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Instructions to Authors

Umm Al-Qura University Journal for Engineering and architecture is please to published original research, scientific revision and reports.

The submitted manuscript should be on white paper size A4, original and four copies (photographs should be five original). Should be typed double-space with a 3 cm margin in all sides, Using time roman font size 12 normal for the text, use size 12 bold upper case for main title. Submitting must be directed to Editor-in-chief with a letter of submission stating that the manuscript sent to this journal has not been submitted or published elsewhere. In case of co-authors a letter of delegation to corresponded author should be attached. The content of the manuscript should follow the following order.

1- Title page with author's name, affiliation and address.

2- Title Page (Page numbering starts from this page).

3- Summary followed by a list of key words (should not exceed 10 words).

4- Text should follow the following order: Introduction, Methods, Results, Discussion, Acknowledgments, References, Tables, Figures, and Photographs. And legend of tables, figures, and photographs if necessary.

Title should not exceed 20 words and should represent the content of the manuscripts, or indicate main finding (conclusion), (use size 16, Bold).

Authors Names should be in English and Arabic in the following order:

First Name --- Middle name --- Surname OR initials followed by surname accompanied with affiliations and full address of the author. (use size 12, Bold)

Summary should be in English and Arabic (Approx. 250-300 words) and should indicate the aim, execution of the work and the findings.

Introduction should include the purpose and justification of the project. Primary references should not exceed 15. Should not include methods, data, results, discussion, or conclusion from the work being reported.

Materials and Methods should be precise, clear, complete and objectively acceptable to the readers.

Results should be presented in a clear and logical sequence in the text avoiding repetition of data given in Tables and figures. Results should be supported by appropriate statistics.

Discussion should be pertinent to the data presented, findings and conclusions. It should be clearly related the objective of the study with a reference to previous relevant studies.

Acknowledgements should be as brief as possible.

References should be pouted in the text with authors name and date of publication in parenthesis, and listed at the end of the paper in alphabetical order.*

Tables should be typed on a separate sheet using double spacing. The size of the of the table should not exceed 13    18cm. Table number and informative heading should be written at the top of table. Table number and heading with footnotes legends (abbreviations, comments, and statistical treatment) should be provided on another separate sheet.

Figures and photographs should be provided on a separate sheet size 10x12cm. Legends should enable the reader to understand the information contained in figures, or tables without reference to the text.

Units The recommended System International (SI) units should be used.

Offprint Author will receive fifteen off-prints free of charge. Extra copies can be ordered when the proofs are returned. Price will be indicated on the order form.

*References are indicated in the text by Harvard System (name and date). e.g "Recent studies (Sultan 1996; Al-Amoudi 1997; Richards 1998) found……" or Recently, Sultan (1998) found……". When referring to a work by more than two authors, give the name of the first author followed by et al. (Fjuimoto et al. 19992). More than one work by the same author(s) in the same year should by the letters a, b etc. Following the year of publication. The name of the journal should be written as in the Index Medicus. For example:

Journal Paper

Chen, L. & Twu, H.1995. Synthesis of multilevel NAND gati circuits for incompletely specified multi-output Boolean functions and CAD using permissible cubes and PCRM graphs. International Journal of Electronics 78 (2): 303-319.

Reusch, B. 1975.  Generation of prime implicants from sub functions and a unifying approach to the covering problem. IEEE Transactions on Computers C-24: 924 – 930.

Bartee, T.C.1969. Computer design of multiple output logical networks. IEEE Transactions on Electronic Computers EC-10 (1): 21-30.

Book

Jenny, H. 1980. The soil resource. Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 377pp.

Muroga, S. 1974. Logic design and switching theory. Wiely, New York, 617 pp.

Edited volume or Book chapter

Kaszab, Z. 1981. Coleoptera: Family Tenebrionidae. In: Fauna of Saudi Arabia (Edited by Wittmer, W.&Buttiker, W.) Vol. 1, pp257-288. Ciba-Geigy, Basel, Switzerland.

Conference or Symposium Paper

Darwish, M.A. 1983. Better arrangement of desalting plants using multi effect boiling system. The |First Saudi Engineering Conference, King Abdul Aziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.

Dissertation.

Yilbas, B.S. 1985. Heat transfer mechanisms initiating the laser drilling of metals. Ph.D. thesis, University of Birmingham, U.K.