1. General formatting guidelines:

Manuscripts for ETNA must be developed using the LaTeX style files in the SIAM LaTeX package siamltex. The paper must be written in English and follow the layout defined by that package in order to be considered by an editor. The manuscript may be in color provided it is equally readable when displayed in black and white. The paper should be submitted in the form of one LaTeX file along with optional PostScript files for figures and/or an optional .bbl file for the bibliography.

The SIAM LaTeX package siamltex is available in the LaTeX directory of etna.math.kent.edu. Sample manuscripts are also available there. The SIAM LaTeX package siamltex can also be obtained from SIAM (.zip archive) or from netlib (.tar.gz archive).

2. Key words and AMS subject classifications:

Authors must provide "key words" and the "AMS subject classifications.

3. References:

To facilitate the editing process, authors are especially urged to carefully prepare the "references" of their manuscripts using the correct abbreviations of names of serials. The correct abbreviations can be found, for example, using MathSciNet at http://ams.rice.edu/mathscinet/searchjournals. A PDF file of the correct abbreviations can also be found at http://www.ams.org/msnhtml/serials.pdf. Manuscripts may be returned to authors if the manuscripts and the references are not properly prepared.

The preferred way for formatting the references is to use BIBTeX with the SIAM bibliography style:

         \bibliographystyle{siam}
         \bibliography{YourBibFile}

         \bibitem{Gander-Stuart}
            \textsc{M.~J. Gander and A.~M. Stuart},
            \emph{Space-time continuous analysis of waveform relaxation
                  for the heat equation},
            SIAM J. Sci. Comput., 19 (1998), no. 6, pp.~2014--2031.
         
         \bibitem{More}
            \textsc{J.~J. Mor\'e},
            \emph{A collection of nonlinear model problems},
            in Computational Solutions of Nonlinear Systems of Equations,
               E.~L. Allgower and K.~Georg, eds.,
               Lectures in Appl. Math., 26,
               Amer. Math. Soc., Providence, RI, 1990, pp.~723--762.

4. Figures:

Figures may be produced using LaTeX commands, or they may be produced in PostScript. All manuscripts using PostScript figures must include the LaTeX commands required to incorporate the PostScript files into the manuscript. For example, a manuscript might use the \special command to import a PostScript file as in

         \begin{figure}
               \vspace{260pt}
               \special{psfile=fig1.ps hoffset=10 voffset=70}
               \caption{Blurred image with $0.1\%$ noise.}
         \end{figure}

         \begin{figure}[hbt]
               \centerline{
                     \vbox{\psfig{figure=fig1.ps,height=2.5in}
                           \hbox{\hspace*{.55in}1a. $n = 98304$, $bands = 3$}}
                     \hspace{.4in}
                     \vbox{\psfig{figure=fig2.ps,height=2.5in}
                           \hbox{\hspace*{.45in}1b. $n = 16384$, $bands = 8$}}}
         \end{figure}

Manuscripts submitted to ETNA will be compiled in LaTeX and then converted to PostScript and PDF formats. Currently, a version of the public domain program dvips is being used to make the conversion from *.dvi to PostScript. It is the AUTHOR'S RESPONSIBILITY to see that TeX/LaTeX can compile the manuscript and its accompanying PostScript files. However, successful compilation of the manuscript does not guarantee that the resulting *.dvi file can be processed into PostScript by ETNA's software. In case of difficulties, it may be necessary for the paper's author to revise or reconstruct the paper's PostScript illustrations. Accordingly, authors are advised to save the data and the programs that produced the data until their papers are published. Normally, PostScript files produced by such programs as MATLAB or Maple can be processed without difficulty.

5. Submissions:

To submit a manuscript, send a ready-to-print PostScript or pdf file containing the whole manuscript

• by e-mail to etna@etna.math.kent.edu

• on a CD or floppy disk to ETNA, Department of Mathematical Sciences, Kent State University, Kent, Ohio 44242, USA. The e-mail address of the author to contact for revisions and corrections must be included on the disk in an ASCII file called "address.txt".

6. After submission:

When a manuscript is submitted to ETNA, the paper is entered in the ETNA log. Questions regarding the manuscript can be sent to etna@etna.math.kent.edu.

Once the paper is accepted, the author will be asked to submit the source files, including any figures, bibliographies, and nonstandard LaTeX packages. The author also will be sent a form for transfer of copyright to ETNA.