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Science in China Series F: Information Science
ISSN 1009-2757
Published 12 issues per year
Editor: YANG Fuqing (Peking University)
Science in China Series F: Information Science , cosponsored by the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the National Natural Science Foundation of China, and published by Science in China Press, is committed to publishing high-quality, original results in both basic and applied research in various fields of information science.
Indexed in SCI
Categories of articles
Reviews summarize representative results and achievements in a particular topic or an area, comment on the current situation, and advise on the research directions. The author's own opinion and related discussion is requested.
Research papers report on important original results in all areas of mathematics.
Brief reports present short reports in a timely manner of the latest important results.
Submission
Authors are recommended to use our online submission services. To submit a manuscript, please visit www.scichina.com, log on at JoMaSy ? (Journal Management System), get an account, and follow the instructions to upload the text and image/table files. If in any case, access to the Internet is not available, a package of three copies of printout and a floppy disk with the files (in Word or Le Tex or PDF format) is requested.
Authors should also submit such accompanying materials as a short statement on the research background, area/subarea and significance of the work, a brief introduction to the first and corresponding authors including their mailing address, post code, telephone number, fax number, and email address. Authors may suggest several referees (please supply full names, addresses, phone, fax and email), and/or request the exclusion of specific reviewers.
Peer review
All submissions will be reviewed by referees selected by the editorial board. The decision of acceptance or rejection of a manuscript is made by the editorial board based on the referees' reports. The entire review process may take 60 to 90 days, and the editorial office will inform the author of the decision as soon as the process is completed. If the editorial board fails to make a decision within 90 days, it is up to the authors to decide whether they would withdraw their paper and submit it elsewhere.
Authorship
Authors should guarantee that their submitted manuscript has not been published before, and has not been submitted elsewhere for print or electronic publication consideration.
Copyright transfer
Submission of a manuscript is taken to imply that all the named authors are aware that they are listed as co-authors, and they have seen and agreed to the submitted version of the paper. No change in the order of listed authors can be made without an agreement signed by all the authors.
Offprint and e-journal account
Once a manuscript is accepted, the authors should send a copyright transfer form signed by all authors to Science in China Press. After it is published, the first-named author or the corresponding author will receive one free copy of the current issue and 30 offprints, and an account which permits one year's free full text access to the electronic
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