Information for Authors
A research paper submitted to the Communications of the Canadian Mathematical Society (Communications) should be at least 41 pages long. It may be written in English or French. Papers lesser than 41 pages should instead be submitted to the Canadian Journal of Mathematics or to the Canadian Mathematical Bulletin.
Preparing a manuscript for submission
Communications is committed to processing all submitted papers in the shortest possible time. It is vital that authors take care to ensure that the manuscript is in final form and that the paper conforms to the following specifications:
- The first page should contain a short descriptive title, the name(s) of the author(s) followed by an abstract, not exceeding 200 words, which can be read independently of the paper. This should be followed by the Mathematics Subject Classification Number for the primary and secondary subjects of the article. The institutional affiliation and complete address of each author (including e-mail) should appear at the bottom of the last page.
- Citations should be given in an alphabetical bibliography at the end of the paper. The list of references should use the standard abbreviations issued by Mathematical Reviews (MR) and should include the DOI whenever possible. You can find the DOI for an article if one exists by using the Crossref search tool at http://search.crossref.org.
Further Enquiries and Other Issues
Please contact cmc-editors@cms.math.ca
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 materials. Supplementary materials will be published online alongside your article, but will not be published in the pages of the journal. Types of supplementary materials may include, but are not limited to, appendices, additional tables or figures, datasets, videos, and sound files.
Supplementary materials will be published with the same metadata as your parent article, and are considered a formal part of the academic record, so cannot be retracted or modified other than via our article correction processes. Supplementary materials will not be typeset or copyedited, so should be supplied exactly as they are to appear online. Please make sure you are familiar with our detailed guidance on supplementary materials prior to submission.
Where relevant we encourage authors to publish additional qualitative or quantitative research outputs in an appropriate repository, and cite these in manuscripts.