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- We are aware
that these works are often performed by doctoral students and
young researchers who need peer-reviewed publications in order to
have a chance when evaluated by hiring committees, but this aspect
must not affect the selection of articles published in our
journal. Other communities - such as the experimental high-energy
particle physicists with their huge collaborations and long
preparatory time before first scientific results are obtained -
face similar problems and found ways to solve them; the journals
cannot play this role.
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- We mention here the most frequent
style errors, in the hope that they will occur less frequently in
the future: units should be in roman; subscripts denoting
abbreviations should be in roman; variables should appear in
italics, i.e., in math mode. Minus signs should be real minus
signs, i.e., they must be placed between dollar signs. Table
captions should be above a table, not below. In the references,
the first 3 authors of papers with more than 5 authors should be
mentioned, followed by `et al.'; and not `et al.' already after
the first author.
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lists
- We do, however, keep a master list of referees that
will soon include how often they have been called by A&A Editors in
the recent past.
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referees
- Referees are understandably sensitive to this,
and failure to take their advice into account may impact on their
future willingness to act in this role.
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- We feel that the
referee should be selected from the same pool of people likely to
read articles published in the journal.
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- In a very few cases, the authors
themselves were unable to identify such an independent competent
person within the astronomical community!
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discussed in Sect. 4.3.
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- The Letters
Office does not currently use the MMS system, but handles
manuscripts with a stand-alone computer. This has the consequence
that the Editor-in-Chief cannot access the Letters database, and
vice versa. One advantage of this situation is that regular papers
co-authored by the Editor-in-Chief can be handled by the Letters
Office, and Letters co-authored by the Letters Editor are handled
by the Main Journal Office, with the referees preserving
anonymity.
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by these Editors before taking up their duty.
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- By virtue of a long-standing, tacit
reciprocity agreement motivated by the fact that everyone can
publish for free in MNRAS.
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