期刊名称：IMA JOURNAL OF MATHEMATICAL CONTROL AND INFORMATION
 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 Mathematical Control and Information is dedicated to developing solutions to the unsolved problems in control and information theory.
This information is taken from the Journal Citation Reports, published annually as part of the Science Citation Index by ISI.
The Journal is to provide an outlet for papers which are original and of high quality in mathematical control theory, systems theory, and applied information sciences. Short papers and mathematical correspondence or technical notes will be welcome, although the primary function of the journal is to publish papers of substantial length and coverage. The emphasis will be upon relevance, originality and clarify of presentation, although timeliness may well be an important feature in acceptable papers. Speculative papers that suggest new avenues for research or potential solutions to unsolved problems of control and information theory will be particularly welcome. Specific application papers will not normally be within the remit of the journal. Applications that illustrate techniques or theories will be acceptable. A prime function of the journal is to encourage the interplay between control and information theory and other mathematical sciences through th
All submitted papers will be judged on their merits by at least two referees and a full paper report will be available to the intending authors. Submitted articles will in general be published within six months of submission.
Abstracting and Indexing Services
The IMA Journal of Mathematical Control and Information is covered by the following abstracting/indexing services:-
American Mathematical Society
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Journal Citation Reports /Science Edition
Mathematical Reviews (MR)
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Instructions to Authors
1. SUBMISSION OF MANUSCRIPTS.
Manuscripts should be sent to one of the two Editors. Electronic submissions are particularly welcomed, and these should be in the form of a single postcript or pdf file. Authors of accepted papers will be asked to provide a LATEX file of the paper, so please bear this in mind when preparing the paper for submission. Further information on this is given below. Alternatively hard copies can be sent, and in that case four clear copies are required. Authors should also send two copies of any of their own unpublished work to which crucial reference is made in the paper submitted. If, in the opinion of the Editors, a paper is more suitable for one of the other IMA Journals, they may forward it directly to the Editors of that journal for consideration, subject to the consent of the authors.
For specific information regarding style, please refer to the Ima style guide.
2. MANUSCRIPT LAYOUT.
Manuscripts should be typewritten on one side only with wide margins on high quality paper using double spacing throughout. Each page of the manuscript should be numbered. The front page should contain the article title, author's name and affiliation, keywords, and a summary. The summary or abstract should not exceed 300 words and should be intelligible to general readers without recourse to the main text. A list of notation should be avoided, but new notation and departures from standard use should be explained in text. Avoid footnotes.
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 equation numbers should be related to their own section. For example, section 2 might use:
``2. Main Results, equations numbers (2.1), (2.2) etc.'' Each article should have, in general, a conclusion or discussion section. Any appendices should follow the Reference section.
Equations should be typed wherever possible and punctuated to conform to their place in the syntax of the sentence.
The SI system of units should be used in all papers.
3. ILLUSTRATIONS.
Drawings should be in indian ink on white card, faintly blue- or green-lined graph paper or on tracing cloth or paper. Authors should letter their drawings neatly with upper and lower case lettering. In general it is unnecessary to supply diagrams more than twice the linear dimensions desired in the final reproduction. Please note: it is most important that lines and symbols should be drawn boldly enough to stand reduction to the desired size. Redrawing of submitted diagrams will delay publication. A list of captions and titles should be typed at the end of the manuscript. Any photographs should be high quality gloss prints. The author's name and the figure number should be indicated lightly on the back of the print in soft pencil.
4. REFERENCES.
References will be listed at the end of the main text. The Harvard system, whereby the surname of the author and year of publication of the reference are used in the text is obligatory. The list of references should be in alphabetical order of first-cited names. References by the same author(s) should be in chronological order. The normal form of listed references is author's surname, initials; year in parenthesis; article title; journal name (abbreviated in accordance with the World List of Scientific Periodicals (4th edn)); volume number (underlined); inclusive page numbers.
5. 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.
6. 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: 鈥楾his work was supported by 鈥︹�?
- The full official funding agency name should be given, i.e. 鈥楴ational Institutes of Health鈥? not 鈥楴IH鈥?(full RIN-approved list of UK funding agencies) Grant numbers should be given in brackets as follows: 鈥榌grant number xxxx]
- Multiple grant numbers should be separated by a comma as follows: 鈥榌grant numbers xxxx, yyyy]鈥?
- Agencies should be separated by a semi-colon (plus 鈥榓nd鈥?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: 鈥楾his work was supported by the National Institutes of Health [AA123456 to C.S., BB765432 to M.H.]; and the Alcohol & Education Research Council [hfygr667789].鈥?BR>
5. COPYRIGHT/OFFPRINTS.
It is a condition of publication in the Journal that authors assign copyright to Oxford University Press, by filling in and submitting the Licence to Publish form. 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. In consideration for assignment of copyright, the publisher will supply a URL of the paper. Offprints may be ordered at extra cost at the proof stage, or by submitting the offprint form at any time.
Orders from the UK will be subject to a 17.5% VAT charge. For orders from elsewhere in the EU you or your institution should account for VAT by way of a reverse charge. Please provide us with your or your institution鈥檚 VAT number.
The publisher will not put any limitation on the personal freedom of the author to use material contained in the paper in other works which may be published.
7. ACCEPTANCE OF LATEX
Authors of accepted papers will be asked to provide the LATEX source files of the paper. In preparing the paper, please use the standard article.cls file and when sending the source file for submission, please ensure that all the macros used to write your paper accompany the manuscript. If you have any questions about the use of this file in preparing your paper, please contact: imamci@oxfordjournals.org
For class files please click here
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.
Editorial Board
Editors:
Professor Sarah Spurgeon FREng
Professor of Control Engineering
Department of Electronics
University of Kent
Canterbury
Kent CT27NT
UK
Nick Karcanias
Professor of Control Theory and Design
Associate Dean for Research,
School of Engineering and Mathematical Sciences
Control Engineering Research Centre
City University
Northampton Square
London EC1V OHB
UK
Professor D H Owens
Head of Department of Automatics Control and System Engineering
University of Sheffield
Mappin Street
Sheffield S1 3JD
UK
Professor S P Banks
Department of Automatics Control and System Engineering
University of Sheffield
Mappin Street
Sheffield S1 3JD
UK
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