Information for Authors
Authors are encouraged to complete their copyright licence to publish form online.
Contributions falling within the scope of the journal are invited. Authors should restrict their papers to about 30 printed pages. Longer papers submitted and accepted for publication may incur page charges on the extra pages. Submission may be made by post or electronically. Post four copies of the manuscript to :
Professor D M Gabbay
Department of Computer Science
Kings College London
Strand
London
WC2R 2LS
Electronic submission of a postscript file with a separate covering message can be made to Jane Spurr. In both cases, authors are invited to nominate a member of the board best suited to handle their paper. Contributions will be acknowledged in all cases; referees' comments and the decision of the Editorial Board will be forwarded to contributors as soon as possible after submission.
The submission of any manuscript will imply that the content is original, has not been previously published in a journal and is not being considered for publication elsewhere.
Format for contributors
Manuscripts should be type written on one side only with wide margins. The typing should be double-spaced. Pages should be numbered consecutively. A title page must include: full title, authors' full names and affiliations, and the address to which correspondence and proofs should be sent. Where possible, e-mail address and telephone number should be included. This should be followed by an abstract of approximately 300 words and five key words for indexing.
Original drawings should be submitted in a form ready for the printer. Care should be taken to ensure that lettering and details should easily be readable after any necessary reduction of size for publication. Each illustration should bear on the back a number, the author's name, and the title of the paper. Captions should be submitted separately on a sheet of paper at the end of the manuscript and should be identified by a number. Any photographs should be high quality glossy prints. Three sets of photocopies of the illustrations should be included.
Each table should be submitted on a separate sheet of paper at the end of the manuscript and identified by a number.
References should be listed alphabetically and numbered, and referred to within the text by the number.
For information about this journal’s policy, please visit our Author Self-Archiving policy page.
Language Editing
Particularly if English is not your first language, before submitting your manuscript you may wish to have it edited for language. This is not a mandatory step, but may help to ensure that the academic content of your paper is fully understood by journal editors and reviewers. Language editing does not guarantee that your manuscript will be accepted for publication. If you would like information about one such service please click here. There are other specialist language editing companies that offer similar services and you can also use any of these. Authors are liable for all costs associated with such services.
Funding
Details of all funding sources for the work in question should be given in a separate section entitled 'Funding'. This should appear before the 'Acknowledgements' section.
The following rules should be followed:
- The sentence should begin: ‘This work was supported by …’
- The full official funding agency name should be given, i.e. ‘National Institutes of Health’, not ‘NIH’ (full RIN-approved list of UK funding agencies) Grant numbers should be given in brackets as follows: ‘[grant number xxxx]’
- Multiple grant numbers should be separated by a comma as follows: ‘[grant numbers xxxx, yyyy]’
- Agencies should be separated by a semi-colon (plus ‘and’ before the last funding agency)
- Where individuals need to be specified for certain sources of funding the following text should be added after the relevant agency or grant number 'to [author initials]'.
An example is given here: ‘This work was supported by the National Institutes of Health [AA123456 to C.S., BB765432 to M.H.]; and the Alcohol & Education Research Council [hfygr667789].
Licence to Publish
Authors submitting manuscripts do so on the understanding that the work has not been published previously and, should it be accepted for publication, that the author(s) obtain the necessary permission to use material already protected by copyright. It is a condition of publication in the Journal that authors grant an exclusive licence to Oxford University Press. This ensures that requests from third parties to reproduce articles are handled efficiently and consistently and will also allow the article to be as widely disseminated as possible. Upon receipt of accepted manuscripts at Oxford Journals authors will be invited to complete an online copyright licence to publish form.
Proofs and offprints
Authors will be expected to check the page proofs and return them within three days of receipt. Authors will receive free online access to their paper, and can order any offprints or copies of the issue in which their paper appears via the Oxford Journals Author Services site.