Please submit your introduction in a word processing format (e.g., .doc, .docx, .rtf, Google Doc).

Annotations should be submitted in PDF format using the original PDF we have provided. We recommend using the sticky note feature to add your comments and the highlighter functionality to indicate the text to which you are responding. This will help ensure the correct placement of each annotation in the layout.

For more details, contact the SFI Press.

INTRODUCTION

Your introduction should help readers understand:

— the paper’s context and conclusions;

— its impact and influence (e.g., did it completely change our views on that subject, or an aspect of that subject? what developments in the field resulted? did it transcend disciplinary boundaries? did new fields emerge as a result of this work?); and

— what makes this a foundational work in the history of complex-systems science.

ANNOTATIONS

Your annotations should illuminate the original text, referencing and briefly explaining, for example, significant statements, novel ideas, and research that has since been disproven. You may wish to point to other work on the subject. Space is at a premium: please exercise brevity.

Please refer to Foundational Papers editor David Krakauer’s introduction and annotations to Eigen, McCaskill, and Schuster’s 1988 paper, “Molecular Quasi-Species,” as an example.

While the original papers were written with a specialist audience in mind, the audience for this project will transcend disciplines.

Your introduction and annotations should be accessible to readers of various scientific backgrounds.

Any specialist language (jargon) used in your contribution should be defined.

If you wish to include any figures, images, or content for which you are not the copyright holder, you will need to obtain permission. The SFI Press will require proof of permission for the reproduction of all external content.

Please email sfipress@santafe.edu if you have questions about obtaining permissions from the original rightsholder.

Note: The SFI Press has purchased the rights for each original paper to be reproduced in print for this project. The combined hardcover and paperback print runs cannot exceed 9,999 copies under our agreements with rightsholders. The Foundational Papers set will not be available electronically.

This project will be printed in grayscale; any color images provided will be updated for print. Contributors will have a chance to review and approve digital galleys before publication.

If you are going to create a new figure or diagram for your contribution, please contact sfipress@santafe.edu for guidelines.

The SFI Press is committed to making our books accessible and affordable. In keeping with our mission to keep costs low, we do not offer royalties.

In recognition of your time and expertise as well as the scope of this project, all contributors will receive a hardcover boxed set of Foundational Papers in Complexity Science.

These books will be published in Apr 2024 for the Santa Fe Institute’s 40th anniversary. Timeline is as follows:

February 14, 2024: Introduction draft and annotations due

Editorial review and copyediting

March 2024: Copyedits shared with contributors for review and approval

One week after receipt of copyedits: Deadline for contributor feedback/updates

Layout and art in progress

March 2024: Digital galleys shared with contributors for final review

April 2024: Expected publication

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