Instructions for Submitted and Final Papers

Pat Langley (langley@isle.org)
Sabrina Odessa (odessa@cll.stanford.edu)
Institute for the Study of Learning and Expertise
2164 Staunton Court, Palo Alto 94306 USA


Abstract

The abstract should be a single paragraph in 9 point type with a vertical spacing of 10 points. The paragraph should be indented 1/8 inch on both sides. The heading "Abstract" should be centered, bold, and in 10 point type. Two line spaces follow the abstract. This abstract section is required only in full (six page) papers.

General Formatting Instructions

The text of the paper should be formatted in two columns with an overall width of 7 inches and length of 9.25 inches, with 0.25 inches between the columns. The left margin should be 0.75 inches and the top margin should be 1 inch. (The right and bottom margins will depend on whether you use letter or A4 paper.) Use 10 point type with a vertical spacing of 11 points, and use Times Roman typeface throughout. Regular papers must not exceed six pages, whereas poster abstracts must not exceed one page. Please number the pages in original submissions but not in final versions.

The paper title should be in 14 point, bold, centered on the page, and 1.25 inches below the top edge of the page. The text of the paper title should be formatted with initial caps (the first letter of content words capitalized and the rest lower case). Authors should be centered, with the lead author's name listed first (leftmost). Authors' names should be in 11 point bold, affiliation in ordinary 10 point type, and e-mail address in typewriter font or small capitals.

Indent the first line of each paragraph by 1/8 inch (except for the first paragraph of a new section). Do not add extra vertical space between paragraphs.

First Level Headings

First level headings should be in initial caps, bold, centered, and in 12 point type. Leave one line space before the heading and 1/2 line space after the heading.

Second Level Headings

Second level headings should be in initial caps, bold, flush left, and in 11 point type. Leave one line space before the heading and 1/2 line space after the heading.

Third Level Headings. Third level headings should be in initial caps, bold, flush left, and in 10 point type. Leave one line space before the heading, but no space after the heading.

Formalities, Footnotes, and Floats

Please use standard APA citations regardless of the formatter or word processor that you use, as in the examples below.

Citations in the Text

Citations within the text should include the author's last name and year. If the authors' names are included in the sentence, place only the year in parentheses, as in McClelland and Rumelhart (1981), but otherwise place the entire reference in parentheses with the authors and year separated by a comma (McClelland & Rumelhart, 1981). List multiple references alphabetically and separate them by semicolons (McClelland & Rumelhart, 1981; Richman & Simon, 1989). Use the et al. construct only after listing all the authors to a publication in an earlier reference and for citations with four or more authors.

Footnotes

Indicate footnotes with a number in the text. Place the footnotes in 9 point type at the bottom of the page on which they appear. Precede the footnote with a horizontal rule of 7/8 inch.

Figures

All artwork must be centered, neat, clean, and legible. All lines should be very dark for purposes of reproduction and art work should not be hand drawn. Number figures sequentially, placing the figure number and caption after the figure with one line space before the caption and one line space after it, as in Figure 1. The figure caption should be in 10 point type. 

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| CoGNiTiVe ScIeNcE |
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Figure 1: This is a figure.

The figure caption should not be separate from the figure. If necessary, leave extra white space at the bottom of the page to avoid splitting the figure and figure caption. You may float figures to the top or bottom of a column, and you may set wide figures across both columns.

Tables

All tables must be centered, neat, clean and legible. Do not use hand-drawn tables. Number tables consecutively; place the table number and title above the table with one line space before the caption and one line space after it, as in Table 1. The table title should be in 10 point type. You may float tables to the top or bottom of a column, and you may set wide tables across both columns.

Table 1: Sample table title. 

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Error type              Example
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 Take smaller           63 - 44 = 21
 Always borrow          96 - 42 = 34
 0 - N = N              70 - 47 = 37
 0 - N = 0              70 - 47 = 30
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Identification

For the final version, please write your name in pencil on the back of every page, and also number pages sequentially in pencil on their backs. This information is for identification only; the publisher will assign final page numbers.

Electronic Templates

Electronic templates for producing the camera-ready copy are available for several major word processors, including FrameMaker, LaTeX, MacWrite Pro, Microsoft Word, and Word Perfect, as well as in the standard RTF interchange format. Templates are accessible on the World Wide Web at:

ftp://ftp-csli.stanford.edu/pub/cogsci97/formats
These are also available via FTP to "ftp-csli.stanford.edu" in the "pub/cogsci97/formats" directory. Please send any questions on these electronic templates to cogsci97@csli.stanford.edu.

Submission

You should send both the submitted and final versions of your paper in hardcopy form. We will need five (5) stapled copies of your submitted paper for use in reviewing and three (3) unstapled copies of your final, accepted paper, packed flat and unfolded. Send both to:

Cognitive Science 1997
CSLI / Computational Learning Laboratory
Ventura Hall, Stanford University
Stanford, CA 94305 USA
For express mail shipments, specify the phone number (415) 723-1224.

For purposes of indexing final papers, please also send the following information via electronic mail, in plain (ascii) text to cogsci97@csli.stanford.edu:

%TI The Title Of Your Paper
%AU Name Of First Author
%AU Name Of Second Author
%AB Place the abstract of your paper here in plain (ASCII) text. For single page poster abstracts and symposia summaries that do not contain an explicit abstract section, please fill this space with a brief paragraph describing your work.

If you do not have access to electronic mail, you may include this text abstract on a standard 3 1/2 inch diskette, and send this diskette via postal mail along with your final hardcopies. If you do this, please clearly label the diskette with its file format (e.g., DOS, Mac, SunOS). You do not need to send this information with your original submission.

Submitted papers must arrive by Tuesday, February 11, 1997. If your submission does not reach us by this date, it will not be considered for publication. Similarly, submitted abstracts must arrive by Tuesday, March 4, 1997, or suffer the same fate. Final copies of accepted papers and abstracts must reach us by Tuesday, April 29, 1997, or they will not appear in the proceedings. If you have queries, please direct them to cogsci97@csli.stanford.edu.

Acknowledgements

Place acknowledgements (including funding information) in a section at the end of the paper.

References

Authors should follow the APA Publication Manual for both the text and the reference list, with the following exceptions: (a) do not cite the page numbers of any book, including chapters in edited volumes; (b) use the same format for unpublished references as for published ones. Alphabetize references by the surnames of the authors, with single author entries preceding multiple author entries. Order references by the same authors by the year of publication, with the earliest first.

Use a first level section heading for the references. Use a hanging indent style, with the first line of the reference flush against the left margin and subsequent lines indented by 1/8 inch. Below we give example references for a conference paper, book chapter, journal article, technical report, dissertation, book, and edited volume, respectively (except for the hanging indent, which is difficult in HTML).

Chalnick, A., & Billman, D. (1988). Unsupervised learning of correlational structure. Proceedings of the Tenth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 510-516). Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.

Feigenbaum, E. A. (1963). The simulation of verbal learning behavior. In E. A. Feigenbaum & J. Feldman (Eds.), Computers and thought. New York: McGraw-Hill.

Hill, J. A. C. (1983). A computational model of language acquisition in the two-year old. Cognition and Brain Theory, 6, 287-317.

Ohlsson, S., & Langley, P. (1985). Identifying solution paths in cognitive diagnosis (Tech. Rep. CMU-RI-TR-85-2). Pittsburgh, PA: Carnegie Mellon University, The Robotics Institute.

Lewis, C. (1978). Production system models of practice effects. Doctoral dissertation, Department of Psychology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.

Newell, A., & Simon, H. A. (1972). Human problem solving. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall.

Shrager, J., & Langley, P. (Eds.) (1990). Computational models of scientific discovery and theory formation. San Mateo, CA: Morgan Kaufmann.


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