19 November 2021
How long should
my article be?
May I write my
article with co-authors?
Will my article
be refereed?
What flavour of English should I use?
What classfile
should I use?
How should I
generate the bibliography?
Help! I can’t
get the classfile to work!
Can
I use colour figures?
Can I use figures that have previously been published elsewhere?
Does Acta Numerica have style rules for
mathematical notation?
When do I
submit my manuscript?
What
happens after I submit the manuscript?
Are you a
mathematician?
After I have
submitted the manuscript, will I have access to the LaTeX files?
I have queries not answered by this FAQ. Who do I contact?
Yes, but please notify us in advance.
No. However, we suggest that you ask colleagues to read your paper
critically, to offer
comments and remarks. If English is not your first language, we recommend that you ask
a native English speaker to read the paper and offer comments.
Acta Numerica uses the British variety of Standard English, but also aims to be acceptable
to an international readership. We
do sometimes change usages and idioms that stray too
far
from British English norms, but we try not to be pointlessly prescriptive. However, we do insist
on
British spellings, such as ‘centre’, ‘metre’, ‘colour’,
‘behaviour’ and ‘neighbour’. Furthermore,
we use the
Oxford
English
Dictionary
spelling system, in which words such as ‘minimize’ and
‘linearize’
use a ‘z’ but ‘analyse’ has an ‘s’.
We will check for all of these during
copy-editing.
Note that we need British spellings in figure text labels as well as in the main body
of the text.
We strongly encourage you to use the Acta Numerica classfile, acta_2022.cls, ideally from an early
stage.
Note that Acta Numerica has a narrower textwidth than some popular mathematical
classfiles: if your mathematical formulas need to be broken over the line, it’s best if you decide
where the breaks should fall.
Please use the style packages natbib.sty
(with options [longnamesfirst] and \setcitestyle{comma,aysep={}})
and har2nat.sty.
If you are using a .bib file for your
references, you can use our style file
acta-natbib-agsm.bst
to compile the bibliography
text.
If you have any problems, email me at glennis.starling@gmail.com.
I’ll do my best to help.
Yes. All recent volumes of Acta Numerica have been printed in colour.
Yes. However, it is your responsibility to contact the original publisher and obtain permission
before
submitting your manuscript to us. Please advise us
if we need to use particular wording
in the caption.
Yes. Here’s a list:
* lower-case (italic) letters for integersThe official deadline is 1 September in the year preceding
publication.
However, since incoming
papers are processed in sequence rather than
in parallel, we can be flexible. If you plan to deliver
later than
1 September, please let us know a likely target date. Unfortunately,
if you deliver
later than December, we may be forced to defer publication until
the
subsequent volume of
Acta Numerica.
(1) I will copy-edit the paper and amend the LaTeX file.
I will then
prepare a pdf proof, with
substantial changes indicated in red text and a list of queries and comments at the end. I will
make it available via Google Drive.
(2) Once you have checked the pdf proof and conferred with any co-authors, please annotate the
pdf with
your comments and email it to me at
glennis.starling@gmail.com.
Alternatively, you
may send me a list of comments via email.
Ideally, I would like to receive your comments within
two weeks.
(3) I will implement any new changes, and make further
cosmetic improvements, for instance
to pagebreaks and figure
positioning.
I will then make a second pdf proof available for
you to
check. To meet the print deadline, we aim that all papers should reach second proof stage by
the beginning of March.
(4) Please email any comments to me
within one week. The
book will go to press in March
and be printed by June.
No. However, a mathematician advises me on the copy-editing.
No. Once you have submitted the manuscript, control over the LaTeX
files passes to me.
If you make substantial changes to the text, you will need to give full
instructions to me so
that I can implement them in my copy. In this case, you are very
welcome to email me the
latest version of your LaTeX, so that I can copy and paste chunks of
it. However, I will need
full instructions – a ‘guided tour’ – marked on a pdf. Naturally, we hope that substantial
changes won’t
be necessary. In an ideal world, your
submitted manuscript should be as
near to perfect as is possible to achieve!
If you have further queries about technical issues or about the production process, please feel
free
to
contact
me, at glennis.starling@gmail.com. If you have queries
concerning the content
of your
paper, please contact Arieh, at A.Iserles@damtp.cam.ac.uk.