Tools
for Question Managers
Manuscript guidelines and templates for the various chapters of the Technical
Report:
- Manuscript
instructions in PDF - read this to find out word processing instructions
and layout guidelines for your chapter
- sofras-template.dot
- place this Word template in your MS Office Templates folder, choose
File, New in Word and choose it as your template to create your chapter
manuscript. Enter or paste new material into it to make use of its Assessment-standard
headings and styles. If you have troubles downloading it try the zipped
template: sofras-template.zip
- table-template.xls
- use this Excel template workbook for building the tables you'll place
in your chapter manuscript, also in zipped format: table-template.zip
- sofras-example.doc
- this example Word document shows how the manuscript should look and
illustrates what types of content go in each section. You can also download
the file in zipped format: sofras-example.zip
- Citation instructions
in PDF - these provide better explainations and examples of how citations
should be formatted in the manuscript
- Graphics instructions
in PDF - read this to find out how to prepare figure graphics for your
chapter
- graphics-example.xls
- this Excel workbook provides examples you can save for how fonts and
other elements should be sized so contents are readable when the graphic
is reduced to quarter- or half-page.
- av-example.zip -
this zipped archive contains an ArcView project and associated files which
illustrate Southwide maps at different scales.
- submission
guidelines in PDF - read this to find out how to submit your manuscript,
table and figure files.
- Draft Glossary - this
document shows candidate terms and their definitions for inclusion in
the Glossary section of the Draft Report. Question Managers are encouraged
to submit their suggestions for improvements to Dave
Wear
- Species names lists -
like the glossary, the draft version of a product for the final report. Two versions are available:
sortable (requires IE5 or newer), and
static HTML sorted by scientific name.
This listing has submissions from TERRA-1, TERRA-2, TERRA-5, HLTH-2 and AQUA-5, authors should
submit others they're using to
John Pye so they can just
use common names in their chapters.
- Short
eco-province names - standard short names for Bailey's ecological
provinces to supplement the cryptic codes, from Vic Rudis and John Pye
- Note: when clicking on links to Office application files like the Excel
or Word documents above, you may be asked for a Network ID and Password.
This just means your Office application is trying to edit the file on
the web server. Choose Cancel and you will receive the file as read-only
which you can then save locally.
