OPEN ACCESS OPTION FOR AUTHORS

Quarterly Journal of Mathematics authors have the option, at an additional charge, to make their paper freely available online immediately upon publication, under the Oxford Open initiative Oxford Open initiative. After your manuscript is accepted, as part of the mandatory licence form required of all corresponding authors, you will be asked to indicate whether or not you wish to pay to have your paper made freely available immediately. If you do not select the Open Access option, your paper will be published with standard subscription-based access and you will not be charged.

For those selecting the Open Access option, the charges for Quarterly Journal of Mathematicsvary depending on the institution at which the Corresponding author is based:

Optional Oxford Open charges:
For a Corresponding author based at an institution with an online subscription to Quarterly Journal of Mathematics:
Regular charge - £900 / $1800 / €1350
List B developing country charge** - £450 / $900 / €675
List A developing country charge** - £0 / $0 / €0

For a Corresponding author based at an institution that does not subscribe to the online journal:
Regular charge - £1500 / $3000 / €2250
List B developing country charge** - £750 / $1500 / €1125
List A developing country charge** - £0 /$0 / €0

*Visit http://www.oxfordjournals.org/jnls/devel/ for list of qualifying countries.

The above Open Access charges are in addition to any page charges and colour charges that might apply.

Orders from UK will be subject to a 17.5% VAT charge. For orders from the rest of the EU, we will assume that the service is provided for business purposes, please provide a VAT number for yourself or your institution and ensure you account for your own local VAT correctly.

If you choose the Open Access option you will also be asked to complete an Open Access charge form online. You will be automatically directed to the appropriate version of the form depending on whether you are based at an institution with an online subscription to Quarterly Journal of Mathematics. Therefore please make sure that you are using an institutional computer when accessing the form. To check whether you are based at a subscribing institution please use the Subscriber Test link for Quarterly Jounal of Mathematics.

INFORMATION FOR CONTRIBUTORS

Papers are invited on subjects of Pure Mathematics and its applications, and should be emailed to qjm-editors@maths.ox.ac.uk or addressed to The Editors, Quarterly Journal of Mathematics, Mathematical Institute, 24-29 St Giles, Oxford OX1 3LB. Authors are requested to send two copies of their manuscripts which should be prepared in a form suitable for printing, with generous spacing and margins. References should be listed at the end of each paper in alphabetical order of authors' names, consecutively numbered and referred to in the text by number, [1] etc. Authors are referred to The Printing of Mathematics, Oxford University Press, 1954, for further advice on the preparation of Mathematical papers. The Editors as a rule will not wish to accept material that they cannot see their way to publish within twelve months.

While every care is taken of manuscripts submitted for publication, the Publisher and the Editors cannot hold themselves responsible for any loss or damage.

Authors are advised to retain a copy of anything they may send for publication.

Authors of papers printed in the Quarterly Journal will recieve the URL of the article free of charge to distribute, with an option to buy offprints at reasonable prices.

It is a condition of publication in the Journal that authors licence copyright to Oxford University Press, by completing a Licence to Publish form 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. In licencing copyright, Authors may use their own material in other publications provided that the Journal is acknowledged as the original place of publication and Oxford University Press is notified in writing and in advance.

In consideration of this provision, the publisher supplies the first named author with free online access to the article. If authors wish to order any offprints or copies of the issue in which their paper will appear, they can download the Offprint form here.

It is the author's responsibility to obtain permission to reproduce verbal or visual material from copyright source.

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].

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.

AUTHOR SELF-ARCHIVING/PUBLIC ACCESS POLICY

For information about this journal's policy, please visit our Author Self-Archiving policy page.

ACCEPTANCE OF LATEX BY THE QUARTERLY JOURNAL OF MATHEMATICS

If you would like to submit your papers in LaTeX, please use article.cls and when sending the source files for submission, please ensure that all the macros used to write your paper accompany the manuscript.
If you have any questions about the use of this file in preparing your paper, please contact jnls.cust.serv@oupjournals.org

Upon final acceptance of your paper please send in your source file and all macros via e-mail to:
qmathj@oxfordjournals.org

If authors are planning to send source files by e-mail, could they also include a postscript or PDF version of their paper.