked to bear the extra publication costs involved.

We also publish contributions for Acoustics Forum and technical notes. These contributions are checked by the Editorial Panel before acceptance but do not go through a rigorous peer review process. Forum contributions are generally aimed at generating awareness of a particular issue in the acoustics community. Technical Notes serve to highlight the solution of a particular technical problem or to draw attention to a particular acoustical achievement. These contributions should not exceed three pages (3000 words) in length.

All articles should be submitted to the editor in electronic form to AcousticsAustralia@acoustics.asn.au. For all submissions The drawings must be of publication quality, and lettering must be of such a size that it will be no less than 2 mm high when the figure is reduced to single-column size (width 85 mm). The equivalent of either Times Roman or Helvetica type may be used in diagram lettering. Half-tone photographs of good quality may also be included.

The initial submission for peer review should preferably be in pdf format.

After the review process and once the paper has been accepted for publication the final version must be submitted electronically in a standard word-processing format. Microsoft WORD is preferred but LaTeX is acceptable for mathematically complex papers. Simple unformatted ASCII text is acceptable if no mathematical expressions are involved and consult the Editors about other programs. PLEASE DO NOT FORMAT YOUR ARTICLE TO MATCH THE JOURNAL LAYOUT — THIS WILL BE DONE BY THE PRINTER.

If possible, diagrams and photographs should be submitted in digital form as Encapsulated Postscript (.EPS) or bitmap (.BMP) files. (For other formats, please consult the Editors.) PLEASE SUBMIT ALL ILLUSTRATIONS AS SEPARATE FILES — DO NOT INTEGRATE THEM INTO WORD DOCUMENTS.

Particular care should be taken if the paper includes mathematics. Mathematical symbols should be in italic type, as produced by the equation editor of whatever package is used. In the case of large displayed equations, the author should check that these will fit within the standard column width (85 mm) when the article is formatted using 10-point Times New Roman type.

The paper should commence with a short abstract, around 100 words, suitable for inclusion in standard INSPEC abstracting journals, and its main body should be organised with numbered headings in capital letters (and subheadings, in capitals and lower case, where necessary).

References must be formatted according to the Journal’s conventions. The tag for a reference is a number enclosed in square brackets [2]. The reference itself is then formatted using the appropriate style indicated below.

1. A.N. Author and A. Coauthor, “Title of the journal article” J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 56, 1134-1143 (1987)

2. A.N. Author, Title of a Published Book, Wiley, New York (1987) pp. 345-350

3. A.N. Author, “Title of a book chapter” in Title of Published Book ed. A.N. Editor, Oxford University Press, New York (1981) pp. 45-55

Unless you have been advised otherwise All communications should be made to

The Editor, Acoustics Australia	TEL: (02) 6268 8241
Acoustics and Vibration Unit	FAX: (02) 6268 8276
Australian Defence Force Academy CANBERRA ACT 2600	email: AcousticsAustralia@acoustics.asn.au

Subscriptions

Rates for 2004:
Australia

• 1 year A$60.50
• 2 year A$104.50
• 3 year A$148.50

Overseas - airmail

• 1 year A$70
• 2 year A$125
• 3 year A$180

Agents rates are discounted.

• Australian rates include 10% GST (ABN 28 000 712 658)
• Overseas subscriptions will be sent by airmail.
• The rates for new subscriptions only apply once per subscriber.
• Members and sustaining members extra copies: same as new subscription rate.
• All subscriptions commence with the April issue.
• For single issues and back copies contact Leigh Wallbank.
• PLEASE MAKE ALL PAYMENTS IN AUSTRALIAN DOLLARS (otherwise an additional A$50 must be included to cover bank conversion charges)

Contact:
Leigh Wallbank, Business Manager
PO Box 579,
CRONULLA
NSW 2230,
Tel +61 2 9528 4362 Fax +61 2 9523 9637

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