Automatica, November 1996, Volume 32, No. 11

Editorial

The AUTOMATICA and Editor-in-Chief's World Wide Web Sites

For the benefit of their customers, Automatica's publisher Elsevier Science maintains Internet sites in Europe http://www.elsevier.nl and the USA http://www.elsevier.com as well as an ftp site ftp.elsevier.nl. The sites provides useful and important information about the Elsevier Science journals and other publications. Also Automatica has a home page http://www.elsevier.nl/locate/automatica, which has been "live" for almost two years. Consult it when you are looking for

• Automatica's aims and scope,
• editors' contact information,
• instructions for authors,
• abstracting and indexing information,
• a list with links to related publications, such as Control Engineering Practice,
• bibliographic information (ISSN number, subscription prices and an order form),
• a sample copy request form, and
• information on Elsevier's Contents Direct service.

There also is a guest book.

Recently, a separate site was established for the Editor-in-Chief's home page http://www.math.utwente.nl/eic. It is of course linked to the Automatica home page. Besides a welcome message, links to the Automatica home page and the IFAC and Elsevier Science sites, these services are offered:

• An up-to-date list of papers that have been accepted for publication and will appear in future issues of Automatica.
• The full texts of recent and advance editorials.
• Access to an up-to-date data base of the cumulative table of contents of Automatica starting with Volume 1 (1965), which may be searched by specifying one to five search strings.
• An editors' gallery with photographs, full addresses and information about the Automatica editors.
• Instructions for the preparation and submission of papers.
• Information about the preparation of final versions of papers as LaTeX documents and links to the Elsevier ftp site for downloading the Elsevier elsart LaTeX style files and guidelines for authors.

The Editor-in-Chief's site will play an important role in an experiment with the electronic submission of papers that Automatica will soon initiate. The details will be announced in a later editorial.

Huibert Kwakernaak

Editor-in-Chief, Automatica