Instruction to Authors
The editors invite papers, technical letters and review articles on all aspects of research and significant engineering advances in metallurgy and materials science. Submissions should be sent to:

office@cmq-online.ca

Papers: Manuscripts submitted as Papers should present completed original work embodying the results of laboratory, field, plant or theoretical investigations, or new interpretations of existing problems. The content of a Paper must be considered to have significant permanent value. All manuscripts submitted as papers will be assigned to an Associate Editor and will be judged by at least two qualified reviewers, according to established criteria. The Editor-in-Chief, acting on the advice of the Associate Editor is responsible for the ultimate acceptance or rejection of the manuscript.

Technical Letters: This category provides rapid publication of short communications. Abstracts and headings are not used. The maximum length is 1000 words of text, with figures and tables are required to support the text. Technical Letters are usually judged by one reviewer only. There are two types of Technical Letters:

i) experiments or theoretical work of immediate current interest,
ii) discussion of published Papers and Technical Letters (Written discussion of a Paper or Technical Letter should be submitted within three months of publication and will be forwarded to the original author for reply. Discussion and reply will be published together.)

Review Articles: Review articles on topics within the scope of the CMQ are also published. Authors should contact the Editor-in-Chief to discuss a proposal for a review article.

You will be notified by the Editor-in-Chief of the CMQ of the acceptance of your paper. All text and original figures (drawings and photographs) should be retained by the author until requested by the editor. Authors are to deliver the final revised version of their accepted manuscripts (tables, text, figures and illustrations) electronically as outlined below. This method of delivery will maintain the integrity of your keystrokes and reduce the time it takes to reset the information.

Electronic Submission
Please submit an electronic text file of your submission created in Microsoft Word as the final revised version of the manuscript. Figures, illustrations, photographs or chemical structures should be as indicated below.
Do not merge the files into one electronic document. All text, figures and photographs should be saved as independent files.

File names
Submit the text and tables of each manuscript as individual files. Name each file with your last name. Text files should be given the three letter extension that identifies the file format.

Labels
All efiles should be labeled with the name of the submitting author.

Storage medium
Only at the request of the author will disks be returned.

Software and format
All illustration files should be in TIFF, EPS or JPG (with previews) format. Do not submit native application formats. All type should be converted to outline before saving as .eps files.

Resolutions
Grayscale files should be saved at resolutions yielding approximately 300 ppi. Bitmapped line art should be submitted at resolutions yielding 600-1200 ppi. These resolutions refer to the output size of the file; if you anticipate that your images will be enlarged or reduced, resolution should be adjusted accordingly.

Order
The preferred order of contents is as follows:
(a) Title of Paper,
(b) Author(s) name(s) and business address,
(c) Abstract,
(d) Body of the paper organized into logical sections and sequentially numbered with no more than two grades of subheadings. Footnotes are not acceptable.
(e) Acknowledgement,
(f) References

Abstracts
The abstract, together with the title of the paper, names of authors and their affiliations, should be presented on the first page of the manuscript. Abstracts should indicate the content and main conclusions of the paper and be no more than 150 words in length. Provision of a French translation of the abstract would be appreciated if feasible. Titles should be kept to maximum length of 75 characters

Translation
There are no facilities for translating or making editorial revisions of foreign contributions. All published work is in English and papers must be submitted in proper form.
Intending contributors for whom English is a second language are advised that the CMQ publisher will improve unclear or ungainly prose, where this is necessary. Numerous corrections may result in charges to the authors. However, it is not possible to translate papers.

Measurements
SI units should be used throughout.

Equations
Equations should be numbered in order of appearance along the right-hand margin.

Tables
Tables should be typed on separate sheets. Whenever possible, use tabs to create columns.

References
References are to be indicated in the text in order of appearance by a square bracketed number. They should be listed double-spaced on a separate page in the numerical order in which they are used in the text using accepted abbreviations.

The form will be:
Author(s) initials & name, Journal, year, ser., vol., pp.

Figures
A master set of illustrations must be submitted in a form suitable for reproductions; that is, glossy photographs and/or original line drawings no larger than 8.5 x 11 inches, or high resolution scans. All wordings to be reproduced with the figures should be printed upon them, except for figure number and caption. Normally all illustrations will be reduced to fit within a single column, thus lettering should be legible when reduced to this size. Each figure should be numbered in sequence and the captions should be submitted as a separate list (double-spaced). Further, each figure should be clearly marked at the bottom with figure number, title of paper and names of authors. In cases where there might be doubt, the top of the photograph or figure should be marked. In the case of photomicrographs, they should be submitted so that they may be reproduced, ‘same size’, and the correct magnification retained. If the degree of magnification is not indicated, this information should be included in the caption. The appropriate position for each illustration should be marked in the text.

Figures and photographs should be designed for final printing in single column 8.5 cm (3.4”) width. Double column 18 cm (7”) treatment will be used only when required by the complexity of the material.

Drawings and graphs should be prepared neatly in clear format using typeset, not typewritten, letters, symbols and numbers. Photo-reproducible sharp copies of drawings in an 8.5 x 11 format are preferred. Avoid gray patterns, lines or symbols, since their accurate reproduction will be very difficult and may result in poor quality. The size of the lettering should be proportional to that of the drawing; it must be a minimum of 6 pt high when the illustration is reduced to 8.5 cm (3.4”) wide. Legends should not be placed in the caption but in the white space of the drawing. Each figure should be numbered; a separate, typed list of succinct captions must be provided. Ticks may be used on the edge of figures where only a trend or comparison is of significance. However, if the figure is to be used to show data to theoretical predictions where the numerical values of the ordinate and abscissa must be read, the figure should be drawn with a grid in which spacing is commensurate with the accuracy implied in the plot.

Broken, dotted and dot-dash lines can be used. Particular care should be taken to ensure that the lines in figures are of an adequate thickness. Suggested minimum line thickness is not less than .5 pt nor greater than 4 pt. Avoid shading (tints) that simulate grey and use line shading if appropriate.

Authors are cautioned to type – wherever possible – all mathematical and chemical symbols, equations and formulas. If these must be handwritten please print clearly and leave ample space above and below for printers marks: use ink only. All Greek or unusual symbols should be identified in the margin the first time they are used. Please distinguish in the margins of the manuscript between capital and small letters of the alphabet whenever confusion may occur. (e.g., k, K, k ).

Lettering typeface used in figures should be Helvetica or Times.

Proofs
Authors will receive proofs directly from the Editorial Office. It is essential that the author(s) return as quickly as possible the corrected proofs with the signed Proof/Copyright Verification form. Major alterations to the paper at this stage are not acceptable. Typographical errors may be corrected and references updated without charge.

Copyright
Copyright transfer must accompany the final manuscript. The signed copyright transfer form must be received in the editor’s office before the article can be processed for publication. This form, sent upon acceptance in Canadian Metallurgical Quarterly, must be signed by the submitting author.

Contact
Canadian Metallurgical Quarterly
Editorial Office
165 Ontario Street, Suite 5
Kingston, Ontario Canada K7L 2Y6
Telephone (613) 549-5361 Fax (613) 549-5365

Email: office@cmq-online.ca

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