Scope

Papers may describe original technical work, survey an area, or present a tutorial; and may be either short or long. Anything related to functional programming is of interest, including: foundations (semantics, abstract interpretation, lambda calculi, rewriting, logic, type theory, category theory); implementation (compilation, architectures, parallelism, garbage collection, I/O, debugging, profiling); linguistics (pure and impure language features, non-determinism, side effects, logical variables, relation to other programming paradigms, proofs about programs, program transformation, program synthesis, partial evaluation); applications (applications programs, practical experience, programming techniques, prototyping).

Book reviews

Books for review, or suggestions for reviews, should be sent to the reviews editor Simon Thompson.

Submission of manuscripts

General advice for authors is available at here
Manuscripts for consideration for the Journal of Functional Programming should be submitted electronically, using the Manuscript Central System. This system will allow authors to benefit from faster review and earlier, online publication. The system will accept PDF files; most other files types will be automatically converted directly into PDF. Source files are required for any paper accepted for publication. Authors who are unable to submit online should contact the Editorial Office for assistance. Authors may want to consult the guidelines we offer to JFP referees, to get an idea of the criteria that will be applied by referees.
The Journal of Functional Programming encourages authors of workshop and conference papers to submit enhanced versions of the same work to JFP. Typically, the version submitted to JFP should contain additional discussion, examples, or proofs. Only if a workshop or conference paper is exceptionally well presented and complete is it suitable for journal publication without significant revision. If another publisher holds copyright on an earlier version of an article, the enhanced version must differ sufficiently so that the author can assign copyright to Cambridge University Press.

Electronic manuscripts

The publisher encourages submission of manuscripts written in LaTeX which can be used for direct typesetting.
Authors using LaTeX should use the JFP LaTeX class file. This, along with related files, can be obtained using anonymous FTP. If you have difficulties obtaining these files, there is a help-line available via e-mail. While use of the JFP LaTeX class file is preferred, plain LaTeX or TeX files can also be accepted.

Web-accessible accompanying material for your paper

You are encouraged to supply supporting material for your paper, which JFP will make permanently accessible over the Web.

Layout of manuscripts

Manuscripts should begin with an abstract of not 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 encouraged to present programs in 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. These are used when generating the JFP bibliography and author index. People searching the JFP indexes will then be able to find their way to your home page easily.

References

The Harvard system of references should be used. Citations are by author's surname and year of publication, and may stand either as a noun phrase (e.g., "Curry (1933)") or as a parenthetical note (e.g., "(Curry 1933)''). List references at the end of the text in alphabetical order. A typical entry is: Curry, H. B. (1933) Apparent variables from the standpoint of mathematical logic, Ann. of Math., 34 (2): 381-404. In the case of a reference to a conference, please give its year and location. There is no need to give the location of a publisher.
Use the jfp.bst file in conjunction with your bibtex database.

Illustrations

Figures should be drawn in indian ink on good quality white paper or produced by computer to comparable quality. 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.

Proofreading

Only typographical or factual errors may be changed at the proof stage. The publisher reserves the right to charge for correction of non-typographical errors. No page charge is made. JFP’s policy is to follow the spelling convention (American or British) of the author(s).

Offprints

No paper offprints are provided, but the corresponding author will be sent the pdf of the published article.