Paper length: Paper length is preferably around 10 journal pages.

Page size and margins: Page size is A4 with 3.0 cm on the left margin and 2.5 cm on the others.

Title and headings: All tiles and headings are to be in Times New Roman type face with the following attributes:

Title: 14 point, bold; First order headings: 12 point, bold; Second order headings: 11 point, bold. The title is centred at the top of the first page and followed by one blank line. You are recommended to use enumerated headings.

Abstract: An abstract of up to 200 words in your manuscript as the first section of your paper should be included. This section should be titled “Abstract” in the style of first-order heading (not numbered). The text of the abstract is in the same font and size as the regular text. The abstract is separated from the main text by two blank lines.

Keywords: Up to five keywords may be given following the abstract.

Text and paragraphs: Regular text is single-spaced 11 point Times New Roman, fully justified.

Author(s) and affiliation(s): Author names are in the style of second-order headings (not numbered) and affiliations are in the style of regular text. Centre the name(s) beneath the title.

Figures, tables and equations: Equations should be incorporated in the documents and not hand written. Equations which are referenced in the text must be numbered in parenthesis and positioned flush right. Each figure or table must have a sequentially numbered caption that uses the font of second-order headings. Capitalize only the first word of each caption. Figure captions are to be centred beneath the figures. Table captions are to be centred above the tables. For example,

Figure 1: Basic principle of positioning with GPS

Table 5. Comparison of estimated slip rates for three island arcs

References: List all cited references at the end of your paper in alphabetical order of the first author’s surname. When referring to them in the text, type the corresponding last name and the year of the publication in parentheses or last name and year of publication, separated by a comma, in parenthesis (e.g., “Smith (1994)” or “(Smith, 1994)”. The reference list is to have a 1cm hanging indent with no blank lines.

References are to have the following format:

Surname, A. B., Surname2, C.D. and Surname3, E.F. (1996) Title of article. Name of Journal, volume (number):page-page.

Surname1, A. B. and Surname 2, C. D. (1996) Name of book. Publisher, Location, pages.

Submission: Manuscripts must be submitted in both hard and soft copy. The soft copy will be accepted in Microsoft Word only. The operating system used must be English versions. Both hard and soft copy can be sent to:

Prof. Xiaoli Ding, Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Geospatial Engineering

c/o Dept. of Land Surveying and Geo-Informatics

The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

Kowloon, Hong Kong

e-mail: lsxlding@polyu.edu.hk

Copyrights: By submitting a manuscript to the Journal, the Editorial Committee assumes that you have obtained all the necessary copyright permissions to have the manuscript published. The Editorial Committee accepts all submitted manuscripts in good faith and does not accept responsibility for the copyright status of any material contained in them. Once published, copyright for the article lies with the publisher.