期刊名称：IMA JOURNAL OF MANAGEMENT MATHEMATICS
 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 IMA Journal of Management Mathematics is a quarterly, peer reviewed, scholarly journal that publishes insightful scientific research in which Mathematics plays an important role in supporting decision making. It welcomes papers that fall into the following subject areas: OR and Management Science, Financial Modelling & Risk Analysis, Credit Scoring, Model Building and Model Optimization (both stochastic and deterministic), Production Processes, Logistics & Supply Chain Management, Transportation, Marketing Analytics, Decision Making Tools, Health Care Management. Preference is given to papers that contain mathematics that is innovative or original in the context of genuine applications to real problems. The journal should appeal especially to departments of business studies, business schools and departments of industrial engineering, as well as mathematics departments with special interest in OR, financial mathematics, health care management, etc.
Abstracting and Indexing Services
The IMA Journal of Management Mathematics is covered by the following abstracting/indexing services:-
American Mathematical Society
Mathematical Reviews (MR)
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Instructions to Authors
The IMA Journal of Management Mathematics publishes papers in which mathematics and mathematical modelling plays a central role in addressing problems of industry, commerce, business or government.
Papers are welcome which:
contain mathematics that is innovative or original in the context of the problem or problem area being addressed.
represent a genuine application of interesting mathematics to a real problem supported by at least one example drawn from practice--notional examples used to illustrate particular points might be included, but they would not normally be the only examples;
review the development or application of a mathematical technique or concept.
Editors:
Professor Rogemar S Mamon
Department of Statistical and Actuarial Sciences, The University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, N6A 5B7, Canada
Professor P Scarf
Salford Business School, University of Salford, Greater Manchester M5 4WT, UK
Dr Aris A Syntetos
Centre for OR and Applied Statistics, Salford Business School, University of Salford, Manchester M5 4WT, UK
Books for review should be sent to:
Journals Production Department
Oxford University Press, Great Clarendon Street, Oxford OX2 6DP, UK
Submission of manuscripts
Manuscripts should be submitted through the website http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/imaman
Authors must submit either an MS Word file or Latex source files. Authors should not upload a .pdf version of the manuscript--the ScholarOne Manuscripts system must be used to create this document. This process is made explicit during the manuscript submission process. Instructions for authors using Latex is provided below.
The Editors will correspond directly with the authors on the acceptability of their papers. Authors may not submit manuscripts that are under consideration for publication elsewhere.
Form of manuscript
Each page of the manuscript should be numbered. The front page should contain the article title, author's name and affiliation, and an abstract. The abstract should not exceed 300 words and should be intelligible to general readers without recourse to the main text. Authors should provide up to six keywords. Footnotes and a list of notation should be avoided.
For specific information regarding style, please refer to the IMA style guide.
Articles should, in general, begin with an introduction which adequately covers the literature and scope of the paper. Each section in the paper should be numbered and each equation should be numbered sequentially. Each article should have a conclusion or discussion section. Any appendices should precede the Reference section. Equations should be typed wherever possible and punctuated to conform to their place in the syntax of the sentence. When appropriate, authors are expected to make available electronically by web reference data and algorithms referred to or used in articles.
References
References must be indicated in the text by the Harvard system, citing the authors' names and date of publication. References should be listed at the end to the manuscript in alphabetical order of lead name. References by the same author should be in chronological order. The normal form of listed reference is author's surname, initials, years of full publication, article title, journal name (abbreviated in accordance with the World List of Scientific Periodicals 4th Edition), volume number (underlined), inclusive page numbers.
Language Editing
Particularly if English is not your first language, before submitting your manuscript you may wish to have it edited for language. This is not a mandatory step, but may help to ensure that the academic content of your paper is fully understood by journal editors and reviewers. Language editing does not guarantee that your manuscript will be accepted for publication. If you would like information about one such service please click here. There are other specialist language editing companies that offer similar services and you can also use any of these. Authors are liable for all costs associated with such services.
Funding
Details of all funding sources for the work in question should be given in a separate section entitled 'Funding'. This should appear before the 'Acknowledgements' section.
The following rules should be followed:
The sentence should begin: ‘This work was supported by …’
The full official funding agency name should be given, i.e. ‘National Institutes of Health’, not ‘NIH’ (full RIN-approved list of UK funding agencies) Grant numbers should be given in brackets as follows: ‘[grant number xxxx]’
Multiple grant numbers should be separated by a comma as follows: ‘[grant numbers xxxx, yyyy]’
Agencies should be separated by a semi-colon (plus ‘and’ before the last funding agency)
Where individuals need to be specified for certain sources of funding the following text should be added after the relevant agency or grant number 'to [author initials]'.
An example is given here: ‘This work was supported by the National Institutes of Health [AA123456 to C.S., BB765432 to M.H.]; and the Alcohol & Education Research Council [hfygr667789].’
Preparation of Figures and Tables
Figures must be submitted in the best possible quality and should allow for editing during the typesetting phase. Figures should be set within the document at their most appropriate location and not collected at the end of the document. Figure titles must be provided as text, must be separate from the figure object itself, and should immediately follow the figure. For figures produced using MS Excel, the "Chart Title" box should be empty. The use of "Gridlines" should be avoided. The use of a figure border and grey or coloured background areas should be avoided.
All figures submitted to the journal in colour will be published in colour online at no cost (unless the author specifically requests that their figures be in black and white online). Authors may choose to also publish their figures in colour in the print journal for £350 per figure: you will be asked to approve this cost in an e-mail after your article is accepted for publication. Colour figures must have a resolution of at least 300 dots per inch at their final size. Authors, who opt to publish black and white in print, should submit just one figure legend that works for both colour and grayscale. You will be issued an invoice at the time of publication.
Tables should again be positioned within the document at their most appropriate location and not collected at the end of the document. A table title should immediately proceed the table. The use of vertical dividing lines in tables should be kept to a minimum.
Table and figure titles should, within reason, be sufficiently detailed to allow the reader to understand and interpret the quantities represented therein without recourse to the main text of the manuscript.
Copyright/Offprints
Upon receipt of accepted manuscripts at Oxford Journals authors will be invited to complete an online copyright licence to publish form.
Please note that by submitting an article for publication you confirm that you are the corresponding/submitting author and that Oxford University Press ("OUP") may retain your email address for the purpose of communicating with you about the article. You agree to notify OUP immediately if your details change. If your article is accepted for publication OUP will contact you using the email address you have used in the registration process. Please note that OUP does not retain copies of rejected articles.
The publisher will supply free electronic access to the corresponding author of an article. Offprints may be ordered at extra cost at the proof stage using the offprint order form. Orders from the UK will be subject to
Submission of LATEX files to the IMA Journal of Management Mathematics
In preparing the paper, please use the standard article.cls file. When uploading the source file for submission onto ScholarOne Manuscripts, please ensure that all the macros used to write your manuscript accompany the manuscript.
Please follow all the usual instructions to authors as detailed above. However, text width should be set to 30 picas (126 mm) and the page depth to 46 picas (195 mm). It is very important to follow the correct referencing system - see point 3 in the instructions to authors. For class files please click here
Editorial Board
EDITORS:
Professor Rogemar S Mamon
Department of Statistical and Actuarial Sciences
The University of Western Ontario
London, Ontario
N6A 5B7
Canada
Professor P Scarf
Centre for Operations Management, Management Science and Statistics
Salford Business School
University of Salford
Greater Manchester M5 4WT
UK
Professor Aris A Syntetos
Centre for Operations Management, Management Science and Statistics
Salford Business School
University of Salford
Manchester M5 4WT
UK
ASSOCIATE EDITORS:
Professor R D Baker
University of Salford, UK
Professor Russell Barton
Penn State University, USA
Professor John Boylan
Buckinghamshire New University, UK
Professor Wolfgang Brueggemann
University of Hamburg, Germany
Professor Sydney Chu
The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
Professor Giorgio Consigli
University of Bergamo, Italy
Professor K. Darby-Dowman
Brunel University, UK
Dr Paresh Date
Brunel University, UK
Professor Ton De-Kok
Eindhoven University, The Netherlands
Professor Rommert Dekker
Erasmus University, The Netherlands
Professor Zvi Drezner
California State University – Fullerton, USA
Dr Ali Emrouznejad
Aston University, UK
Professor Robert Fourer
Northwestern University, USA
Dr Dimitris Karlis
Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece
Professor Bob Markland
University of South Carolina, USA
Professor C N Potts
University of Southampton, UK
Professor Said Salhi
University of Kent, UK
Professor Tak Kuen Siu
Curtin University of Technology, Australia
Professor Ruud H. Teunter
University of Groningen, The Netherlands
Professor Lyn Thomas
Southampton University, UK
Professor Wenbin Wang
City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
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