General Terms
While Copernicus Publications and the Institut Veolia Environnement welcome any original scientific work for publication, we expect that:
- the work submitted for publication has not been published before, except in the form of an abstract or proceedings-type publication (including discussion papers), or as part of a published lecture or thesis, and that it is not under consideration for publication elsewhere;
- its publication has been approved by all author(s) and, tacitly or explicitly, by the responsible authorities and/or the institutes where the work has been carried out;
- if and when the manuscript is accepted for publication, the manuscript will not be submitted to any other journal in any other language;
- the authors have secured the right to reproduce any material in his/her/their work that has already been published elsewhere;
- the authors agree with the License and Copyright Agreement;
- the authors agree and have obeyed the General Obligations for Authors;
- with regard to the evaluation of manuscripts, the editors and the referees will follow their guidelines as summarized in the General Obligations for Editors and the General Obligations for Referees.
- The use of general descriptive names, trade names, trademarks, etc., in the articles of this journal, even if not specifically identified, does not imply that these names are not protected by the relevant laws and regulations.
- While the advice and information in this journal is believed to be true and accurate at the date each article is published, neither the authors, the editors, nor Copernicus Publications can accept any legal responsibility for any errors or omissions that may be made. Copernicus Publications makes no warranty, expressed or implied, with respect to the material contained herein.
General Guidelines for Manuscripts & Submission
- In general, contributions should be short but self-contained, concentrating on new results or techniques. The length of an article is not limited with regard to its number of pages. Journal-specific differences in the limitation will be specified in the corresponding aims & scope on the corresponding web site.
- Papers should be clear, concise, and written in English. They must conform to the organization and style of the journal with correct spelling and good sentence structure. Correct English is the responsibility of the author(s), although the editor(s) and the referees are kindly asked to help in language editing of the manuscript if necessary. On request by the editor, articles will also be copy-edited.
- Before submission manuscripts need to be registered. This process requires author details and also a set of keywords, describing the manuscript. In return the author(s) receive a manuscript number and information on how to upload the files containing the text, figures and additional material.
- Manuscripts (i.e. work prior to the review process) as well as articles (i.e. work having passed the review process) for publication in regular or special issues must be submitted in digital format, zipped or not zipped, by using the appropriate upload forms (preferred option), by email or ftp or on diskette or CD-ROM to the Editorial Support or to the Publication Production Office, respectively. In case of "extended abstracts" or "proceedings" or "special publications" the authors have to submit their manuscripts for peer-review to selected Editors (Guest-Editors). It is the responsibility of the organizers of such publications to inform the Editorial Support about the list of Guest-Editors and their association to the manuscripts expected for publication and the authors about the technical details of the submission in consultation with these Editors (Guest-Editors). The Editors (Guest-Editors) will be responsible to select at least two independent referees per manuscript and to use the "Check-List for Reviewers" and the "Editor's Report Form" for the peer-review process and to inform the author about the outcome of this process respectively (External Evaluation). Only the final articles, however, must be submitted to the Publication Production Office.
- Supplementary material, such as data sets, animated visualisation, etc., should be submitted together with the manuscript for peer-reviewed publication.
- Author(s) are obliged to suggest 4-5 potential referees. Ideally, suggested reviewers should be scientists who are not closely associated (i.e. at different institutes and who have not collaborated significantly in the past research) with any of the authors. Should this not be the case, please indicate this. In any case, all suggested reviewers should be able to offer fair and impartial reviews of the material being submitted.
