A manuscript to be submitted to Discrete Mathematics Letters (DML) for publication should be written in English using LaTeX. The writing must be clear, unambiguous, and grammatically correct. The authors are requested to run their paper through a spell checker before submission. The authors are required to use the DML-template for preparing their manuscript. The submissions not prepared using the journal template will not be processed. A manuscript should be submitted by sending its pdf file as an e-mail attachment to the managing editor through the e-mail address m.secretary@dmlett.com. When submitting a manuscript, the corresponding author may suggest some potential referees. The editorial office may or may not use such suggestions. Submission of a manuscript to DML implies that the manuscript has not been published elsewhere, is not currently submitted for publication elsewhere, and if accepted by this journal, will not be published elsewhere.

While preparing a manuscript for submission to DML, the following points are suggested to be considered:

  • Title: The title of the manuscript should be very precise and it should cover the theme of the manuscript. It is desired, although not compulsory, to avoid using any mathematical formula and/or abbreviation in the title.
  • Authors’ Names and Affiliations: Authors’ full names are preferred. However, in the case where an author has more than two names, at least two full names are required. It is desired, although not compulsory, to avoid using any abbreviation in the authors’ affiliations.
  • Abstract: The main findings should be stated briefly in the abstract. It is desired, although not compulsory, to avoid using any mathematical formula and/or reference(s) in the abstract.
  • Keywords: The manuscript should contain at least three keywords.
  • 2020 Mathematics Subject Classification (MSC): At least one 2020 MSC should be included.
  • LaTeX Environments: Sections, theorems, lemmas, definitions, remarks, equations, etc., should be organized into appropriate LaTeX environments.
  • Acknowledgment: The Acknowledgement section (if needed) should be placed at the end of the manuscript, but preceding the References section.
  • References: The command \cite{ … } should be used for citing references in the text and unused references should be removed. The entries in the references list should be in alphabetical order according to the last name of the first author listed. The abbreviations of the journals’ names, provided by MathSciNet, should be used. If the authors cite the papers that have been retracted, they should include the rationale for doing so in the manuscript text, and they should indicate the articles retracted status in the references list. If the authors cite an erroneous paper whose corrections are available in another paper/note, they should also cite the paper/note addressing the corrections. For preparing the references list, the following way by which references are quoted is desired to follow:
    • [Book] J. A. Bondy, U. S. R. Murty, Graph Theory, Springer, London, 2008. (Italics should be used for the book title.)
    • [Edited Book] K. Burns, R. C. Entringer, A graph-theoretic view of the United States postal service, In: Y. Alavi, A. J. Schvenk (Eds.), Graph Theory, Combinatorics and Algorithms, Wiley, New York, 1995, 323-334. (Italics should be used for the book title.)
    • [Journal Paper] G. Caporossi, P. Hansen, Variable neighborhood search for extremal graphs: 1. The AutoGraphiX system, Discrete Math. 212 (2000) 29-44. (Italics should be used for the journal name, and the volume number should be bold.)
    • [Thesis] M. Debono, Threshold Graphs as Models of Real-World Networks, Master’s thesis, University of Malta, 2012. (Italics should be used for the thesis title.)
  • Length: A manuscript with original results should not exceed 8 pages when prepared using DML-template. The page limit of mini-review articles is 30 pages.