INFORMS Author Portal

*Guidelines for Copyright & Plagiarism
- Authors are required to review the INFORMS copyright and plagiarism policies before submitting to an INFORMS journal.

Copyright Transfer Agreement Forms

Rights & Permissions
- Check here for a detailed explanation for the reuse of INFORMS copyrighted material along with directions on how to request reprint permissions

Special Issues
- INFORMS journals periodically feature special issues. Each is dedicated to a special topic and many are edited by guest editors. Here you will find a current list of upcoming special issues of INFORMS journals with links to the issues or calls for papers.

Journal Review and Submission Statistics
- Number of submissions and average review times for the INFORMS journals.

Pre-Submission Editing
- Referrals to professional language editors familiar with INFORMS content.

Author Forms
- Copyrights, reprints, and new prepublication order forms

Contact your Production Editor
- Production editors oversee the process that changes your accepted manuscript into a published article. If the Author Portal does not answer your questions, please feel free to contact the production editor assigned to the journal.

File Preparation
- Failure to prepare manuscript files to our standards will result in publication delays. Check here for guidelines and tips on preparing text and figure source files.

Frequently Asked Questions
- Why wait for an email response when you can check the production editors’ list of frequently asked questions. The publications department supports thousands of authors each year. Save time and see if your question has already been asked – and answered!

Key words - Key words are provided and maintained through a collaboration with IAOR (International Abstracts in Operations Research).

LaTeX Style Files - LaTeX style files are available for use in preparing manuscripts for the INFORMS journals.