Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

Overview

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Announcement

Please note that Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society will be moving to publication with Oxford University Press from 2013. New content will be available from October 2012 at: http://mnras.oxfordjournals.org/

Institutional subscribers will receive 2013 renewal notices from OUP. Subscribers should contact OUP directly with any access queries or other issues relating to their subscription. Contact details can be found on this website: http://www.oxfordjournals.org/contact_us.html

Monthly Notices is one of the world's leading primary research journals in astronomy and astrophysics, as well as one of the longest established. It publishes the results of original research in positional and dynamical astronomy, astrophysics, radio astronomy, cosmology, space research and the design of astronomical instruments.

Monthly Notices welcomes submissions from astronomers world-wide; two thirds of its content originates from outside the UK. It is run entirely by astronomers and, receiving no financial support from anywhere, makes its decision to publish only on scientific judgements. Papers are rigorously refereed and fully linked to the ADS database, so they have a high impact. 

Practical advantages to publishing in Monthly Notices:

• no page charges (except for colour in the printed version)
• publication every 10 days.

Aims and Scope

Monthly Notices is one of the world's leading primary research journals in astronomy and astrophysics, as well as one of the longest established. It publishes the results of original research in positional and dynamical astronomy, astrophysics, radio astronomy, cosmology, space research and the design of astronomical instruments.

Monthly Notices welcomes submissions from astronomers world-wide; two thirds of its content originates from outside the UK. It is run entirely by astronomers and, receiving no financial support from anywhere, makes its decision to publish only on scientific judgements. All published papers will have been rigorously peer-reviewed and fully linked to the ADS database, so they have a high impact. 

Practical advantages to publishing in Monthly Notices
- no page charges (except for colour in the printed version)
- publication every 10 days

No page charges
It remains the policy that there will be no page charges for authors. However for Main Journal papers, authors will now be charged a single flat fee of £200 (plus VAT if applicable) for any paper printed with colour figures, regardless of the number of figures involved. Figures that are black-and-white in print but colour on the web are free of charge. The fee will be waived only in exceptional circumstances. Authors are asked to choose colours so that the figures are as clear as possible for readers who may have to print the online versions in black-and-white.

Online Submission
Submission will be made online through our ScholarOne Manuscripts system.  Please contact the Editorial Office Manager at kc@ras.org.uk for details of the submission procedure.

Keywords

monthly notices of the royal astronomical society, astronomy, comets, cosmology, galaxies, meteors, planetary physics, planets, stars, supernovas

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