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Overview

Submissions to Computo require both scientific content (typically equations, codes and figures, data) and a proof that this content is reproducible. This is achieved by means of i) a notebook system, ii) a virtual environment fixing the dependencies and iii) continuous integration (plus, if needed, an external website to store data files such as Zenodo or OSF ).

A Computo submission is thus a git repository (e.g. Github or Gitlab) typically containing

• the source file of the notebook (a markdown file with yaml metadata)
• auxiliary files: a \(\mathrm{bib}\TeX\) file and some statics files, e.g. figures or small .csv data tables
• configuration files to set up the dependencies in a virtual environment
• configuration files to set up the continuous integration rendering the final documents

The compiled notebook (both HTML and PDF) will be directly generated in the git(hub) repository via continuous integration (e.g., Github action or Gitlab CI) and published, if the action is successful, to a web page (e.g. gh-page).

The PDF and the git repository address are then submitted to the Computo submission platform.

More details can be found in the following templates, which serve as material for starting to write your submission, and as a documentation for doing so. The process is described in a dedicated post.

Available templates

Quarto-based templates

Choosing one of our templates (c.f. below) or our quarto-based extension would help us in the final formatting process of your article. Moreover, it supports R, Python and Julia!

In particular, we have dedicated templates for setting everything up either for R, Python and Julia users:

Other templates

if you are attached to Jupyter book or do not prefer to use Quarto, you are of course still encouraged to submit to Computo! A Jupyter-myst template is available that requires more formatting work for production, but author comfort is a priority.

Data and large files

If your submission materials contain files larger than 50MB, especially data files, they won’t fit on a git repository as is. For this reason, we encourage you to put your data or any materials you deem necessary on an external “open data” centered repository hub such a Zenodo or OSF.

Submit your work

Once your are happy with your notebook AND the continuous integration (Github action or Gitlab CI) is successful, you may submit your PDF via Scholastica, our platform for peer-reviewing:

Reviewing and publication

Submitted papers are reviewed by external reviewers selected by the Associate Editor in charge of the paper. Computo strives for fast reviewing cycles, but cannot provide strict guarantees on the matter; the current time between submission and publication is under six months.

In order to ensure an efficient reviewing process, authors are requested upon submission to suggest the names of four potential referees. To avoid conflicts of interests, recent co-authors or collaborators should not be suggested.

Computo’s accepted papers are published electronically immediately upon receipt under CC BY 4.0 license. Authors retain the copyright and full publishing rights without restrictions.

More details about the reviewing process are available on the Review page

Computo’s code of ethics for authors

• Originality: Authors guarantee that their proposed article is original, and that it infringes no moral intellectual property right of any other person or entity. Authors guarantee that their proposed article has not been published previously, and that they have not submitted the proposed article simultaneously to any other journal.
• Conflicts of interest: Authors shall disclose any potential conflict of interest, whether it is professional, financial or other, to the journal’s Editor, if this conflict could be interpreted as having influenced their work. Authors shall declare all sources of funding for the research presented in the article.
• Impartiality: All articles are examined impartially, and their merits are assessed regardless of the sex, religion, sexual orientation, nationality, ethnic origin, length of service or institutional affiliation of the author(s).
• Funding: All funding received by the author(s) shall be clearly stated in the article(s).
• Defamatory statements: Authors guarantee that their proposed article contains no matter of a defamatory, hateful, fraudulent or knowingly inexact character.
• References: Authors guarantee that all the publications used in their work have been cited appropriately.
• Copyright/author’s right/license compliance: Authors guarantee that they comply with the usage license of any third party contents/works (code, software, data, figures/images, documents, etc.) that were used to produce their work.