Journal of Water Supply: Research and Technology - Aqua

Instructions for authors

1. General policy

Journal of Water Supply: Research and Technology—AQUA is a peer-reviewed journal. It welcomes the submission of research, review and practical papers in English dealing with research and development in water supply technology and management, including economics, training and public relations. Research papers contributed are fully documented, interpreted accounts of significant findings of original research, and should normally be between 5000 and 6000 words. Practical papers should provide new information on subjects of interest to professionals in practice, and should be between 1000 and 3000 words long. Review papers are critical and comprehensive reviews that provide new insights or interpretation of the subject. Authors should take into account figures, tables and references in the word count. One printed page of the journal is about 800 words.

Papers written by non-English speakers should be checked and corrected by a native English speaker to avoid rejection on the grounds of poor grammar and style.

The submitted paper should be accompanied by a list of 3 potential referees, with names and addresses.

Where requested to do so by the Editor, authors must revise their papers within one month of the request; otherwise the contribution will be considered withdrawn. No page charges apply for papers published in the journal. The journal can accommodate colour figures, at a cost to the author of £350 per figure.

Submission of a paper implies that it has not been published previously, that it is not under consideration for publication elsewhere, and that if accepted it will not be published elsewhere in the same form, in English or in any other language, without the written consent of the publisher.

All papers should be submitted electronically to https://www.editorialmanager.com/jwsrtaqua/

Upon acceptance of a paper, authors will be asked to sign a Transfer of Copyright Agreement releasing copyright of the paper to IWA Publishing. Provision is made on the form for work performed for the United States Government (which is not subject to copyright restriction) and some United Kingdom Government work (which may be Crown Copyright) and in other extenuating circumstances.

Proofs will be sent to the listed corresponding author. Any corrections must be returned within two days of receipt and should only cover typesetting errors. Proofs should be returned to Emma Gulseven at IWA Publishing in London.

2. Article content and format

(a) General. All pages in papers must be numbered consecutively. The main text should be typed flush left with no indents and double line spaced. Insert one return between paragraphs, and a double return between paper title, and authors' names and addresses on the first page.

(b) Title page. The title of the paper should be as concise as possible. The title page or section must also state the names and full addresses of all authors. Telephone, fax, e-mail numbers and, if appropriate, web site identifications must be included for the corresponding author to whom proofs will be sent. A short title of not more than 80 letters and spaces must be provided for printed page headings.

(c) An Abstract of 100-200 words should appear under the authors' names and addresses in printed papers, briefly specifying the aims of the work, the methods used, the main results obtained and the conclusions drawn.

(d) Under the abstract up to 6 Keywords should be listed in alphabetical order.

(e) Main text: for clarity this should normally be subdivided into: Introduction, Methods, Results and Discussion, Conclusions, References A conclusions section is particularly valuable to readers and should always be included in papers. Do not number or letter section headings.

(f) Abbreviations and Notations. Nomenclature must be listed at the beginning of all printed paper contributions and must conform to the system of standard SI units. Acronyms and abbreviations must be spelled out in full at their first occurrence in the text and summarised at the start of the contribution. Write equations in dimensionless form or in metric units.

(g) References: citations in text. Use surname of author and year of publication: Jones (1982) or (Jones 1982). Insert initials only if there are two different authors with the same surname and same year of publication.

Two or more years in parentheses following an author's name are cited chronologically, and two or more references published in the same year by the same author are differentiated by letters a, b, c, etc. For example: Brown (1969, 1972, 1973a, b). Different references cited together should be in date order, for example: (Smith 1959; Thomson & Jones 1982; Green 1990).

(h) List of references. References should be listed alphabetically at the end of contributions and in the case of printed papers should conform to the following styles for a journal or book reference.

Asano, T., Maeda, M. & Takaki, M. 1996 Wastewater reclamation and reuse in Japan: overview and implementation examples. Wat. Sci. Technol. 34(11), 211-226.

Henze, M., Harremoës, P., LaCour Jansen, J. & Arvin, E. 1995 Wastewater Treatment: Biological and Chemical Processes. Springer, Heidelberg.

Standard Methods for the Examination of Water and Wastewater 1995 19th edition, American Public Health Association/American Water Works Association/Water Environment Federation, Washington DC.