INSTRUCTION TO AUTHORS

Submission of Papers

Authors are requested to submit 4 copies of their original manuscript to Professor C. H. Loh, National Center for Research on Earthquake Engineering, 200 Section 3, Hsin-Hai Road, Taipei, Taiwan 106, R.O.C.

Manuscript Preparation

General: Manuscripts should be written in English and typed double-spaced on one side of A4 or letter size paper. Good quality printouts with a font size of 12pt are required. Papers should not exceed 10000 word-equivalents or 30 pages including tables and figures. An electronic copy of an accepted paper in MS Word 6.0 or higher version is required. The corresponding author should be identified with a mailing address, Fax number and e-mail address.

Abstract: The paper should content an abstract of approximately 150 words.

Text: The paper should be prepared in the order: Title, Authors, Affiliations, Abstract, Main text, Acknowledgements, Appendix, References, Tables and Figures.

Tables and figures: Tables and figures should be consecutively numbered and headed with short titles. They should be referred to in the text as Fig. 1, Table 2, etc. Originally drawn figures and glossy prints of photographs should be provided in a form suitable for photographic reproduction and reduction in the journal.

Units: All measurements and data should be given in SI units.

Mathematical Expressions: Equation and formulae should be typewritten and referred to in the text as Eq. (1), Eq. (2), … .

References: References to published literature should be quoted in the text. A list of references should be presented following the text of the paper. The references including journal articles, books and reports should be typed in the following forms:

1. Priestley, M.J., Seible, F., Xiao, Y. and Verma, R. (1994). “Steel jacket retrofitting of reinforced concrete bridge columns for enhanced shear strength ― Part I: theoretical considerations and test design,” Journal of American Concrete Institute, Vol. 91, No. 4, pp. 394–405.

2. Miranda, E. (1996). “Assessment of the seismic vulnerability of existing buildings,” Proceedings, 11th World Conference on Earthquake Engineering, Paper 513, Acapolco, Mexico.

3. Chopra, A.K. (1995). Dynamics of Structures ― Theory and Applications to Earthquake Engineering, Prentice Hall, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey.