The Glasgow Mathematical Journal publishes high quality original research papers in pure and applied mathematics. Its policy is to feature a wide variety of research areas and it welcomes the submission of papers from all parts of the world. Selection for publication is on the basis of reports from specialist referees commissioned by the Subject Editors or Editor-in-Chief.
The Journal encourages the use of .pdf files. LaTeX and Postscript as well as other formats can be uploaded but these will be converted into .pdf format. Note that .dvi files cannot be converted. Care should be taken with this option, especially if non-standard macros are being used, and the .pdf version the system produces should be carefully checked before final submission.
Style guide and class files for submission can be found following this link to OverLeaf.
Layout of manuscripts
Papers should be typed or word-processed in double spacing throughout, with wide margins and on one side of the paper. They should be prepared so as to conform to the practice in current issues of the Journal as regards general layout, references, tables and figures. Please avoid footnotes if possible. Papers must begin with an abstract of not more than 200 words, and they should list at least one AMS 2010 classification number or keyword. This information is also required before your manuscript can be uploaded. Instructions regarding unusual symbols or any typographical point that might cause confusion should be provided on a separate sheet. These may be uploaded as separate files. If special fonts are used, they should conform to the Journal's practice. Authors are reminded that they should retain a copy of anything submitted for publication since neither the Journal nor the publisher can accept liability for any loss.
LaTeX template files for submission (zip file)
Competing interests
Example wording for a declaration is as follows: “Competing interests: Author A is employed at company B. Author C owns shares in company D, is on the Board of company E and is a member of organisation F. Author G has received grants from company H.” If no competing interests exist, the declaration should state “Competing interests: The author(s) declare none”.
Illustrations
Text figures must be suitable for direct photographic reproduction and supplied separate from the text but allocated clearly to sections of the text. Low resolution version may be uploaded at submission as separate files. Originals of figures should not be sent until the paper has been accepted. A list of captions for figures should be attached separately. Black and white figures are free for both online and print publication, while colour figures are free for online publication only. Colour figures for print publication are subjected to RightsLink charges (£200/$320 per figure). Figures should be submitted in the Encapsulated PostScript (EPS/.eps) format; when that is not possible, Word documents containing figures and illustrations in .jpg format are also acceptable.
References
References should be placed at the end of the paper, arranged and numbered in alphabetical order of the author's names. Titles of journals should be abbreviated as in Mathematical Reviews. In the text, reference numbers should be enclosed in square brackets to distinguish them from formula numbers which should be quoted in round brackets. A reference to a book should give the author, title (in italics), edition, publisher, year of publication; e.g.
[1] P. T. Johnstone, Stone Spaces, Cambridge Studies in Advanced Math. no. 3 (Cambridge University Press, 1982).
A reference to an article should give the author, title of article, short title of periodical (in italics), series number (if any), volume number, year, and the beginning and end pages of the paper; e.g.
[2] R. Guralnick, T. Pentilla, C. E. Praeger and J. Saxl, Finite linear groups, Proc. London Math. Soc. (3) 78 (1999), 167-214.
Author affiliations
Author affiliations should represent the institution(s) at which the research presented was conducted and/or supported and/or approved. For non-research content, any affiliations should represent the institution(s) with which each author is currently affiliated.
For more information, please see our author affiliation policy and author affiliation FAQs.
Authorship and contributorship
All authors listed on any papers submitted to this journal must be in agreement that the authors listed would all be considered authors according to disciplinary norms, and that no authors who would reasonably be considered an author have been excluded. For further details on this journal’s authorship policy, please see this journal's publishing ethics policies.
Author Hub
You can find guides for many aspects of publishing with Cambridge at Author Hub, our suite of resources for Cambridge authors.
Competing Interests
All authors must include a competing interest declaration in their main manuscript file. This declaration will be subject to editorial review and may be published in the article.
Competing interests are situations that could be perceived to exert an undue influence on the content or publication of an author’s work. They may include, but are not limited to, financial, professional, contractual or personal relationships or situations.
If the manuscript has multiple authors, the author submitting must include competing interest declarations relevant to all contributing authors.
Example wording for a declaration is as follows: “Competing interests: Author 1 is employed at organisation A, Author 2 is on the Board of company B and is a member of organisation C. Author 3 has received grants from company D.” If no competing interests exist, the declaration should state “Competing interests: The author(s) declare none”.
ORCID
We encourage authors to identify themselves using ORCID when submitting a manuscript to this journal. ORCID provides a unique identifier for researchers and, through integration with key research workflows such as manuscript submission and grant applications, provides the following benefits:
- Discoverability: ORCID increases the discoverability of your publications, by enabling smarter publisher systems and by helping readers to reliably find work that you have authored.
- Convenience: As more organisations use ORCID, providing your iD or using it to register for services will automatically link activities to your ORCID record, and will enable you to share this information with other systems and platforms you use, saving you re-keying information multiple times.
- Keeping track: Your ORCID record is a neat place to store and (if you choose) share validated information about your research activities and affiliations.
See our ORCID FAQs for more information. If you don’t already have an iD, you can create one by registering directly at https://ORCID.org/register.
ORCIDs can also be used if authors wish to communicate to readers up-to-date information about how they wish to be addressed or referred to (for example, they wish to include pronouns, additional titles, honorifics, name variations, etc.) alongside their published articles. We encourage authors to make use of the ORCID profile’s “Published Name” field for this purpose. This is entirely optional for authors who wish to communicate such information in connection with their article. Please note that this method is not currently recommended for author name changes: see Cambridge’s author name change policy if you want to change your name on an already published article. See our ORCID FAQs for more information.
English language editing services
Authors, particularly those whose first language is not English, may wish to have their English-language manuscripts checked by a native speaker before submission. This step is optional, but may help to ensure that the academic content of the paper is fully understood by the Editor and any reviewers.
In order to help prospective authors to prepare for submission and to reach their publication goals, Cambridge University Press offers a range of high-quality manuscript preparation services – including language editing – delivered in partnership with American Journal Experts. You can find out more on our Language Services page.
Please note that the use of any of these services is voluntary, and at the author's own expense. Use of these services does not guarantee that the manuscript will be accepted for publication, nor does it restrict the author to submitting to a Cambridge-published journal.
Policy on prior publication
When authors submit manuscripts to this journal, these manuscripts should not be under consideration, accepted for publication or in press within a different journal, book or similar entity, unless explicit permission or agreement has been sought from all entities involved. However, deposition of a preprint on the author’s personal website, in an institutional repository, or in a preprint archive shall not be viewed as prior or duplicate publication. Authors should follow the Cambridge University Press Preprint Policy regarding preprint archives and maintaining the version of record.
Supplementary materials
Material that is not essential to understanding or supporting a manuscript, but which may nonetheless be relevant or interesting to readers, may be submitted as supplementary material. Supplementary material will be published online alongside your article, but will not be published in the pages of the journal. Types of supplementary material may include, but are not limited to, appendices, additional tables or figures, datasets, videos, and sound files.
Supplementary materials will not be typeset or copyedited, so should be supplied exactly as they are to appear online. Please see our general guidance on supplementary materials for further information.
Where relevant we encourage authors to publish additional qualitative or quantitative research outputs in an appropriate repository, and cite these in manuscripts.