The Review of Symbolic Logic is designed to cultivate research on the borders of logic, philosophy, and the sciences, and to support substantive interactions between these disciplines. The journal welcomes submissions in any of the following areas, broadly construed:
- The general study of logical systems and their semantics, including non-classical logics and algebraic logic;
- Philosophical logic and formal epistemology, including interactions with decision theory and game theory;
- The history, philosophy, and methodology of logic and mathematics, including the history of philosophy of logic and mathematics;
- Applications of logic to the sciences, such as computer science, cognitive science, and linguistics; and logical results addressing foundational issues in the sciences.
The Review welcomes submissions in all these areas. For information on how to submit papers please see the Guidelines below. The Review began publication in June 2008.
Electronic manuscripts
The publisher encourages submission of manuscripts in LaTeX which can be used for direct typesetting. Authors using LaTeX should use the RSL LaTeX class file. This, along with related files, can be found here (zip file download). If you have difficulties obtaining these files please contact [email protected]. While use of the RSL LaTeX file is preferred, plain LaTeX or TeX files can also be accepted.
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Layout of manuscripts
Manuscripts should begin with an abstract of no more than 300 words. Papers should conform to a good standard of English prose; please consult a style guide such as 'The Elements of Style' by Strunk and White, Macmillan, New York. It is encourages to present programs in the one of two styles: either with identifiers in italic and keywords in bold, or entirely in a fixed-width teletype font. Do not begin a sentence with a symbol or identifier name. Please supply Web URLs for the home page of each of the authors of the paper.
Illustrations
Figures should ideally be supplied electronically with captions embedded. Otherwise they must be drawn in Indian ink on good quality white paper. Wherever possible they will be reproduced with the author's original lettering. Originals of figures should not be sent until the paper has been accepted. A list of captions for figures supplied as hardcopy should be attached separately.
ORCID
We encourage authors to identify themselves using ORCID when submitting a manuscript to this journal. ORCID provides a unique identifier for researchers and, through integration with key research workflows such as manuscript submission and grant applications, provides the following benefits:
- Discoverability: ORCID increases the discoverability of your publications, by enabling smarter publisher systems and by helping readers to reliably find work that you have authored.
- Convenience: As more organisations use ORCID, providing your iD or using it to register for services will automatically link activities to your ORCID record, and will enable you to share this information with other systems and platforms you use, saving you re-keying information multiple times.
- Keeping track: Your ORCID record is a neat place to store and (if you choose) share validated information about your research activities and affiliations.
See our ORCID FAQs for more information. If you don’t already have an iD, you can create one by registering directly at https://ORCID.org/register.
ORCIDs can also be used if authors wish to communicate to readers up-to-date information about how they wish to be addressed or referred to (for example, they wish to include pronouns, additional titles, honorifics, name variations, etc.) alongside their published articles. We encourage authors to make use of the ORCID profile’s “Published Name” field for this purpose. This is entirely optional for authors who wish to communicate such information in connection with their article. Please note that this method is not currently recommended for author name changes: see Cambridge’s author name change policy if you want to change your name on an already published article. See our ORCID FAQs for more information.
Author Hub
You can find guides for many aspects of publishing with Cambridge at Author Hub, our suite of resources for Cambridge authors.
English language editing services
Authors, particularly those whose first language is not English, may wish to have their English-language manuscripts checked by a native speaker before submission. This step is optional, but may help to ensure that the academic content of the paper is fully understood by the Editor and any reviewers.
In order to help prospective authors to prepare for submission and to reach their publication goals, Cambridge University Press offers a range of high-quality manuscript preparation services, including language editing. You can find out more on our language services page.
Please note that the use of any of these services is voluntary, and at the author's own expense. Use of these services does not guarantee that the manuscript will be accepted for publication, nor does it restrict the author to submitting to a Cambridge-published journal.
Supplementary materials
Material that is not essential to understanding or supporting a manuscript, but which may nonetheless be relevant or interesting to readers, may be submitted as supplementary material. With the approval of the editors, supplementary material will be published online alongside your article, but will not be published in the pages of the journal. Types of supplementary material may include, but are not limited to, appendices, additional tables or figures, datasets, videos, and sound files.
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.
Where relevant we encourage authors to publish additional qualitative or quantitative research outputs in an appropriate repository., and cite these in manuscripts.