Submissions

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Submission Preparation Checklist

As part of the submission process, authors are required to check off their submission's compliance with all of the following items, and submissions may be returned to authors that do not adhere to these guidelines.

  • Is the paper written in Latex using SIAM style?
  • Has the manuscript been checked for British English spelling with an automatic spell checker or human proofreader?
  • Is the text containing only ASCII characters? Please check that the special characters (e.g., diacritics) are properly encoded.
  • Have you included all contact information in the paper?
  • Are all the images in the EPS format saved at 300dpi? Are the images placed in a separate folder called figures? Please name the images: img1.eps, img2.eps, ... If the images contain any text is it clearly visible?
  • Is there a call for every figure, table and equation in the paper? Is the call properly formated? The call should have the following format when inside the text: cf. Fig. 1, cf. Table 1, cf. Rel. 1 or cf. Eq. 1. For multiple references use: cf. Figs. 1 and 2, cf. Tables 1 and 2, cf. Eqs. 1 and 2 or cf. Rels. 1 and 2. When referring to a figure, table or equation at the beginning of the sentence do not use the abreviated form.
  • Have you used the algorithmicx package to define your algorithms? We prefer it to maintain coherence and for a smooth technical handling of the article integration in the journal.
  • Are sections and subsections properly referred to? When referring to a section inside a sentence the call should have the following form: cf Sect. 1 or in Sect. 1. When reffering to a section at the beginning of the sentence you can use the following form: Section 1 ....
  • Are all the bibliographical entries quoted in the paper and inserted as bibitems? Do not provide external .bib files! Please avoid starting a sentence with a citation. For example: [1] describes a method ... is not recommended. Use instead: The work depicted in [1] describes a method ...
  • Before uploading the final document to the submission system check that all necessary files are archived, including the PDF file, using any of the popular formats (zip, rar, tar etc.).
  • The archive expected to be uploaded in the next step is ready? DO NOT upload individual files since they will be renamed thus losing consistency with the naming used by the authors.

Author Guidelines

Article preparation

The authors will be required to prepare the source text exclusively in LaTeX using the journal style file (based on the SIAM style: zipped, 30 KB). Figures must be prepared in Encapsulated PostScript (EPS) and appropriately incorporated into the text. The bibliography should be formatted using the SIAM convention. The sources of the paper should be merged in one file. The source file should contain only ASCII symbols. All diacritics should be TeX-encoded.

Note that articles written using Word are not accepted.

Electronic submission

Only electronic submissions are possible.

Submission should be performed using SCPE website by following online submission steps.

Type of papers

SCPE publishes research papers, overview papers, short communications, book and software reviews.

Research papers are limited to approximately 20 pages. Short communications are not to exceed 5 pages.

Overview papers summarize historical developments, state of the art and current research directions of selected subfields of parallel and distributed computing.

When a special issue is targeted, the authors should select 'Special issue' and submit a comment wich special issue they address.

Paper content

Contributions are accepted for review on the understanding that the same work has not been published and that it is not being considered for publication elsewhere.

Substantially revised versions of papers published in not easily accessible conference proceedings can also be submitted. The editor-in-chief, should be notified at the time of submission and the author is responsible for obtaining the necessary copyright releases for all copyrighted material.

The language of the journal is English.

Workflow

Each paper appropriate to the journal will be refereed by a minimum of two referees. The feedback is estimated to be received in three months from the submission. Upon acceptance the authors will be asked to make a final source-based submission.

Note that there are no article processing charges. Green open access is ensured.

Ethics and publication malpractice

The papers that

  • are not appropriate for the journal main track or its special issues or
  • are not respecting the rule of using LaTeX or
  • are not in English language or
  • are flagged as including text similar with other published papers (assisted and manual checks)

will be rejected without passing through the reviewing process. More about ethics and malpractices here.

Waiting time for publication, starting from Autumn 2023

From Autumn 2023, SCPE is flooded by many submissions. Despite the increase of the issues from 4 to 6 per year and the number of papers in an issue 10 times more, the waiting time from submission to publication is ONE YEAR (especially waiting for a publication slot).

 

Copyright Notice

According to the Green Open Access policy, SCPE holds the copyright one year after the publication. The author's accepted manuscript may be self-archived on the author's personal or institutional's internal webssite.  In public open access repositories the author's accepted manuscript can be published one year after the publication of the final version of the article.