Instructions for Authors

Submitting a Manuscript

Submissions to the all-electronic SIAM Journal on Applied Dynamical Systems (SIADS) must be in electronic form. Hard-copy submissions will not be considered. Please enter submissions directly into the Journal Submission & Tracking System at http://siads.siam.org. Authors should submit both the manuscript and a cover letter in PDF format.

Figures, if any, must be embedded in the manuscript, with the exception of supplemental files. Supplemental files (notes accompanying the manuscript or multimedia files) are accepted in the following formats.

• TIF (tif)
• JPEG (jpg)
• GIF (gif)
• Animated GIF (gif)
• PostScript (ps)
• Encapsulated PostScript (eps)
• Adobe Photoshop (psd)
• AdobePDF (pdf)
• Audio (au)
• Audio (mp3)
• Audio (wav)
• MPEG (mpg)
• Quicktime (avi)
• Quicktime (mov)
• Plain Text (txt)
• LaTeX (TeX)
• Word (doc)

If you have not used the Journal Submission & Tracking System previously click on "New authors should register for an account." Fill out name, address, e-mail and other contact information requested. You now have a username and password. If you're an author, you can click on the Submit Manuscript link under Author Tasks. The manuscript submission process, including uploading your files, is a straightforward trip through 4 screens and should take no longer than a few minutes.

If you have any questions at any time, e-mail SIAM directly at siads@siam.org.

File information

SIADS authors are encouraged to submit supplemental files to complement their work. Some of these files, such as movie files, may be appropriate for inclusion in the journal; others, such as computer program files, may be more appropriate for DSWeb, SIAM's website devoted to the dynamical systems community. Files intended for inclusion in the journal must be peer reviewed along with the manuscript and should be included with the submission. DSWeb supplemental files will not be peer reviewed with the submitted manuscript and will be discussed with the author only after the submitted paper has been accepted. The manuscript itself should be submitted as a single PDF file with all fonts embedded in the file. For purposes of submission, SIAM does not generally accept TeX source files. If your paper is accepted, you will then be asked to supply a TeX file for production.

Color Images
SIADS welcomes interesting, appealing color images and authors are encouraged to include color figures that enhance and exemplify features of their manuscript. It would be helpful to SIAM if authors created color figure files as cyan-magenta-yellow-black (CMYK, 4-channel) files rather than red-green-blue (RGB, 3-channel) files.

Page and File-Size Limitations
Generally, manuscripts should not exceed 40 pages in length and/or 5 megabytes in file size. Supplemental files should not exceed 50 megabytes in size. Exceptions to these limits must be justified to the editor-in-chief. If these limitations are exceeded, please contact the SIAM office (siads@siam.org) in advance to explain the need for the extra size/space.

Parts of a Paper
Title: Titles should be brief and appropriate for indexing and should specifically describe the content of the paper.

Abstract: An abstract not exceeding 250 words that summarizes the principal techniques and conclusions of the manuscript in relation to known results must accompany each manuscript. Because the abstract must be able to stand independently, mathematical formulas and bibliographic references should be kept to a minimum; bibliographic references must be written out in full (not given by number).

Key words and AMS subject classifications: Lists of key words and AMS subject classifications must accompany all articles. The subject classifications are listed in the Annual Index of Mathematical Reviews and can be accessed or searched online at http://www.ams.org/msc/.

Introduction: All SIADS papers must have clearly written introductions in which the authors outline their new results and explain why their work is of interest. The introduction should help the reader to decide whether to read the details in the paper.

References: References should be listed in either alphabetical order (preferred) or order of citation at the end of the manuscript. The following reference styles should be used:

• Journal articles (titles of journals should be abbreviated in accordance with Mathematical Reviews; abbreviations are available at http://www.ams.org/msnhtml/serials.pdf):
  
  [7] R. T. Rockafellar, Lagrange multipliers and optimality, SIAM Rev., 35 (1993), pp. 183-238.
  
  
• Books, pamphlets, research reports:
  
  [2] B. Mandelbrot, Fractal: Form, Chance and Dimension, W. H. Freeman, San Francisco, CA, 1977.
  
  
• Paper in a bound collection:
  
  [4]A. Nagurney, Parallel computation of economic equilibria, in Applications on Advanced Architecture Computers, G. Astfalk, ed., SIAM, Philadelphia, PA, 1996, pp. 265-276.
  
  
• Acceptable variants on SIAM's references style are:
  
  [R] R. T. Rockafellar, Lagrange multipliers and optimality, SIAM Rev., 35 (1993), pp. 183-238.
  
  or
  
  R. T. Rockafellar (1993), Lagrange multipliers and optimality, SIAM Rev., 35, pp. 183-238.
  

Citations within the text: A consistent style should be used, and the style of in-text citations should conform to the reference style chosen. To refer to a specific page or item in an article or book the following formats may be used: [2, p. 51]; [M, p. 51]; Mandelbrot [2, p. 51]; or Mandelbrot (1977, p. 51).

Original scholarship
A large duplication of another author's or one's own work is a sign of poor scholarship. There is also a copyright issue if the source is not cited. Your manuscript should provide proper citations, use quotation marks or indentation (for quotations of five or more lines) to indicate borrowed wording, and minimize duplication. Refusal by an author to make these necessary changes is grounds for rejection.

TeX Files
Although SIADS is not typeset for printing, it is produced from author-supplied TeX files, and authors of accepted manuscripts will be contacted for their files. (SIAM cannot accept electronic files for papers produced on any other typesetting or word processing system.) More detailed information on SIAM's TeX procedures is sent to authors upon manuscript acceptance.

Accessing SIAM's Multimedia Macros
Authors should prepare papers using SIAM's multimedia LaTeX 2e macros. Note that the SIAM office will reformat Plain TeX and AMSTeX files to LaTeX 2e and the SIAM multimedia style. The LaTeX 2e multimedia macro package and documentation are available here or by sending an email to multimedia@siam.org.

Authors may suggest an editor from among those on the SIADS editorial board, but the editor-in-chief has the exclusive right to assign papers to a specific editor. The editors reserve the right to reject any manuscript that is not completely legible or does not conform to the standards cited here.

Submission of a manuscript to SIADS is representation by the author that the manuscript has not been published or submitted simultaneously for publication elsewhere. If the manuscript appeared in a preliminary form in a conference proceedings, this must be clearly indicated in both your electronic submission form and a footnote on the title page of the manuscript. If your manuscript contains material (for example, tables, figures, movie files, etc.) from another published source, the previously published material must be accompanied by written permission from the author and publisher.