General
Submission of your manuscript is welcome provided that it, or any translation of it, has not been copyrighted or published
and is not being submitted for publication elsewhere. Upon acceptance of an article, the author(s) will be asked to transfer copyright
of the article to the Publisher. This transfer will ensure the widest possible dissemination of information. Manuscripts should be prepared
for publication in accordance with the instructions given below.
Type of contributions
The journal welcomes the following
types of contributions:
1. Original research articles,
2. Review articles, providing a comprehensive review on a scientific topic.
Instructions to Contributors
In order to facilitate the editorial process, authors are asked to submit manuscripts to the
Editor listed below whose area of expertise most closely matches the research topic of the author's manuscript. In case it is necessary
to reassign a paper from one editor to another, the author will be informed accordingly. Papers may be submitted to one of the following
editors:
Philip Boyland, Department of Mathematics, P.O. Box 118105, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611-8105, USA. boyland@math.ufl.edu
Paul Goerss, Department of Mathematics, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 60208-2730, USA. pgoerss@math.northwestern.edu
James Keesling, Department of Mathematics, P.O. Box 118105, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611-8105, USA. jek@math.ufl.edu
Darren Long, Department of Mathematics, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106, USA, long@math.ucsb.edu
Jan van Mill, Faculteit der Exacte Wetenschappen, Divisie Wiskunde en Informatica, Vrije Universiteit, De Boelelaan 1081a, 1081 HV Amsterdam,
Netherlands. vanmill@cs.vu.nl
Jerry E. Vaughan, Department of Mathematical Sciences, University of North Carolina
at Greensboro, Greensboro, NC 27402-6170, USA. vaughanj@uncg.edu
Manuscripts should be prepared in accordance
with the instructions given below:
1. Manuscripts must be in English.
2. A readable duplicate copy of the manuscript must also
be submitted, and the author should retain a copy of the manuscript.
3. Manuscripts must include short abstracts, keywords and subject
code classification in accordance with current AMS procedures.
4 The author's postal address, e-mail address, telephone number and
fax number (if available) also should be included.
5. References should be listed alphabetically.
General Author Instructions
Each paper should be introduced by three to five keywords and a selfcontained abstract of no more than 100 words, not counting the formulas.
Please make sure that the paper is submitted in its final form. Corrections in the proof stage other than printer's errors should be
avoided: costs arising from such corrections will be charged to the authors.
Footnotes should be avoided if possible, but if they
are included they should be brief and numbered consecutively.
References should be listed alphabetically, as in the following examples:
books [1], articles in journals [2], papers in a contributed volume [3,4], unpublished papers [5].
[1] E. Borger, Computability,
Complexity, Logic, North-Holland, Amsterdam, 1989.
[2] D.E. Knuth, Theory and practice, Theoret. Comput. Sci. 90 (1991) 1-15.
[3] A.K. Lenstra and H.W. Lenstra Jr., Algorithms in number theory, in: J. van Leeuwen (Ed.), Handbook of Computer Science, Vol. A, Elsevier,
Amsterdam, 1990, pp. 673-715.
[4] M. Li, Lower bounds by Kolmogorov complexity, in: Proc. ICALP '85, Lecture Notes in Computer Science,
Vol. 194, Springer, Berlin, 1985, pp. 383-393.
[5] A. Rajasekar, Semantics for logic programs, Ph.D. Thesis, Department of Computer
Science, University of Maryland, 1989.
Figures should be provided separately in a form suitable for photographic reproduction and
reduction. Lettering should be uniform of size corresponding to the anticipated reduction. Handwritten lettering on figures is not acceptable.
Figures should be identified by arabic numbers. Photographs and coloured pictures must be of impeccable quality (original figures or
high-quality glossy prints, or photographs showing a sharp contrast). Please note that for colour photographs the publisher will charge
the printing costs to the author.
Online Submission
Authors are encouraged to submit their papers electronically by using
online manuscript submission at http://ees.elsevier.com/topol. The Elsevier online submission service supports LaTeX, Microsoft®
(MS) Word® or Word Perfect® files. AMS-TeX is NOT supported. Authors interested in online submission are requested to
go to the website and upload their manuscript and its associated artwork. An electronic (PDF) proof is generated and the reviewing process
is carried out using that PDF. It is important that all graphical and tabular elements be placed within the text, so that the PDF is
suitable for reviewing. This will also allow the preferred position of placement to be indicated, however please note that due to journal
conventions, it may not be possible to meet all requirements for placement of artwork. Moreover, the PDF file may be edited after acceptance
to follow journal standards. Authors and editors send and receive all correspondence by email via the website and no paper correspondence
is performed.
Instructions for LaTeX manuscripts
If the file is suitable, proofs will be produced without rekeying the text.
The article should be encoded in Elsevier-LaTeX, standard LaTeX, or AMS-LaTeX (in document style "article"). For more LaTeX instructions,
please see www.elsevier.com/latex
The Elsevier package consists
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booklet), model-harv.tex or model-num.tex (model files with instructions), template-harv.tex or template-num.tex (template files). No
changes from the accepted version are permissible, without the explicit approval by the Editor. The Publisher reserves the right to decide
whether to use the author's file or not.
Papers submitted to Topology and its Applications may also be posted on The Mathematics
Preprint Server (http://www.mathpreprints.com). Posting on The Mathematics Preprint Server is in conformity with Elsevier
copyright policy and in no way conflicts with submission to Topology and its Applications.
Author Benefits
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