INFORMS Journal on Computing
Charting New Directions in Operations Research & Computer Science
http://joc.pubs.informs.org/
W. David Kelton, Editor-in-Chief
Department of Quantitative Analysis and Operations Management
University of Cincinnati
Cincinnati, OH 45221-0130, USA
david.kelton@uc.edu; Voice +1-513-556-6834; Fax +1-513-556-5499
March 3, 2004
Professor Alberto Caprara
DEIS, Università di Bologna
Viale Risorgimento 2, I-40136 Bologna, Italy
acaprara@deis.unibo.it
Dear Professor Caprara:
On the advice of Dr. William Cook, Area Editor for Design and Analysis of Algorithms, I am very pleased to accept your paper
“Laying Out Sparse Graphs with Provably Minimum Bandwidth,” with Juan-José Salazar-González. Congratulations on a fine piece
of research and writing, which we will be proud to publish.
Before sending your paper to the printer, there are some details that I ask you to take care of right away:
1. Attached (also available under “Instructions for Authors” at the JOC web site) is an Assignment of Copyright form that you
should print, fill out, sign, and date. Please e-mail it back to me as an attached scanned graphics file after it is signed, or
alternatively fax it to me at +1-513-556-5499 (I do not need the original hardcopy). Only one author’s signature is necessary.
2. The “Preparing Manuscripts ...” document, attached, describes and illustrates JOC style on references, sectioning, numbering of
sections, figures, tables, etc.; this document is available in several different formats on the JOC web site, which you can
download and use as a template. Please revise your paper to bring it as closely as possible into conformance with our style.
We’ve done some editing of your manuscript, also attached, but please check that your paper is in the JOC style. By “style” I
refer to the logical style of the paper (e.g., numbering of sections, figures, and tables, and the referencing style); don’t bother
attempting to mimic the cosmetic style (e.g., two-column layout, font type, font size). Our typesetter makes direct use of
authors’ files so it is important to make the changes we’ve noted on your manuscript and to bring your paper into close
conformance to JOC style; your work at this point will be well worth it since the page proofs will be very accurate. Please note
on p. 24 that I’m asking you to transform your web site to a JOC Online Supplement, so please send me the files for that (you
might want to look at http://joc.pubs.informs.org/OnlineSupplements.html to see what others have done).
3. Please send me the source-text version of your final paper in whatever format you have (LaTeX, Word, etc.), preferably by email attachment. If you’re using LaTeX, please send only a single .tex file that is self-contained except possibly for graphics
files (e.g., .eps) and the secdot.sty file referred to on the “Instructions for Authors” web page.
4. Send me your final complete manuscript in PostScript or PDF format, preferably by e-mail attachment. No hardcopy is needed.
5. Please send me high-quality graphics files (PostScript or PDF) of any figures in your paper, either embedded in the file for your
paper in the preceding item or as a separate file. Hardcopy is not necessary.
Since the content-level reviewing of your paper is now finished, you should not make any substantive changes from this point on; and
please be aware that we cannot allow any changes at all once the typesetting is done (except, of course, for any typesetting errors). As
a condition of final acceptance of a paper for publication, the author(s) must indicate if their paper is posted on a working paper
website, other than their own. They are responsible for assuring that, if any part of the paper has been copyrighted for prepublication
as a working paper, the copyright can and will be transferred to INFORMS when the paper has been accepted. This includes both
print and electronic forms of the paper. On acceptance, the text, or any link to full text, must be removed from working paper
websites, other than the author’s own website.
Please return your final manuscript to me via e-mail attachment (hardcopy is not required) as soon as possible, with the signed
Assignment of Copyright form, but in any case within two weeks of receiving this letter to help me meet production schedules.
Thank you again for considering JOC as an outlet for your research, and we hope you will do so again soon.
Sincerely,
W. David Kelton
Enclosed:
Assignment of Copyright form
“Preparing Manuscripts ...” document
Your manuscript, annotated
c:
Dr. William Cook
A Journal of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences