There will be a special issue of Discrete Mathematics devoted to papers presented at the conference, guest edited by Keith Edwards, Jan van den Heuvel, Stephanie Perkins, John Talbot, Bridget Webb and Vadim Zverovich.
Submission of Papers
All submissions to the special issue must be submitted online directly to the journal using the Elsevier Editorial System (EES).
- Papers should be submitted to EES no later than 1700 BST (1600 UTC) on Tuesday 7 July 2009.
- The EES system will ask you to select an article type for your submission; please ensure that you select "Special Issue: 22nd BCC".
- Guidance for authors of papers can be found on the Discrete Mathematics EES page; see in particular the "Guide for Authors".
When preparing papers, please note the following points:
- Only papers presented at the conference will be considered, one paper per talk. Papers should not have been submitted elsewhere.
- Each paper must contain an abstract and a list of keywords.
- The affiliations of all the authors should be included at the head of the paper.
- The full postal address of the corresponding author should be enclosed.
- Each author should be listed with all the initials that they usually use. (Thus D.R.Woodall might appear as Douglas R.Woodall, but not as Douglas Woodall. "For bibliographic purposes, people who throw away initials are a menace!")
- The list of references should use standard Math. Reviews abbreviations for names of journals. Do not include references that are not cited in the paper.
- Use `` or `, not '', for open-quotes. (In LaTeX, `` is two ` characters.)
- Conventionally, in Mathematics only single-letter names of variables are printed in italic. Thus the crossing number of G might be cr(G), while cr(G) is c times its rank; and the transpose of A might be A^t, while A^t is its tth power.
Note that Discrete Mathematics does not publish conference proceedings as such, but only collections of journal-quality papers that happen to have been presented at conferences. We are required by the Editor-in-Chief of Discrete Mathematics to have each paper refereed by two referees to the normal standards expected in that journal. We hope that everyone who submits a paper will be willing, if asked, to act as a referee.
We aim to send the accepted papers to the Editorial Office of Discrete Mathematics in early July 2010.
Almost inevitably, the processing of a small number of papers will be held up by delays on the part of the authors, editors or, most probably, referees. When this happens, for whatever reason, these delayed papers may not appear in the special issue, but they will continue to be processed and, if subsequently accepted, will appear in a regular issue of Discrete Mathematics. Authors are presumed to be aware of the possibility of this happening, and to agree to it, when they submit their papers.
Please contact bccpapers@computing.dundee.ac.uk with any queries relating to the special issue.