期刊名称：COMPUTER JOURNAL
 期刊简介(About the journal)
投稿须知(Instructions to Authors)
编辑部信息(Editorial Board)
About the journal
The Computer Journal publishes research papers in a full range of subject areas, as well as regular feature articles and occasional themed issues to enable readers to easily access information outside their direct area of research. The journal provides a complete overview of developments in the field of Computer Science.
The Computer Journal is covered by the following abstracting/indexing services:-
Computer Abstracts
Computer and Information Systems Abstracts Journal
Current Technology Index
Engineering Information
INSPEC.
Science Citation Index
Zentrablatt Fur Math
Instructions to Authors
Please read and follow these instructions carefully, doing so will ensure that the review and publication of your paper is as rapid and efficient as possible. The Editors reserve the right to return manuscripts that are not prepared in accordance with these instructions.
1. Submission of manuscriptsAuthors should submit postscript, PDF or Word files by via http://compj.manuscriptcentral.com. Please contact the Editorial Office on compj@hq.bcs.org.uk for additional help with manuscript submission.
Work submitted for publication must be previously unpublished, not under consideration for publication elsewhere and, if accepted, it should not then be published elsewhere in the same form. If previously published figures, tables, or parts of text are to be included, the copyright-holder's permission must have been obtained prior to submission.
Authors should supply a list of between three and five referees who would be suitable to referee the paper. Please enclose full name, email and full postal addresses.
2. Copyright
It is a condition of publication in the Journal that authors assign copyright to the British Computer Society. This ensures that requests from third parties to reproduce articles are handled efficiently and consistently and will also allow the article to be as widely disseminated as possible. In assigning copyright, authors may use their own material in other publications, provided that the Journal is acknowledged as the original place of publication, and Oxford University Press is notified in writing and in advance.
3. Preparation of the manuscript
General
Papers must be clearly written in English. An original plus three copies of the manuscript and figures should be submitted. The text should be presented on A4 or an equivalent size paper. If you are not preparing your manuscript with the LaTeX document preparation system in conjunction with the cj.cls file, all parts of the manuscript should be double-spaced. Margins of at least 25 mm should be left around all sides of the text. Please number each page but provide a short running title on the title page only. Ensure that any unusual or handwritten symbols or letters are clearly identifiable. The manuscript should contain the following information: the full and a short title, and a complete list of authors, their affiliations and addresses; the main text; all figures and tables, and references. The corresponding author should be identified along with both his/her postal and e-mail addresses, and telephone and fax numbers.
ReferencesThe accuracy of the references is the author's responsibility. Only published articles or reports readily accessible in the general literature should be cited. The references should appear in the text in numerical order, as should the reference list. Where there are more than 10 contributing authors please list only the first author and useet al. The following format for references should be followed:
- Journal article:
Galton, A. (1992) Logic as a formal method. Comp. J., 35, 431¨C440.
(authors, year, title of paper, title of journal, volume number, page numbers)
- Book:
Hogger, C. (1990) Essentials of Logic Programming. Clarendon Press, Oxford. (authors, year, title of book, publisher, publisher location)
- Chapter:
Harel, D. (1984) Dynamic logic. In Gabbay, D. and Guenther, F. (eds), Handbook of Philosophical Logic. D. Reidel, Dordrecht.
(authors, year, title of chapter, editors, title of book, publisher, publisher location)
- Conference:
Crochemore, M. and Verin, R. (1997) Direct construction of compact directed acyclic word graphs. Proceedings of CPM 97, Cambridge, MA, 12¨C14 August, pp. 192¨C211. Springer-Verlag, Berlin.
(authors, year, title of conference, place of conference, date of conference, page numbers in proceedings, publisher, publisher location)
- Technical documents:
ITU-T. Z.500 (1997) Framework on formal methods in conformance testing. International Telecommunications Union, Geneva, Switzerland.
(document number, year, document title, publisher, publisher location)
Tables should appear on a separate sheet and be conventionally numbered. Tables should be clear and self-explanatory. Vertical rules will not be used in the published version. Any footnotes required should be indicated using superscripted symbols.
Footnotes to the main text are acceptable and should be identified by superscripted numbers. Footnotes should also appear on the page of citation.
Figures can be presented within the text of the paper, however, all figures should be supplied in an electronic format (postscript, EPS and TIFF preferred). If authors cannot supply an electronic version of the figures, high-quality laser print-outs should be provided. Figures should be formatted to fit into, or be reduced to, a single (85 mm) or double (178 mm) column width. Please also supply a legend for each figure.
Line illustrations or camera-ready text: these must be of sufficient quality for publication as submitted i.e. clear, clean, sharp and of an even density. Figures will not be redrawn or relabelled. Any lettering or text should be in proportion to the rest of the figure.
Halftones (photographs): halftones should be of sufficient quality with respect to detail, contrast and fineness of grain to withstand the unavoidable loss of contrast inherent in the printing process.
Colour: colour figures are acceptable for publication. However, due to the high costs involved, authors will be invoiced after publication for the full cost incurred. Authors should contact the publisher for details prior to submission.
4. Submission of final version to the Production Office
LaTeX 2e
Authors wishing to submit TEX-based manuscripts are encouraged. Manuscripts should be produced using the specially produced journal class file, which has been constructed using LaTeX 2e. The class file is available from the Production Editor or the Editorial Office.
PostScript files cannot be accepted as some editorial changes may be required following acceptance.
Word-processed documents
In addition to the hard copies of the manuscript and figures, authors should provide a copy on disk which may be used for typesetting. Most Macintosh or PC-based word processing packages are acceptable for translation and publication in The Computer Journal. All manuscripts will undergo some editorial modification so it is important to check proofs carefully. Please try to follow the guidelines listed below, they are designed to reduce production delays and minimise editorial changes and thus the possible introduction of errors.
- Save the text as a single word processor file. In addition please provide a text-only file which may be used in some cases.
- Please cite and list references in journal style (see above).
- Complex displayed equations will still be manually typeset. Please replace such equations with the text [insert equation n].
- Use carriage returns to end headings and paragraphs only, not to introduce space between paragraphs and headings.
- Remove automatic justification, page numbering, footnotes, hyphenation, and running heads.
- Do not include copyrighted material or software on the disk.
- The disk should be accompanied by the required number of hard copies.
- Label the disk clearly with the software and hardware used and with the name of the first author.
5. Proof and offprints
One round of page proofs will be sent to the corresponding author for checking. To avoid delays in publication, proofs should be checked and returned immediately by express post, or fax, to the Production Editor (The Computer Journal), at The British Computer Society, 1 Sanford Street, Swindon SN1 1HJ, UK [email: mesmith@bcs.org.uk; fax: +44 (0)1793 480270]. Extensive changes to the text of the paper may be charged to the author. Authors are sent 30 free offprints following publication of their paper. Extra offprints, or single issues of the journal, may be ordered when the corrected proofs are returned using the form provided.
6. LaTeX 2e and the cj.cls file
The Computer Journal class file is based on the article.cls file, as discussed in the LaTeX 2e manual. This guide is not a substitute for the manual.
Front matter
The title is specified with a \title command. A short title is also obtainable by enclosing text in square brackets.
\title[This is the short title] {This is the main title}
Each author should be entered in a separate \author command. After this should follow an address in an \affiliation command; just one affiliation needs to be entered, so long as it is entered after the last author for that affiliation.
If you need to give the same affiliation twice, if an intervening author has a different address. The system will detect this and not print the affiliation twice, but will add appropriate markers to the author names to associate them with the correct affiliation. After exactly one author you should specify a full correspondence address and an email address. The following example will make this clearer.
Two authors, same address:
\author{First Author} \author{Second Author} \affiliation{Department of Style, University of TeX, Country} \email{email@corresponding.author}
Two authors, two addresses:
\author{First Author} \email{email@corresponding.author} \affiliation{Department of Style, University of \TeX, Country} \author{Second Author} \affiliation{Department of Files, University of LaTeX, Country}
Other commands present, which are used by the Journal's production staff are:
\shortauthors{initials & surnames} \received{month date, year} \revised{month date, year} \volumenumber{00} \issuenumber{0} \volumeyear{1996} \begin{abstract} \end{abstract} \begin{document} \maketitle
Floats
As this journal is set in two columns, you may wish to make use of the two-column versions of the floats:
\begin{figure}, \begin{table}
Figure and table floats work as in article class except that the /small font is used and the table captions are ruled.
Font
By default (or with the mathptm option) this class uses Adobe Times Roman for the text font and the mathptm Adobe Times Italic based maths fonts.
The cmfonts option causes the class to revert to the standard TeX Computer Modern Fonts. On many installations this is much more convenient for previewing on screen.
A third option mathtime uses Adobe Times Roman for the text fonts and the `mathtime' Times Italic based math fonts---it should be noted that these latter fonts are commercial.
References
The Computer Journal uses the numbering style of references, with reference number 1 being first reference mentioned in the text. References in the text should be cited by using:
\cite{ref1, ref2}
This produces \cite{ref1, ref2} in the text.
The reference list should be as free from author macros as possible. For example, the Reference list is started by:
\begin{thebibliography}{99}
And each reference is then added as:
\bibitem{ref1} Author, F. F. (1996) How to write my paper in the style of The Computer Journal. {\it Comp. J.}, {\bf 00}, 000--000.
To end the bibliography, type:
\end{thebibliography}
\end{document}
Mathematics
\begin{eqnarray} a&=&\frac{1}{\pi} \int^\infty_{-\infty} \frac{\Lambda}{1-2^{1/4x}}\,dx\\ &=&{\cal A}\frac{1+{\Bbb Z}}{1-{\bi t}}. \end{eqnarray}
Please use \$ for mathematics where possible. For example:
A compare and steer operation takes place resulting in the maximum of $A_n$ and $B_n$ being transferred to $D_n$ and the minimum of $A_n$ and $B_n$ transferred to $C_n$.
Other commands
Theorems and the like
These sections are, for example, begun with:
\begin{theorem} Then you enter your text. \end{theorem}
Acknowledgements
You begin the Acknowledgements section by typing:
\ack
And then adding your text.
If you have any queries about your manuscript please contact: Florence Leroy, Editorial Assistant, The British Computer Society, 1 Sanford Street, Swindon SN1 1HJ, UK, email: fleroy@hq.bcs.org.uk. For production enquiries, please contact: Maxine Smith, Production Editor, The British Computer Society, 1 Sanford Street, Swindon SN1 1HJ, email: mesmith@bcs.org.uk
Editorial Board
| Editor-in-Chief: |
Professor F. Murtagh
School of Computer Science
Queen's University of Belfast
Belfast
BT7 1NN
Email: compj@hq.bcs.org.uk
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| Editorial Assistant: |
F Leroy
The British Computer Society
1 Stanford Street
Swindon - SN1 1HJ
UK
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| Associate Editors: |
I-R Chen, USA
D J Cooke, UK
F Kamareddine, UK
A D McGettrick, UK
Y-C Tseng, Taiwan
Y Zheng, USA
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| Editorial Board: |
D Bell, Belfast, Norhtern Ireland
S Bhandarkar, USA
M Campbell-Kelly, UK
N Donofrio, USA
M Flynn, Stanford, USA
E Gelenbe, London, UK
W Hall, UK
A Katsaggelos, USA
M Kumar, USA
J W Lloyd, Australia
R Lu, Beijing, China
Y Manolopoulos, Greece
G Milne, Australia
R Milner, UK
J Nievergelt, Switzerland
A Ohori, Japan
P Robinson, UK
J Rosenberg, Australia
C J van Rijsbergen, UK
N Shadbold, Southampton, UK
A Tanenbaum, Netherlands
R L Winder, UK
K Wohn, South Korea
A Zamulin, Russia
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