Instructions for Authors
I. Research Papers Authored by Undergraduates
Submitted papers must be authored or coauthored by undergraduate students and written in English.
The submitted paper must be accompanied by a letter from an advisor or sponsor
that documents the fact that the authors did a significant amount of the
research and that the research was done while the authors were undergraduates.
Submission of a manuscript to SIAM Undergraduate Research Online is
representation by the author that the manuscript has not been published or
submitted simultaneously for publication elsewhere. If the paper appeared in
a preliminary form in a conference proceedings, this must be clearly indicated
in both the cover letter and in a footnote on the title page of the manuscript.
If the paper contains material (for example, tables or figures) from another
published source, the previously published material must be accompanied by
written permission from the author and publisher. Complete addresses (including
e-mail addresses and fax and phone numbers) should be provided for all authors.
Instructions to Authors
Submissions to SIAM Undergraduate Research Online must be in electronic
form. Hard-copy submissions will not be considered. Authors should submit the
manuscript, supplemental files, a cover letter, and a letter from an advisor
or sponsor.
Figures, tables: Figures and tables, if any, must be embedded "inline" in your PDF manuscript file.
Supplemental files are accepted, but are optional. See the section below
titled Supplemental files for specifics.
Submitted papers needn’t conform to any particular style or format; however they should be prepared with software that has adequate equation editing capabilities. The manuscript must be submitted in PDF format (Adobe PDF is preferred) with fonts embedded. Figures and tables should be labeled consecutively throughout the paper.
Each paper must be submitted with a letter from an advisor or sponsor. The advisor/sponsor may be a faculty member at the student’s institution or someone associated with a non-academic organization or government lab who supervised the research. The advisor/sponsor’s letter must document the fact that the research was done while the student was an undergraduate. The letter should state the student's current status, including student's graduation date or anticipated graduation date, student's major, and an assessment by the sponsor of the amount of the research performed independently by the student.
Advisors/sponsors will not be listed as coauthors; however, a line will appear on the title page recognizing the guidance of the advisor/sponsor.
Supplemental Files
Authors may and should take advantage of the web-based nature of the publication by submitting supplemental files that include animations, software demonstrations, and innovative graphics. Supplemental files will be evaluated with the manuscript as part of the peer-review process. They should not exceed 30 megabytes in size. We accept the following file formats for supplemental files: 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).
Parts of a Paper
Title: Titles should be brief and appropriate for indexing and should
specifically describe the content of the paper.
Authors’ names: Full names, affiliations and contact information
for the authors must appear on the first page.
Advisor/Sponsor’s name: Full name, affiliation and contact information
for the sponsor must appear on the first page.
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.
Note: Because the abstract must be able to
stand independently, mathematical formulas and bibliographic references in the abstract should be avoided entirely or kept
to a minimum. Bibliographic references must be written out in full
(not given by number).
Introduction: All papers must have clearly written introductions in
which the authors outline their new results, describe the motivation for the
study, 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; when possible, 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).
Manuscript, supplemental files, a cover letter, and a letter from an advisor or sponsor should be submitted to http://www.siam.org/students/siuro/submit/.
II. Expository Papers
SIAM Undergraduate Research Online also publishes papers written by a faculty member, researcher, practitioner, graduate student, or post-doc that are specifically written for the undergraduate audience. Such papers would typically be expository in nature, featuring perhaps a survey of a topic, a new area of application, or a subject of historical interest. Emphasis is place on the quality of the writing and presentation.
Instruction for the Author
Instruction for authors is the same as above with the exception that there is no letter from an advisor or sponsor required and a line in the manuscript for acknowledgment of the advisor/sponsor is not included.
Manuscript, supplemental files, and cover letter should be submitted to http://www.siam.org/students/siuro/submit/.
