Water Science and Engineering

Water Science and Engineering (WSE), founded in 2008, is a scientific and technical periodical published quarterly in English and distributed globally.

WSE aims to promote international exchange in academic research on water science. It focuses on new concepts, theories, methods, and techniques related to water issues, and publishes the latest research in the fields of water science, water engineering, water resources, water environment, water ecology, and water management.

All manuscripts should be submitted to WSE at http://www.waterjournal.cn . Click “Online Submission” on the homepage of the website, and then you will be able to enter the submission system.

1. The submitted manuscripts must be neither published nor under consideration for publication elsewhere.

3. The manuscripts should be arranged in Word format (paper size B5) with one column according to the paper template (including font, size, line space, etc.), which can be obtained at http://www.waterjournal.cn .

4. The paper should be organized in the following order: title, author(s), affiliation(s), abstract, key words, introduction, research contents, results, conclusions, acknowledgements, and references.

5. The title is preferred to be limited within 10 substantives. Only the initial of the first word needs to be capitalized, the others be lowercase letters (except proper nouns), and unusual abbreviations should be avoided.

6. Authors’ given names should come before surnames. The initials of given names and all the letters of surnames should be capitalized (e.g. John Quincy ABBOT). For Chinese authors’ names, a hyphen is necessary between two given names (e.g. Cheng-li ZHANG). There should be commas between authors’ names.

7. An abstract of more than 150 words (the title not repeated in the first sentence, and diagrams, formulas and references not included), which gives prominence to the creative ideas, the work’s purposes, methods, major findings, conclusions, etc., and key words (3 to 8 words) should be included in the manuscript.

8. The International System of Units (SI) should be adopted in the manuscript. All units in the text, figures, tables, and calculations should be used consistently.

9. All variables symbolized by single letters should be in italics; standard functions and letters symbolizing constants should be in normal style; and letters symbolizing vectors, tensors, and matrixes should be in bold italics. Each symbol that is presented in the paper for the first time should be defined. Foreign characters in capital form or lowercase form in the text and formulas should be distinguishable. Letters, numbers, and signs used as either superscripts or subscripts should be clearly identified.

10. Figures and tables with proper design should be placed right after where they’re referred to in the text. Each figure or table should have a corresponding title and be numbered consecutively. Three-line tables are required to be used. Iconographs should be drawn by computers in the format of TIF, JPG, AutoCAD or BMP for editing convenience. Variables in figures and tables should be in italics. Units of variables in normal style need to be put in parentheses, e.g. v (m/s).

11. If the paper is sponsored by a fund project or an important subject, please show its title at the bottom of the first page and put the serial number in subsequent parentheses.

12. The author-date system is required to be used for citations in the text and the reference list.

(1) Citations in the text: If an author’s name is cited in the text, the publication year in parenthesis should follow the name of the author, e.g. Stoker (1992). If the results, rather than the name of the author(s), are cited, a. use the author’s name(s) and the publication year(s) in parenthesis for the citation of a publication with two or less authors, e.g. (Stoker 1992), (Lyn and Goodwin 1987; Stoker 1992); b. use the first author’s name followed by “et al.” for the citation of a publication with three or more authors, e.g. (Xie et al. 2004; Stoker 1992); and c. use a lowercase letter like “a, b, c…” following the year to distinguish the works that are published during the same year by the same author e.g. (Zienkiewicz 1995a, b, c).

(2) The reference list should consist of all published works referred to in the text, and arranged alphabetically by the authors’ names. All the authors of each reference should be listed. References include books, journals, theses, etc., which are published at home and abroad. The following reference formats are generally used:

Format 1: author(s) (surname(s) followed by given name(s), initial(s) capitalized, given name(s) in abbreviations, and all authors included), year of publication, name of book (in italics), edition (not for the first edition), publishing place, publishing company.

e.g. Abbot, M. B., and Basco, D. R. 1989. Computational Fluid Dynamics: An Introduction for EngineersPublication.. New York: Longman

Format 2: author(s) (surname(s) followed by given name(s), initial(s) capitalized, given name(s) in abbreviations, and all authors included), year of publication, title of paper, editor(s), name of book (in italics), edition (not for the first edition), publishing place, publishing company.

e.g. Cutrona, C. E., and Russel, D. 1990. Type of social support and specific stress: Towards a theory of optimum matching. Sarason, I. G., Sarason, B. R., and Pierce, G., eds., Social Support: An International View, 341-366.New York: Wiley.

Garner, B. A. 2002. The Elements of Legal Style. 2nd ed. New York: Oxford University Press.

Format: author(s), year of publication, title of paper, name of journal (full name in italics), volume followed by issue in a parenthesis, cited pages, doi number.

e.g. Fistikoglu, O., and Harmancioglu, N. B. 2002. Integration of GIS with USLE in assessment of soil erosion. Water Resources Management, 16(6), 447-467. [doi:10.1023/A:1022282125760]

Qian, Z. D., Yang, J. D., and Huai, W. X. 2007. Numerical simulation and analysis of pressure pulsation in Francis hydraulic turbine with air admission. Journal of Hydrodynamics, Ser. B, 19(4), 467-472. [doi:10.1016/S1001-6058(07)60141-3]

Format: author(s), year of publication, title of paper, name of symposium/conference (in italic), cited pages, publishing place: publisher, doi number.

e.g. Kozyrakis, C., and Patterson, D. 2002. Vector vs. superscalar and VLIW architectures for embedded multimedia benchmarks. Proceedings of the 35th International Symposium on Microarchitecture, 283-293. Istanbul: IEEE. [doi:10.1109/MICRO.2002.1176257]

e.g. Liu, C. J. 2004. Experimental Study on Unsteady Open-channel Flow and Bed-load Transport Properties. Ph. D. Dissertation. Beijing: Tsinghua University. (in Chinese)

5) Others (standards, reports, electronic bulletins, newspapers, and patents)

e.g. Zhu, L. J., and Cheng, N. S. 1993. Settlement of Sediment Particles. Nanjing: River and Harbor Engineering Department, Nanjing Hydraulic Research Institute. (in Chinese)

e.g. Turcotte, D. L. 1992. Fractals and Chaos in Geology and Geophysics. New York: Cambridge University Press. http//www.seg.org/reviews/mccorm30.htm [Retrieved 23 September 1998].

e.g. China Building Materials Industries Association (CBMIA). 1999. Method of Testing Cements-Determination of Strength (GB/T17671-1999). Beijing: Standards Press of China. (in Chinese)

1. Please make a general evaluation on the academic level of the paper and point out its significance in theory and practice. Please present your opinion on whether this paper is suitable for publication in Water Science and Engineering.

2. In the introduction section, please pay much attention to whether there is sufficient literature review on the latest advances in related issues at home and aboard, and whether the authors give a specific description about their innovation.

3. WSE refuses to accept papers in which the work described has been published before, or is under consideration for publication elsewhere. Falsification, plagiarism, and confidentiality issues are unacceptable. If you find any of the above problems, please point it out verbatim.

4. If you make some modifications on the reviewed paper, please upload your revised paper. For papers that are considered suitable for publication but need modifications by the authors, please provide detailed suggestions on how to improve the papers.

5. For papers that are considered unsuitable for publication in Water Science and Engineering, please present the reasons for rejection.