1. Manuscripts are accepted for review on the understanding that they have not been published, nor are presently submitted for publication in any other English journals. Enhanced versions of papers previously published in conference proceedings may be considered provided it is notified when the paper is submitted, especially if they are of particularly high quality or include substantially new material. Prior publication of an abstract, summary, or other abbreviated form of the material, shall not preclude publication in this journal when notice of such prior or concurrent publication is given at the time of submission.

2. JCST publishes four types of papers: Regular Paper (Its length is not seriously limited.), Short Paper (Its length is not more than 5 typewritten pages.), Survey, and Review articles. For all manuscripts submitted to this journal, a list of 3--5 keywords and an abstract of 100--200 words are required.

3. All contributions are handled in the same fashion. Review management is under the direction of an area editor, who will solicit two reviews for each submission. Often, review process takes around half a year, and the publication process after acceptance can take an additional six months. However, JCST will make every effort to shorten the process.

4. Submit a hard copy of your article(s) to Ms. Wan Xiaoxian, the Editorial Office, Journal of Computer Science and Technology, P.O. Box 2704, Beijing 100190, The People's Republic of China. Electronic submission is encouraged. Please transfer your paper by attaching its .doc or .pdf or .ps file with JCST E-Submission System or e-mail to jcst@ict.ac.cn. Before you do this please be sure that the file is not infected by viruses. For Chinese authors, a Chinese abstract should also be sent.

5. Authors are invited to submit a final version of an accepted paper as TeX or LaTeX files which should be accompanied by .pdf file of the revised paper; which should also contain a README file explaining any nonstandard conversions of macros, etc., that the author(s) has used. Authors should specify exactly what computer and word processor (including the version) were used. All parts of the manuscript should be typed sesqui-spaced on only one side of the paper with at least one-inch margins all around. Please refer to JCST-STYLE.

6. Please supply the photo and technical biography of each author upon acceptance of the paper.

7. The references should be listed at the end of the manuscript and numbered in the order they are referred to in the text. For journals the following information should appear: names (including initials of the first names) of all authors, full title of the paper, and journal name, volume, issue number, pages and year of publication. For books the following should be listed: author(s), full title, edition, publisher, place of publication and year. Examples are as follows.

    [1] Sayah J Y, Kime C R. Test scheduling in high performance VLSI system implementations. IEEE Trans. Computers, 1992, 41(1): 52-67.
    [2] Gordon Plotkin. A semantics for type checking. Lecture Notes in Computer Science 526 (Ito T, Meyer A R eds.), Springer-Verlag, 1991, pp.1-17.
    [3] Kwan A W, Bic L. Distributed memory computers. In Proc. 6th Int. Parallel Processing Symp., Beverly Hills, California, March 23-26, 1992, pp.10-17.

8. The end of a proof should be marked by a □.

9. All easily confused characters and symbols, upper and lower case letters, as well as block and italicized lettering should be noticed in the README file.

10. Please notify the JCST office immediately of a change of your address.

11. After publication of a manuscript, the author(s) will receive the issue of the Journal free of charge.