THE LONDON MATHEMATICAL SOCIETY 
    Referee's Report Form

You have been sent, with a request for a referee's report, a paper which has been submitted for
publication by the London Mathematical Society. 
Please note that the paper and its contents should be treated as confidential.
Not all authors want to publicize the preprint versions of their papers.
Please do *NOT* give your name or contact details anywhere in the report.
Please upload the completed report using the link provided in the email.

Name of Journal:

Reference number or title of paper:

Author(s) names:

Date of completion of report:


1.  How strong is the case for publication of the paper? 

Delete all but one of the following.
(a) non-existent 
(b) weak 
(c) reasonable 
(d) good 
(e) strong 
(f) outstanding

2.  If the paper has serious defects, how strong would the case be if a successful revision were carried out? 

Delete all but one of the following.
(a) non-existent 
(b) weak 
(c) reasonable 
(d) good 
(e) strong 
(f) outstanding
(g) question not applicable

3. GENERAL COMMENTS
Please include your review of the paper here. This part of the report may be passed on to the author(s) and should 
include any criticism that might help the author to improve the paper. 







4. SPECIFIC CORRECTIONS
We don't ask our referees to look for typos, but any corrections that you add here will be welcome and 
passed on to the authors. 




* please do NOT identify yourself *

5. COMMENTS FOR EDITORS
Please include your opinion of the quality of the paper here and specify which of the changes above 
that you recommended to the author would be essential for the paper to reach the standard appropriate 
for the nominated journal. 
These remarks will only be passed on to the Editorial Adviser and the Editors of the nominated journal. 
However you should be aware that under Data Protection legislation the author can request to see them 
in which case anything which might identify you as the referee will first be removed.




END OF QUESTIONS
 On completion, please upload the report using the link provided in the email.

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EXPLANATORY NOTES AND GUIDELINES

The Editorial Board is anxious to reach decisions as quickly as possible. Firstly, please 
acknowledge receipt of this form by e-mail to 
publications@lms.ac.uk and let me know your estimate of when you will return the report to me. 
The default time, when we send out the first reminder, varies according to the journal: Bulletin = 6 weeks; 
Journal = 8 weeks and Proceedings = 10 weeks, but we can change this according to your estimate. 
Please send your report by e-mail to publications@lms.ac.uk.

 You should receive thanks and an acknowledgement from us within seven days of the receipt of your report. 
If you do not hear from us, the report may have been lost in transit, so please then contact me.


 Here is some more general guidance on what we are looking for:

 A referee should assess the originality, correctness, importance and interest of an article. 
Ultimately, responsibility for correctness lies with the author but we do ask that referees evaluate the 
correctness of the major results. Editors also expect to receive views on matters such as the balance 
between achievement and length, how a paper compares with other work on related subjects published 
in leading journals, and the quality of exposition.  Referees should bear in mind that the Society receives 
significantly more good material than it has resources to print.  In view of the competition for publication 
space, the Editors must turn away some well-recommended items. Objective and carefully
reasoned referees' reports are therefore greatly valued by the  Editors. The LMS will respect the 
confidentiality of your identity as a referee and you should not, under any circumstances, communicate 
directly with the author(s) yourself. Under data protection legislation, any part of the report may be requested 
by the authors but information will only be given after all possible features have been removed from the report 
that could identify you as the referee. Parts of the report that are considered helpful to the authors in preparing 
a better paper may be sent to them by the Editors.

 If, for any reason, you are now unwilling or unable to review the paper, please let us know immediately. 
In this case, we would be grateful if you could suggest another suitable referee.

 Yours sincerely,


 Ben Holmes
 Assistant Editor



 On completion, please upload the report using the link provided in the email.