Publications Information for CASS Staff and Students

Choice of Journal

CASS staff may submit papers to any journal. For astronomers, the most appropriate journals are generally MNRAS, Nature, Science, ApJ, AJ, A&A, and PASA. The choice of which journal to use will depend on several factors, including:

Where other papers in your field tend to be published
The Journal Impact Parameter - this is a measure of the average number of citations for papers published in the previous two years in a journal. For the most recent values see the ISI Journal citation reports.
Whether you will need to pay page charges
How quickly the paper will be published
How accessible the journal is in electronic form.

CSIRO author affiliation on publications

CASS staff are advised that for ALL publications, the CASS affiliation should be given in full on the author list for the publications. For example:

S. J. Wilson, CSIRO Astronomy and Space Science, PO Box 76, Epping, NSW 1710, Australia

For publications that include data taken with ATNF facilities , or include data from the Australia Telescope data archives, the additional term 'ATNF' should be given first as in:

M. W. Blyth, ATNF, CSIRO Astronomy and Space Science, PO Box 76, Epping, NSW 1710, Australia; or
M. W. Blyth, Australia Telescope National Facility, CSIRO Astronomy and Space Science, PO Box 76, Epping, NSW 1710, Australia

Note that 'ATNF' can be included either in full or as an abbreviation, but 'CSIRO Astronomy and Space Science' should be written in full.

For publicationss that include non-ATNF data taken with the CDSCC facilities the equivalent format is:

T. James, CDSCC, CSIRO Astronomy and Space Science, ...; or
T. James, Canberra Deep Space Communications Complex, CSIRO Astronomy and Space Science, ...

Page Charges

If you intend to submit a paper to a journal for which CASS will be liable for page charges of $500 or more, then you should request funding permission from your Theme Leader.

For Astro staff, you do not need to request permission if the CASS contribution to the page charges will be less than $500. If over $500, Astro staff are required to seek the permission from the Astrophysics Theme Leader (Robert Braun) prior to submission.

Publications with one or more CSIRO authors

The first CSIRO author listed on the paper is generally responsible for entering the details of the paper into ePublish, and for updating the record once this has been published.

After a paper has been accepted, it is advisable to put the electronic version of the paper on an external server such as astro-ph. (This is not done through ePublish.) Astro-ph is currently the most widely distributed astrophysics electronic preprint system. Nature papers should not be placed on electronic servers until after publication.

Instructions for CASS-affiliated students

CASS Graduate Students who are first authors on publications that include data taken with ATNF facilities, MUST have their paper approved prior to submission by their CASS supervisor.

CASS-affiliated students must include their university affiliation as the first affiliation on the paper. Students are encouraged to also include CASS as a secondary affiliation. It is recommended that students who do not list CASS as an affiliation in the author list include a footnote on the front page to state that they are affiliated with CSIRO Astronomy and Space Science.

Please include the appropriate acknowledgement for the use of ATNF facilities.

Other Information

Lists of CASS ATNF and other staff publications are made available on the web publications pages and are included in the ATNF newsletters and Annual Reports.

If you have images of extragalactic sources, you may wish to submit them to the NED image library.