期刊名称：OPERATIONS RESEARCH
 期刊简介(About the journal)
投稿须知(Instructions to Authors)
编辑部信息(Editorial Board)
About the journal
Operations Research
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The mission of Operations Research is to serve the entire Operations Research (OR) community, including practitioners, researchers, educators, and students. Operations Research, as the flagship journal of our profession, strives to publish results that are truly insightful. Each issue of Operations Research attempts to provide a balance of well-written articles that span the wide array of creative activities in OR. Thus, the major criteria for acceptance of a paper in Operations Research are that the paper is important to more than a small subset of the OR community, contains important insights, and makes a substantial contribution to the field that will stand the test of time. |
Instructions to Authors
To submit a paper to Operations Research, the author should send the Area Editor the manuscript for review. Operations Research encourages and prefers that manuscripts be submitted electronically as a PDF, PS or Word file, as that speeds up the review process. However, the author can also submit four hard-copies of the manuscript. The signed orginal of the Copyright Transfer Agreement must be submitted before the paper can be accepted for publication.
Papers not in the fields covered by the Area Editors should be sent to:
Lawrence M. Wein
Editor, Operations Research
Professor of Operations, Information and Technology
Graduate School of Business
Stanford University
Stanford, CA 94305-5015
(650) 724-1676
Fax: (650) 725-0468
lwein@stanford.edu
Papers should not be sent to the Associate Editors.
Submission of a manuscript is a representation that the paper has neither been published nor submitted for publication elsewhere, and that, if the work is officially sponsored, it has been released for open publication.
Manuscripts will not be returned to an author unless specifically requested, or unless reviewers have provided annotations that will be of use to the author.
The text should be arranged as follows: title page, abstract, introduction, main sections, appendix, acknowledgment, and references. Appendices and an acknowledgment are optional. If a paper is accepted for publication, the Editor may request (or require) that supporting appendix material is placed online at the Operations Research web site. Authors should consider this either during the initial submission phase or during the final revisions of the paper and may wish to design their papers accordingly.
Personal Web Sites. As a condition of final acceptance of a paper for publication in Operations Research, the author(s) must indicate if their paper is posted on a working paper website, other than their own. They are responsible for assuring 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. On acceptance, the text, or any link to full text, must be removed from working paper websites, other than the author’s own website.
Prior to publication in Operations Research, the authors must submit a signed copy of the Authors' Web Site Disclosure Form. Upon publication, authors may now receive, at no charge, a pdf of the published paper to be posted on the author's personal website. The pdf reflects the paper as it was published by INFORMS.
Authors may request a free pdf of their published paper by contacting
Candita P. Gerzevitz
INFORMS
12 Breakneck Hill Road; Suite 102
Lincoln, RI 02865
401-722-2595
800-343-0062
Fax: 401-722-2951
candita.gerzevitz@informs.org
Authors should observe the following points in preparing manuscripts. Papers not conforming closely to these instructions may be returned to their authors for appropriate revisions or may be delayed in the review process.
1. Readability. The abstract and the introduction of every paper must be free of unnecessary jargon and clearly readable by any INFORMS member. These sections should be written in an expository style that will be comprehensible to readers who are not technical experts in the subject matter.
2. Title Page. Each paper should have a title page that contains the authors' names and addresses, the Subject Classifications and the Area of Review.Sample Title Page . The usual acknowledgments should be placed in a separate section at the back of the manuscript.
3. Abstract. Preface each article with a self-contained, one paragraph abstract that summarizes the problem and the principal results and conclusions. It should not contain formulas, references or abbreviations, nor exceed 200 words.
4. Introduction. The introduction must clearly state the problem, the results to be found in the paper and their significance to the OR community. It should not contain equations or mathematical notation. Section numbering and headings begins here.
5. Main Sections. The main sections of the paper must be readable, the level of the mathematics and/or the terminology appropriate to the topic, and the material logically presented.
6. Style. The message of the paper will be enhanced if it is presented in active, forceful, and concise prose. Good writing is a craft at least as difficult as doing operations research. While the Editor and staff will correct minor lapses from good style in the manuscript, they cannot undertake wholesale revisions of poorly written papers. There is no set limit to the number of pages for a paper; however, conciseness and clarity of presentation are important publication criteria.
7. Spacing and Format. Double-space manuscripts throughout, including the abstract, subsidiary matter (list of captions, for example), and references. In general, keep figures and tables to a minimum. Each page of the manuscript should be numbered. Indent the first line of each paragraph.
8. Footnotes. Operations Research does not use footnotes; incorporate subsidiary material that would otherwise appear in footnotes in the main text, possibly in parentheses or brackets, or place it in a Notes section at the end of the text, before the Acknowledgment and References. Designate notes by using superscript numerals placed in serial order throughout the text.
9. Acknowledgment. Place acknowledgments of presentation, support and assistance in a final section that precedes the References, not on the title page.
10. References. List only those references that are cited in the text. References in the text should be cited by the author's surname and the year of publication, for example, Flood (1962). If the reference has two or three authors, cite all of the authors' surnames and the year of publication- Flood, Smith and Jones (1982). If the reference has more than three authors, cite the first author's surname followed by et al. and the year of publication -- Brown et al. (1985).
If there is more than one reference by the same author with the same year of publication, the first citation appearing in the text would read Flood (1962a), the second citation would read Flood (1962b), etc. Do not use parentheses or brackets for dates when the citation is already enclosed within parentheses.
At the end of the paper list references alphabetically by the last name of the first author. Do not number the reference list. Double-space this final section.
For journal references, give the author, year of publication, title, journal name, volume, and pages, for example:
FLOOD, M. M. 1962. New Operations Research Potentials. Opns. Res. 10, 423-436.
For book references, give the author, year of publication, title, publisher, city, state, and pages, for example:
MORSE, P. M., AND G. E. KIMBALL. 1951. Methods of Operations Research. John Wiley, New York, 44-65.
For references to working papers or dissertations cite the author, title, type of document, department, university, and location, for example:
ROSENWEIN, M. 1986. Design and Application of Solution Methodologies to Optimize Problems in Transportation Logistics. Ph.D. Dissertation. Department of Decision Sciences, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia.
11. Mathematical Expressions. Within the text, use the solidus whenever possible in preference to built-up fractions, e.g., a/(1 - b) exponentials in the form exp( ); avoid subscripts or superscripts on subscripts or superscripts; and, in general, minimize unusual typographical requirements. For displayed equations, use built-up fractions. Avoid lengthy equations that will take several lines to typeset (possibly by defining terms of the equations in separate displays).
Make subscripts and superscripts large and clear, and shown in a clearly inferior or superior position. The letter l and the numeral 1 and the letter O and the numeral 0, which are identical on most keyboards, should be identified. Symbols and Greek letters should be identified clearly. On their first occurrence, label unusual or ambiguous symbols by marginal notes. The difference between upper and lower case letters should be clear.
Display only those mathematical expressions that must be numbered for later reference or that need to be emphasized. Number displayed equations consecutively throughout the paper; do not number equations by section numbers. Appendix equations can be labeled A1, A2, etc. The numbers should be placed in parentheses to the right of the equation.
12. Tables. Tables should be numbered with Arabic numerals, have a title, and be referred to sequentially in the text. Column headings should be brief and not use abbreviations. Do not use vertical rules. The use of footnotes is encouraged; designate these by lower case letters. The submission of original tables suitable for reproduction is not necessary; all tables will be typeset for consistency. Each table should be on a separate sheet and not interleaved in the text.
13. Figures. Figures should be professionally drawn or laser printed and suitable for photographic reproduction. All figures must be in black and white. Color figures will be printed in black and white and do not scan properly. The author is responsible for the quality of the final form of the figure(s). Figures are scanned and corrections on page proofs are costly. Do not clutter the figure with information that makes it difficult to read. To avoid an undesirable moir?effect when scanned, figures should be shaded with a coarse pattern rather than a fine screen. Line weights should be consistent and at l east .25 points after reduction. Lettering in the body of the figure should be proportional to the graphic and be typed.
Most figures will be reduced to approximately 3 ?" in width. For optimal quality, please submit final figures close to that size. All details on the figures should be checked carefully because correction on proofs necessitates reshooting.
Each figure must be cited and will be placed in the order mentioned in the text. Each figure must have a caption and a number (Arabic). Do not place the caption on the original of the figure. Place captions on a separate sheet. Do not differentiate between illustrations and figures.
14. Subject Classification Scheme for the OR/MS Index. Subject Classification Keywords Determine the appropriate subject classifications (up to 3) and accompanying descriptive phrases for all work submitted. Choose from one to three subject categories for each manuscript. For every category chosen, write a short phrase that puts the paper in context. (The phrase can be a concise rendering of the title, or it may specify some aspect of the paper that is import ant but not apparent in the title.) The length of each phrase, including spaces and punctuation, should not exceed 60 characters. This information will be printed on the title page of every article, technical note, and letter that is published.
Subject categories and phrases must either appear on the title page of the manuscript. Sample Title Page.
15. Reprints. Authors may order reprints prior to publication. INFORMS will e-mail the order form to the author along with page proofs and the scanned and copyedited manuscript for proofreading. In addition, Authors may now receive a pdf of their papers after publication upon request and at no charge. The pdf reflects the paper as it was published by INFORMS.
Document on Demand is now available via e-mail in pdf format. INFORMS can provide any article from any of our ten journals in PDF format via e-mail. The price is US $10 for INFORMS members and $15 for nonmembers.
Editorial Board
Editorial Office
Editor
Lawrence M. Wein
Professor of Operations, Information and Technology
Graduate School of Business
Stanford University
Stanford, CA 94305-5015
(650) 724-1676
Fax: (650) 725-0468
lwein@stanford.edu
Managing Editor
Joan E. Wingo
MIT Sloan School of Management
30 Wadsworth Street, E53-350
Cambridge, MA 02142-1347
617-253-6653
Fax: 617-258-7579
jwingo@mit.edu
Production Editor
Candita P. Gerzevitz
INFORMS
12 Breakneck Hill Road; Suite 102
Lincoln, RI 02865
401-722-2595
800-343-0062
Fax: 401-722-2951
candita.gerzevitz@informs.org
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