Special Matrices

MANUSCRIPTS

Special Matrices encourages the submission of both substantial full-length bodies of work and shorter manuscripts that report novel findings. There are no specific length restrictions for the overall manuscript or individual sections; however, we urge the authors to present and discuss their findings in a concise and accessible manner.

All submissions must be made via online submission system Editorial Manager. In case of problems, please contact the Assistant Managing Editor - AssistantManagingEditor@degruyterbrill.com 

SUBMISSION OF MANUSCRIPTS
Manuscripts have to be written in LATEX, AMS-TEX, AMS-LATEX. We do not accept papers in Plain TEX format. For an initial submission, the authors are strongly advised to upload their entire manuscript, including tables and figures, as a single PDF file.< br />For detai led information, please see Instruction for Authors 

EDITORIAL POLICY
Unpublished material: Submission of a manuscript implies that the work described is not copyrighted, published or submitted elsewhere, except in abstract form. The corresponding author should ensure that all authors approve the manuscript before its submission.

Ethical conduct of research: The authors must describe and confirm safeguards to meet ethical standards when applicable. See Editorial Policy for details.

Conflict of interest: When authors submit a manuscript, they are responsible for recognizing and disclosing financial and/or other conflicts of interest that might bias their work and/or could inappropriately influ ence his/her judgment. If no specified acknowledgement is given, the Editors assume that no conflict of interest exists. Authors are encouraged to fill in the ICMJE Conflicts of Interest Form (available here) and send it in the electronic format to the Managing Editor.

Copyright: All authors retain copyright, unless – due to their local circumstances – their work is not copyrighted. The copyrights are governed by the Creative-Commons Attribution Only license (CC-BY) which is compliant with Plan-S. The corresponding author grants the journal the license to use of the article, by signing the License To Publish. Scanned copy of license should be sent to the journal, as soon as possible.

Authorship: Authorship should be limite d to those who have made a significant contribution to the conception, design, execution, or interpretation of the reported study. All those who have made significant contributions should be listed as co-authors. Where there are others who have participated in certain substantive aspects of the research project, they should be named in an Acknowledgement section. The corresponding author should ensure that all appropriate co-authors (according to the above definition) and no inappropriate co-authors are included in the author list of the manuscript, and that all co-authors have seen and approved the final version of the paper and have agreed to its submission for publication. For more details the role of authors please see: https://www.degruyter.com/publishing/for-authors/for-journal-authors/role-of-authors

Peer Review process: Our standard policy requires each paper reporting primary research or secondary analysis of primary research, together with relevant supplementary materials if requested by Referees, to be reviewed by at least two Referees and the peer-review process is single-blind. The Editors reserve the right to decline the submitted manuscript without review, if the studies reported are not sufficiently novel or important to merit publication in the journal. Manuscripts deemed unsuitable (insufficient originality or of limited interest to the target audience) are returned to the author(s) without review. The Editor seeks advice from experts in the appropriate field. Research articles and communications are refereed by a minimum of two reviewers, review papers by at least three. Authors are requested to suggest persons competent to review their manuscript. However, please note that this will be treated only as a suggestion, and the final selection of reviewers is exclusively the Editor's decision. The final decision of acceptance in made by Managing Editor or, in case of confl ict, by the Editor-in-Chief.

Scientific Misconduct: This journal publishes only original manuscripts that are not also published or going to be published elsewhere. Multiple submissions/publications, or redundant publications (re-packaging in different words of data already published by the same authors) will be rejected. If they are detected only after publication, the journal reserves the right to publish a Retraction Note. In each particular case Editors will follow COPE’s Core Practices and implement the advices.

Editor-in-Chief
Carlos Martins da Fonseca, Kuwait College of Science and Technology, Kuwait

Editorial Advisory Board
Natália Bebiano, Department of Mathematics, University of Coimbra, Portugal
Ángeles Carmona, Matemàtica Aplicada III, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya- BarcelonaTech, Spain
Gi-Sang Cheon, Department of Mathematics, Sungkyunkwan University, Suwon, Korea
Geir Dahl, Department of Mathematics, University of Oslo, Norway
Shmuel Friedland, Department of Mathematics, Statistics, and Computer Science, University of Illinois, Chicago, USA
Catherine Greenhill, School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
Alexander E. Guterman, Department of Mathematics, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, Israel
Frank J. Hall, Georgia State University, USA
Charles R. Johnson, College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, USA
Ilias S. Kotsireas, Wilfrid Laurie r University, Canada
Bojan Kuzma, Faculty of Mathematics, Natural Sciences and Information Technologies, University of Primorska, Slovenia
Thomas Laffey, School of Mathematical Sciences, University College Dublin, Ireland
Kevin Vander Meulen, Department of Mathematics, Redeemer University College, Canada
Marilena Mitrouli, Department of Mathematics, University of Athens, Greece
Jennifer Seberry, University of Wollongong, Australia
Irene Sciriha, Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Science University of Malta, Malta
Simone Severini, Department of Computer Science and Department of Physics & Astronomy, University College London, United Kingdom
Ilya Spitkovsky, College of William & Mary, USA
Tin-Yau Tam, University of Nevada, Reno, USA
Qing-Wen Wang, Shanghai University, China
Raf Vandebril, Dept. Computerwetenschappen, KU Leuven, Belgium
Luis Verde-Star, Department of Mathematics, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, Mexico
Io n Zaballa, Departamento de MatemáticaAplicada, Uni versidad del País Vasco-Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea, Spain
Fuzhen Zhang, Division of Math, Science, and Technology, Farquhar College of Arts and Sciences, Nova Southeastern University, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA

Assistant Editors
Zhibin Du, School of Mathematics and Information Sciences, Zhaoqing University Guangdong, China
Rosário Fernandes, University of Lisbon, Portugal

Publisher
De Gruyter Brill Sp. z o.o.
Nowogrodzka 4/3
00-513 Warsaw, Poland
T: +48 22 245 33 55

Editorial Contact
Kumaran Rengaswamy
Assistant Managing Editor, Compuscript
assistant.managing.editor@degruyterbrill.com

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