Journal of Cryptology submission guidelines

Instructions to Authors

It is an important aim of this journal to achieve a quick turnaround, enabling the timely reporting of significant results. All papers should be submitted in English. They should include an introduction explaining the motivation and background for the problems being studied, as well as a short but informative abstract and at least five key words. The corresponding author's telephone number should be given. To submit a paper, four copies of the manuscript to be considered should be sent to any member of the editorial board, or the editor-in-chief.

The journal strongly encourages authors to submit electronically prepared manuscripts in LaTeX by electronic mail to any member of the editorial board or the Editor-in-Chief. Follow the instructions set forth here exactly (except that one copy of the submission is sufficient). If, for example, the reference section is incorrectly styled, the value of the electronic submission will be reduced. Please inquire if you do not receive an acknowledgment by electronic mail within one week.

Manuscripts for this journal should be typed on only one side of the page, double spaced, with wide margins all around. All elements of formulae, also, should be typewritten whenever possible.

Each figure (line drawings and graphs) should be submitted on a separate sheet of paper; each diagram should be drawn precisely in India ink. Lettering should be clear and able to withstand reducing if necessary. Figures should preferably be drawn to fit one-half page or less. The maximum reproduction size for the figures is 122x194 mm, or 4.75x7.875 in. All diagrams should be numbered consecutively, and their first mention in the text should be noted in the left hand margin. Legends should be listed consecutively on a single sheet of paper.

The title page of the article should include all the authors' affiliations and the mailing address of the corresponding author, 5-10 key words, and a detailed abstract emphasizing the main contribution of the paper. The use of mathematical symbols should be kept to a minimum in the abstract.

Footnotes other than those referring to the title or author affiliation should be avoided. If they are essential, they should be numbered consecutively and listed on a separate page, following the text.

References should be cited in the text by Arabic numerals in brackets. All references should be gathered together and placed after the end of the text in alphabetical order by the authors' last names; this alphabetical list should be numbered consecutively starting with [1]. For journals, the following information should appear: names (including initials) of all authors, year of publication, full title of paper, journal name, volume, and pages. The citations for papers should include complete titles and publication data. For books, title, publisher, and year should be given, as well as page or section numbers if a specific result is being quoted. Sample reference style:

[1] D. E. R. Denning, Cryptography and Data Security, Addison-Wesley, Reading, 
    MA, 1982.
[2] W. Diffie and M. E. Hellman, New directions in cryptography, IEEE Transactions 
    on Information Theory, vol. IT-22, no. 6(1976), pp. 644-654.
[3] S. Goldwasser, S. Micali, and C. Rackoff, The knowledge complexity of
    interactive proof systems, Proceedings of the 17th Annual Symposium on
    Theory of Computing, ACM, 1985, pp. 291-304.

Upon notification of acceptance, authors will be expected to supply originals of illustrations in a form suitable for photographic reproduction. A standard transfer of copyright will be required.

Marking the Manuscript

Once a manuscript has been accepted for publication, the final version should be sent, marked as follows. In text, words or phrases requiring italic type should be underlined. Only the end of a proof should be indicated by an open box.

All letters in formulae, as well as single letter symbolism in the text, are automatically printed in italic and therefore require no underlining. Please indicate and identify letters to be printed as script, open-face (blackboard bold in TeX), Fraktur, and boldface. Please identify any unusual characters.

Please use pencil for all editorial marks, as the compositor is likely to interpret an ink mark as an element to be printed. If its appearance is ambiguous, underline a capital letter three times. In complicated sections of the text, mark superscripts and subscripts with a caret. Ordinarily subscripts appear below superscripts; they should be typed this way, and marked if variation is desired.

The elements in the table below are often confused and should be identified by the appropriate previously discussed measures or by a circled word or words explaining the element.

The letter O and the number 0, the letter 1 and the number l occur frequently. Each appearance of one or zero should be identified. The number 1 should be written with a hook and a baseline bar. Distinguish between the indefinite article a and the italic letter a used in a mathematical context.

Miscellaneous

Manuscripts submitted according to these instructions will reduce considerably the possibility of printer's errors in the proofs. The only corrections to be made in proofs are typographical errors. Should the author wish to correct stylistic or factual errors in proofs, he or she must absorb the cost. Proofs must be checked and returned to the publisher within forty-eight hours of receipt.

Fifty offprints will be forwarded to the corresponding author, unless otherwise indicated. Additional offprints can be purchased by filling out the Offprint Order Form which will be sent to the corresponding author along with the proofs. Offprints are normally shipped six to eight weeks after the issue in which the item appears.