OPEN ACCESS OPTION FOR AUTHORS

Quarterly Journal of Mathematics authors have the option to publish their paper under the Oxford Open initiative; whereby, for a charge, their paper will be made freely available online immediately upon publication. After your manuscript is accepted the corresponding author will be required to accept a mandatory licence to publish agreement. As part of the licensing process you will be asked to indicate whether or not you wish to pay for open access. 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.

If you choose the Open Access option you can pay charges using our Author Services site. This will enable you to pay online with a credit/debit card, or request an invoice by email or post Open access charges can be viewed here in detail; discounted rates are available for authors based in some developing countries (click here for a list of qualifying countries). Please note that these charges are in addition to any colour/page charges that may apply.

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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.

Upon receipt of accepted manuscripts at Oxford Journals authors will be invited to complete an online copyright licence to publish form.

Please note that by submitting an article for publication you confirm that you are the corresponding/submitting author and that Oxford University Press ("OUP") may retain your email address for the purpose of communicating with you about the article. You agree to notify OUP immediately if your details change. If your article is accepted for publication OUP will contact you using the email address you have used in the registration process. Please note that OUP does not retain copies of rejected articles.

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@oup.com

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

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