NOTE TO AUTHORS OF PAPERS FOR GEO-DENVER 2007

FROM: Hal Olsen, GSP Coordinator for GeoDenver 2007

SUBJECT: Additional Instructions to Authors for Geotechnical Special Publications (GSP’s)

LENGTH OF PAPERS

Papers should have no more than 10 pages including text, tables, illustrations, and appendices. Contact your GSP Editor if this length is too restrictive. Limitations might be extended for papers presenting case histories and state-of-the-art treatises.

TYPEFACE, TYPESIZE, AND INDENTING

All text and captions must be word processed using letter-quality or laser printer. Use Times 12 point size and 14 point line spacing. For typeface, select the following (or similar) font:

Times Roman for all regular text.
Times italic for titles of journals and books (and sparingly in text for emphasis) and for tertiary headings.
USE UPPER CASE TIMES ROMAN BOLD FOR FIRST LEVEL HEADINGS.
Use Title Case Times Roman Bold for Second Level Headings.
Use Title Case Times Roman Italic for Third Level Headings
Do not underline.
Indent the first line of each paragraph by two spaces.

SYSTEM OF UNITS
The ASCE Author’s Guide to Journals, Books and Reference Publications states:
—Each author must use the International System of Units (SI), and units acceptable in SI. Other units may be given in parentheses, dual-unit tables, or in an appendix.“ —Just as with the text, SI units must be used in figures. Authors often use dual axes on graphs (e.g., SI units on the left and bottom and U.S. customary units on the top and right axes).“ While not necessary, this is acceptable practice.
GSPs are treated by ASCE as books and therefore fall under the mandated use of SI units. However, the Geo-Institute has permission to waive this requirement for papers presenting case histories on projects that used U.S. customary or metric units for the following reasons:

Values of dimensions, soil properties, allowable loads, etc. selected for design are affected by project units and hence may appear to lack common sense when converted to SI units, e.g., a unit weight of 100 pcf may become 15.7 kN/m3 or a pile capacity of 125 kips may become 556 kN.
The text can become cumbersome with repeated use of dual units for all dimensions, loads and stresses, etc.
Project units are usually better for oral presentations of case histories.

Hence authors of papers containing case histories should contact the Editor of the GSP regarding permission to waive SI units, but with inclusion of an appendix such as follows:
APPENDIX II. CONVERSION TO SI UNITS
Feet (ft) × 0.305 = meter (m)
Pounds per cubic foot (pcf) × 0.157 = kilonewton on per cubic meter (kN/m3)

U.S. gallon (gal.) × 3.79 = liter (L)
U.S. ton per square foot (TSF) × 95.7 = kilopascal (kPa)

For papers with dual units, the converted SI quantities should not imply a degree of accuracy greater than that of the original values; they should be rounded to an appropriate number of significant digits. For example, unit weights of 100 and 101.2 pcf would become 16 and 15.90 kN/m3.
Finally, always leave one space between the numerals and the unit.

REFERENCES
All papers must include an appendix listing bibliographic information for works cited in the text. The format should follow that used by ASCE‘s Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering. The following summarizes the principal features.
For publications cited in the text, use the author-date method. As examples:

Article 37 in Terzaghi and Peck (1967) describes…
Article 37 in Terzaghi et al. (1996) describes….
Major papers on stability analyses (e.g., Bishop and Bjerrum 1960; Brinch-Hansen 1962; Tavenas et al. 1978; and Section 5.1.3 of Wroth and Houlsby 1985)….

The general format for listing references in alphabetical order in the appendix is as follow:

Last name and initials of all authors-period
Year of publication (in parenthesis)-period
Title of paper, report or book chapter (lower case in quotes)-period
Title of periodical, proceedings or book (in italics)-comma
Name(s) of editors if appropriate-comma
Name of publisher-comma
Volume number and issue number (in parenthesis) for periodicals or city and state of publication for books and proceedings-comma
Inclusive page numbers

10. SAMPLE REFERENCES

Asaoka, A. (1978). “Observational procedure of settlement prediction.” Soils and Foundations, Japan, 18(4), 87-101.
Baligh, M. M. (1985). “Strain path method.” J. Geotech. Engrg., ASCE, 111(9), 1108-1136.
Barron, R. A. (1948).   “Consolidation of fine-grained soils by drain wells.” Trans., ASCE, 113,718-754.
Becker, D. E., Crooks, J. H. A., Been, K., and Jefferies, M. G. (1987). “Work as a criterion for determining in situ and yield stresses in clays.” Canadian Geotech. J., 24(4), 549-564.
Berre, T., and Bjerrum, L. (1973).   “Shear strength of normally consolidated clays.” Proc. 8th Int. Conference on Soil Mech. and Found. Engrg., Moscow, U.S.S.R., 1.1, 39-49.
Bjerrum, L. (1972).   “Embankments on soft ground: SOA Report.” Proc. Speciality Conference on Performance of Earth and Earth-Supported Structures, ASCE, 2, 1-54.
Campanella, R. G., and Robertson, P. K. (1988).   “Current status of the piezocone test”. Proc. 1st Int. Symp. on Penetration Testing, A. A. Balkema Publishing, 1, 93-116.
Germaine, J. T. (1982).   “Development of the directional shear cell for measuring cross-anisotropic clay properties.” ScD thesis, MIT, Cambridge, Mass.
Janbu, N. (1973) “Slope stability computations.” R. C. Hirschfeld and S. Poulos, eds., John Wiley and Sons, New York, N. Y., 47-86.
Ladd, C. C. (1987a).   “Use of precompression and vertical drains for stabilization of foundation soils.” GeoConsult lecture series on soft ground construction, GeoConsult, San Juan, Puerto Rico.
Ladd, C. C. (1987b).   “Characteristics and engineering properties of Northeastern varved clays.” Notes for Foundations and Soil Mechanics Group, Metropolitan Section of ASCE, New York, N.Y.
Ladd, C. C., and Edgers, L. (1972).   “Consolidated-undrained direct simple shear tests on saturated clays.”   Research Report R72-82, Dept. of Civ. Engrg., MIT, Cambridge, Mass.
Mesri, G. (1975).   Discussion of “New design procedure for stability of soft clays‘, by C. C. Ladd and R. Foott.”   J. Geotech. Engrg. Div., ASCE, 101(4), 409-412.
“Placement and improvement of soils: Committee Reprts.” (1987). Soil improvement-A ten year update, J. S. Welsh, ed., ASCE, GSP No. 12, 1-135.
Roscoe, K. H., and Burland, J. B. (1968).   “On the generalized stress-strain behavior of ”wet‘ clay.”   Engineering plasticity, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, England, 535-609.
Schiffman, R. L., Vick, S. G., and Gibson, R. E. (1988).   “Behavior and properties of hydraulic fills.”   Proc. Specialty Conference on Hydr. Fill Structures, ASCE, GSP No. 21, 166-202.

CRITICAL DATES

April 1, 2006 Abstract deadline (extended to April 15)

May 1, 2006 Notification of acceptance (extended to no later than June 1)

July 15, 2006 Draft papers due (extended to July 15)

August 15, 2006 Review comments sent to authors

September 15, 2006 Final papers due

October 4, 2006 Database shuts down. Editors check all papers, organize GSP’s, and prepare front matter.

November 8, 2006 Deadline for submittal of all final papers and front matter to ASCE

February 18, 2007 Conference begins

THE ORGANIZING COMMITTEE EXTENDS A GREAT BIG THANK YOU TO THE AUTHORS FOR THEIR CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE GEODENVER 2007 PROGRAM.