- Licence to publish
- Open access
- Page charges
- Scope
- Manuscript categories
- Address for submissions
- Manuscript preparation
Licence to publish
For details regarding copyright, please see Copyright/Licence to Publish.
Open access
Authors may choose to publish their paper Open Access on payment of a publication fee. See Open Access for more details. PASA´s Editorial Board approve a certain number of papers from ASA members to be published Open Access without a fee to the author.
Page charges
There are no page charges for publishing in PASA.
Scope
PASA is an ISI-listed, fully-refereed journal for new and significant research in astronomy and astrophysics. With a strongly international author base, PASA covers a wide range of fields within astronomy. These include multi-wavelength observation, theoretical modelling, data processing and, particularly, southern hemisphere astronomy and astronomy with Australian instruments.
PASA publishes research papers, review papers and refereed conference proceedings, making use of expert reviewers from a wide range of countries. As an electronic journal, PASA publishes paper by paper, ensuring a rapid publication rate. All papers are archived at the NASA ADS archive.
PASA is published by CSIRO PUBLISHING on behalf of the Astronomical Society of Australia (ASA).
Manuscript categories
Research Papers contain original and significant research, or a description of a new technique or instrument. Submission of a paper implies that it has not been published before in essentially the same form, that it has not been submitted for publication elsewhere, and that all authors and the institutions where the work was carried out agree to its publication.
Refereed Conference Proceedings are research papers detailing work that has been presented at a conference of meeting.
Review Papers give a general overview of a subject of current interest in astronomy and astrophysics. The introduction should arouse the reader´s interest, describing the background, significance, and development of the field, and should be able to be understood by a broad audience.
PASA welcomes submission of short (up to five pages in length) Historical and Biographical Papers on subjects of relevance to Australian Astronomy.
Address for submissions
To submit your paper, please use the online journal management system OSPREY which can be reached directly through this link or from the icon on the Journal´s homepage. Choose Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia and, if a first time user, log in via the New User box. Otherwise, use your existing username and password to log in. Choose ´Submit manuscript´ from the menu on the left side of the screen and then follow the steps, providing the information requested under each step.
A covering letter must accompany the submission and should include the name, address, fax and telephone numbers, and email address of the corresponding author. A completed Licence to Publish form (which you will be asked to download from the website as part of the submission process) should be faxed or mailed to the Journal as soon as possible after submission.
For general enquiries please contact:
Publisher Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia
CSIRO PUBLISHING
PO Box 1139 (150 Oxford Street)
Collingwood, Vic. 3066
Australia
Email publishing.pasa@csiro.au
Manuscript preparation
PASA style and layout requirements are laid out in the PASA Style Guide. When preparing your manuscript, please pay careful attention to the instructions in this guide. Adherence to the correct PASA style will hasten your manuscript´s progress through refereeing and production. A PASA LaTeX template is also available to assist in the layout of your manuscript. The template file also contains instructions for using LaTeX commands to include citations, figures and tables.
The initial submission of your manuscript should be a single file (PostScript or PDF), containing the text, tables, and graphics. If large graphics files are included, then the postscript file should be compressed using gzip, or similar software.
