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Materials for publication should be submitted to the Editorial Office:

Open Systems & Information Dynamics
Institute of Physics, N. Copernicus University
Grudziadzka 5, 87-100 Torun, Poland
Fax: (48 56) 622 5397
E-mail: osid@fizyka.umk.pl

or to one of the members of the Editorial Board.

Proofs and related correspondence as well as address changes should be send to the Editorial Office.

Guidelines for authors

1. It is recommended that authors make their research results and manuscripts public by posting them as e-prints on the arXiv platform in the appropriate sections (quant-ph, math-ph, physics, etc.) prior to submitting them for publication to OSID. Upon acceptance for publication, the e-print should be supplemented with a precise link to the final published version, including the DOI number. This recommendation applies particularly to independent researchers without institutional affiliation, who can use this method to document the continuity of their research.
    
   
2. Submitted manuscripts will undergo a preliminary assessment by the editorial board regarding their thematic alignment with the journal's scope, clarity, linguistic correctness, and adherence to technical requirements. Following this preliminary assessment, a decision will be made on whether to forward the manuscript for a substantive, anonymous peer review.
    
   
3. While the use of AI to improve the readability and style of edited texts is entirely acceptable, the application of such tools and their scope should be clearly declared and described in detail.

   Acceptable AI-assisted actions may in particular include wording and formatting changes to the texts, managing complex bibliography and references, author-supervised assistance in performing and verifying laborious formal calculation, excluding however generative editorial work and autonomous content creation. In all cases, there must be human accountability for the final version of the text.

   In particular, the authors should personally check all AI-assisted calculation steps and results, the wording and comprehensibility of all sentences in the manuscript, and the appropriateness of all references cited therein. Ultimately, it is the authors, and the authors only, who are responsible for editing and adapting all material thoroughly to ensure the manuscript represents the author's authentic and original contribution, analysis, interpretation, and ideas.

   Authors should disclose the use of AI tools for manuscript preparation in a separate AI declaration statement included in their manuscript upon submission. To meet the transparency requirements this statement will appear in the published version of article. Authors should document in detail their use of AI, including the name of the AI tool used, the purpose of its use, and the extent of their oversight.

4. The Editorial Office will process no more than two papers by the same author within a 12-month period. The third and subsequent papers submitted within a short time will be returned. This rule may be waived in exceptional situations where subsequent works constitute a thematically related continuation of the presented results.
    
   
5. Upon submission, only the PDF compilation of the manuscript is required. The TeX source, prepared consistently with the rules outlined below, will be requested after the paper is accepted for publication.
    
   
6. Manuscripts for publication should be prepared in plain TeX, LaTeX, or AMS-LaTeX using the "article" document class. The use of private macros, nonstandard fonts, etc., should be reduced to a necessary minimum; if you use any, please do not forget to include them in the source of your paper. In particular, we discourage the submission of documents in REVTeX because its macros are incompatible with the structures of the OSID style, to which we ultimately convert works when processing a journal issue for print.

   For the convenience of authors, a simplified version of the OSID style is provided (the OSID-s.tex file) along with a sample document (OSID-sample.pdf) illustrating its use. Processing your manuscript using the OSID style will allow you to view the formatting ― such as formula layout and pagination ― as it will appear in the final version.

   Figures: All graphs and diagrams should be referred to as "Figure" in the text, and, if relevant, a detailed caption should be provided for each figure. The figures themselves should be supplied as scalable graphics in separate .pdf or .eps files.

   Bibliography: References will appear numbered in square brackets in the text, and listed accordingly at the end of the article (e.g., using standard '\cite{ }' and '\bibitem{ }' LaTeX commands). Inclusion of DOI numbers is optional but welcome.

   • A journal reference should comprise the author's name(s) and initials, optionally the title, AMS abbreviated title of a journal, volume number, year of publication, and the initial page number, e.g.:
     
     [1] J. H. Schwartz, Evidence for nonperturbative string symmetries, Lett. Math. Phys. 34 (1995), 309.
      
   • A book reference should comprise the author's name(s) and initials, the full title of the book, the publisher, the place of publication, and the year of publication, e.g.:
     
     [2] V. N. Popov, Functional Integrals in Quantum Field Theory and Statistical Physics, D. Reidel, Dordrecht, 1983.
     
   • An edited volume reference should comprise the name(s) and initial(s) of the author(s), the title of paper, the name(s) of the editor(s), the full title of the book, the publisher, the place of publication, the year of publication, and the inclusive page numbers, e.g.:
     
     [3] J. Evans and Y. Kawahigashi, Subfactors and conformal field theory, in: H. Araki, K. Ito, A. Kishimoto, and I. Ojima, (eds.), Quantum and Non-Commutative Analysis, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, 1993, 341-369.

   Proofs: Page proofs will be prepared and sent in PDF form. The authors are obliged to return corrected proofs to the editorial office without delay.