Contributions to MATHEMATICAL AND
COMPUTER MODELLING are welcome from throughout the world. Manuscripts
may
be submitted directly to the Editor-in-Chief or through any member of the Editorial Board.
In accord with usual practice, papers
previously published cannot be accepted for the Journal, and authors must agree not to publish elsewhere papers submitted to and accepted
by the Journal.
REVIEWING PROCESS. In order to shorten the time involved in the reviewing process, provide a list of SIX
possible reviewers' names with full addresses on your letter of transmittal. There may arise situations where we may use one of those
names in addition to our list of regular referees. The suggested reviewers should be from the general geographical region of the editor
to whom the manuscript is sent, so as to minimize the turn-around time between the editor and the reviewers. The "received date" is the
date on which the requisite number of copies and the list of proposed reviewers names are received in the editorial office.
TYPING.
Manuscripts should be typed or printed double-spaced on one side of the page only, with wide margins. Three hard copies must be submitted.
While no maximum length of contributions is prescribed, authors are encouraged to write concisely. The title should be brief.
The paper should be headed by the name(s) of the author(s) and his/her (their) affiliation(s) followed by a short abstract. In
the case of co-authors, it should be clearly indicated who is to receive correspondence and proofs for correction. Keywords should
be provided (no more than 5).
NOTATION. Because of the international character of the Journal, no rules concerning notation
or abbreviation need be observed by the authors, but each paper should be self-consistent as to symbols and units which should all be
properly defined. All authors should try to adhere to and be guided by A Manual for Authors, published by the American Mathematical
Society, PO Box 6248, Providence, RI 02904, USA.
SYMBOLS. All mathematical symbols may be either hand- or typewritten, but no
ambiguities should arise. Greek letters and unusual symbols should be identified in the margin. Distinction should be made between upper-
and lowercase letters, the letter O and zero (O, 0); the letter I, the number one and prime (I, 1, ' ), a and alpha (a, α),
k and kappa (k, κ), phi and emptyset (φ, ∅). A vector will be printed in bold face; to indicate this, the letter should
be underscored with a single wavy line.
REFERENCES must be presented in a numerical style. They should be quoted in the text
in square brackets, i.e., [2] or [2, p. 51], and grouped at the end of the paper in numerical order of appearance. Author's initials,
paper titles, journal name, volume, issue, page numbers and year should be given for all journals referenced. Abbreviations of
journal titles should follow those given in the World List of Scientific Periodicals (latest edition). References should be arranged
as follows:
Journal articles: 1. O. Rojo and R. Soto, New conditions for the additive inverse eigenvalue problem for matrices. Computers
Math. Applic. 23 (11) 41-46 (1992).
Papers in a collection: 2. G.M. Nielson, Coordinate free scattered data interpolations,
In Topics in Multivariate Approximation, (Edited by L.L. Schumaker et al.), pp. 175-184. Academic Press. New York,
(1987).
Books: 3. R.A. Adams, Sobolev Spaces, Academic Press, New York (1975).
ILLUSTRATIONS. Authors should supply
graphs and tables on
separate pages, but indicate the desired location in the text. These should include all relevant details and be
produced on a laser printer or alternatively, professionally drawn in black ink on plain white paper. Drawings should be about twice
the final size required and lettering must be clear, "open" and sufficiently large to permit the necessary reduction of size. Figure
legends should be provided for all illustrations.
Photographs should be sent as glossy prints. If words or numbers are to
appear on a photograph, two prints should be sent, the lettering being clearly indicated on one print only. Computer programs
should be given on an original printout and will be reproduced photographically.
PAGE PROOFS will be sent to the author (or
the corresponding author) for checking (except for TEX versions; see below). Corrections to the proofs must be restricted
to printer errors. Any substantial alterations other than these may be charged to the author. The original manuscript and diagrams
will be discarded after publication unless the Editor is requested to return the original material to the author.
REPRINTS.
Twenty-five reprints of each paper will be supplied to the senior author gratis. Additional reprints may be
purchased through an order
form accompanying the acceptance letter. The reprint order form must be returned to the Editorial Offices before publication,
or a 50% late surcharge will apply.
ELECTRONIC VERSIONS. This journal accepts digital versions of papers. Requirements for such
papers are listed below. Any available electronic version of a paper should be submitted, as the use of this can speed up the
publication process.
GUIDELINES FOR ELECTRONIC VERSIONS
MATHEMATICAL AND COMPUTER MODELLING encourages authors to submit a
computer file. There are four categories of electronic submissions:
(1) AMS-TEX
(2) LATEX
(3)
'plain' TEX
(4) other electronic versions.
Please note that for all categories of papers, in addition to the electronic
version, three hard copies of each must be sent to the cognizant editor.
TEX papers require the least amount of work for our typesetting process.
These will ordinarily be published within a few months of acceptance. Papers submitted in this form will also be subject to our regular
refereeing process; however, the author(s) may not receive final proofs. The processes of typesetting and proof exchange in such situations
may not be necessary and could decrease publication time by several months.
The ideal submission is an AMS-TEX computer
file, although we do accept papers submitted in LATEX and 'Plain' TEX.
For the specific 'style
file' which we use, you may contact our editorial office via e-mail at rodin@rodin.wustl.edu, or by phone at (314) 935-5806.
Specify AMS-TEX or LATEX style file.
Complete instructions concerning the use of TEX
in general, and of AMS-TEX in particular, can be found in The Joy of
TEX, published by the American Mathematical
Society. Complete
instructions concerning the use of LATEX can be found in the book LATEX
by Leslie Lamport. Complete instructions
concerning the use of 'Plain' TEX can be found in The
TEXbook
by Donald Knuth.
To submit a manuscript, send
a diskette (formatted to Macintosh or DOS) or the TEX file with three
hard copies of the printout to any of the Editors. The computer file may be sent via e-mail or on diskette. In case of discrepancies,
the hard copy of the manuscript will be used.
(4) OTHER ELECTRONIC PAPERS
All other electronic versions of papers are
transcribed to the AMS-TEX format in our office, just as typewritten papers are. These include manuscripts prepared by software
packages such as Word Perfect TM, Microsoft WordTM, etc.
Authors are then sent a galley proof for correction.
If
possible, send any electronic version that may be available on a diskette (formatted to Macintosh or DOS), as the use of these can also
speed up the publication process. ASCII files should be included on diskettes for all electronic versions other than TEX.
Send diskette with three hard copies of the printout to any of the Editors. In case of discrepancies, the hard copy of
the manuscript will be used.
