Instructions for Authors
of CIFE On-line Publications

TYPES OF DOCUMENTS that CIFE is now accepting for reference and/or storage in the on-line publications database:

  • Technical Reports
  • Working Papers
  • Journal Publications
  • Conference Proceedings
  • Presentations
  • YOUR DOCUMENT should contain, as appropriate, the following information:
    Title:
    Authors:
    Publication Date:
    Citation if published elsewhere: referred journal, conference proceeding, of presentation occasion
    Acknowledgements: any CIFE member company partnerships, sponsors (If the product of a CIFE project, the name and date of the project.)

    Abstract:

  • Engineering problem: description of the motivating engineering problem

  • Theoretical background: or theoretical point of departure
  • Research Methods:

  • Description of how the engineering problem motivated the research and validation

  • Description of the theory, algorithms, architectures or methods created by the research
  • Discussion or conclusions:
  • Summary of report content in laymen's terms
  • Findings, if any
  • Recommendations for research and practice
  • Bibliography

    Keywords: 4 or 5 words/terms
    Please indicate any of the below that apply and add any others that are relevant:

  • 3D
  • 4D
  • Charrette
  • Construction
  • Coordination
  • Cost estimation
  • Design
  • Electronic commerce
  • Organization models
  • PBL
  • Planning
  • Process models
  • Product models
  • Simulation
  • Site layout
  • Trust
  • Validation
  • VDT
  • Virtual Design and Construction
  • Document Source: .pdf file, Word document, URL

    READY To PUBLISH: Please fill out and submit the online form for the director’s review, entry into searchable database, and publication, as appropriate. CIFE will prepare the .pdf, if necessary. For Technical Reports and Working Papers, CIFE will assign the publication's number and append a cover page and copyright page to the front of the report, before publishing as a pdf document on the CIFE web site.

    Last Updated April 23, 2004.