As a publicly funded institution, we have to recover the costs of our publishing activities so that there is no competitive advantage over commercial providers. For the cost recovery we work with an article processing charge (APC), which currently is 60 EUR (net); for more details, see below (). This amount was set under the assumption that the average length of a paper does not substantially exceed 15 to 20 main text pages, i.e., number of pages after typesetting excluding title page and the bibliography.
Given the above, we suggest 20 main text pages as a page limit, which could for instance be in the form of 15 pages for the main body of paper plus up to 5 pages for appendices. Note that this is only a recommendation and it is up to the editors of the respective volume to decide on a policy regarding the page limit. Moreover, we expect a certain flexibility concerning any page limit (+/- 1 page) to avoid too much extra effort to harmonize style-compliant formatting and page limit for both authors and the Dagstuhl Editorial Office.
() When specifying a page limit please have in mind the following facts about our APC:
- Processing Charge of 60 EUR (net) ...
- per published paper (if the average count of main text pages [as defined above] per article is ≤ 20)
- per block of 20 main text pages (otherwise).
- To give a precise formula for calculating the charge for the entire proceedings volume, let P be the total number of main text pages from the n papers in the volume. Then:
Total cost(entire volume) = max(n, floor(P/20)) * 60 EUR (net).
