Journal of Computational Methods in Sciences and Engineering (JCMSE)
Guidelines to Contributors
Submission of Manuscripts
Authors should send
four (4) hardcopies of their manuscript together with the corresponding
electronic version on a 3.5" floppy disk, a ZIP/JAZ disk or a CD ROM to the
following address:
Dr. T.E. Simos
Editor-in-Chief JCMSE
26
Menelaou Street
Amfithea – Paleon Faliron
GR-175 64 Athens
GREECE
Submitted manuscripts must be written in English.
There will be no submission fees or page charges. Only original
manuscripts that have not been simultaneously submitted elsewhere will be
considered for publication in the JCMSE. Each manuscript will be peer-reviewed
by two independent anonymous Referees. Once their favourable reviews have been
completed, a revised manuscript must be submitted to the Editor-in-Chief.
After acceptance of a manuscript by the JCMSE, the author(s) will be
asked to transfer copyright of the paper to be published, including the right
of the journal to reproduce the article in any of the existing forms of the
media to ensure the widespread dissemination of information under the copyright
regulations. The Copyright Transfer Agreement will be sent to the author(s)
upon receipt of their manuscript and can also be downloaded from the Web page
of the JCMSE and must be promptly signed by the appropriate person.
Authors may suggest a member of the Editorial Board to handle the
review procedure of their manuscripts and may also propose the names of six
potential Referees. The final responsibility for the selection of the
appropriate member of the Editorial Board for handling the review procedure
remains to the Editor-in-Chief. The Editor-in-Chief in cooperation with the
Associate Editor-in-Chief and with the Editorial Board will finally define the
reviewers of the manuscript.
Electronic Submission
Authors should send the text and artwork of their manuscript in
the electronic form via 3.5'’ IBM-FORMAT computer disk (a floppy disk), a
ZIP/JAZ disk or a CD ROM. The electronic version of the submitted manuscript
should be generated in:
i. LaTex or Plain Tex
ii.
Microsoft Word or WordPerfect
For artwork, figures and tables any of
the standard packages can be used. A full description of the software utilized
and the content must accompany the disk(s). The additional guidelines must be
used as follows:
a. Label all your files using the proper
extensions, e.g. maintext.tex, fig1.ps, etc.
b. Label the submitted
disk(s) with the corresponding author’s name and indicate the
journal’s acronym (JCMSE). Include the necessary details about
word-processing software, compression software and platform (PC, Mac, UNIX,
etc) used in creating the submitted files.
c. Ensure that the
electronic version is identical to the hardcopy of the manuscript and the
latter will be used in the case of any discrepancy.
d. Do not use
excessive layout styling, as the Publisher will remove most formatting codes
while processing the manuscripts accepted for publication.
e. Do not
use automatic word breaking, justified layout, double columns or automatic
paragraph numbering.
Manuscript Preparation
Manuscripts should be typed with double line spacing throughout
and only in one column with the subsequent laser printing on one side of white
sheets. Four (4) copies should be submitted to the Editor-in-Chief (see above).
Figures and tables should be included in every copy. The organisation of the
manuscript should follow these guidelines:
1. The Title Page, typed
on a separate page, contains the manuscript’s title, authors’ names
and their complete affiliations, footnotes to the title and/or authors (leave
of absence, permanent address, present address…), a running shortened
title with less than 40 characters, and indication of the corresponding author
with the updated address including e-mail, telephone and fax numbers.
2. The Abstract, typed on a separate page, provides a short summary,
not exceeding 200 words, of the main results of the manuscript. A list of at
most 8-10 keywords must be appended to the Abstract together with 3-5 most
recent PACS numbers and/or AMS(MOS) Subject Classification numbers and/or CR
categories numbers. A careful selection of the keywords and PACS, AMS(MOS), CR
categories numbers should be made to facilitate abstracting, indexing and/or
searching following the subject of the manuscript.
3. Free-standing
equations must be typewritten and the associated numbers placed in round
parentheses on the right margin. Reference to a particular equation must be
indicated by a number within these parentheses, e.g. Eq (1).
4.
Superscript numbers associated with words in the text are reserved only for
footnotes. All the footnotes must be typed together on a separate page with
double line spacing.
5. Figures and original photographs must be in
their final good quality forms suitable for publication. Line drawings must be
done on an original laser printer or plotter output or drawn in black India
ink, with careful lettering which is sufficiently large to remain legible after
reduction for printing. Photographs must be original, with somewhat more
contrast than what is required in the final version of the manuscript printed
in the JCMSE. The photographs should be unmounted and their top sides should be
marked whenever needed. These artworks must avoid clutter due to an eventual
excessive number of curves. If experimental data are displayed, clear standard
symbols must be used. The authors must enumerate all the figures following the
Arabic numerical system. The number of each figure must be indicated on the
back of the figure where also the first author’s name should be
handwritten in pencil. Text and letters on figures must be created using the
standard packages with the necessary high-resolution computer graphics. The
size of figures must be large enough to enable the adequate reduction for
publication purposes. No figure should be encapsulated i.e. imported into the
text of the manuscript and each figure must be given on a separate page with an
accompanying and descriptive legend embedded in the figures. Figure caption
typed on a separate page must succinctly describe the relevant text referring
to all the figures in the consecutive serial order of their appearance. Figure
captions must precede the display of all the figures. Preferred format for
figures are PS, EPS or TIFF created with the conventional packages e.g. Corel
Draw, Freehand, Adobe Illustrator - version 3.0 and beyond. Caution has to be
exercised with figures made using Word or WordPerfect, as these may
occasionally possess insufficient resolution. If files of scanned line
graphics, scanned halftones and scanned line/tones are used, they must have the
resolution of 1000 dpi, 300 dpi and 500 dpi, respectively.
6. Colour
figures can be used if this is essential for the presentation and
interpretation of the results. Authors will be charged for colour reproduction
and further information on this can be obtained directly from the Publisher.
Black and white photos, micrographs and the like must not be saved as colour.
Colour illustrations must be scanned in at 300 dpi and the resolution should be
500 dpi for colour/line tones. For large files of any figure, compression must
be used prior to submission and the compression software must be indicated.
7. Tables must be numbered in the consecutive serial order of their
appearance in the text using the Roman numbers. Each table must be typed on a
separate page with double line spacing. Short and descriptive captions to
tables must precede all the depicted tables. If a table grid is used in
creating tables, only one grid must be used for each separate table. When a
table grid is not implemented, tabs must be used to align columns.
8.
Acknowledgement must be placed right before the bibliography i.e.
references.
9. References must be cited in the text by indicating
the numbers in the square brackets, e.g. [1]. The references must be placed at
the end of the manuscript, after possible appendices, on separate pages.
Enumerating references must follow the consecutive serial order in which they
are quoted in the text. The form of typing the listed references should follow
this pattern:
[1]. T.E. Simos, An accurate eight order
exponentially-fitted method for an efficient solution of the Schrödinger
equation, Computer Physics Communications, 125, pp. 21-59 (2000).
[2]. T.E. Simos and Jesus Vigo-Aguiar, A modified Runge-Kutta method with
phase-lag of order infinity for numerical solution of the Schrödinger
equation and related problems, Computers & Chemistry, in press.
[3]. L. Gr. Ixaru, Numerical Methods for differential equations and
applications, Reidel, Dordrecht-Boston-Lancaster, 1984.
[4]. T.E. Simos and
P.S. Williams, A family of Numerov-type exponentially fitted methods for the
numerical integration of the Schrödinger equation, London Guildhall
University, Department of Computing, Information Systems and Mathematics,
Working Report 97/01, 1997. The above pattern need not be followed for review
articles with a large number of references from which the titles of the cited
papers may be omitted.
10. Overall the following order must be
respected while creating the manuscript to be submitted to the JCMSE: Title,
Authors, Affiliations, Abstract, Keywords, PACS-AMS(MOS)-CR, Main text,
Acknowledgements, Appendices, References, Footnotes, Figure captions, Figures,
Table captions, Tables.
11. Three types of publications will be
printed in the JCMSE:
a. Letters to the Editor
b. Regular
papers
c. Review papers
Specifically in manuscripts from
item (b) above reporting on new algorithms and programs, the title page must
have the following form:
I. Article title
II. Authors’
names
III. Complete affiliations
IV. Footnotes to the title
V. A
running title of less than 40 characters
VI. The address for manuscript
correspondence (including e-mail address, telephone and fax numbers)
VII.
Short description of the program
VIII. Short description of computational
method used in the program
IX. Programming language used for this program
X. Time needed for compilation XI. Time needed for running XII. Size of the
memory needed for loading. In this type of manuscripts at least one typical
test run with the displayed output results must be included.
12.
Files in the pdf format for galley-proofs will be sent only to the
corresponding author. To avoid publication delay, only corrections of
typographical errors will be allowed. The proofs must be sent by fax to
the Publisher within 48 hours from receipt of the pdf file.
13. In
total, 25 reprints free of charge of each manuscript will be sent to the
corresponding author. Additional preprints may be ordered from the
Publisher.