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and double submissions. These are very serious offences against the scientific publishing. Authors who follow that practice will normally
be debarred from submitting to the journal for up to five years. In addition, the Editors keep the possibility of sending a letter to
the offending author's university to inform university principals about the case, if they consider it is necessary.
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Editorial policy
The European Journal of Operational Research (EJOR) publishes high quality, original papers
that contribute to the methodology of operational research (OR) and to the practice of decision making. The relation with ongoing research
should be demonstrated by providing proper reference to the recent OR literature. With application papers, originality should be demonstrated
by applying OR to a problem with interesting new aspects or by providing fresh insights leading to successful implementation. Practitioners
often suffer from the need to conceal commercial secrets. Referees will take this into sympathetic consideration when advising on an
application paper, but it will not be allowed to detract from clarity of the presentation.
EJOR is much more selective than in the
past due to the large stock of accepted articles to be published as well as the growing inflow of submissions. Papers that do not contain
a major new research finding or novel approach to the application of OR will be rejected and not sent out for review. The same applies
to papers written in poor English.
EJOR welcomes the following types of papers:
• Invited Reviews, explaining to the general
OR audience the developments in an OR topic over the recent years • Innovative Applications of OR, describing novel ways to
solve real problems • Theory and Methodology Papers, presenting original research results contributing to the methodology of
OR and to its theoretical foundations, • Short Communications, including comments on papers previously published in EJOR
An Invited Review may be either on a specific research topic, a tutorial, or a bibliographic survey. Anyone interested in writing
a review is requested first to suggest a topic to one of the editors or to a member of the editorial board of EJOR. A paper
presenting an Innovative Application of OR may be worthy of publication simply because it can be used to convince managers of the value
to be gained by applying OR to particular problems.
The Theory and Methodology Papers will be classified into one of the seven headings:
• Continuous Optimization • Discrete Optimization • Production, Manufacturing and Logistics • Stochastics
and Statistics • Decision Support • Computational Intelligence and Information Management • Interfaces with
Other Disciplines
The above classification will be based on the EJOR keywords (see the list at the end of the Guide).
All submitted papers that conform to the editorial policy will be refereed. However, the manuscripts that do not will be rejected without
refereeing.
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free paper offprints. The PDF file is a watermarked version of the published article and includes a cover sheet with the journal cover
image and a disclaimer outlining the terms and conditions of use.
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the figures into the text file but, instead, indicate their approximate locations directly in the electronic text. To avoid unnecessary
errors you are strongly advised to use the "spellchecker" function of your word processor.
Article Language.
Articles must be written in good English
Length. Articles should be as concise as possible. Regular articles should not
exceed 25 standard manuscript pages and short communications should not exceed 10 standard manuscript pages, including tables and figures.
A standard manuscript page is A4 or letter size, text with 1.5 line spacing, 12 pt font and ample margins. In exceptional cases the
Editors may waive this requirement.
Supplementary material. The authors of accepted papers can be allowed to have some supplementary
material, such as large data tables, appendices, or long proofs of theorems, published online alongside the electronic version of the
paper in Elsevier web products, including ScienceDirect: http://www.sciencedirect.com. These materials would not appear
in the printed version.The supplementary material should be included in any reviewed version of the submission. In order to ensure that
submitted material is directly usable, the data should be provided in one of the recommended file formats. Authors should submit the
material in electronic format together with the article and supply a concise and descriptive caption for each file via EES. The main
body of the paper should reference the supplementary material.
Title. Concise and informative. Avoid abbreviations and formulae.
Author names and affiliations. Where the family name may be ambiguous (e.g., a double name), please indicate this clearly using
appropriate script (capital cases as first letter of authors' first and surnames followed by lower cases). Present the Authors' affiliation
addresses (where the actual work was done) below the names. Indicate all affiliations with a lower-case superscript letter immediately
after the Author's name and in front of the appropriate address. Provide the full postal address of each affiliation, including the country
name, and, if available, the e-mail address of each Author.
Corresponding Author. Clearly indicate who is willing to handle
correspondence at all stages of refereeing and publication, also post-publication. Ensure that telephone and fax numbers (with country
and area code) are provided in addition to the e-mail address and the complete postal address.
Abstract. An abstract of
between 50 and 150 words should state the purpose of the research and the main results. An abstract is often presented separate from
the article, so it must be able to stand alone.
Keywords. Must be included and at least the first one should be selected
from the list below. Some keywords from outside the list may be added but the total number of keywords should not exceed five. The letters
before the keywords are those of the surnames of the three editors. The paper is submitted to the editor whose initial is given before
the first keyword selected from the list.
References
All citations
in the text should refer to:
- Single Author: the Author's name (without initials, unless there is ambiguity) and the year of publication;
- Two Authors: both Authors' names and the year of publication;
- Three or more Authors: first Author's name followed by "et
al." and the year of publication.
Examples: "as demonstrated in (Allan, 1996a, 1996b, 1999; Allan and Jones, 1995). Lee et al. (2000)
have recently shown"
In the references list references should be arranged first alphabetically and then further sorted chronologically
if necessary. More than one reference from the same Author(s) in the same year must be identified by the letters "a", "b", "c", etc.,
placed after the year of publication. Examples:
Reference to a journal publication:
-Griffiths W, Judge G. Testing and
estimating location vectors when the error covariance matrix is unknown. Journal of Econometrics 1992;54; 121-138
(note that journal
names are not to be abbreviated).
Reference to a book:
-Hawawini G, Swary I. Mergers and acquisitions in the U.S.
banking industry: Evidence from the capital markets. North-Holland: Amsterdam; 1990.
Reference to a chapter in an edited book:
-Brunner K, Melzer AH 1990. Money Supply. In: Friedman BM, Hahn FH (Eds), Handbook of monetary economics, vol.1. North-Holland: Amsterdam;
1990. p. 357-396.
Citing and listing of Web references. As a minimum, the full URL should be given. Any further information,
if known (Author names, dates, reference to a source publication, etc.), should also be given. Web references can be listed separately
(e.g., after the reference list) under a different heading if desired, or can be included in the reference list.
Submission checklist
" One Author designated as corresponding Author:
" E-mail address
" Full postal address
" Telephone and fax numbers
" All necessary files have been uploaded
" Keywords
" All figure captions
" All tables (including title, description, footnotes)
" Manuscript has been "spellchecked"
" References are in the correct format for this journal
" All references mentioned in the
Reference list are cited in the text, and vice versa
" Permission has been obtained for use of copyrighted material from other sources
(including the Web)
List of keywords*
" (A) Applied probability
" (S) Artificial intelligence
" (S) Assignment
" (D) Auctions/bidding
" (S) Branch and bound
" (P) Business process reengineering
" (S) Combinatorial optimization
" (S) Complexity theory
" (S) Computing science
" (B) Conic programming
" (B) Constraints satisfaction
" (A)
Control
" (B) Convex programming
" (P) Cost benefit analysis
" (S) Cutting
" (D) Data envelopment analysis
"
(S) Data mining
" (S) Decision support systems
" (D) Decision analysis
" (P) Distributed decision making
" (B) Distribution
" (A) Dynamic programming
" (D) E-commerce
" (P) Economics
" (D) Education
" (D) Environment
" (S) Evolutionary
computations
" (S) Expert systems
" (B) Facilities planning and design
" (P) Finance
" (P) Flexible manufacturing
systems
" (A) Forecasting
" (B) Fractional programming
" (S) Fuzzy sets
" (A) Game theory
" (P) Gaming
"
(S) Genetic algorithms
" (B) Geometric programming
" (B) Global optimization
" (B) Goal programming
" (B) Graph theory
" (S) Group decisions and negotiations
" (S) Heuristics
" (D) Human resources
" (B) Integer programming
" (B)
Interior point methods
" (B) Inventory
" (P) Investment analysis
" (S) Knowledge-based systems
" (B) Large scale optimization
" (B) Linear programming
" (B) Location
" (P) Logistics
" (A) Maintenance
" (P) Manufacturing
" (D) Marketing
" (A) Markov processes
" (S) Metaheuristics
" (S) Modelling systems and languages
" (S) Multi-agent systems
" (S) Multiple criteria analysis
" (B) Multiple objective programming
" (A) Multivariate statistics
" (S) Network flows
" (S) Neural networks
" (B) Nonlinear programming
" (P) Organization theory
" (S) OR in agriculture
" (A) OR
in airlines
" (D) OR in banking
" (S) OR in biology
" (A) OR in developing countries
" (S) OR in energy
" (D)
OR in government
" (P) OR in health services
" (P) OR in manpower planning
" (S) OR in medicine
" (B) OR in military
" (D) OR in natural resources
" (D) OR in research and development
" (D) OR in societal problem analysis
" (D) OR
in strategic planning
" (S) OR in telecommunications
" (S) Packing
" (S) Parallel computing
" (B) Parametric programming
" (B) Penalty methods
" (S) Petri nets
" (S) Polyhedra
" (P) Pricing
" (D) Problem structuring
" (D) Problem
structuring methods
" (P) Production
" (D) Productivity and competitiveness
" (P) Project management
" (S) Project
scheduling
" (D) Psychology
" (P) Purchasing
" (B) Quadratic programming
" (A) Quality control
" (P) Quality
management
" (A) Queueing
" (A) Regression
" (A) Reliability
" (A) Replacement
" (P) Retailing
" (D) Revenue
management
" (P) Risk analysis
" (P) Risk management
" (B) Robustness and sensitivity analysis
" (S) Rough sets
" (B) Routing
" (P) Scenarios
" (S) Scheduling
" (S) Search theory
" (B) Semi-infinite programming
" (S) Simulated
annealing
" (A) Simulation
" (A) Stochastic processes
" (B) Stochastic programming
" (D) Supply chain management
" (S) Systems dynamics
" (S) Tabu search
" (A) Time series
" (S) Timetabling
" (B) Traffic
" (B) Transportation
" (B) Travelling salesman
" (S) Uncertainty modelling
" (P) Utility theory
" (P) Visual interactive modelling
*Codes of Editors: (A) - Jesus Artalejo, (B) - Jean-Charles Billaut, (D) - Robert Dyson, (P) - Lorenzo Peccati, (S) - Roman Slowinski
