1 Getting Ready

1.1 Preliminaries

1.2 Content

1.3 Community

1.4 Where to Publish

1.5 Abstract and Paper

1.6 Paper Structure

1.7 Plan

1.8 When to Write

2 Doing the Writing

2.1 Writing Strategy

2.2 The First Draft

2.3 Revision

3 The Paper

3.1 The Abstract

3.2 Introduction

3.3 Related Work

3.4 Overview

3.5 Detail Sections

3.6 Theory

3.7 Algorithms

3.8 Experimental Results

3.9 Conclusions

3.10 Acknowledgements

3.11 References

3.12 Appendices

4 Style

4.1 Readership

4.2 Critical Analysis

4.3 Precision

4.4 Coneiseness

4.5 Logical Writing

4.6 Balance

4.7 Completeness

5 Presentation

5.1 Figures

5.2 Tables

5.3 Mathematical Notation

5.4 Units

5.5 Numbering

5.6 Terminology

6 Submitting Your Paper

6.1 Outlet and Readership

6.2 Reviewing Form

6.3 Checklist

6.4 Format

7 The Editor's Decision

7.1 Acceptance

7.2 Revision

7.3 Rejection

8 Further Reading

Index