At the  Mathematical  Culture and Thought we want to make the process of submitting your manuscript as simple as possible. Please take the time to read and follow them as closely as possible, as doing so will ensure your paper meets the journal’s requirements. 

Contents

• About the Journal
• Peer Review and Ethics 
• Preparing Your Paper 

• Style Guidelines 
• Formatting and Templates 
• References
• Checklist 

• Using Third-Party Material

• Submitting Your Paper

• Publication Charges 

• Copyright Options

• Digital Archive

About the Journal

The Mathematical  Culture and Thought is a peer-reviewed journal that publishes  high-quality, original articles. Please refer to the journal's Aims & Scope for information about about the journal's focus and peer review policy. Please note that this journal publishes manuscripts in Persian only, along with an abstract in English.

The Mathematical  Culture and Thought accepts the following types of articles:

• Articles, Notes, Translations, Book Reviews, Letters to the Editor.

The Mathematical  Culture and Thought publishes high-quality articles, as well as notes and other features, about mathematics and the profession. Its readers space a broad spectrum of mathematical interests, and include professional mathematicians as well as students of mathematics at all collegiate levels.

Peer Review and Ethics

The Mathematical  Culture and Thought is committed to peer-review integrity and upholding the highest standards of review. Once your paper has been assessed for suitability by the editor, it will then be single blind peer reviewed by independent, anonymous expert referees. For more information on peer review process, click here.

Preparing Your Paper

Articles (Original Research, Survey, Review), Notes, Translations, Book Reviews, Problems with Solutions, Letters to the Editor

• The title should be no more than 20 words and should describe the main message of the article.
• The contribution  should contain an unstructured abstract, i.e., should not contain sections or subheadings, of 200 words. Abstracts for articles or notes should entice the prospective reader into exploring the subject of the paper and should make it clear to the reader why this paper is interesting and important. The abstract should highlight the concepts of the paper rather than summarize the mechanics. The abstract is the first impression of the paper, not a technical summary of the paper. Excessive use of notation is discouraged.
• It is important to include relevant keywords (at most five) in the first page of your manuscript text file.
• The Mathematical Culture and Thought 's readers expect a high standard of exposition; they look for articles that inform, stimulate, challenge, and enlighten. The Mathematical Culture and Thought articles are meant to be read, enjoyed, and discussed, rather than just archived. Articles may be expositions of old or new results, historical or biographical essays, speculations or definitive treatments, broad developments, or explorations of a single application. Novelty and generality are far less important than clarity of exposition and broad appeal. Appropriate figures, diagrams, and photographs are encouraged.
• The Mathematical Culture and Thought welcomes translation of notable articles (from any language into Persian), that are within the aims and scope of the journal. Any article to be translated should be sent to the Editor-in-Chief to determine whether it meets the quality requirements for translation. Then, when submitting the translation, it is necessary to send the original article along with its translation. The name and title of the original article should be given in a footnote on the first page of the article.
• Notes are short, sharply focused, and possibly informal. They are often gems that provide a new proof of an old theorem, a novel presentation of a familiar theme, or a lively discussion of a single issue.
• Letters to the Editor on any topic are invited.

How to Send Us Your Contribution?

• Create a Primary File for your contribution. The preferred format is PDF. We accept DOC and DOCX. Note that a LaTeX file is not acceptable as a Primary File. Please compile to PDF first, then upload the LaTeX file as a Secondary File.
• If necessary, prepare Secondary Files for submission. These files are typically those used to create the Primary File, including LaTeX source and figures in PDF/JPG/PNG/GIF format. Other Secondary File formats include DOC/DOCX, RTF, and TXT, to the extent that they are needed to create the Primary File.
• It is important to note that on acceptance, we require that you send us the LaTeX file  of your manuscript prepared on the Mathematical  Culture and Thought template (using the  XePersian package compiled on any iso version of TeXLive).

 Sign In Instructions:

• All submissions must be made via the following submission link: http://mct.iranjournals.ir/contacts?lang=en
• If you are a first-time user, click on Register. A form will appear that will ask for, among other information, your given name, family name, email address, and username. Once you have created you will receive an e-mail  with a password. On subsequent occasions, use the Login tab at the top right of the page in order to log in using your username and password.
• Follow the instructions to fill the web form and upload your Primary File and applicable Secondary Files. Click the Submit button at the bottom of the page to send us your contribution and receive a confirmation message by e-mail.

Style Guidelines

• To expedite  the review, editing, and publication of your  manuscript, please follow   these quick style guidelines when preparing your paper.
• It is recommended that you pay attention to the general principles of writing, especially mathematical writing, according to the guidelines given in the Manual of Style of Mathematical Writing (by S. Kazemi, 2019). A look at  the articles  published  in the journal may be helpful.
• Please use orthography and spelling style consistently throughout your manuscript. We follow the Persian orthography approved by the Academy of Persian Language and Literature.
• In transcription of non-Persian  names, we  generally follows  Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names (F. Majidi, 2003). Please write the native language  form of such names  in the footnote.
• For transliteration of Arabic and Persian names we follow the IJMES Transliteration Chart and the Library of Congress Transliteration Chart.
• The mathematical terms and phrases used in the article should be accordance with  the   Dictionary of Mathematics and Statistics of the Iranian Mathematical Society (2^nd ed.,   2022),   and if a term  is not included in this dictionary, its English equivalent should be given in the footnote.

Formatting and Templates

Authors who use the XePersian  package are urged to use the Mathematical Culture and Thought template  and accompanying mct.sty (and its standard environments) with no custom formatting.

References

Arrange the list of references at the end of the article in alphabetical order of people's last names, not in the order in which you refer in the text of the article.  The actual authors can be referred to, but the reference number(s) must always be given;  indicate references  by number(s) in square brackets in line with the text. In your reference list, you should:

• Include all authors unless there are six or more, in which case only the first author should be given, followed by 'et al.'.
• List authors by last name first, followed by a comma and initials (followed by full stops) of given names.
• Use Roman text for Article and dataset titles, with only the first word of the title having an initial capital and written exactly as it appears in the work cited, ending with a full stop.
• Use italics for book titles, giving all words in the title an initial capital.
• Use italics for journal and data repository names, abbreviating them according to MathSciNet.
• Use bold for volume numbers and the subsequent comma.
• Give the full page range (or article number), where appropriate.

Examples:

• Published papers:

Fomin‎, ‎S.‎, ‎Zelevinsky‎, ‎A.‎, Cluster algebras, I‎. ‎Foundation‎, J‎. ‎Amer‎. ‎Math‎. ‎Soc.‎‎, 15 (2002)‎, ‎497-529‎. 

In Persian:

 کلاینر، ایسرائل، تاریخچۀ بی‌نهایت کوچکها و بی‌نهایت بزرگها در حساب دیفرانسیل و انتگرال‌، ترجمهٔ روح‌الله جهانی‌پور و سید مقصودی، فرهنگ و اندیشهٔ ریاضی، شمارهٔ ۶۵ (۱۳۹۸)،۱۰-۵۰.

• Unpublished papers:

Bourgain‎, ‎J.‎, ‎Roth’s theorem on arithmetic progressions revisited‎, ‎(preprint).

‎Green‎, ‎B‎. ‎J.‎, ‎Tao‎, ‎T.‎,   ‎The primes contain arbitrarily long arithmetic progressions‎, Ann‎. ‎Math. (to appear)‎.

• Books and essays or chapters in books:

Bruns‎, ‎W.‎, ‎Herzog‎, ‎J.‎, Cohen-Macaulay Rings‎, ‎Cambridge University Press‎, ‎Cambridge‎, ‎1993‎.

Baumgart‎, ‎O.‎, The Quadratic Reciprocity Law: ‎A Collection of Classical Proofs (‎edited and translated by F‎. ‎Lemmermeyr)‎, ‎Birkhauser‎, Cham, ‎2015.

Happel‎, ‎D.‎,  On Gorenstein algebras‎, ‎in  Representation Theory of Finite Groups and Finite Dimensional Algebras‎‎, ‎Birkhauser Verlag‎, ‎Basel‎, ‎1991‎, ‎389-404‎.

‎Gowers‎, ‎T.‎, ‎Leader‎, ‎I.‎, ‎Barrow-Green‎, ‎J.‎, ‎eds.‎,   The Princeton Companion to Mathematics‎, ‎Princeton University Press‎, ‎Princeton NJ‎, ‎2008‎.

In Persian:

استرویک، د. ج.‌،‌ تاریخ فشرده ریاضیات، ترجمه غلامرضا  برادران خسروشاهی و حسن کامرانی، نشر نو،‌ تهران،‌ ‎۱۳۶۶‎.

• Online material:

‎Czimek‎, ‎S‎.,  ‎Graf‎, ‎O‎., ‎The canonical foliation on null hypersurfaces in low regularity (‎16 Sep 2019), available at  arXiv:1909.07345,V1.

‎Page‎, ‎L.‎, ‎Method for node ranking in a linked database‎, ‎United States Patent No‎. ‎US 6,285‎, ‎999 B1‎, ‎(January 9‎, ‎1998)‎, ‎available at http://www.google.com/patents/US6285999‎‎2001‎ ‎

‎Stillwell‎, ‎J‎. ‎C.‎,   ‎Archimedes' Lost Method (14 December 2007)‎, ‎in    Encyclopedia Britannica‎,  ‎available at  https://www.britannica.com/topicArchimedes-Lost-Method-1084593‎.

 

Checklist: What to Include

Author details. All authors of a manuscript should include their full name, affiliation, and e-mail address on the manuscript. Authors’ affiliations are the affiliations where the research was conducted. Authors are often listed in alphabetical order. One author will need to be identified as the corresponding author. Large Language Models (LLMs), such as ChatGPT, do not currently satisfy our authorship criteria. You must supply a Publishing Agreement   Form. Read more on authorship and ethical guideline for authors.

Figures. Figures should be high quality (600 dpi for grayscale and 300 dpi for color, at the correct size). Figures should be supplied in one of our preferred file formats: PDF, PS, JPEG, TIFF, or Microsoft Word (DOC or DOCX) files are acceptable for figures that have been drawn in Word.

Tables. Tables should present new information rather than duplicating what is in the text. Readers should be able to interpret the table without reference to the text. Please supply editable files.

Funding details. Please supply all details required by your funding and grant-awarding.

Disclosure statement. This is to acknowledge any financial or non-financial interest that has arisen from the direct applications of your research.You must supply a Declaration of Competing Interests Form. Further guidance on what is a conflict of interest and how to disclose it.

Using Third-Party Material in Your Paper

You must obtain the necessary permission to reuse third-party material in your article. The use of short extracts of text and some other types of material is usually permitted, on a limited basis, for the purposes of criticism and review without securing formal permission. If you wish to include any material in your paper for which you do not hold copyright, and which is not covered by this informal agreement, you will need to obtain written permission from the copyright owner prior to submission.

Submitting Your Paper

This journal uses   the SinaWeb  Journal Management System  to manage the peer-review process. If you haven't submitted a paper to this journal before, you will need to create an account in the   Journal Management System. Please read the guidelines above and then submit your paper in the relevant Author Center.

If you are submitting in  LaTeX (using the  XePersian package), please convert the files to PDF beforehand (you will also need to upload your XePersian source files with the PDF).

Please note that the  Mathematical  Culture and Thought uses the similarity-check systems  Hamyab and  Hamanandjoo  to screen papers for unoriginal material. By submitting your paper to the Mathematical  Culture and Thought you are agreeing to originality checks during the peer-review and production processes.

Publication Charges

There are no submission fees, publication fees or page charges for this journal.

Copyright Options

For authors of papers accepted for publication in the Mathematical  Culture and Thought, a Publishing Agreement Form must be completed prior to publication. With this agreement, authors may choose to transfer copyright to the Iranian Mathematical Society, to retain copyright, and/or choose to dedicate their work to the public domain.

Articles published in the Mathematical  Culture and Thought, will be distributed under the term of  the Creative Commons  Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). Under  CC BY-NC-SA 4.0, the authors retain copyright to their articles.