We are very pleased to consider your article for the ISUG Technical Journal. Sharing your expertise makes us all more aware of the important issues facing our organizations, and helps us to become more effective users of Sybase technologies. To assist our authors and ease the production process, the User Group has established a few basic guidelines.
if you are interested in writing for. We'd like to discuss your topic with you to see that it's relevant, that it hasn't been already covered elsewhere in the Journal, and to talk about deadlines. We may ask you to send an abstract for review. If you have a good topic but don't feel that you can write anything very long, don't let that stop you--we may run it as a technical tip.
1) As you begin writing your article, please send, via e-mail or fax, a brief summary or abstract of your article. Also, please let us know if you anticipate including graphic images, pictures, etc.
2) Content-wise, we look for solid technical content, giving details of architectures and interesting functions; commands and results-information useful and interesting to a sophisticated client/server audience. Please include code fragments used to deal with specific problems.
3) Please try to meet the word count as established in your conversation with the Managing Editor or ISUG Director. This helps us fit the article into the rest of the Journal's material, and means we won't have to come back to you asking for copy cuts. However, if you find that there is a problem staying within or meeting the word count, please let us know as soon as possible, and we will do our best to accommodate you.
NOTE: Please do NOT change the topic or substitute another article at the last minute! If you are concerned about meeting the deadline as the time draws near, let us know immediately and we'll discuss it from there.
4) Obviously, please do your best to meet the scheduled deadline. Again, the earlier we get your copy, the more flexibility we have to run it without cuts or changes.
5) Your article will be reviewed by our Technical Editorial board. These highly qualified industry experts will respond with suggestions and comments on your article, which will be passed on to you by the Managing Editor.
6) After your final edits, take the time to proofread the copy carefully before you send it to us. You'll have one more chance to see it before it's printed, but accuracy up-front will help prevent typesetting errors. Naturally, we're especially concerned that any included code or commands be exactly right. The column width of the ISUG Technical Journal is 2 1/2", so break up lines of code to be shorter whenever possible.
7) We'd also like to get a photograph-ideally, a professional 5" x 7" black-and-white glossy head shot, but a passport-type photo is fine-and a brief biographical sketch highlighting your professional background and experience with Sybase products and the issue being covered.
8) Please send your final article by e-mail and by fax, or a double-spaced hard copy of the article and bio and a copy on disk (Microsoft Word or WordPerfect are best, but we can translate most files), with photos and graphics, to the Managing Editor.
At this time our authors are paid $250.00 (USD) per published article*, in recognition for themselves and their company, gaining a good portfolio piece and resume item, and the honor and glory of being a published author.
Reprints are available through Sybase.
* Beginning with the 2004 third quarter issue
of the ISUG Journal, authors of all featured articles will be paid the sum of
$250.00 (USD). To be considered for the $250.00 (USD), authors must adhere to
the Guidelines listed above for a featured article.
Multiple authors of a single featured article will spit the $250.00, regardless
of the number of authors. Also, only 1 article per author(s), per issue, will
be considered for payment.
For instance, if John Doe submits 3 articles, and Jane Smith submits 1 article
for the next issue, and all three of John's are published and the 1 of Jane's is
published, Both Jane and John will receive $250.00 (USD) each regardless of the
number of articles they have published in that issue.
Shorter articles are eligible for a $100 payment.