A typewritten original manuscript (one side only) using A4 size paper, double spaced, along with two copies is required. All pages, including tables and other illustrations, are to be numbered consecutively. Tables, other illustrations, and references should be presented on separate sheets with their proper text position indicated. Manuscripts for articles, review articles, and brief articles require that an abstract, using not more than 200 words, be submitted with the manuscript.

Tables, figures, charts, graphs and plates should be planned to fit the Journal’s size (12.5 cm X 18 cm). Copies are not permitted for use as originals. Line quality is required to be uniform, distinct, and in proportion to the illustration. Photographs may be submitted on glossy print paper in either black and white, or color.

In general, reference citations in the text are to be identified sequentially using the brackets [..]

a) Periodical citations may be listed as in the following example:

[7] Hicks, Granville. " Literary Horizons: Gestations of a Brain Child." Saturday Review, 45, No.62 (1962), 2-23.

b) Book citations may be listed as in the following example:

[8] Daiches, David. “Critical Approaches to Literature”, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1956.

 A footnote is indicated in the text using a half-space superscript number (e.g.,... books3 are ...). Footnotes are to be sequentially numbered throughout the text. A reference may be cited in a footnote by use of a reference number (in on-line brackets [ ]) in the same way they are to be used in the text.

Authors will be provided 25 reprints without charge.

Please send manuscript to the following address:

Editor,

The Journal of King Saud University

(Computer and Information Sciences)

P. O. Box 51178

Riyadh 11543

Saudi Arabia

Fax: (966-1)467-5630

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