Entro-Peter's Editorial Page

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 This page provides links to various files and instructions that are difficult to find or not yet available at the Entropy's page at www.mpdi.com . This page is maintained by the Editor-in-Chief Peter Harremoës and is constantly updated. Do not hesitate to contact entropeter@mdpi.com if you have any comment or suggestions related to this page.

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Scientific Editors

Decisions on acceptance or rejectance of papers are made by the scientific editors. These are
Editor-in-Chief
Peter Harremoës
Associate Editors
Each of these is specialized in a topic and make decisions on this topic except if the paper is submitted for a special issue. The associated editors also act substitutes of the editor-in-chief in case of vacation. We have just started using associated editors (June 2010) but in the near future we will have associated editors to cover the most important topics in the scoop of the journal.
Narayana Santhanam Information theory and signal processing.
Guest editors
Each guest editor is in charge of a special issue of Entropy. The guest editor describes the scoop of the special issue and decides if the paper falls within the scoop. The guest editor also makes decisions on acceptance or rejectance of papers intended for the special issue.

Instruction for scientific editors

Editorial office

These are employed by MDPI and take care of all administration. They are normally involved in several journals. Most of them have a degree in science but some have a different education. The following people are directly involved in the handling of manuscripts for Entropy:
Managing editor:
Shu-Kun Lin
Assistant editors:
Sarah Shao
Ellen Lu
Candy Wan
Jessica Bai
Website Editor:
Daniel Schmutz

MDPI Team: short biographies of the staff members.
Editorial system

Instruction for authors (PDF-format and in the style of a paper. To be made. The previous one is not valid anymore).

All MDPI journals follow the guidelines of the American Chemical society. The MDPI proofreaders corrects style issues according to this guide.
Reference style.

Submission to ArXiv

Authors are encouraged also to submit manuscript for entropy via arXiv. First the manuscript is prepared in Entropy style. Then it is uploaded to arXiv.org. If the editorial office will need the LaTeX source file they can retrieve it from arXiv.

Types of papers

The category of the paper should be given on the line above the title. The categories are:
Article This is the default option. It should contain novel results not published previously. An article should contain motivation of the developed ideas. It should contain the most important references to related work in the literature.
Review A review paper should view an overview of the state of the art in a research area. It is important that the right people are given credit for their contribution. The list of references should contain all major contributions on the topic and it should contain indications of where to find further references.
Communication This type of paper may refer to other papers for motivation and need only contain references to results directly related to the results developed in the paper.
Commentary It is possible to comment other papers published in this or other journals.
Letter Such a letter may discuss the editorial policy of the journal or related questions about how the research related to entropy is or should be organized.
Book reviews are very wellcome.
Correction Errors in a paper previously published in Entropy may be corrected by the authors free of charge.
Addendum A short paper that addssome results to a paper already published in Entropy.
Editorial This category is reserved for the editors of the journal. The publisher will make decision for this kind of paper

Levels of expertise

It is useful if the reviewer give an indication of his own expertise in the topic of the article.

  1. Has written a book about the topic or received an award about the topic.
  2. Has published an article on this or a closely related topic.
  3. Has studied the topic at the level of a master thesis.
  4. Has knowledge about the topic at a bachelor level.
  5. Has all-round expertise in science.