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JOURNAL OF COMBINATORIAL THEORY, SERIES B
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Guide for Authors
Editorial Office
Journal of Combinatorial Theory, Series B
Department of Combinatorics and Optimization
University
of Waterloo
Waterloo, Ontario, Canada N2L 3G1
E-mail: jctb@math.uwaterloo.ca
Elsevier
E-mail: jctb@elsevier.com
The Journal of Combinatorial Theory publishes original mathematical
articles dealing with theoretical and physical aspects of the study of finite and discrete structures in all branches of science. Series
B is devoted mainly to graph theory and matroid theory.
Submission of Manuscripts
Authors are requested to submit their papers
electronically by using online manuscript submission available at http://ees.elsevier.com/jctb.
This site will guide authors stepwise through the submission process. Authors can upload their articles as LaTeX, Microsoft (MS) Word,
or WordPerfect files. It is also possible to submit an article in PostScript or Adobe Acrobat PDF format, but if the article is accepted,
the original source files will be needed. If you submit a word processing file, the system generates an Adobe Acrobat PDF version of
the article, which is used for the reviewing process. Manuscripts prepared using TeX or LaTeX are welcome; however, LaTeX(2e) is strongly
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editors send and receive all correspondence by e-mail and no paper correspondence is necessary.
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for publication has been approved by all of the authors and by the institution where the work was carried out; further, that any person
cited as a source of personal communications has approved such citation.
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Preparation of Manuscripts
Manuscripts should be prepared according to the following style rules.
Manuscripts should be double-spaced throughout. Number
all pages consecutively and organize the paper as follows.
The title page (page 1) should contain the article title,authors'
names and complete affiliations, footnotes to the title, and the address for manuscript correspondence (including e-mail address and
telephone and fax number).
The abstract (page 2) must be a single paragraph that summarizes the main findings of the paper
in less than 150 words. After the abstract a list of up to 10 keywords that will be useful for indexing or searching should be included.
Footnotes in text should be avoided. If absolutely necessary, identify them by superscript Arabic numerals in order of their
appearance and type them together on a separate page, double-spaced.
References. Cite references in the text by an Arabic
number between square brackets, as [1], [1, 2], [1, Theorem 1.5]. References should be styled and punctuated according to the following
examples.
[1] J.F. Geelen, B. Guenin, Packing odd circuits in Eulerian graphs, J. Combin. Theory Ser. B 86 (2002) 280-295.
[2]
N. Biggs, Algebraic Graph Theory, second ed., Cambridge Univ. Press, Cambridge, 1993.
[3] W. Mader, On k-critically n-connected
graphs, in: J.A. Bondy, U.S.R. Murty (Eds.), Progress in Graph Theory, Academic Press, New York, 1984, pp. 389-398.
For unpublished
lectures or symposia, include title of the paper, name of the sponsoring society in full, and date. For journal names, follow "Abbreviations
of Names of Serials" reviewed in Mathematical Reviews(American Mathematical Society, 1995).
Tables. Number tables
consecutively with Arabic numerals in order of appearance in the text. Type each table double-spaced on a separate page with a short
descriptive title directly above and essential footnotes below.
Figures. Number figures with Arabic numerals. Digital artwork
of at least 300 dpi resolution is accepted in eps or TIFF formats. Please visit our Web site at http://www.elsevier.com/artworkinstructions for detailed instructions on preparing electronic artwork. Type
all legends consecutively on a separate sheet. Color art is permissible, but the extra printing costs will be charged to the
author.
Equations. All equation numbers for displayed equations should be placed in parentheses at the right margin. References
to equations should be in the form "Eq. (3)" or simply "(3)."
Proofs
PDF proofs will be sent by e-mail
to the corresponding author.
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