MCSS - Preparation Guidelines

Mathematics of Control, Signals, and Systems (MCSS)

Preparation of a Paper for Publication in MCSS

Please prepare your paper for publication in MCSS by carefully checking the points listed below and by modifying the paper if necessary.

Comments

Please take care of the latest comments of the Associate Editor and of the reviewers if these are enclosed with the decision message or letter.

Title page information

Please check whether the information for the title page is complete. The information is specified in the Instructions to Authors of which a version is available on the web at the address http://www.cwi.nl/~schuppen/mcss/in2authors.html

Abstract

Please recheck the abstract of your paper. The text should be understandable to readers both from within and from outside your area of specialization. The abstract has to cover the main results of your paper.

Keywords

Please supply at least five and at most ten keywords. These keywords are entered in the indices of MCSS and in public data bases. They will be useful to users of these databases in search processes.

Address

Please check whether the address information is correct and complete. Supply your telephone and fax number, and your email address. The email address will be listed in the paper, the telephone and fax numbers are for the use of the Springer copy editor only.

Acknowledgements

The text of acknowledgements is to be placed towards the end of the paper, directly before the reference list.

Appendices

Appendices are to be placed behind the end of the main body of the paper but before the bibliography.

Bibliography

Please check whether the references are in the MCSS format as described in the Instructions to Authors. Check also whether the text of the references is complete. Supply information on recently published references as far as available at the time of submission of the current version of your paper.

Electronic version of paper

Springer-Verlag London Limited, the publisher of MCSS, requests of every paper that appears in the journal, an electronic version. Please send to the address specified in the message the .zip file with a package containing the .tex file, all macros, the .bbl file, and the .eps files of figures or equivalent if any. This version of the paper will be checked by the Editor-in-Chief after which it is forwarded to the publisher.

Last information update 7 April 2004.

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