Journal of the Australian Mathematical Society

Preparation of papers

• Articles may be submitted in either printed or electronic form:
  1. Printed submissions: the article should be typed, printed or photocopied on high quality bond paper of either A4, quarto or US letter size, on one side only, with double spacing, and with a generous margin (at least 3 cm) all around.
  2. Electronic submissions: the article should be submitted as a PDF file suitable for printing or viewing with Acrobat Reader. (There are often difficulties typesetting, reading or printing articles submitted either as TeX/LaTeX source or as dvi or postcript files. The Journal has found that PDF files are usually readable.)
  
  
• The author should keep a complete copy of the submitted article as well as any electronic source; the Society will not accept responsibility for any loss.


• Authors are encouraged to prepare their papers in Latex; other forms of electronic source will usually also be useful. Good quality electronic source makes the typesetters' work much easier and so the authors of such source can expect their papers to be dealt with more promptly and with fewer errors. See Preparing electronic files for more details of how to prepare the electronic source.


• While the Journal strongly encourages the submission of electronic source after acceptance, it is usually not a suitable method of initial submission. Once a paper is accepted, the Editors will request the electronic source.


• Each typescript should include
  1. an abstract of not more than 150 words, preferably containing no formulae, and certainly containing no complicated formulae and no references;
  2. 2000 Mathematics subject classification (Amer. Math. Soc.);
  3. if the title is long, a shortened form of it, no more than forty characters in length, including spaces.


• Two alternative styles for references and citations are described below. Authors are requested to use one and only one style consistently throughout their typescript.

  Style 1.

  A typical reference in the list of references would be

  [3] L. Grüschen, `Pseudo-quasi-ergodic theorems', J. Austral. Math. Soc. 4 (1960), 2-3.

  A corresponding reference in the text would be: Grüschen [3]; or [3,4,9]; or Grüschen [3, Theorem 1].

  Style 2.

  A typical reference in the list of references would be

  [GBP] G. B. Preston, `Pseudo-quasi-ergodic theorems', J. Austral. Math. Soc. 40 (1960), 321-342.

  A corresponding reference in the text would be: Preston [GBP]; or ([GBP, KG, GHL]); or Preston [GBP, Proposition 2].

  In each style, the list of references should be in alphabetical order of surnames of first authors.



• Explain clearly what symbols are to be set in special typefaces (such as cursive, fraktur, script, bold) where this is not clear from the typescript or electronic source. The standard mathematical fonts issued by the American Mathematical Society are available to the typesetters but any other fonts or special symbols are available, if at all, only by special arrangement.


• Avoid abbreviations, such as Thm., Prop., Ex., iff, i.e., e.g., and in the text avoid also symbols such as $\forall,\ \exists,\ \Rightarrow$, and $\Leftrightarrow$.


• Authors should provide diagrams drawn to professional standards. Diagrams in the form of Postscript files, or similar, may also be acceptable; the quality, however, should be similar to that obtained by a professional artist.