Prospective contributions in the form of articles and research papers to GIS DEVELOPMENT for publication in any of its platforms (www.GISdevelopment.net or GIS Development Asia or GIS Development Middle East) are invited. For contributing, please read through carefully and ensure that the manuscript strictly adheres to the following editorial guidelines:

• Any contribution to us for consideration of publication should be original work, should not be published anywhere else or not be under consideration for future publication anywhere else, and should have due acknowledgements and references, incase the content has references.
• Once published, the content becomes a copyright of GIS Development and thereby any reproduction, re-print or usage of the content would require the author to take due permission from GIS Development.
• Contributions should reach the editorial board via post (a hard copy) or via email (one soft copy) at the designated editorial contact given below.
• Articles must not exceed 3000 words. For book reviews, the word limit is 500. All articles should be submitted with an abstract of 150 words (max) and a set of key words (6 max).
• Articles with a focus on the technique/technology/application are welcome rather than any focus on a particular company/product/service. Use of minimum or absolutely no marketing lingo of a product is appreciated.
• Articles should be sent typed in font - 'Times New Roman', font size - 12, paragraph spacing - one and half point.
• Figures and photographs should be sent in soft copy JPEG/Tiff format along with a hard copy. Limiting the number of figures and tables to less than 4 for one article would be appreciated.
• All figures, images and tables need to have a title compulsorily. Please number every figure as in Fig 1, Fig 2, etc and every Table as in Table 1, Table 2, etc. with reference to the same in the body text.
• Passport size photograph/s and brief bio-data of the author/s must be enclosed with the article.
• While contributing, clearly mention the theme/future edition, related to which, the author(s) have conceptualized the contribution. View our editorial calendar for this.
• The Oxford English Dictionary should be followed for spellings.
• In case of book reviews, mention the title, name of the author/s, name of the publisher, year of publication, price and number of pages of the book concerned.
• Reference List style need to be as follows:
  • Books –
    • Jones, P.J. (1980), Introduction to Algorithms, London: Methuen.
  • Chapter in an edited book –
    • Hamza, K.A. (1988), "Vision Systems", in Jones, P.J., Smith, R. & Watson, E.P. (eds), Artificial Intelligence Reconsidered (2nd edition), New York: Wiley, pp. 12-34.
  • An article in a journal -
    • Carson, P.R. (1970), "An Approach to Intelligent Planning", Journal of Applied Artificial Intelligence 38(3), 4-11.
  • An article from conference proceedings -
    • Jones, P.J. (1983), "An Attempt to Construct a Knowledge-based Route Planner", Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Transport Planning, Budapest: Hungarian Transport Association, pp. 212-58.
  • A Web page
    • http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/~pxc/refs/refs.html
  • From a newspaper / daily –
    • Carson, P.R., "An Approach to Intelligent Planning", Times of India, New Delhi edition, Date June 25th, 2000, Page 11
• The Editorial Board reserves the right to reject, edit and adjust articles in order to conform to the magazine's format and character.

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The Editor
GIS Development
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