Editor in Chief: Dr. Shouchuan Hu
Department of Mathematics
Missouri State University
Springfield, MO 65804, USA
Email:   
Phone: (417) 836-5377
Fax:    (417) 886-0559 

Backlog information of AIMS journals can be found at Notices of AMS, September (2005), p. 896, or at
 http://aimsciences.org/journals/backlog.pdf

Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems - Series A (or simply DCDS) publishes peer-reviewed high quality original papers on the theory
and methods of analysis, differential equations and dynamical systems. This journal is committed to being the record for important new results in its field, and will maintain the highest standards of innovation and quality. To be published in this journal, a paper must be correct, new, nontrivial and of interest to a substantial number of readers.

Instructions to Contributors
To expedite the refereeing process, it is strongly recommend that authors concurrently (with hard copies) send in a PDF or PS file of the paper electronically. Manuscripts should be in English and submitted in triplicate (one hard copy if also submitted electronically) to the member of the Editorial Board whose area, in the opinion of the author, is most closely related to the topic of the paper, or to the Managing Editor.

Submission of a manuscript is a representation that the work has not been previously published, has not been copyrighted, is not being submitted for publication elsewhere, and that its submission has been approved by all of the authors and by the institution where the work was carried out; furthermore, that any person cited as a source of personal communications has approved such citation, and that the authors have agreed that the copyright in the article shall be assigned exclusively to the Publisher upon acceptance of the article. The manuscript will not be returned.

Manuscripts should be typed on one side of 8.5 X 11 in (21.5 X 28 cm) white paper, double-spaced, with wide margins. Number each page. Page 1 should contain the title, authors names and complete affiliations. Place any footnotes to the title at the bottom of Page 1. Each paper requires an abstract not exceeding 200 words summarizing the techniques, methods and main conclusions. AMS subject classifications must accompany all articles, placed at the bottom of Page 1 before any other footnotes. Electronic mail addresses, if available, can be placed at the very end of the paper. Each paper requires a separate page containing a proposed running head (abbreviated form of the title) of no more than 40 characters, and the name and mailing address of the author to whom proofs should be sent.

Equations should be centered with the number placed in parentheses at the right margin.
Figures must be drafted in high resolution and high contrast on separate pieces of white paper, in a form suitable for photographic reproduction and reduction.

References should be listed alphabetically, typed and punctuated according to the following examples:

[1]

S.N. Chow and J.K. Hale, "Methods of Bifurcation Theory," Springer-Verlag, New York, 1982.

[2]

J. Serrin, Gradient estimates for solutions of nonlinear elliptic and parabolic equations, in "Contributions to Nonlinear Functional Analysis" (ed. E.H. Zarantonello), Academic Press (1971).

[3]

S. Smale, Stable manifolds for differential equations and diffeomorphisms, Ann. Scuola Norm. Sup. Pisa Cl. Sci., 18 (1963), 97--116.

For journal abbreviations used in bibliographies, consult the list of serials in the latest Mathematical Reviews annual index.

Manuscripts typeset using AmSTeX (amsppt) or AmS-LaTeX (amsart) can move much more quickly through the production process, hence these two TeX forms are strongly recommended to authors for preparing their manuscripts.

Contributions to this journal are published free of charge.
Please also note that DCDS does not offer reprints.