1.JCST publishes three types of papers: Regular Paper (Its length is not seriously limited.), Correspondence (about 10 typewritten pages), and Note (not more than 5 typewritten pages). For all manuscripts submitted to this journal , a list of 2--5 keywords and an abstract of 100--200 words are required.

2.Electronic submission is also encouraged. Please transfer your paper by attaching its .doc or .pdf or .ps file to: jcst@ict.ac.cn Before you do this please be sure that the file is not infected by viruses.

3.All contributions are handled in the same fashion. Review management is under the direction of an area editor, who will solicit two reviews for each submission. Often, review process takes around half a year, and the publication process after acceptance can take an additional six months. However, JCST will make every effort to shorten the process.

4.Authors are invited to submit a final version of an accepted paper as TeX or LaTeX files on floppy disks, which should be accompanied by a hard copy of the revised paper; which should also contain a READ.ME file explaining any nonstandard conversions of macros, etc., that the author(s) has used. Authors should specify exactly what computer and word processor ( including version ) were used, and package your floppy disk carefully to avoid damage in shipping. Papers prepared with Windows Word or Wordperfect are also welcome. If none of these programs are available, send all text aspects of the manuscript in ASCII format.

5.Please supply a technical biography of each author upon acceptance of the paper.

6.The references should be listed at the end of the manuscript and numbered in the order they are referred to in the text. For journals the following information should appear: names ( including initials of the first names) of all authors, full title of the paper, and journal name, volume, pages and year of publication. For books the following should be listed: author(s), full title, edition, publisher, place of publication and year. Examples are as follows.

[1]Sayah J Y, Kime C R. Test scheduling in high performance VLSI system implementations. IEEE Trans. Computers, 1992, 41(1): 52-67.

[2]Gordon Plotkin. A semantics for type checking. In Lecture Notes in Computer Science 526 (Ito T, Meyer A R eds.), Springer-Verlag, 1991, pp.1-17.

[3]Kwan A W, Bic L. Distributed memory computers. In Proc. 6th Int. Parallel Processing Symp., Beverly Hills, California, March 23-26, 1992, pp.10-17.

7.The end of a proof should be marked by a □.

8.All easily confused characters and symbols, upper and lower case letters, as well as block and italicized lettering should be marked with pencil in the margin.

9.Please notify the publisher immediately of a change of your address.