This journal is not accepting submissions at this time.
As part of the submission process, authors are required to check off their submission's compliance with all of the following items, and submissions may be returned to authors that do not adhere to these guidelines.
All initial submissions must be made as a PDF file. Authors are welcome to use whatever typesetting tools they prefer to create this initial submission. Authors of accepted papers will be asked to provide a working LaTeX source file with all supporting files (images, bibliography, etc.) Authors using other tools may be required to resubmit their work in LaTeX form. We strongly recommend that authors use LaTeX throughout, to expedite this process.
Faculty may be involved in the research and writing, through advising, mentoring, editing, and being a coauthor, but the majority of the original work and writing must be completed by students. Students must have completed the research while undergraduates, although they do not need to be undergraduates at the time of submission. Each paper must be sponsored by a sponsor familiar with the work who will write a letter of support. Normally the sponsor would be a faculty member who supervised the research, but it could be any professional mathematician who has discussed the work with the student, and given feedback about the results and the writing.
Part of our mission is to mentor undergraduates about the publication process. Hence submissions must be made by a student, not a sponsor, even if the sponsor is a coauthor. If an article is submitted by a sponsor we will not begin the review process until it has been resubmitted by a student author.
Contents: Each paper must include the following:
A relevant title.
A complete list of authors, including an affiliation for each author (as appropriate).
A brief abstract (100-150 words) written for a non-specialist audience. The abstract must not refer to the bibliography.
A bibliography, preferably created using BibTeX. All works included in the bibliography must be cited in the body of the paper. Electronic links to published versions should be included whenever possible.
Acknowledgements. In particular, any sources of funding used to support the work should be acknowledged.
Images: For accepted papers, images must be submitted in a high-resolution format. PDF or EPS are strongly preferred; JPEG and GIF are discouraged as they will not print at sufficiently high quality. Graphics must be in vector format if at all possible.
Formatting: Authors should follow the standard conventions of mathematical writing. The work must be well-organized, and all mathematical formulas must be properly formatted. It is not necessary to “tweak” spacing or formatting beyond standard paragraph breaks, sections, etc. The journal will apply its own style sheet to the final LaTeX file, which will change all spacing.
Author Information: We also ask that each student author include a brief biography including their current institution and future career plans, as applicable.
Sponsor Letter: Before we consider your submission, we ask that you arrange a research sponsor to send an email to mjum@umn.edu in support of your work. The subject line should be:
The email should include the following:
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