POLICIES

Unpublished material: Submission of a manuscript implies that the work described is not copyrighted, published or submitted elsewhere, except in abstract form. The corresponding author should ensure that all authors approve the manuscript before its submission.

Conflict of interest: When authors submit a manuscript, they are responsible to include their conflicts of interest. If no specified description is given, the Editors assume that no conflict of interest exists.

Copyright: The correspondence author on the behalf of all the authors is requested to transfer copyright to the publisher.

Authorship: The corresponding author should ensure that all appropriate co-authors (who have made a significant contribution) and no inappropriate co-authors are included in the author list of the manuscript, and that all co-authors have seen and approved the final version of the paper and have agreed to its submission for publication.

Peer Review process:

(i) Single-Blind Peer Review Model: Compu. J. Combin. Math. uses the single-blind peer review model (that is, the reviewers know the authors’ identities but the authors do not know the reviewers’ identities).

(ii) Initial Evaluation: Upon submission, a manuscript will be initially evaluated by some member(s) of the editorial board. Those manuscripts which pass this initial screening will be consider for further review process.

(iii) Referees: After the initial evaluation, manuscript will be send to at least two referees for evaluation. Once the referees’ reports on a manuscript are received, they are sent to the corresponding author with an appropriate decision.

(iv) Suggestion for Competant Reviewers: Authors are requested to suggest persons competent to review their manuscript. However, please note that this will be treated only as a suggestion, and the final selection of reviewers is exclusively the Editor’s decision. The final decision of acceptance in made by Managing Editor or, in case of conflict, by the Editor-in-Chief.

(v) Review Speed: The first decision on every submitted manuscript within 3 months of its submission will be tried to complete.

(vi) Managing Editor’s Right: Managing editor reserve the right to decline the submitted manuscript without review, if the studies reported are not sufficiently novel or important to merit publication in the journal.

Scientific Misconduct: This journal publishes only original manuscripts that are not also published or going to be published elsewhere. Multiple submissions/publications, or redundant publications (re-packaging in different words of data already published by the same authors) will be rejected. If they are detected only after publication, the journal reserves the right to publish a Retraction Note. In each particular case Editors will follow COPE’s Code of Conduct and implement its advice.