Submission Guidelines
Beginning June 1, 2012, authors are now required to submit their manuscripts electronically through the Mathematics of Operations Research ScholarOne Manuscripts site at http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/mathor.
To create an account, go to the site, click on "Register here" under "New User?" and follow the instructions provided. Please contact Managing Editor Joan Taylor with any questions.
Online Submission Instructions
To submit a manuscript, log into the MOR ScholarOne Manuscript site and go to your Author Center. Follow the link under "Author Resources" for creating a new submission and the system will guide you through the submission process.
As part of this process, authors will be asked to select the appropriate area of review:
- Continuous Optimization: Area Editor Yinyu Ye
- Discrete Optimization: Area Editor Imre Bárány
- Stochastic Models: Area Editor Jim Dai
- Game Theory: Area Editor Nicolas Vieille
If the area is not easy to identify, authors should select "Other," and the manuscript will be directed to the editor in chief.
Authors are also required to identify one or more relevant keywords and to list contact information for all authors. A cover letter is optional.
Manuscripts should be submitted as PDF files. A PDF file can be produced from a LaTeX files by running pdflatex or from a dvi file by running dvipdf. The PDF files should include all figures, tables, bibliography, and appendices. To assist referees, copies of relevant unpublished or inaccessible references may be uploaded as supplementary files.
By submitting a manuscript, authors represent that they consider it ready for publication and that it has not been published or submitted for publication elsewhere. Before submitting a manuscript to Mathematics of Operations Research, authors should review the INFORMS Guidelines for Copyright & Plagiarism.
Manuscript Style
Manuscripts should be in English.
The manuscript style is specified in the style file mor.sty which, when included in the LaTeX file, handles most stylistic issues. The file template.tex may be used as a template. LaTex style files and templates are available at http://templates.pubs.informs.org.
Manuscripts should include a self-contained abstract of up to 150 words describing the main results. Author are also required to select keywords when submitting their manuscripts through the MOR ScholarOne Manuscript site.
Acknowledgments should appear at the end of the paper, before the references.
Figures should be suitable for a professional publication.
References in the text should be by authors' last names and the reference number, optionally including the year. For example, Boyan and Moore [1], or Gale et al. (1951) [4]. Full references will be printed as below; abbreviations for journals are to be taken from the most recent index of Mathematical Reviews. The bibilography style is the same as amsplain.bst. Authors are advised to use BibTeX with that style to create the bibliography.
[1] J. A. Boyan and A. W. Moore, Learning evaluation functions to improve optimization by local search, J. Machine Learning Research 1 (2000), 77-112, http://www.ai.mit.edu/projects/jmlr/papers/volume1/boyan00a/boyan00a.pdf.
[2] J. W. Cohen, The single server queue, North-Holland, Amsterdam, 1969.
[3] B. C. Eaves, The linear complementarity problem, Management Sci. 17 (1971), 613-634.
[4] D. Gale, H. W. Kuhn and A.W. Tucker, Linear programming and the theory of games, Activity
Analysis of Production and Allocation (T. C. Koopmans, ed.), Wiley, New York, 1951, pp. 317-329.
[5] N. Karmarkar and R. M. Karp, The differencing method of set partitioning, Tech. Report
UCB/CSD 82/113, Computer Science Division, University of California, Berkeley, CA, 1982.
Accepted Papers
Important information for authors of accepted papers is available in the Author Portal.
If a paper is accepted for publication, authors are expected to provide a suitably formatted LaTeX file as well as a signed Copyright Transfer Agreement. Figures should be supplied as Encapsulated PostScript (.eps) files. Important information about preparing files for production is available here.
As a condition of final acceptance of a paper for publication in Mathematics of Operations Research, authors must indicate if their paper is posted on a working papers website other than their own. They are responsible for ensuring that, if any part of the paper has been copyrighted for prepublication as a working paper, the copyright can and will be transferred to INFORMS when the paper has been accepted. This includes both print and electronic forms of the paper.
Authors may post their working papers on websites after acceptance and prior to publication, as long as the sites are not copyrighted or do not serve as formal repositories. INFORMS provides each author with a PDF file of the Web-published version of the paper after publication in the INFORMS journal.
Information about authors' rights and permissions is available here. Additional questions or comments regarding INFORMS policy on posting papers can be sent to permissions@informs.org.
NIH Public Access Policy: The author is responsible for complying with the NIH Public Access Policy. INFORMS follows Method C of NIH's submission methods guidelines (http://publicaccess.nih.gov/submit_process.htm) and has no obligation to notify an NIH-funded author about the requirement.
Direct questions to Joan Taylor, MOR Managing Editor, at joan.taylor@informs.org.