Aims & Scope
The Urban Water Journal provides a forum for the research and professional communities dealing with water systems in the urban environment, directly contributing to the discussion on sustainable development. Particular emphasis is placed on the analysis of interrelationships and interactions between the individual water systems, urban water bodies (including groundwater) and the environment. The Journal encourages the adoption of an integrated approach to solve the numerous problems associated with sustainable urban water management.
The Urban Water Journal focuses on the water-related infrastructure in the city; namely potable water supply and distribution, sewerage and storm drainage. Specific topics include: network management, operation and rehabilitation; demand management and levels of service, water recycling and source control at multiple scales, as well as potable and wastewater treatment systems, where they relate to and interact with their respective networks. Papers discussing issues related to the monitoring, utilisation and management of urban groundwater are encouraged, as are papers concerned with water-sensitive planning and design (including analysis of interactions of the urban water cycle with city planning and landscaping), decision-making and informatics support, operational and asset management and associated economics. A strong emphasis is placed on data needs, acquisition and processing, knowledge discovery, quantification and management of uncertainty and the assurance of data and model quality and robustness.
The Urban Water Journal is particularly interested in identifying, analysing and providing innovative solutions to challenges in sustainable urban water management in both the developed and the developing world including issues of education and vocational training of specialists in urban water.
The readership of the Urban Water Journal consists of international specialists in civil, water and environmental engineering and other relevant disciplines associated with urban planning and the environment.
All published research articles in this journal have undergone rigorous peer review, based on initial editor screening and anonymous refereeing by independent expert referees.
Disclaimer
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Instructions to Authors
Instructions for Authors
The instructions below are specifically directed at authors that wish to submit a manuscript to Urban Water Journal. For general information, please visit the Publish With Us section of our website.
Urban Water Journal considers all manuscripts on the strict condition that they have been submitted only to Urban Water Journal, that they have not been published already, nor are they under consideration for publication or in press elsewhere. Authors who fail to adhere to this condition will be charged with all costs which Urban Water Journal incurs and their papers will not be published.
Contributions to Urban Water Journal must report original research and will be subjected to review by referees at the discretion of the Editorial Office.
Manuscript preparation
1. General guidelines
Papers are accepted only in English. British English spelling and punctuation is preferred.
A typical article will not exceed 10,000 words and short notes should be no longer than 4,000 words. Authors should include a word count with their manuscript.
Manuscripts should be compiled in the following order: title page; abstract; keywords; main text; acknowledgments; appendixes (as appropriate); references; table(s) with caption(s) (on individual sheets); figure caption(s) (as a list).
Abstracts of 100-150 are required for all papers submitted.
Each paper should have three to six keywords.
Section headings should be concise and numbered sequentially, using a decimal system for subsections.
All the authors of a paper should include their full names, affiliations, postal addresses, telephone and fax numbers and email addresses on the cover page of the manuscript. One author should be identified as the Corresponding Author.
Biographical notes on contributors are not required for this journal.
For all manuscripts non-discriminatory language is mandatory. Sexist or racist terms should not be used.
Authors must adhere to SI units. Units are not italicised.
When using a word which is or is asserted to be a proprietary term or trade mark, authors must use the symbol ® or TM.
2. Style guidelines
Description of the Journal's article style
Description of the Journal's reference styles
Guide to using mathematical symbols and equations
Word templates
Word templates are available for this journal.
Please open and read the instruction document first, as this will explain how to save and then use the template.
Select the template that is most suitable for your operating system.
http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/authors/template/TF_Template_Word_XP_2003_instructions.pdf
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http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/authors/template/TF_Template_Word_XP_2007_instructions.pdf
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If you are not able to use the template via the links or if you have any other template queries, please contact authortemplate@tandf.co.uk
3. Figures
It is in the author's interest to provide the highest quality figure format possible. Please be sure that all imported scanned material is scanned at the appropriate resolution: 1200 dpi for line art, 600 dpi for grayscale and 300 dpi for colour.
Figures must be saved separate to text. Please do not embed figures in the paper file.
Files should be saved as one of the following formats: TIFF (tagged image file format), PostScript or EPS (encapsulated PostScript), and should contain all the necessary font information and the source file of the application (e.g. CorelDraw/Mac, CorelDraw/PC).
All figures must be numbered in the order in which they appear in the paper (e.g. Figure 1, Figure 2). In multi-part figures, each part should be labelled (e.g. Figure 1(a), Figure 1(b)).
Figure captions must be saved separately, as part of the file containing the complete text of the paper, and numbered correspondingly.
The filename for a graphic should be descriptive of the graphic, e.g. Figure1, Figure2a.
4. Colour
The Journal has no free colour pages within its annual page allowance. Authors of accepted papers who propose publishing figures in colour in the print version should consult Taylor & Francis at proof stage to agree a financial contribution to colour reproduction costs. Figures that appear in black-and-white in the print edition of the Journal will appear in colour in the online edition, assuming colour originals are supplied.
5. Reproduction of copyright material
Contributors are required to secure permission for the reproduction of any figure, table or extensive extract (more than fifty words) from the text of a source that is copyrighted or owned by a party other than Taylor & Francis or the contributor. This applies to direct reproduction as well as 'derivative reproduction', where the contributor has created a new figure or table that derives substantially from a copyrighted source. Authors are themselves responsible for the payment of any permission fees required by the copyright owner. Copies of permission letters should be sent with the manuscript upon submission to the Editor(s).
Copyright permission letter template
6. Supplementary online material
Authors are welcome to submit animations, movie files, sound files or any additional information for online publication.
Information about supplementary online material
Manuscript submission
All submissions should be made online at the Urban Water Journal Manuscript Central site. New users should first create an account. Once logged on to the site, submissions should be made via the Author Centre. Online user guides and access to a helpdesk are available on this website.
Manuscripts may be submitted in any standard format, including Word, PostScript and PDF. These files will be automatically converted into a PDF file for the review process. LaTeX files should be converted to PDF prior to submission because Manuscript Central is not able to convert LaTeX files into PDFs directly.
Proposed reviewers: Authors should submit with their manuscript the details of internationally reputable experts, actively involved in the research topics covered by the paper, who could be selected to serve as potential reviewers of the paper. The first name, last name and e-mail address should be provided for each of the proposed reviewers.
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Copyright and authors' rights
It is a condition of publication that authors assign copyright or license the publication rights in their articles, including abstracts, to Taylor & Francis. This enables us to ensure full copyright protection and to disseminate the article, and of course the Journal, to the widest possible readership in print and electronic formats as appropriate. Authors retain many rights under the Taylor & Francis rights policies, which can be found at http://journalauthors.tandf.co.uk/preparation/copyright.asp. Authors are themselves responsible for obtaining permission to reproduce copyright material from other sources.
Exceptions are made for certain Governments' employees whose policies require that copyright cannot be transferred to other parties. We ask that a signed statement to this effect is submitted when returning proofs for accepted papers.
Reprints
Corresponding authors will receive free online access to their article through our website (www.informaworld.com). Reprints of articles published in Urban Water Journal can be purchased through Rightslink® when proofs are received. If you have any queries, please contact our reprints department at reprints@tandf.co.uk.
Page charges
There are no page charges to individuals or institutions.
iOpenAccess
Authors whose manuscripts have been accepted for publication in certain journals have the option to pay a one-off fee of US$3100 to make their article free to read online via the Urban Water Journal website. Choosing this option also allows authors to post their article in an institutional or subject repository immediately upon publication.
Further details on iOpenAccess
Editorial Board
Editorial Board
Editors-in-Chief:
Cedo Maksimovic - Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Skempton Building, Imperial College London, South Kensington Campus, London, SW7 2AZ, UK
David Butler - Harrison Building, Department for Engineering, North Park Road, University of Exeter, Exeter, EX4 4QF, UK
Editorial Office:
Alix Slater - UrbanWater@exeter.ac.uk
Associate Editors:
Jiri Marsalek - National Water Research Institute, Burlington, Canada
David Stephenson - University of Botswana, Gabarone, Botswana
Christos Makropoulos - National Technical University of Athens, Greece
Tim Fletcher - Monash University, Melbourne, Australia
Editorial Board:
Richard Ashley - Unversity of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK
James E. Ball - University of Technology, Sydney, Australia
M. Bruce Beck - University of Georgia, Athens, USA
Jean-Luc Bertrand-Krajewski - INSA de Lyon, Villeurbanne, France
Rebekah Brown - Monash University, Melbourne, Australia
Jining Chen - Tsinghua University
Eran Friedler - Technion Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel
Hiroaki Furumai - The University of Tokyo, Japan
Manuel Gomez - Universite Politecnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain
Willi Gujer - EAWAG, Duebendorf, Switzerland
Kapil Gupta - Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, India
James P. Heaney - University of Florida, Gainesville, USA
Takara Kaoru - Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan
Brian Karney - University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
Jan Lundqvist - Linkoping University, Linkoping, Sweden
Per-Arne Malmqvist - Chalmers Tekniska Högskola, Göteborg, Sweden
Mamdouh Nouh - International Water & Environmental Consultancy Group, Sharjah, UAE
Nilo de Oliveira Nascimento - Departamento de Engenharia Hidráulica, Brasil
Dušan Prodanovic - University of Belgrade
Helena Ramos - Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisboa, Portugal
John Sansalone - University of Florida, Gainesville, USA
Adrian Saul - University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK
Manfred Schtze - IFAK -Institut fr Automation und Kommunikation e.V., Magdeburg, Germany
Robert M. Searns - Urban Edges Inc., Littleton, USA
José Alberto Tejada-Guibert - UNESCO, Paris, France
Kala Vairavamoorthy - School of Civil Engineering, University of Birmingham, UK
Hans-Reinhard Verworn - Universitaet Hannover, Hannover, Germany
Thomas Walski - Bentley Systems, Incorporated, USA
Jun Xia - Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
