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Decision Sciences JournalInformation for Contributors Five copies of the manuscript should be submitted to: Professor Ram Narasimhan Your submission of a paper certifies that none of the contents are copyrighted, published or accepted for publication by another journal, under review by another journal, or submitted to another journal while under review by Decision Sciences. All manuscripts should be printed in Times Roman (12 pt), double-spaced on paper, accompanied by an abstract of not more than 180 words, and an author's vita of not more than 150 words. The author's name and affiliation should appear on a separate page. All equations should be set on separate lines, centered, and numbered consecutively in parentheses that appear flush with the right margin of the page. Figures and charts, as well as tables, should be consecutively numbered in arabic. Decision Sciences does not allow the use of footnotes or end notes. A copy of all referenced forthcoming papers should accompany the submitted manuscript. References should be listed alphabetically by author at the end of the paper and referred to in the body of the text by Name (date). While the ``Name (date)'' style is new to Decision Sciences, the general format remains the same. It would do prospective authors no great harm to scrutinize past issues of the journal prior to preparing manuscripts for submission. However, conformity to exact page layout is not the responsibility of the authors. To facilitate the reviewing process, authors must indicate appropriate key words for their papers. Papers submitted to Decision Sciences without key words will suffer a delay in the assignment of reviewers and associate editors. The key word list presently in use at Decision Sciences is also located on this site, although authors can specify other key words if that list is not adequate. Authors should specify as many key words as apply to their papers, however key words must be specified in at least one functional area and at least one methodological area. Should the manuscript be accepted for publication, the author will be asked to submit a copy of the disc containing the final post-review version of the paper. The word processing file (or ASCII text file) will be used in the typesetting process. There is a nonrefundable submission fee of $25 per manuscript for Institute members and $50 for nonmembers. Checks are to be sent to the editorial offices at Michigan State University along with the manuscripts. March 8, 2004 |
