Risk and Decision Analysis

Author Guidelines

SUBMISSION OF MANUSCRIPT

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Submission of Manuscripts
Authors are requested to submit their manuscript through the journal’s online submission system. Papers deemed suitable for review will be assigned a handling editor based on a match between the topic of the paper and the expertise of the board (see below).

Board member

Edward Altman
New York University
USA

John Bailleul
Boston University
USA

Metin Çakanyildirim
University of Texas at Dallas
USA

Robert Cooper
Florida Atlantic University
USA

Michel Crouhy
IXIS Securities
France

Raphael Douady
LABEX, Université Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne
France

• Stochastic system
• Credit risk

Tyrone Duncan
University of Kansas
USA

Dan Galai
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Israel

Helyette Geman
School of Economics, Mathematics and Statistics
United Kingdom

Dominique Guegan
Université Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne
France

• Risk Measurement and Financial Management

Yacov Y. Haimes
University of Virginia
USA 

• Risk Analysis
• Multi-Objective Programming

Jean-Michel Lasry
Université Paris IX-Dauphine
France

John J. Liu
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Hong Kong

Jean-Hervé Lorenzi
Cie Financière Edmond de Rothschild
France

Ely Merzbach
Bar Ilan University
Israel

Bertrand Munier
GRID-CNRS, ESTP-ENSA
France

Mihai Nadin
University of Texas at Dallas
USA

Shmuel S. Oren
University of California at Berkeley
USA

George Papanicolaou
Stanford University
USA

Bozenna Pasik-Duncan
University of Kansas
USA

Elisabeth Pate-Cornell
Stanford University
USA

Stylianos Perrakis
Concordia University
Canada

• Finance
• Derivatives
• Computational Finance

Olivier P. Pironneau
Université Paris VI
France

Sumit Sarkar
University of Texas at Dallas
USA

Suresh P. Sethi
University of Texas at Dallas
USA

Ronnie Sircar 
Princeton University
USA

• Mathematical Finance
• Stochastic Theory
• Environmental Science

Katepalli Raju Sreenivasan
President NYU-POLY
USA

• Physics
• Stochastic Systems

Lorne Switzer
Concordia University
Canada

• Corporate Finance
• Econometrics

Charles Tapiero
Polytechnic University of New York
USA

• Financial Engineering
• Risk Analysis

Pierre Vallois
Université Henri Poincaré Nancy I
France

Paul Zipkin
Duke University
USA

• Operations research

Please contact Chantal Delabarre for (editorial) questions and/or remarks. In case you have difficulties to link the topic of your paper to the area(s) of expertise of one of the Editorial Board members, please submit your paper to:
c/o Chantal Delabarre
CNES - Centre de Toulouse
DCE/CP - BPI 2011
18 Avenue Edouard Belin
31401 Toulouse cedex 9 -
France
Phone: +33 (0)5 61 28 23 16
Email: rda.delabarre@gmail.com

Required files
For initial submission a .pdf file of the article is sufficient. After an article has been accepted for publication an editable file of the text, such as MsWord or LateX, is required. If you are uploading a paper that has been accepted for publication or accepted pending minor revisions please upload the source files of the paper. If using LaTeX please use our LaTeX template and also send a pdf version of the LaTeX file as well as separate files of all figures (if any); see "Preparation of manuscripts" for the required file formats. LaTeX packages should be compiled into .zip or .rar files.

Publication costs
There are no costs associated to publishing an article in Risk and Decision Analysis, it is free of any charge.

Colour figures
It is possible to have figures printed in colour, provided the cost of their reproduction is paid for by the author. See Preparation of Manuscripts for the required file formats.

Open Access option
The IOS Press Open Library offers authors an Open Access (OA) option. By selecting the OA option, the article will be freely available from the moment it is published, also in the pre-press module. In the Open Library the article processing charges are paid in the form of an Open Access Fee. Authors will receive an Open Access Order Form upon acceptance of their article. Open Access is entirely optional.
See also our website for more information about this option IOS Press Open Library

PREPARATION OF MANUSCRIPTS

Organization of the paper and style of presentation
Manuscripts must be written in English. Authors whose native language is not English are advised to consult a professional English language editing service or a native English speaker prior to submission.

Manuscripts should be prepared with wide margins and double spacing throughout, including the abstract, footnotes and references. Every page of the manuscript, including the title page, references, tables, etc., should be numbered. However, in the text no reference should be made to page numbers; if necessary, one may refer to sections. Try to avoid the excessive use of italics and bold face.

Manuscripts should be organized in the following order:

• Title page
• Body of text (divided by subheadings)
• Acknowledgements
• References
• Tables
• Figure captions
• Figures

Headings and subheadings should be numbered and typed on a separate line, without indentation.

SI units should be used, i.e., the units based on the metre, kilogramme, second, etc.

Title page
The title page should provide the following information:

• Title (should be clear, descriptive and not too long)
• Name(s) of author(s); please indicate who is the corresponding author
• Full affiliation(s)
• Present address of author(s), if different from affiliation
• Complete address of corresponding author, including tel. no., fax no. and e-mail address
• Abstract; should be clear, descriptive, self-explanatory and not longer than 200 words, it should also be suitable for publication in abstracting services
• Keywords

Author contributions
Any author included in the author list should have contributed significantly to the paper, and no person who has made a significant contribution should be omitted from the list of authors. Please read the IOS Press authorship policy for further information.

Tables
Number as Table 1, Table 2 etc, and refer to all of them in the text.

Each table should be provided on a separate page of the manuscript. Tables should not be included in the text.

Each table should have a brief and self-explanatory title.

Column headings should be brief, but sufficiently explanatory. Standard abbreviations of units of measurement should be added between parentheses.

Vertical lines should not be used to separate columns. Leave some extra space between the columns instead.

Any explanations essential to the understanding of the table should be given in footnotes at the bottom of the table.

REFERENCES

References

Authors are requested to use the Vancouver Citation Style.

Place citations as numbers in square brackets in the text. All publications cited in the text should be presented in a list of references at the end of the manuscript. List the references in the order in which they appear in the text. Only articles published or accepted for publication should be listed in the reference list. Submitted articles can be listed as (author(s), unpublished data). If an article has a DOI, this should be provided after the page number details. The number is added after the letters 'doi'. Manuscripts will not be considered if they do not conform to the Vancouver citation guidelines.

References must be listed in Vancouver Style:

[1] Rose ME, Huerbin MB, Melick J, Marion DW, Palmer AM, Schiding JK, et al. Regulation of interstitial excitatory amino acid concentrations after cortical contusion injury. Brain Res. 2002;935(1-2):40-6.

[2] Murray PR, Rosenthal KS, Kobayashi GS, Pfaller MA. Medical microbiology. 4th ed. St. Louis: Mosby; 2002.

[3] Berkow R, Fletcher AJ, editors. The Merck manual of diagnosis and therapy. 16th ed. Rahway (NJ): Merck Research Laboratories; 1992.

[4] Meltzer PS, Kallioniemi A, Trent JM. Chromosome alterations in human solid tumors. In: Vogelstein B, Kinzler KW, editors. The genetic basis of human cancer. New York: McGrawHill; 2002. p. 93-113.

[5] Canadian Cancer Society [homepage on the Internet]. Toronto: The Society; 2006 [updated 2006 May 12; cited 2006 Oct 17]. Available from: www.cancer.ca/.

[6] Tian D, Araki H, Stahl E, Bergelson J, Kreitman M. Signature of balancing selection in Arabidopsis. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. In press 2002.

[7] Fletcher D, Wagstaff CRD. Organisational psychology in elite sport: its emergence, application and future. Psychol Sport Exerc. 2009;10(4):427-34. doi:10.1016/j.psychsport.2009.03.009.

Footnotes
Footnotes should only be used if absolutely essential. In most cases it is possible to incorporate the information in the text.

• If used, they should be numbered in the text, indicated by superscript numbers and kept as short as possible.

  Figures

  Number figures as Fig. 1, Fig. 2, etc and refer to all of them in the text.

  Each figure should be provided on a separate sheet. Figures should not be included in the text.

  Colour figures can be included, provided the cost of their reproduction is paid for by the author.

  For the file formats of the figures please take the following into account:

  • Line art should be have a minimum resolution of 600 dpi, save as EPS or TIFF
  • Grayscales (incl photos) should have a minimum resolution of 300 dpi (no lettering), or 500 dpi (when there is lettering); save as tiff
  • Do not save figures as JPEG, this format may lose information in the process
  • Do not use figures taken from the Internet, the resolution will be too low for printing
  • Do not use colour in your figures if they are to be printed in black & white, as this will reduce the print quality (note that in software often the default is colour, you should change the settings)
  • For figures that should be printed in colour, please send a CMYK encoded EPS or TIFF

Figures should be designed with the format of the page of the journal in mind. They should be of such a size as to allow a reduction of 50%.

On maps and other figures where a scale is needed, use bar scales rather than numerical ones, i.e., do not use scales of the type 1:10,000. This avoids problems if the figures need to be reduced.

Each figure should have a self-explanatory caption. The captions to all figures should be typed on a separate sheet of the manuscript.

Photographs are only acceptable if they have good contrast and intensity.

COPYRIGHT

Copyright of your article
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Article sharing
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Quoting from other publications
Authors, when quoting from someone else's work or when considering reproducing figures or tables from a book or journal article, should make sure that they are not infringing a copyright. Although in general authors may quote from other published works, permission should be obtained from the holder of the copyright if there will be substantial extracts or reproduction of tables, plates, or other figures. If the copyright holder is not the author of the quoted or reproduced material, it is recommended that the permission of the author should also be sought. Material in unpublished letters and manuscripts is also protected and must not be published unless permission has been obtained. Submission of a paper will be interpreted as a statement that the author has obtained all the necessary permission. A suitable acknowledgement of any borrowed material must always be made.

PROOFS

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