Mathematical Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy: Instructions to Authors

Instructions to Authors

The submission of a paper implies that it is not being submitted to any other journal for publication.

Manuscripts should be submitted via Manuscript Manager - submit your paper here. Please note, authors need only include a PDF version of their manuscript for their initial submission.

Authors whose manuscripts are accepted for publication will be asked to provide a LaTeX version of their paper based on the guidelines given below.

The author package consists of a class file, mpri.cls, which generates the design specifications of the journal and a pdf file, MPRIA instructions for .tex, which gives instructions for the preparation of electronic manuscripts in LaTeX. If you experience any problems using the author package, please submit your original LaTeX file and a brief description of any problem that you have encountered to the Publications Office.

Each paper must be preceded by an abstract not exceeding 150 words, which should be intelligible in itself without reference to the paper.

Authors should use either ‘British English’ spellings consistently or ‘American English’ spellings consistently.

Reference to theorems, proofs, tables etc. in the paper itself should have an initial uppercase letter: ‘see Theorem 4 above’. Reference to theorems, proofs, tables etc. in other papers should have an initial lowercase letter: ‘it was shown in [5, proposition 2] that’.

Use italic formatting to introduce/define terminology: ‘The Lorentzian inner product is defined by…’.

Items in the reference list should be ordered first alphabetically and then chronologically, i.e. initially, according to the first author’s surname—with single-author works preceding two-author works, which precede three-author works—and then according to the date of publication. Three-author works with the same first author should be arranged chronologically, rather than alphabetically, according to second author. The individual items should be given a number depending on their position in the list, e.g.

[1] A.T. Brown..1992

[2] A.T. Brown..1996

ORCID Number

When submitting your paper, please include your ORCID number. If you do not have an ORCID number, or want to find out more about it, click here.

Once final proofs are agreed, and prior to a paper's publication, authors will be requested to complete and return a copyright form. The copyright form is available to download here.

Publication ethics

Authors submitting papers to an Academy journal should ensure that

• they adhere to all research ethics guidelines of their discipline, particularly where human or animal subjects are involved
• they contact the Editor to identify and correct any material errors upon discovery, whether prior or subsequent to publication of their work
• authorship of the paper is accurately represented, including ensuring that all individuals credited as authors participated in the actual authorship of the work, and that all who participated are credited and have given consent for publication

  Submissions to the journal are assessed using plagiarism-check software.

 

 

Open access

The Royal Irish Academy is committed to the dissemination of scholarship. To that end, it endorses the principles of open access, and is committed to work with and to assist authors and investigators make known their research findings in RIA publications.

The RIA aspires to pursue Green Access as a basic access model. We also participate in JSTOR’s register and read programme which allows individuals to read up to 78 articles a year without charge.

Authors can archive a post-print version of their paper, once the journal in which it appears is published. We request that authors give the citation to the source and link to it. We can supply a DOI to make this linking easier.

Gold Access

There is no submission or publication fee for papers published in the Academy’s journals. However, Open Access brings with it a cost implication. To maximise access to original research, authors now have the option to make their papers freely available from the time of online publication, on payment of an open access charge (APC), which varies based on the size, content and complexity of the article. If an author wishes to take up this option, contact the Publications Office once a paper has been accepted for publication. For such papers, the final published version may be deposited in repositories immediately.

Funder mandates

The Royal Irish Academy will help authors  meet your funders’ mandates on access and licensing. Contact the Publications Office to discuss requirements once an article has been accepted.

Data Protection

When submitting to one of our journals you agree for the Royal Irish Academy Publications department to store and use your data. For more information on how your data is used see our Privacy and Data Protection policies, and the Publications Transparency Statement.