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Author Guidelines

INTRODUCTION

Types of paper

(a) Research Papers: these papers are fully documented, interpreted accounts of significant findings of original research. The maximum acceptable length of a Research Paper is 8000 words (less 350 words for each normal-sized figure or table you include). Authors should aim for no more than eight figures per paper. Papers not conforming to these guidelines may be rejected, at the Editor's discretion.

(b) Review Papers: these are critical and comprehensive reviews that provide new insights or interpretation of a subject through thorough and systematic evaluation of available evidence. They should not normally exceed 8000 words. Manuscripts exceeding 10,000 words will not be accepted for review.

BEFORE YOU BEGIN

Ethics in publishing

You will be required to accept the Publishing Ethics Statement for Authors when you submit your paper to the journal. The statement covers authorship, originality and conflicts of interest.

Publishing Ethics Statement for Authors

Publishing and the Editors of the journal are committed to maintaining the highest standards of ethics in reviewing and publishing your submissions to this journal. Please review the following statement of these fundamental principles and indicate your acceptance before proceeding with your submission.

• Your paper is your original work and where you have included the work of others this has been fully and appropriately acknowledged.
• Authorship of the paper must include all those who have made significant contributions to the work, and they should be listed as co-authors. Persons who have not contributed significantly to the work must not be listed as co-authors.
• As corresponding author you must ensure that all co-authors have approved the final version of the paper and have agreed to its submission for publication.
• You have not already published in another journal a paper describing essentially the same material, nor is your paper currently being considered for publication in another journal.
• You should disclose in your paper any conflict of interest (financial or other) that might be construed to influence the content of this paper. All sources of financial support should be disclosed.

Acceptance: Before indicating your acceptance of these principles on behalf of coauthors, you confirm that you have informed all co-authors of these principles and are accepting them on their behalf.

Note that conference proceedings are a form of publication.

Changes to authorship

If you wish to add, delete or rearrange the authors of your accepted paper: Before online publication: The corresponding author should contact the Journals Manager, and provide (a) the reason for the change, and (b) the written consent of all co-authors, including the authors being added or removed. Please note that your paper will not be published until the changes have been agreed upon. After online publication: Any requests to add, delete, or rearrange author names in an article published in an online issue will follow the same policies as noted above

PREPARATION OF THE MANUSCRIPT

1. General
2. Submission of papers must be accompanied by a covering letter confirming that the paper has not been published elsewhere nor simultaneously submitted to any other journal in any language.
3. The papers should be written in a single column and submitted in Microsoft WORD format.
4. The paper including all figures, tables, and references should be no longer than 16 pages written in Times New Roman, 1.5 line spacing, single column, and font size 12 printed on one front page throughout.
5. No table in graphic format will be accepted
6. Avoid color presentations
7. Heading should be bold and in title cause and subheadings in sentence case and numbered throughout.
8. Tables, figures, and equations should be numbered sequentially
9. Authors must adhere to the Standards of International Units (SI)
10. Indicate also the name and e-mail address of the corresponding author.

2. Structure of the manuscript

Title page

The essential contents of the title page are:

• Title. Provide the title of the research paper
• Author names and affiliations. Provide the names of the authors and their address (where the work was actually done. Indicate all affiliation with a lowercase superscript letter immediately after the author's name and in front of the appropriate address. Provide the full postal address of each affiliation, including the country name and, the e-mail address of each author.
• Corresponding author. Clearly indicate who will handle correspondence at all stages of refereeing and publication, also post-publication. Provide telephone (with country and area code) are provided in addition to the e-mail address. Contact details must be kept up to date by the corresponding author.

Subdivision

Divide your article into clearly defined and numbered sections. Subsections should be numbered 1.1, 1.2, etc. excluding the abstract, acknowledgment, and references. Any subsection may be given a brief heading.

Abstract

Provide a concise and factual abstract. The abstract should be stated briefly (not more than 250 words). It should inform the reader about the purpose of the research, the principal results, and major conclusions. An abstract is often presented separately from the article, so it must be able to stand alone. For this reason, References and nonstandard or uncommon abbreviations should be avoided. Immediately after the abstract provide a maximum of 6 keywords.

Introduction

In this part, provide a brief background to the research title, statement of the research problems, and the main objectives of the investigation. Avoid a detailed literature survey or summary of the results.

Materials and Methods

In this section, briefly describe your research design, sampling methods, data collection, and methods of analysis as well as materials and procedures used to undertake the research. Methods already published should be indicated by a reference and only relevant modification (if any) should be described.

Results and Discussion

This section is the most important part of the paper in which the author describes the interpretation and the implication of the main findings. A clear presentation of experimental results obtained, highlighting any trends or points of interest. Avoid extensive citations and discussion of published literature.

Conclusions

This section can be standalone. In this part, briefly state the contribution of your research to the problem area and indicate specific exceptions (if any) and further research needs and recommendations (if any).

Acknowledgments

The purpose of this section is to give credit to people or organizations that have provided support to you while you are carrying out the research. This should be put at the end of the article and before the references.

Notations and abbreviations

All acronyms and notations should be provided when first used in the paper.

Figure captions

Provide a caption to each illustration used. Supply captions separately, not attached to the figure. A caption should comprise a brief title (not on the figure itself) and a description of the illustration.

Tables

Number your tables consecutively following their appearance in the text. Place footnotes to tables below the table body and indicate them with superscript lowercase letters. Avoid vertical rules. Be sparing in the use of tables and ensure that the data presented in tables do not duplicate results described elsewhere in the article.

References

Please make sure that every reference cited in the text is also present in the reference list (and vice versa). Unpublished results and personal communications are not recommended in the reference list but maybe mentioned in the text. If these references are included in the reference list they should include a substitution of the publication date with either 'Unpublished results' or 'Personal communication'. References recommended in a research paper are minimum 10 and a maximum of 25 is recommended.

Reference style

All citations in the text should follow the following style:

• For single author: the author's name and the year of publication;
• For two authors: both authors' names and the year of publication;
• For three or more authors: first author's name followed by 'et al.' and the year of publication.
• Reference listing should be arranged first alphabetically and then further sorted chronologically if necessary. More than one reference from the same author(s) in the same year must be identified by the letters 'a', 'b', 'c', etc., placed after the year of publication.

Examples: 

Reference to a journal publication:

Ruijs A., Zimmermann A., van den Berg M., 2008. Demand and distributional effects of water pricing policies. Ecological Economics. 66, 506-516.

Reference to a book:

Gujer W., 2008. System Analysis for Water Technology. Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg.

Reference to a chapter in an edited book:

Nathan R. and Evans R., 2011. Groundwater and surface water connectivity, in Grafton R.Q., Hussey K. (Eds.), Water Resources Planning and Management. Cambridge University Press, UK, pp. 46– 67.

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