THE JOURNAL OF COMBINATORIAL ALGORITHMS, INFORMATICS AND COMPUTATIONAL SCIENCES
Guide for Authors
Online submission to the journal prior to acceptance
Submission to this journal
proceeds totally online via the Elsevier Editorial System (EES). Return to http://ees.elsevier.com/dam
and scroll to the bottom of the page. You will find links there for new users of EES and for previously registered users. There you will
be guided stepwise through the creation and uploading of the various files. The system automatically converts source files to a single
Adobe Acrobat PDF version of the article, which is used in the peer-review process. Source files are needed for further processing after
acceptance. All correspondence, including notification of the Editor's decision and requests for revision, takes place by e-mail.
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Types of submissions
Contribution - Full length
original research article of more than 10 pages. Note- A short self-contained original research article of 10 pages or less,
focusing on a particular result that does not provide enough material for a full length Contribution. Communication - A short
article outlining a new result or new research that can later be expanded to a full length Contribution. Please note that Communications
should be sent directly to a member of the Editorial Board chosen by the author. The Editor will then conduct a review of the paper,
ask the author for any necessary revisions, and will "communicate" the final paper to the Editorial Office. Erratum-
Concise correction to article of the same author published in the journal. The full publication data of the original paper should be
included. ScienceDirect will provide a link to the Erratum in the original article. Perspectives - Submission that does not
provide a specific new research finding or result, but rather presents a survey of results and research in a particular area. Mathematical
Software Section - Contains papers in the area of discrete applied mathematics that contain applications to mathematical software.
Please see below for further information.
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Provide
the following data on the title page (in the order given). Title. Concise and informative. Titles are often used in information-retrieval
systems. Avoid abbreviations and formulae where possible. Author names and affiliations. Where the family name may be ambiguous
(e.g., a double name), please indicate this clearly. 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. The person uploading the paper will be considered to be the corresponding author and will receive
correspondence at all stages of refereeing, publication, and 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. Present/permanent address. If
an Author has moved since the work described in the article was done, or was visiting at the time, a "Present address" (or "Permanent address") may be indicated as a footnote to that Author's name. The address at which the Author actually did the
work must be retained as the main, affiliation address on the manuscript (but EES information should be updated). Superscript Arabic
numerals are used for such footnotes. Abstract. A concise and factual abstract is required. The abstract should state briefly
the purpose of the research, the principal results and major conclusions. An abstract is often presented separate from the article, so
it must be able to stand alone. Keywords. Please add 2 to 5 keywords to your article. Keywords assigned to articles will
be assembled in a keyword index which will be printed in the last issue of each volume for each journal, and in cumulative indexes, as
well as being used to make your article more widely available through online keyword searches. Please use the following guidelines in
choosing keywords for your article.
Each keyword (which can be a phrase of more than one word) should describe one single concept.
Words like and or of should be avoided.
Avoid very general keywords which become meaningless once in a
keyword list, e.g graph, computer, mathematics, optimization, etc.
Check whether the keywords
describe the outline of the article on the whole.
Use natural language: for instance automatic error recovery rather
than error recovery, automatic.
Try to use nouns and adjectives as much as possible (i.e. use "automatic error recovery"
rather than recovering errors automatically). Do not use nouns in the plural form.
Avoid the use of abbreviations as
much as possible, unless an abbreviation is so well-established that the full term is rarely used (e.g. use laser instead of Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation, but use computer aided design; instead of CAD).
Preparation of supplementary data. Elsevier accepts supplementary material to support and enhance your scientific
research. Supplementary files offer the Author additional possibilities to publish supporting applications, movies, animation sequences,
high-resolution images, background datasets, sound clips and more. Supplementary files supplied will be published online alongside the
electronic version of your article in Elsevier Web products, including ScienceDirect: http://www.sciencedirect.com. In order
to ensure that your submitted material is directly usable, please provide data in one of our 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. For more
detailed instructions please visit our artwork instruction pages at http://www.elsevier.com/artworkinstructions. References.
Responsibility for the accuracy of bibliographic citations lies entirely with the Authors.
Text: Indicate references by number(s) in
square brackets in line with the text. The actual Authors can be referred to, but the reference number(s) must always be given.
Example:
"..... as demonstrated [3,6] Barnaby and Jones [8] obtained a different result ...."
List: Number the references (numbers in square brackets)
in the list in the order in which they appear in the text.
Examples:
Reference to a journal publication:
J. van
der Geer, J.A.J. Hanraads, R.A. Lupton, The art of writing a scientific article, J. Sci. Commun. 163 (2000) 51-59.
Reference
to a book:
W. Strunk Jr., E.B. White, The Elements of Style, third ed., Macmillan, New York, 1979.
Reference to
a chapter in an edited book:
G.R. Mettam, L.B. Adams, How to prepare an electronic version of your article, in: B.S. Jones, R.Z.
Smith (Eds.), Introduction to the Electronic Age, E-Publishing Inc., New York, 1999, pp. 281-304.
To be accepted for the Mathematical Software Section, a paper must be submitted
to the journal following the procedures for any article, it must be in the scope of Discrete Applied Mathematics, and it must
be one of three kinds of contribution.
1. It has mathematical novelty and describes corresponding computer codes. Or
2. It presents
significant implementations of algorithms from the literature, provided they are of particular interest to the scientific community.
These implementations must either be novel (i.e., no other code for the same problem is freely available to the public) or show high
efficiency, proved through extensive computational experiments, that significantly improves the best existing codes (one order of magnitude
is considered to be significant); Or
3. It presents comparative studies on relevant existing software.
Only source codes will
be considered. The codes must be clean, well documented, and self contained. Use of machine dependent constants and functions should
be avoided or, when needed, clearly stated. Each code should contain a procedure that receives all the input data and yields all the
output data as parameters. Such a procedure should contain a comments section providing:
- a clear description of the domain of applicability;
- the meaning of each input and/or output parameter;
- a list of machine dependent constants and functions;
- a list of the
routines composing the codes.
Each code should be accompanied by a numerical example (input data, expected output).
Copyright on the articles is held, except where noted, by Elsevier. Copyright as well as other proprietary rights in the source code
are held by the authors. By submitting the code along with the article, the authors have agreed to permit the readers of Discrete
Applied Mathematics the right to use the algorithms for personal and professional research use, but not for any further redistribution,
further sublicensing, or commercial use. All rights are otherwise reserved.
General
Submission of an article implies that
the work described has not been published previously (except in the form of an abstract or as part of a published lecture or academic
thesis), that it is not under consideration for publication elsewhere, that its publication is approved by all Authors and tacitly or
explicitly by the responsible authorities where the work was carried out, and that, if accepted, it will not be published elsewhere in
the same form, in English or in any other language, without the written consent of the Publisher.
Upon acceptance of an article,
Authors will be asked to transfer copyright (for more information on copyright see http://www.elsevier.com/copyright). This
transfer will ensure the widest possible dissemination of information. A letter will be sent to the corresponding Author confirming receipt
of the manuscript. A form facilitating transfer of copyright will be provided.
If excerpts from other copyrighted works are included,
the Author(s) must obtain written permission from the copyright owners and credit the source(s) in the article. Elsevier has preprinted
forms for use by Authors in these cases: contact Elsevier's Rights Department, Oxford, UK: phone (+44) 1865 843830, fax (+44) 1865 853333,
e-mail permissions@elsevier.com. Requests may also be completed online via the Elsevier homepage (http://www.elsevier.com/locate/permissions).
Authors' rights. As an author you (or your employer or institution) may do the following:
make copies (print or electronic)
of the article for your own personal use, including for your own classroom teaching use
make copies and distribute such copies
(including through e-mail) of the article to research colleagues, for the personal use by such colleagues (but not commercially or systematically,
e.g., via an e-mail list or list server)
post a pre-print version of the article on Internet websites including electronic pre-print
servers, and to retain indefinitely such version on such servers or sites
post a revised personal version of the final text
of the article (to reflect changes made in the peer review and editing process) on your personal or institutional website or server,
with a link to the journal homepage (on elsevier.com)
present the article at a meeting or conference and to distribute copies
of the article to the delegates attending such a meeting
for your employer, if the article is a 'work for hire', made within
the scope of your employment, your employer may use all or part of the information in the article for other intra-company use (e.g.,
training)
retain patent and trademark rights and rights to any processes or procedure described in the article
include
the article in full or in part in a thesis or dissertation (provided that this is not to be published commercially)
use the
article or any part thereof in a printed compilation of your works, such as collected writings or lecture notes (subsequent to publication
of your article in the journal)
prepare other derivative works, to extend the article into book-length form, or to otherwise
re-use portions or excerpts in other works, with full acknowledgement of its original publication in the journal
Digital
Object Identifier. The digital object identifier (DOI) may be used to cite and link to electronic documents. The DOI consists of
a unique alpha-numeric character string which is assigned to a document by the publisher upon the initial electronic publication. The
assigned DOI never changes. Therefore, it is an ideal medium for citing a document, particularly 'Articles in press' because they have
not yet received their full bibliographic information.
The correct format for citing a DOI is shown as: doi:10.1016/j.dam.2003.10.271.
When the DOI is used to create URL hyperlinks to documents on the web, they are guaranteed never to change.
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Author benefits No page charges. Publishing in Discrete Mathematics
is free. Free offprints. The corresponding author, at no cost, will be provided with a PDF file of the article via e-mail
or, alternatively, 25 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. Discount. Contributors to Elsevier
journals are entitled to a 30% discount on all Elsevier books. ScienceDirect The published article will be available via
ScienceDirect.
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