The European Journal of Combinatorics is an international journal of pure mathematics published eight times per year, specialising in theories arising from combinatorial problems. The journal is primarily open to papers dealing with mathematical structures within combinatorics and/or establishing direct links between combinatorics and other branches of mathematics and the theories of computing.

The journal welcomes contributions in the form of full-length research papers, short notes or research problems and any other information of interest to the community. Papers are published in English, although in exceptional circumstances manuscripts can also be submitted in French or German. It is journal policy to put strong emphasis on rigour in content and to insist on high refereeing standards. The journal also pays particular attention to minimising publication delays.

Manuscripts should be submitted by e-mail to one of the Editors-in-Chief:


Patrice Ossona de Mendez or Pierre Rosenstiehl
Centre d'Analyse et de Mathematique Sociale, EHESS, Paris, France
ejc@ehess.fr Please submit the source file of your article as well as a PDF. All articles should contain an abstract in English - extensive abstracts are welcomed.

Form of Manuscript. Page 1 should contain the article title, author(s) name(s), and complete affiliation(s). Page 2 should contain a proposed running head (abbreviated form of title of less than 35 characters). It should also contain the name and the mailing address of the author to whom proofs should be sent.

Digital Object Identifier. Elsevier assigns a unique digital object identifier (DOI) to every article it publishes. The DOI appears on the title page of the article. It is assigned after the article has been accepted for publication and persists throughout the lifetime of the article. Due to its persistence, it can be used to query Elsevier for information on the article during the production process, to find the article on the Internet through various web sites, including ScienceDirect, and to cite the article in academic references. When using an Elsevier article in a reference section, it is important to include the article's DOI in the reference as volume and page information is not always available for articles published online. The References section, below, shows samples of DOI included in references.

References. Should be styled and punctuated according to the following examples:

[1] K. Menger, Zur allgemeinen Kurventheorie, Fund. Math. 10(1927), 96-115.
[2] J. T. Scheick, Some problems in approximation theory, Ph.D. Dissertation, Syracuse University, June, 1966.
[3] E. Hille and R. Phillips, Functional Analysis and Semi-groups, American Mathematical Society, Providence, R.I. 1957. (For books, include name of publisher, city, state, country and year.)

For unpublished lectures of symposia, include title of paper, name of sponsoring society in full, date. For journal names, follow Abbreviations of the Names of Scientific Periodicals Reviewed in Mathematical Reviews, Volume 37, 1969 (reprint USD 1.00, American Mathematical Society). Cite references in the text by an Arabic number between square brackets, as [1], [1, 2], [1, Theorem 1.5], etc. Type references double- or triple-spaced throughout. When citing an Elsevier journal, include the digital object identifier, if noted, from the article's title page. Please note the following example:

[4] F. Du Cloux, An Abstract model for Bruhat intervals, Europ. J. Combinatorics 21, (2000) 197-222, doi:10.1006/eujc.1999.0343

Figures. All illustrations are to be considered as figures. Figures must be submitted in a form suitable for reproduction.

Proofs. Page proofs will be sent to the author, with a reprint order form. Authors will be charged for alterations in excess of 10% of the cost of composition.

Copyright/Offprints. Authors submitting a manuscript do so on the understanding that if it is accepted for publication, exclusive copyright in the paper shall be assigned to the Publisher. In consideration for the assignment of copyright, the Publisher will supply 25 offprints of each paper. Further offprints may be ordered at extra cost: the copyright assignment form and offprint order form will be sent with the proofs. The Publisher will not put any limitation on the personal freedom of the author to use material contained in the paper in other works.

Journal title is covered in Current Contents, ASCA and the Science Citation Index.