ggd - Instructions for authors

Submission of manuscripts

Authors are strongly encouraged to submit their manuscripts, according to the instructions below, directly to a member of the Editorial Board who is an expert in the respective field. Only in exceptional cases should they be sent to the Editor-in-Chief. Articles may be submitted electronically (.pdf or .ps file), in which case an additional electronic copy needs to be sent to the editorial office at ggd@math.tamu.edu. Articles may also be submitted in hard copy by sending four clear copies, together with the original of any illustrations. Original illustrations will be returned to the authors only if requested. To ease review authors may also send two copies of their own unpublished work to which relevant reference is made in the paper submitted.

Authors may not submit papers that are under consideration for publication elsewhere.

Format of manuscript

The Journal strongly encourages authors to make available LaTex files for typesetting purposes. Upon final acceptance of your paper you will be asked to e-mail all source files and macros, together with postscript or pdf files, to the editorial office at ggd@math.tamu.edu. Authors are advised to create their LaTex files in 'article' format with \textwidth=125 mm and \textheight=195 mm.

The title page should include the name, affiliation and address (together with e-mail address) of each author and a short abstract. The author to whom proofs should be sent should be marked as the corresponding author. The abstract should be written as one paragraph, mathematical formulas should be avoided, and it should not contain displayed mathematical equations or tabular material.

Footnotes should be avoided.

To avoid distortion from rescaling, figures must not be wider than 125 mm. They should be sent as EPS file (encapsulated postscript), or as fair copy on paper, suitable for direct photographic reproduction without major reduction.

All figures, tables, etc. should be numbered, with the insertion place clearly indicated.

References should be listed alphabetically at the end of the paper. All references in the bibliography should be cited at least once in the text. The following examples show the preferred house style for references to a book, a paper in a journal, a paper in a proceedings volume, and an unpublished dissertation:

[1] W. Magnus, A. Karrass, and D. Solitar, Combinatorial group theory. Interscience Publishers, New York 1966.

[2] M. Gromov, Groups of polynomial growth and expanding maps. Inst. Hautes Études Sci. Publ. Math. 53 (1981), 53–73.

[3] S. V. Ivanov and A. Yu. Ol'shanskii, Some applications of graded diagrams in combinatorial group theory. In Groups St Andrews 1989, vol. 2, London Math. Soc. Lecture Note Ser. 160, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1991, 258–308.

[4] E. Rips, Equations in free groups. Ph.D. thesis, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem 1974.

Copyright and Offprints

It is a condition of publication in the Journal that authors assign copyright to the European Mathematical Society. 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, non-commercial publications provided that the Journal is properly acknowledged as the original place of publication.

Authors of papers published in the Journal will be entitled to 30 free offprints, to be shared between authors of joint papers. Extra copies of offprints may be purchased in batches of 100 if ordered in advance of production of the corresponding issue.