CSMA-2027 | Author Instructions

Publishing Opportunities

Selected papers from the conference will be published in the special issue of Northeast Journal of Complex Systems (NEJCS).

About The Journal

Northeast Journal of Complex Systems (NEJCS) is a peer-reviewed, online open-access journal on complex systems, a highly interdisciplinary field of research on systems made of a large number of interacting components that can show emergent structures and behaviors across multiple domains. NEJCS strives to publish original research on complex systems in a timely, open-access manner, free of charge for everyone (i.e., the journal does not charge fees for publishing an article).

Articles are published on a rolling basis, i.e., accepted papers are published electronically as soon as their final versions are editorially approved and properly formatted. Articles published in NEJCS are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License. The content published can therefore be downloaded and used only for non-commercial purposes, without modification in any way and only indicating the original source. All accepted papers are published free, open access, according to CC-BY-NC-ND license. NEJCS assigns DOI to each article and manifests zero tolerance for plagiarism.

NEJCS was created and is run by a community of complex systems researchers located primarily in the US Northeast region, as a viable alternative to the current trend of increasingly expensive open-access publishing venues. The journal is an official publication of the Northeast Chapter of the Complex Systems Society, and is managed by the Center of Complex Systems (CoCo) at Binghamton University, with help from the Repository @ Binghamton (ORB) at the Binghamton University Library. The journal contents are permanently archived by the Repository @ Binghamton (ORB), which is part of the Commons Network^TM.

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Manuscript Preparation Guidelines

This document provides details on typesetting and layout requirements pertaining to final manuscript submission to Northeast Journal of Complex Systems (NEJCS).

Formatting Requirements

Begin your paper with a title, author names, their affiliations, and an abstract, followed by the main text.
Do not include page numbers, headers, or footers. These will be added by the editors.
Write your article in English.
Submit your manuscript, including tables, figures, appendices, etc., as a single file (Word, RTF, or PDF files are accepted).
Page size should be 8.5 x 11-inches.
All margins (left, right, top and bottom) should be 1.5 inches (3.8 cm), including your tables and figures.
Single space your text.
Use a single column layout with both left and right margins justified.
Font:
1. Main Body—12 pt. Times or the closest comparable font available
2. Footnotes—10 pt. Times or the closest comparable font available
If figures are included, use high-resolution figures.
Copyedit your manuscript.
When possible, there should be no pages where more than a quarter of the page is empty space.

Additional Recommendations

Indenting, Line Spacing, and Justification

Indent all paragraphs except those following a section heading. An indent should be at least 2 em-spaces.
Do not insert extra space between paragraphs of text with the exception of long quotations, theorems, propositions, special remarks, etc. These should be set off from the surrounding text by additional space above and below.
Don't "widow" or "orphan" text (i.e., ending a page with the first line of a paragraph or beginning a page with the last line of a paragraph).
All text should be left-justified (i.e., flush with the left margin—except where indented). Where possible, it should also be right-justified (i.e., flush with the right margin).

Language & Grammar

All submissions must be in English. Except for common foreign words and phrases, the use of foreign words and phrases should be avoided.
Authors should use proper, standard English grammar. The Elements of Style by William Strunk, Jr. and E. B. White (now in its fourth edition) is the "standard" guide, but other excellent guides (e.g., The Chicago Manual of Style, University of Chicago Press) exist as well.

Article Length

Because this conference publishes electronically, page limits are not as relevant as they are in the world of print publications. We are happy, therefore, to let authors take advantage of this greater "bandwidth" to include material that they might otherwise have to cut to get into a print journal. This said, authors should exercise some discretion with respect to length, especially given that reviewers generally prefer reading short, concise, right-to-the-point manuscripts.

Colored figures

Set the font color to black for the text. We encourage authors to take advantage of the ability to use color in the production of figures, maps, etc., however, you need to appreciate that this will cause some of your readers problems when they print the document on a black & white printer.

Emphasized text

Whenever possible use italics to indicate text you wish to emphasize rather than underlining it. The use of color to emphasize text is discouraged.

Font faces

Except, possibly, where special symbols are needed, use Times or the closest comparable font available. If you desire a second font, for instance for headings, use a sans serif font (e.g., Arial or Computer Modern Sans Serif).

Font size

The main body of text should be set in 12pt. Avoid the use of fonts smaller than 6pt anywhere in your manuscript, including figures and tables.

Foreign terms

Whenever possible, foreign terms should be set in italics rather than underlined.

Headings

Headings (e.g., start of sections) should be distinguished from the main body text by their fonts. Use the same font face for all headings and indicate the hierarchy by reducing the font size. There should be space above and below headings.

Main text

The font for the main body of text must be black and in Times or closest comparable font available.

Titles of scholarly/creative work

Whenever possible, titles of books, films, artworks, etc., should be set in italics rather than underlined.

Footnotes

Footnotes should appear at the bottom of the page on which they are referenced rather than at the end of the paper. Footnotes should be in 10 pt. Times or closest comparable font available, they should be single spaced, and there should be a footnote separator rule (line). Footnote numbers or symbols in the text must follow, rather than precede, punctuation.

Tables and Figures

To the extent possible, tables and figures should appear in the document near where they are referenced in the text. Large tables or figures should be put on pages by themselves. Avoid the use of overly small type in tables. In no case should tables or figures be in a separate document or file.

Mathematics

Roman letters used in mathematical expressions as variables should be italicized. Roman letters used as part of multi-letter function names should not be italicized. Whenever possible, subscripts and superscripts should be a smaller font size than the main text.
Short mathematical expressions should be typed inline. Longer expressions should appear as display math. Equations should be numbered sequentially.

References

It is the author's obligation to provide complete references with the necessary information. References should appear right after the end of the document and should have margins that are both left and right-justified. Each reference should give the last names of all the authors, their first names or first initials, and, optionally, their middle initials.