Authors Guidelines
Ars Inveniendi Analytica is a peer-reviewed journal in the broad field of Mathematical Analysis and Partial Differential Equations. This journal calls for papers with the potential to stand in time for their interest, originality and impact. Indeed, a major goal of this editorial enterprise is to firmly establish the arXiv overlay journal model as a viable format for hosting mathematical journals of the highest quality.
This particular publishing model minimizes the operating costs of a journal (editorial flow, indexing, storage and accessibility) to such a low level that full support is possible within the budget of a single sponsoring library. This is achieved by moving the largest share of the costs, which pertains the storage and accessibility, to the arXiv repository (which runs on a non-profit basis, and whose costs are shared by various academic institutions). As a result, publishing a paper on the journal is entirely free for authors, and accessing published papers is completely free for readers.
Submitting an article:
Authors deposit on the arXiv repository the version of their manuscript that they wish to submit to Ars Inveniendi Analytica. The actual submission to the journal is then started by following the “Submit a manuscript” link in this page. During this step, authors have the chance to upload additional documents to the submission, e.g. a cover letter, in the form of a supplementary file.
Submitted papers must: (1) include an abstract, a bibliography, contain an appropriate discussion of their motivation, interest, and originality, and of their relation to the mathematical literature; (2) be written in a reasonable standard of English; (3) not be submitted to another journal while being considered for publication by Ars Inveniendi Analytica; (4) be carefully typeset and proof-read by the authors.
Papers not meeting these four criteria in full will not be considered for editorial processing.
Editorial processing:
The entire editorial flow is processed through the Scholastica platform. Each submission is initially sent to one of the editors-in-chief, who assigns the submission for handling to a member of the editorial board, or decides to directly manage the paper. The designated managing editor contacts referees, possibly first for quick opinions and then subsequently for detailed reports, and, on the basis of the opinions received and of the editorial line of the journal, formulates a tentative recommendation to the responsible editor-in-chief. The editor-in-chief, if needed after additional discussions with the managing editor, makes a final decision and communicates it to the authors. Accepted papers appear as “Communicated by” the corresponding managing editor.
Publishing an article:
When a submission is eventually accepted, authors reformat their paper using the style of the journal (a “shell” LaTeX file with the logo of the journal and specific formatting choices). The reformatted version of the accepted paper is quickly processed by the journal for the addition of the necessary metadata. Finally, the reformatted version with metadata is then posted by the authors on the arXiv repository, with copyright license option CC-BY, and is linked to the journal website.
Authors retain copyright in their work and agree to licence the reformatted version of the accepted paper under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) licence.
Authors will of course be free to post additional versions of their work on the arXiv repository. These eventual new postings will not change the version of record of the published papers, which will have a permanent link on the journal webpage. If notified by the authors about new versions of their published work, the editorial board will draw attention to them on the journal website. In case new versions are published, authors should be mindful about not changing pagination and theorem numbering, or at least about limiting the amount of such changes.
Duties of Editors:
Articles will be evaluated exclusively on the basis of their mathematical interest (originality, ingenuity, impact) and relevance to the scope of the journal (as defined by the areas of expertise covered by the editorial board).
While submitted articles will necessarily be posted on the arXiv repository, and thus their content will be already publicly available, the information of their submission to Ars Inveniendi Analytica will not be disclosed by the editorial board to anyone other than those involved in the editorial process.
Members of the editorial board may submit papers to the journal with the goal of setting a high level of quality for submissions in their areas of interest. They will have no access to any information related to the processing of their papers, and they will take no part in the decision process. Editors-in-chief will not be allowed to submit papers to the journal because they will be involved in the decision process for every submission to the journal.
Editors who have a significant conflict of interest connected with a paper will declare it to the other editors and will avoid participating in the decision process related to that paper.
Duties of Reviewers:
Reviewers’ opinions are requested with the expectation of being objective, articulate and given in good faith. In particular, reviewers should disclose possible conflicts of interest or lack of expertise if they feel these factors could impact their ability to fairly review a paper.
Detailed reports are requested with a deadline which the referee agrees is realistic for completing the task. The main goals of detailed reports are to confirm the substantial correctness of the submission and the quality of its writing and exposition. Since Ars Inveniendi Analytica does not offer copy-editing of accepted papers, referees are also encouraged to point out all sorts of minor errors in their reports.
The submission of paper to Ars Inveniendi Analytica will be kept confidential by reviewers, with the exception of the situation when the paper may be rejected by Ars Inveniendi Analytica, be submitted elsewhere, and the reviewer be contacted again by another journal. In this case, the information of the rejection by Ars Inveniendi Analytica may be confidentially shared by the referee with the editorial board of the other journal.
Duties of Authors:
Authors should submit original work only. Results not due to the authors should be clearly cited. Copying or paraphrasing substantial parts of another paper without attribution is considered plagiarism. No submitted paper should be already published or submitted elsewhere. Authors who discover important errors in their published or submitted papers should immediately notify the editorial board.
Authors retain copyright in their work and agree to licence the reformatted version of the accepted paper under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) licence.
Duties of the Publisher:
Articles in Ars Inveniendi Analytica are published under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) licence and will be free to read in perpetuity. Ars Inveniendi Analytica adheres to the principles as set out by the Fair Open Access Alliance.