news - Instructions for authors

An invitation to authors of the EMS-Newsletter

The Newsletter of the European Mathematical Society is first of all a membership bonus for the individual members of the society. Moreover, several departments and libraries have a subscription to the Newsletter.

The editors encourage prospective authors to submit their articles or suggestions for articles to the Newsletter. Articles of interest for the Newsletter may be

Feature articles about or related to mathematical topics. Articles should be of interest to the intended reader who has a mathematics degree (or similar) and should have a certain novelty aspect. They should not require specialist knowledge or be technically sophisticated.
Feature articles focusing on topics within the history of mathematics (including but not restricted to "Anniversaries" or "Memorial Articles") or topics in mathematics education which are of interest to the non-specialist reader.
Interviews with well-known mathematicians or policy-makers.
"Mathematical business" articles that summarize what has happened in/is planned in the EMS committees etc.; also major mathematical events, mathematical competitions and prizes, publishing etc. Moreover, articles on "political" developments of interest to the mathematical community, in particular in Europe.
Societies articles that highlight interesting developments in the national mathematical societies, in mathematical research centres etc.
Book reviews are encouraged. Apart from the short reviews in the "Recent Book" column, longer reviews of one or several mathematics books on a certain theme are of interest.

Submission of articles

Proposals for articles can be sent to any editor (see postal and e-mail addresses in any issue of the Newsletter). They will be collected by the editor-in-chief, Martin Raussen, Department of Mathematical Sciences, Aalborg University, Fredrik Bajersvej 7G, DK ? 9220 Aalborg Øst, Denmark, e-mail: raussen@math.aau.dk.

We prefer to receive articles as electronic documents attached to an e-mail. The preferred formats are

Microsoft Word (for documents without or with very few mathematical formulas)
LaTeX (only for documents with several or a lot of mathematical formulas).

Articles from authors outside the English speaking countries will be sent to the Newsletter's English copy editor for a language check.

Advice for authors

An article should be well-structured. Headings and subheadings help the reader to get a quick overview. Boxes with separate text/illustrations that explain a particular angle of the story to be told (with a frame, shaded...?), provide another possibility for additional structure.

Pictures/graphics are important; they give an immediate impression of what an article is all about, and they break monotonicity. Please propose as many as you can imagine.

CV etc.

Identification of the author is by name, e-mail address, affiliation and a photo (at best electronic, cf. below). Moreover, we appreciate a brief CV (need not be dry and may also indicate private interests; see examples in previous issues of the Newsletter).

Pictures

If at all possible, send pictures in electronic format (.gif, .jpg, .jpeg etc.); you may scan paper illustrations. If this is not possible, send illustrations by ordinary mail, and we will scan them. Please make layout easier for us by including a page (electronic format) with the following indications (for each picture):

Indications		Example
source: usually a URL		source: http://cms.jcmf.cz/emsweekend/cphoto.jpg
caption: a short explaining text		caption: Conference participants at Prague
where: to place in the document?		where: in the section "Programme of the Weekend"