HiLight

HiLight

Online registry of ideas

Guidelines for contributors

  1. Types of submissions
  2. Notes and abstracts
  3. Papers
  4. Samples

Types of submissions

The following categories of submissions are distinguished by their size and structure:
  1. Notes: short texts (less than 600 words); notes will be copied to the current issue of HiLight as they are and hence will be always available online.
  2. Papers: texts of any length; a paper should be accompanied with an abstract, to represent the submission in the current issue of HiLight.
  3. Samples: any non-text submissions (images, movies, software etc); samples must be in a form suitable for electronic transmission and accompanied with an abstract describing the contents of the submission. Submissions via ordinary mail may contain illustrations (black-white or color drawings, photography) which will be scanned by the Moderator and published in the electronic form. The originals are not returned.
You may submit:
  1. Ideas: works indicating new problems or the possible ways of treating the problems already known; the formulation of an idea may be rather brief, in a sentence or two, or a drawing, or any other format.
  2. Conceptualizations: general concepts and ideas; theories and schemes.
  3. Methodological works: suggesting new methods and approaches, or analysis of those currently used; explication of implicit assumptions and the conceptual basis of the traditional views and methods.
  4. Reports: description of experiments performed, installations constructed, new software etc.; all such descriptions should refer to publicly accessible products, rather than those usable by narrow professional groups.
  5. Historical overviews: assessment of the current situation in particular fields of experience; considerations about the genesis of cultural phenomena of the present and the past.
  6. Resubmissions: any contribution to HiLight may be resubmitted if the thoughts of the original submission can be expressed in a clearer way, modernized or extended. However, since other people may consider the original submission more interesting, the new version of the submission will be published separately, under the same submission code, with a different version number.
The HiLight registration codes do not depend on the kind of submission, and the above categorization is not to be considered as a strict reglamentation.

Notes and abstracts

Notes and abstracts should be written in English, not exceeding 500-600 words; they should have no title, but a separate list of keywords before the text is allowed, to facilitate orientation to the reader.

The idea of the submission should be conveyed as clear as possible. Please, avoid general or introductory phrases, be schematic. No need to use full sentences. Abstracts may be thought of as collections of key phrases to search for. Online search facilities are to be added to HiLight in the future.

HTML formatting is encouraged. The pages of HiLight are intended to be readable with Netscape 3.x and higher, or Internet Explorer 4 or higher [basic formatting tags]. Rather complex inline formulas are possible in HTML; still, some formulas may be inserted as graphics - in this case you might prefer to submit a sample rather than a note. Also, a part of the text or the whole text may be replaced by a graphic scheme or table, provided the total size of the images does not exceed 20 Kbytes.

The abstract may contain the names(s) and email address(es) of the contributor(s) after the text; however, there should not be any references to the ranks of the contributors or institutions they belong to.

Papers

Papers submitted to HiLight must reflect the position of their authors, without any regard to the ideas of the others. Consequently, the submissions should not contain any references, save the cases of borrowing empirical data. However, such external data should be essential for the formulation of the idea, and not merely displayed in support, or for comparison. If desired, a paper may be supplied with an appendix indicating the literature that essentially influenced the author(s) in developing their ideas, or other useful sources. References to overviews summarizing the current state of the problem are preferable to the technical works obtaining results without comprehending them.

Papers should not discuss the ideas of the others or argue with them. Any substantiation of the authors' opinions should follow from their own research and the logic of the work.

Since the papers submitted to HiLight are not edited or reviewed, the authors are completely responsible for their contents and the ways of expression. The texts are to be published as they are, possibly with minor formatting. Please, check for the HiLight's language considerations.

The structure and style of the paper is up to its author(s). Try to avoid introductions or conclusions duplicating the contents of the text. Avoid unnecessary decorations and colorful phrases aimed mainly to impressing the reader. Also, avoid too much technicality obfuscating the main idea.

Papers should be made as self-contained as possible, introducing all the terms that are not commonly used. However, one does not need to give any formal definitions, and the meaning of the terms may be inferred from their usage in the context of the paper. Schemes indicating the relations between the categories, notions and terms used are welcome.

The text does not need to look "logical" or "scientific", in the traditional sense. However, the attempts to comprehend one's own logic are strongly encouraged.

The contents of the submission do not need to be original and the results do not need to be obtained by the authors. In any case, the papers will be considered as the statement of the authors' position, no matter whether this position is shared by somebody else or not. No reference to the source of idea is required.

Papers may contain mathematical formulas and illustrations of any kind. They may be written in any language (including artificial languages like Esperanto); however, the abstract should be in English, and the language of the submission should be indicated. The papers written in languages other than English should be accompanied with a rough translation into English which is to be used for technical purposes in the process of publishing; due to technical reasons, such draft translation is obligatory for the source languages other than French, Spanish, Italian, German, Russian, Ukrainean, Belorussian. Submitting several language versions of the same text is encouraged, and the available translations will be indicated on the pages of HiLight. The authors are responsible for the accuracy of translation. New translations may be added to any paper published in HiLight; this does not require resubmitting the paper, provided its contents haven't been changed.

The preferable formats for the texts submitted are:

Please, avoid submissions in poorly editable formats (like PostScript) - the readers may wish to reformat the text before printing, and they should be able to do that. Texts may contain a number of embedded objects (pictures, spreadsheets, sound or video clips etc.); the format and the software necessary to reproduce the embeddings should be specified in the abstract. It is recommended that the embedded objects be separate files linked to the main text, rather than insertions dumped in one file. The files of the submission must be in one directory (folder), no subdirectories or subfolders allowed. It is recommended to archive the files constituting the paper with PKZIP. Submitted papers may also be packed using another compressing utility (like ARJ, LHARC etc.); the method of compression should then be clearly indicated. However, such papers will have to be unpacked and packed back with PKZIP, due to the technical limitations on the server side - so, it would be better to use the appropriate format from the very beginning. The maximum size of submission that can be accessible online is 4-5 Mbytes. Otherwise, the submission file should be split into parts, so that some auxiliary materials could be kept separately from the main text, being available via email or FTP. Please, contact the Moderator for more details.

Samples

The following submissions fall under this category:

Samples may be of any size; however, it may be impossible to put large files on the HiLight pages for online access. To enable the visitors of HiLight to retrieve such samples, they should be split into relatively small parts, that could be ordered separately; in this case, the abstract should contain a table of contents. For example, a compact disk may be submitted to HiLight, with the table of contents listing the tracks or directories on the disk.

Files up to 5 Mbytes may be distributed online. Larger files could be submitted/retrieved via the submitter's FTP, or using some other channels, to be specified.

Very large samples (like books or video production) cannot be distributed electronically. No copying and mailing services are available in HiLight so far. Still such submissions may have sense as a means of fixing priority; they may become available for the readers of HiLight in the future, with more financial and non-financial support.

Samples may be linked to or referenced from any other submission to HiLight, providing the necessary empyrical data or illustrations. When experimental results are presented, the experimental procedure should be completely specified; however, a detailed description of experimental setup is not needed if it has already been submitted to HiLight as a separate sample.

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