Transactions of the Canadian Society for Mechanical Engineering

Submission Guidelines

Material Published

• papers reporting on fundamental research;
• papers reporting on the development of design methods that constitute an original contribution to design;
• review papers that provide a significant evaluation of, and perspective on, recent developments;
• notes reporting interim work, or work not warranting a full paper, on original research or design;
• letters to the editor will also be considered.

Requirements for Initial Submissions

• Manuscripts may be submitted in English or French.
• The manuscript, as a single PDF file, should be e-mailed to the Editor (paul@cim.mcgill.ca).
• The authors must clearly state that their paper is original and has not been submitted or published elsewhere (CSME Forum and CANCAM conferences are exempt).
• The text should be single-spaced, in 8 1/2" x 11" (letter) format. All margins should be about 1". Pages should be numbered. Sans serif and exotic type faces should be avoided.
• Titles should be brief. The complete name(s) and affiliation(s) of the author(s) should be given below the title (e.g., "John W. Smith" rather than "J.W. Smith").
• Symbols used should conform to those recommended by the American National Standards Institute.
• All figures should be clear and legible. Diagrams should be as simple as possible.
• References should be numbered in the order in which they appear in the paper and should be referred to as "Smith and Jones [1]," or "Hervé et al. [2]," or simply as in "as proved in [3]." They should be listed at the end of the text and styled as follows:
     1. Smith, J.J. and Jones, A.B., "Title of paper in sentence case," Unabbreviated Journal Name in Title Case, Vol. 1, No. 1, pp. 1-20, 2001.
     2. Hervé, J.-M., Lefèbvre, S. and D'Artagnan, T., Book Title in Title Case, 2nd ed., Springer, 2002.
     3. Miloševic, V., "Title of paper in sentence case," Conference Name in Title Case, Paris, France, pp. 1-20, July 12-16, 2009.
  
• The above bibliography style should be strictly observed. Here is a list of common problems, identified in red:
     1. Smith, J.J. and Jones, A.B., "Title of paper in sentence case", Unabbr. J. Name, Vol. 1, missing issue number, pp. 1-20, 2001.
     2. Smith, J. J. and Jones, A.B., "Title of Paper in Sentence Case," Unabbreviated Journal Name, vol. 1, issue 1, pp. 1-20, 2001.
     3. Smith, J.J. and Jones, A.B., "Title of paper in sentence case," Unabbreviated Journal Name in Title Case, 1(1):1-20, 2001.
     4. Hervé, J.-M. et al., Book title in Title Case, 2nd ed., Springer, 2002.
     5. Miloševic, V., "Title of paper in sentence case," Conference Name, Paris, France, pp. 1-20, July 12-16, 2009.
  

Requirements for Final Submissions

• BadExample1.jpg (good image dimensions - 1050 x 746 pixels - but unreadable tiny text anotations)
• BadExample2.jpg (the original figure seems to be excellent, but the image dimensions are too small)
• BadExample3.jpg (again, the image dimensions are too small)
• BadExample4.jpg (again, the image dimensions are too small, the gray background should be removed, and the figure cropped to remove the excessive white margins and the label "Fig. 1")

• GoodExample1.jpg
• GoodExample2.tif
• GoodExample3.tif
• GoodExample4.jpg
• GoodExample5.jpg
• GoodExample6.jpg
• GoodExample7.jpg (though, the caption "Figure 7:..." should not appear in the image)

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