Elemente der Mathematik

Author instructions

Formal instructions

This journal uses double-blind review, which means that both the reviewer and author identities are concealed from the reviewers, and vice versa, throughout the review process. If you are submitting a paper, the PDF file must not have any reference to the identity of the authors. Your paper will be refereed and thereafter accepted, returned for revision or rejected. Once your article is accepted, you will be asked to submit it in LaTeX format. Other formats cannot be accepted. Please avoid the use of style files and macros, and use only standard packages.

Figures have to be submitted in TikZ format within LaTeX, or in printing quality in pdf, eps, or jpg format. Figure files should not refer to non-standard fonts. Elemente is printed in color. The online version is also in color.

Elemente display a very brief CV of the author(s) and a short introduction of the article's subject: authors will be asked to make suggestions for both.

Editorial guidelines

Elemente der Mathematik favor publications of the following kind:

• surveys on important developments in mathematics and its applications
• stimulating expositions of more specialized mathematical problems and subjects
• reports on mathematical progress and new mathematical methods and applications in other sciences
• reseach articles which are accessible for non specialist readers

Apart from the choice of subjects, the quality of presentation will decide on the suitability of an article for publication in the journal. Without restriction, we endorse the advice given in this context by Mathematics Magazine: Say something new in an appealing way, or say something old in a refreshing way. But say it intelligibly, presuming a minimum of technical vocabulary. A clear and lively style appropriate for the intended audience will substantially further the understanding of the subject matter.

The title page should include the name, affiliation and address (together with e-mail address) of each author. Elemente articles have no abstract. Footnotes should be avoided.

References should be listed at the end of the manuscript in the form: author(s), title of paper, journal title (abbreviated in accordance with Mathematical Reviews), volume number, year of publication in parentheses, and page numbers. For books, indicate also the publisher. The reference list should be arranged in alphabetical order. Items not cited in the text should not appear in the list.

New problems for the Problem Section should be submitted together with a solution, and of course should not be offered to another journal simultaneously.

Copyright and Offprints

It is a condition of publication in the Journal that authors assign copyright to the Swiss 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.

The Elemente der Mathematik provide authors with the electronic version of their published articles. The option to order offprints of an article is also available, and offprints must be ordered during the galley proof checking process but not at a later point.

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