Journal of Functional Programming invites all authors of accepted papers to submit a video abstract. The goal of such an abstract is to highlight the essential novelties and to get the viewer to read the paper. So when you design the video, ask yourself how to reach a potential viewer:

- what is the problem (area) - what is the key idea  

-what is a good graphical-visual way to bring across the idea 

- where should the video refer to the paper for detail

Note: Videos may be submitted only after a paper is accepted. They are not part of the reviewing process; reviewers will continue to judge submissions solely on their scientific content.  

The video can take any form that the authors would like as long as it focuses on the content of the paper. For example,

- a video may present a slide show with a voice over, like those used in conferences 

- a video may show carefully edited excerpts from a conference video, though authors must respect the copyright notices on published conference videos 

- the author(s) may produce a video specifically for JFP at their home institutions, using whatever resources are made available there 

Papers with videos will be posted in the Video Abstracts collection (in addition to the usual entry as part of a Journal of Functional Programming volume), and the videos will be freely accessible in the full article abstract and online.

Please note that in order for a video to be considered as a video abstract, but you have to supply this  when sending the files to production; you can’t do it later. If you do produce a video later, for example for a later conference presentation of the journal-first publication, then we can make it available in the video gallery, but it cannot formally be a video abstract

We recommend that the video be no longer than 10 minutes, but a 15-minute conference video is acceptable provided that there are no copyright issues with sharing it.

Currently accepted formats are: mp4.