期刊名称：JOURNAL OF THE OPERATIONAL RESEARCH SOCIETY
 期刊简介(About the journal)
投稿须知(Instructions to Authors)
编辑部信息(Editorial Board)
About the journal
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The journal is a key information source for practitioners, researchers, consumers, teachers and students of operational research. |
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Instructions to Authors
Authors should submit their paper electronically, in either WORD (.doc file) or LaTeX (.dvi file), by accessing the website www.theorsociety.com and clicking on the 'Submit paper - JORS' button. The submission system is designed to be self-explanatory but before using it authors are advised to ensure that they have conformed to the script requirements detailed below and that their paper can be divided easily by them, for input purposes, into:
- Abstract (including Keywords)
- Main Text (including Appendices and References)
- Figures
- Tables
- Captions for Figures and Tables
all of which will be submitted as one document, but with the last three items separated from the main text. The Statement of Contribution, which has to be provided, but will not be published as part of an accepted paper, should be a summary in no more than 300 words of the contribution of the paper to the theory and practice of OR. Authors must be prepared to agree to a statement that their paper is not under consideration with any other journal (see point 4 in 'Proofs, Copyright and Conditions of Submission' below). The paper should conform to the following requirements.
SCRIPT REQUIREMENTS
- Manuscripts should be in at least 1.5 line spacing, with ample margins. The pages of the main text should be numbered consecutively.
- Papers should not normally exceed 10 journal pages (or about 5000 words). Each figure is equivalent to about one-third of a page, and hence manuscripts should not exceed 20 typed, double spaced A4 pages, including figures, tables, references and appendices.
- Technical notes and viewpoints should not exceed six manuscript pages. Viewpoints should be submitted as for regular papers, but omitting abstract, keywords and statement of contribution. Book Reviews should only be offered after consultation with the Book Reviews Editor and should not be submitted using this system.
- Figures, tables etc, should be submitted at the same time as the main text of the paper with each on a new page, and should take account of the page size of the journal. Wherever possible, figures should be suitable for subsequent direct photographic reproduction. Figure captions and table headings should be provided on a separate page at the end of the script. It is not normal practice for any diagrams to be printed in colour in published papers, but if authors require this they will have to pay the publisher's charges for such printing.
- In writing your paper you are encouraged to review or reference papers in the area you are addressing previously published in the journal. This provides coherence and continuity for our readers.
- A running head of not more than 30 characters should be supplied for papers with long titles.
- Sections and subsections should be clearly differentiated but should not be numbered.
- Papers should be written without the use of footnotes.
- Mathematical expressions and Greek or other symbols should be written clearly with ample spacing. Use widely accepted symbols and abbreviations, following the style of BS 1991 Part 2 1954.
- Spelling should conform with The Concise Oxford Dictionary.
- References should be indicated in the text by a raised figure (unbracketed) and should run in numerical order. They should be listed in order of citation (not alphabetically) at the end of the article. For a work by more than two authors, only state the first author's name followed by 'et al.' for the purposes of citation.
Please adopt the following style for references:
Journals (abbreviate titles as in the World List of Scientific Periodicals):
1 Chau PYK and Bell PC (1995). Designing effective simulation-based decision support systems; an empirical assessment of three types of decision support systems. J Opl Res Soc 46: 315-331.
Books:
2 Miser HJ (1995). Handbook of Systems Analysis Volume 3: Cases Wiley: Chichester.
Papers in a contributed volume:
3 Osman IH (1995). An introduction to meta-heuristics. In: Lawrence M and Wilsdon C (eds). Operational Research Tutorial 1995. Operational Research Society: Birmingham, pp 92-122.
Conference papers:
4 Goldman D (1992). Simulation output analysis. In: Swain J, Goldman D, Crain R and Wilson J (eds) Proceedings of the 1992 Winter Simulation Conference. IEEE, Piscataway, NJ, USA, pp 99-103.
Unpublished reports and theses (which should be available on request):
5 Desa MI. Bus fleet maintenance modelling in a developing country. PhD thesis, 1995, University of Salford, UK.
References to internet sites must be given in brackets in the text, not in the reference list. The full URL must be given, followed by date website was accessed.
Example: http://www.ms.ic.ac.uk/info.html accessed 1 January 2003
CONTENT
- There should be an abstract of not more than 150 words. The abstract should be sufficiently comprehensible to enable any reader of the journal to judge the paper's potential interest. Since this abstract will be published in International Abstracts in Operations Research, it should be complete in itself and contain no references. Authors will be asked during submission to provide 3-6 key words defining the essential content of the paper. A list of recommended keywords is given below. The keywords on the list are used in the referee selection process, and in the construction of the annual index, so it is important that authors make maximum use of this suggested list.
- All theoretical papers should commence with an introduction which is comprehensible to non-specialist readers. IN PARTICULAR THE RELEVANCE OF THE PAPER TO PRACTICE SHOULD BE MADE EVIDENT WITHIN THE PAPER.
- Where appropriate, worked examples should be included in theoretical papers to assist the understanding of non-specialist readers.
- All case-oriented papers should commence with an introduction which indicates clearly that this is an account of an actual project.
- All papers should end with a conclusion which summarizes the value of the work and, where appropriate, indicates possible directions for future developments.
- Wherever possible, theorems, computer programs, lists and calculations should be placed in appendices.
- References should be included from ALL appropriate sources and should be readily accessible to readers.
PROOFS, COPYRIGHT AND CONDITIONS OF SUBMISSION
- Proofs of papers are sent to authors for checking and correction of fact, especially with regard to mathematical content. Alterations to diagrams and non-essential textual changes should be avoided. Proofs must be returned within 48 hours of receipt. Failure to do so may result in the paper being published with editorial corrections only.
- Twenty-five reprints of each paper are provided free to the author, and further reprints and copies of the issue (at a specially reduced rate) may be ordered when proofs are returned. However, it is not possible to supply reprints of letters and viewpoints.
- The copyright of all material published in the journal is held by the OR Society. Authors of accepted papers will be asked to sign a form assigning copyright to the Society.
- Submission of a paper for refereeing means that the author certifies that the manuscript is not copyrighted; nor has it been accepted for publication (or published) by a refereed journal; nor is it being refereed elsewhere at the same time. Submission of a paper to more than one journal simultaneously is unacceptable both to the Editor of this journal and to the editors of other journals in the field of OR.
- If authors use material within their article that has been published elsewhere then they must obtain the permission of the earlier publisher.
- Authors may publish figures or any other part of their contribution in any other work directly by them, without asking permission, provided that the usual acknowledgements are made.
KEYWORDS
Accidents
Accounting
Advertising
Agriculture
Air transport
Allocation
Architecture
Artificial intelligence
Automation
Banking
Behaviour
Bidding
Building
Capital budgeting
Coal
Cognitive mapping
Combinatorial analysis
Communications
Community OR
Computational analysis
Computers
Conflict analysis
Construction
Control
Corporate planning
Cost benefit
Costing
CPM
Cutting stock problem
Cybernetics
Data envelopment analysis
Decision analysis
Decision support systems
Defence studies
Developing countries
Development
Distribution
Dynamic programming
Econometrics
Education
Electricity
Energy
Engineering
Environmental studies
Equipment
Expert systems
Finance
Flexible manufacturing systems
Forecasting
Forestry
Fractional programming
Fuzzy sets
Game theory
Gaming
Gas
Geometric programming
GERT
Goal programming
Government
Health service
Heuristics
History of OR
Hospitals
Industrial relations
Information systems
Information theory
Insurance
Integer programming
Inventory
Investment
Layout
Learning
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Legal
Libraries
Linear programming
Location
Logistics
Maintenance
Management
Man-machine systems
Manpower planning
Marketing
Markov processes
Medicine
Methodology
Microcomputers
Military
Multi-objective
Networks and graphs
Neural networks
Non-linear programming
Oil
Optimization
OR education
Organizational studies
PERT
Philosophy of OR
Planning
Population
Practice of OR
Probability
Production
Professional
Project management
Public expenditure
Purchasing
Quadratic programming
Quality
Queueing
Rail transport
Recreation
Regional studies
Regression
Reliability
Repair
Replacement policy
Research
Resource
Risk
Road transport
Scheduling
Search
Sea transport
Sequencing
Simulation
Sports
Statistics
Stochastic processes
Stochastic programming
Strategic planning
System dynamics
Systems
Telecommunications
Time series
Timetabling
Trade unions
Traffic
Training
Transport
Travelling salesman
Urban studies
Vehicle routeing
Water
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Editorial Board
Editors
John Wilson
Loughborough University
Terry Williams
University of Strathclyde
Editorial Office
The OR Society
Seymour House
12 Edward St
Birmingham
B1 2RX
UK
Tel: +44 (0)121 233 9300
Fax: +44 (0)121 233 0321
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