Submissions
Submission Preparation Checklist
As part of the submission process, authors are required to check off their submission's compliance with all of the following items, and submissions may be returned to authors that do not adhere to these guidelines.- By submitting this paper, you the author (and/or on behalf of the copyright owner) agree to grant to the Safety Critical Systems Club (the publisher) the non-exclusive right to publish, distribute or broadcast your paper in printed or digital form. You agree that we may publish your paper in the Safety Critical Systems eJournal and make it available online via our website.
- You promise that the paper is your original work, and has not been previously published in English, neither is it before another journal for consideration. If it contains material, e.g. an image, which is someone else’s copyright, you promise that you have obtained the unrestricted permission of the copyright owner and that the material is clearly identified and acknowledged in the text and that appropriate consent has been obtained from identifiable persons in images. You also promise that the paper does not, to the best of your knowledge, contain anything which is libellous, illegal or infringes anyone’s copyright or other rights.
- You assert your Moral Rights to be identified as the author. The Safety Critical Systems Club promises that we will respect your rights as author and will make sure that your name is always closely associated with the paper.
- Copyright remains yours and we will acknowledge this. However, you authorise the Safety Critical Systems Club, if we wish, to act on your behalf to defend your copyright if anyone should infringe it. You also retain the right to use part or all of your own paper in any way you wish.
- The main submission file is in Microsoft Word, RTF, or OpenOffice document file format. Where available, URLs for the references have been provided, with a note of when accessed. The text is single-spaced; uses a 12-point serifed font; employs italics, rather than underlining (except with URL addresses); and all figures and tables are placed within the text at appropriate points, not at the end. The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements presented in the template.
Editorial
This shall provide an introduction to the articles in an issue, and will be published in both on-line and printed versions of the journal.
Articles
Types of article include, but are not limited to:
Technical Articles: Written by practitioners and describing practical safety assurance techniques and their industrial applications.
Integration Studies: Written by practitioners reporting upon successful (or otherwise) synergies achieved in practice with other assurance domains, e.g. security, environment, and resilience.
Position Papers: Written by, or on behalf of. Regulators, Standardisation Organisations, or other official bodies, setting out their position on a topic, e.g. the interpretation of a particular standard or regulation.
Review Articles: Papers highlighting recent developments and trends in some aspect of safety-critical systems or of their use in a particular industrial sector.
Historical Articles: Papers describing the development of safety assurance in an industrial sector; how we got to where we are today.
Perspectives: The authors’ personal opinions on a subject, e.g. whether to use statistical methods in particular scenarios.
Reports: The lessons learned from incidents or the outcomes of trials with a description of scenarios or methods and a discussion of the results obtained.
Working Group Outputs: Written by Safety-Critical Systems Club Working Groups to include discussions, underpinning theory, or guidelines.
Back Matter
This is a placeholder for the printed version of the journal, and will contain such items as descriptions of the club and its working groups.
Copyright Notice
The Author(s) shall retain copyright in their work but give the Safety-Critical Systems Club permission to publish in both on-line and printed formats.
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