INSTRUCTIONS FOR A BASIC BSSA ELECTRONIC SUPPLEMENT

The file esupp-template.html is a template that can be edited into a basic
electronic supplement for BSSA. A basic electronic supplement
is a web page that describes one or more supplemental files
and provides links to those files.  For instance, a file may
be a photograph of a paleoseismic trench, a movie showing
simulated ground motions, or a seismogram stored as a binary
file.

For more information on BSSA electronic supplements see
http://www.seismosoc.org/publications/esupps.php

The template file can be found there.

To create your electronic supplement you must edit this file
which is a web page in html (hypertext markup language).

To edit this file open it in a text editor (not a web browswer).

To see how your work is going open the file in a web browswer.

Much of html may be difficult for you to read but the parts
you need to edit are fairly simple.

Some basic information on html tags used in this template can
be found at these web pages:

http://www.w3schools.com/html/html_primary.asp
http://www.w3schools.com/html/html_links.asp

For an example of an electronic supplement using this template
see
http://www.seismosoc.org/publications/BSSA_html/bssa_94-4/03180-esupp/03180-esupp.html

To use this template save it in a directory with the files
that are part of the supplement and then search for and edit
the following strings (including the square brackets). Do not 
change anything above START-HERE or after END-HERE.

1) [Title-of-Paper] : replace this with the title of your paper

2) [List-of-Authors] : replace this with the author list of your paper

3) [Short-Header-Describing-The-Supplemental-Material] : a few
words describing what is in your electronic supplement e.g.
"Animations of Ground Motion" or "Catalog of Earthquakes"

4) [Paragraph-Describing-the-Supplemental-Material] : a
paragraph describing what is in the supplemental material and
what the reader can learn from viewing it.

5) [Type-of-Files] : what type of files are linked next, e.g.
Figures, Animations, Waveforms, Photographs

6) [Filename] : the exact name of the linked file (please be sure your 
filenames do not contain spaces and that they end in the proper three 
or four character filename extension (e.g., ".jpg" for JPEGs, ".csv" 
for a comma-separated value text file, etc.).

7) [File-Title] : e.g. "Figure 1" or "Seismogram from Station 1."

8) [File-Description.] : a sentence or paragraph describing the file

To link multiple files you will have to replicate the text for
the first file and then edit it.

Once you are done, you must put all of these files in a
directory on a web server or ftp site and then
validate the html with the service at http://validator.w3.org/
send the address to Carol Mark at bssa@seismosoc.org or enter
it into the submission questions when you upload your
submission to the online submission site.