The Bulletin of Symbolic Logic was established in 1995 by the ASL to
The Bulletin of Symbolic Logic primarily publishes two types of papers:
Articles present topics of broad interest in a way that is accessible to a large audience. They can be purely expository, survey, or historical articles or they may contain, in addition, new ideas or results or new approaches to old ones.
Communications should be announcements of important new results and ideas in any aspect of logic; they may be short papers in their final form or preliminary announcements (extended abstracts, position papers) of longer, full papers that will be published elsewhere. In any case, they should include, in addition to a description of the new results or ideas, enough history, background, and explanation to make the significance of the work apparent to a wide audience. Communications will be quickly refereed and published with six months of the submission of final version.
Other high quality submissions not exactly in these categories may be considered. Such submissions should be sent to the Managing Editor.
The Bulletin also publishes a Reviews Section and a Thesis Abstracts Section. These reviews cover important books and articles (especially collections of related articles) in all areas of the field. These Reviews were published in The Journal of Symbolic Logic until the end of 1999. Thesis Abstracts should be submitted prepared as described below and submitted by the thesis advisor as described here.
The Bulletin also publishes reports of ASL meetings, Notices of interest to logicians, and the annual listing of ASL officers, Council members, committee members, and individual and institutional members of the Association.
In order to be considered for publication, papers should be prepared following the guidelines below and should be submitted on-line to one of the editors as directed there.
The Bulletin of Symbolic Logic - Submission Guidelines
Communications will be quickly refereed and published within six months of receipt of the final versions.
Papers should be submitted in PDF. After acceptance a Latex source file, preferably using the asl document class (asl.cls) and BibTeX style (asl.bst) which can be found at Authors Resources, would be much appreciated. A pdf file produced from the source code is also requested at that time.
The BSL publishes only original papers that have not been published previously, and are not submitted for publication elsewhere. Full versions of important papers that have previously been published in conference proceedings are eligible for publication, provided that the submitted paper extends the pre-publication in a significant way. In such cases, when authors submit a paper for publication in the BSL they are requested to provide a precise reference to the pre-publication and to explain the extent to which the submission differs from the conference version.
Please also refer to the guidelines here:
http://aslonline.org/journals/...
Logic Thesis Abstracts in the Bulletin of Symbolic Logic
The Association for Symbolic Logic began publishing abstracts of
Ph.D. theses in logic in 2018. These abstracts appear in the Bulletin of
Symbolic Logic. Sandra Müller is the editor for this section of
the BSL.
Guidelines
Thesis abstracts will be accepted for students who received the Ph.D. in the past three years. The abstracts are to be submitted by the thesis advisor; for a student with two advisors, either one may submit the abstract. It is hoped that the BSL will publish abstracts for all recent Ph.D. theses in logic. The heading for a thesis abstract should give the following information:
- Author of thesis
- Title of thesis
- University or other institution granting degree
- Year in which Ph.D. was conferred
- Thesis advisor(s)
- MSC classification: at least one primary and up to two secondary
- url for thesis (optional)
- Keywords (optional)
- email address for author (optional).
The body of the abstract should briefly say what is in the thesis, what it is about. The suggested length is one page, and two pages is the absolute upper bound. Abstracts should be in English and prepared in TeX. It is expected that most advisors will ask their former students to do the actual writing. The submission should indicate whether it was taken directly from the thesis, and, if not, whether it was prepared solely by the student, solely by the advisor, or by the advisor and student in collaboration. Submitters of abstracts should use the Template for Thesis Abstracts. Click the following links for the style file, and the template.
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Supplementary materials
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Supplementary materials will not be typeset or copyedited, so should be supplied exactly as they are to appear online. Please see our general guidance on supplementary materials for further information.
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