Annals
of Functional Analysis
Instructions for Authors
Policy:
AFA publishes only “short” papers (with less than or equal to 14 pages
in the style of journal). “Long” papers should be submitted to BJMA.
Preparation
Manuscripts
should be typeset in English with double spacing by using AMS-LaTex. The authors should use the AFA style file that has
been developed for LaTeX2e standard and can be found at TMRG_style_file_Latex.tex (see also
TMRG_style_file_Latex.pdf )
The AFA is an
author-prepared journal which means that authors are responsible for the proper
formatting of manuscripts by using the style file of the AFA. The authors
should carefully take care of the following items in their manuscripts:
·
Name of PDF file: It should be surname(s) of author(s)
separated by dash character. "- ", e.g., Dadipour-Sadeghi.pdf
·
Abstract:200 words or
less with no reference number therein.
·
MSC2010: Primary: only one item; Secondary: at least one item
(at least one of Primary or Secondary numbers should be in MSC 43, MSC46 or
MSC47).
·
Key words: At least 3 items and at most 5 items.
·
Authors: Full names, mailing addresses and emails of all authors.
Only one of authors should be the corresponding author.
·
Margins: A long formula should be broken into two or more
lines. Empty spaces in the text should be removed.
·
Tags (formula numbers): Use \label{A} and \eqref{A}.
Remove unused tags.
·
Acknowledgement: If there is any, at the end of paper
but preceding to the references.
·
References: Use \cite{B} to refer to an specific book/paper B
in the text. Remove unused references. References should be listed in the
alphabetical order according to the surnames of the first author at the end of
the paper and should be cited in the text as, e.g., [2] or [3, Theorem 4.2],
etc.
·
Abbreviations: Abbreviations of titles of periodicals/books
should be given by using Math. Reviews, see
Abbreviations of names of
serials or MRLookup.
·
Citations: The total number of self-citations should be at
most 0.25 of the total number of all references. The total number of all
references should be at most 1.5 times the number of pages of the paper, unless
the author really uses them out of introduction, literature review and
preliminaries. Exceptions will be allowed by the editor-in-chief only in the
case of acceptance.
Submission
The
manuscripts must be submitted via online submission.
Or ONLY in the case of any serious problem on web, via email to the editor-in-chief at moslehian@um.ac.ir
(neither to any editor nor to any advisory editor) in PDF format.
The submission must be accompanied with this Cover Letter which should be completed by the corresponding author.
Acknowledgement of the receipt and the notification of the editorial decision
on publication will be sent by the editorial office. All editorial correspondences
should be addressed to the editor-in-chief. Any message will be replied within 2
weeks. Please check the BULK or SPAM folder in your email account! In the
case of not receiving any reply within 2 weeks, the message or
submission should be resent to moslehian@member.ams.org .
Referee
Process
Submitted papers must be correct, original, nontrivial, and well written. If the language used is very poor, the manuscript will be rejected. A submitted paper will be refereed in the traditional way by at least one referee. The AFA tries to make the decision within 4 months after submission (but this primarily depends on the referees), after that time kindly send a reminder to the editor-in-chief. If necessary, the corresponding author would be asked to revise the manuscript according to referee report(s). The editorial board reserves the right to make reasonable modifications in wording.
Galley proof
The
galley proofs of each paper will be sent to the corresponding author, who is
responsible for checking and approving the manuscript on behalf of all
coauthors. A limited number of typographical corrections are anticipated and
extensive revisions may be reviewed again.
Frequency
From the year 2015, One volume per year consisting of 4 issues.
Language
English
Publication charge
There is no publication or page charge associated with this
journal unless the authors would like to publish their paper open access.
Copyright
By submitting a manuscript, the authors agree that the copyright for their article is transferred to the publishers TMRG and DUP, if and when, the paper is accepted for publication. The published articles are distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided each paper is properly cited.
Publishing Ethics
The
publishers are obliged to assist the math community in publishing ethics. No
paper that has been previously published, that has been copyrighted, or that is
being considered for publication elsewhere, should be submitted to the AFA. Nor
may a paper that is under consideration by the AFA be submitted elsewhere. By
submitting a manuscript, the authors confirm that there is no plagiarism and
duplicate submission.