Authors

As part of the submission process, authors are required to check off their submission’s compliance with all of the following items, and submissions may be returned to authors that do not adhere to these guidelines.

• The submission has not been previously published, nor is it before another journal for consideration (or an explanation has been provided in Comments to the Editor).
• The submission file is in OpenOffice, Microsoft Word, or RTF document file format.
• Where available, URLs for the references have been provided.
• The text is single-spaced; uses a 12-point font; employs italics, rather than underlining (except with URL addresses); and all illustrations, figures, and tables are placed within the text at the appropriate points, rather than at the end.
• The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines.

Water and Environmental Chemistry Research (Water Environ. Chem. Res) is an international peer-review and open access journal covering on theoretical and applied sciences related water, environment, all aspect of pollution and solution to pollution in the biosphere. The journal publishes original research article, review, and short communication. The papers published in this journal implies that the work described has not been, and will not be published elsewhere, except in the abstract, as part of a lecture, review or academic thesis.

The manuscript should be submitted through our online system by the corresponding author which is responsible for the manuscript during the submission and peer-review process. To submit your manuscript, register and login to the submission website. A cover letter must be prepared for each manuscript submission. It should be clearly declared why the manuscript is significant to be published. The corresponding author should confirm that neither the manuscript nor any parts of the manuscript are currently under review or already published in another journal. In particular, the authors shall pay attention to the “Submission Preparation Checklist” before submitting the manuscript.

Use the following guidelines to prepare your article. Upon accepted stage, authors shall provide all figures in high resolution separately from the main manuscript. If authors have any problems with the online submission, please contact the Editorial Office. The type of articles can be described in detail as follows:

1. Research article
Research article should not exceed 8000 words (including abstract, figures, and tables but excluding references). Please note that small tables and figures each count as 300 words, and large tables or figures with multiple panels may count for 600 or more words. There should be no more than nine figures and tables (e.g., 5 figures and 4 tables maximum) in the main text. Any additional figures and tables should be placed in Supplementary Material. The abstract (up to 300 words), highlights and conclusions of papers in this journal must contain clear and concise statements. A graphical abstract is mandatory.

2. Review
Review should not exceed 10,000 words, as defined above. Authors may submit manuscripts that provide in-depth critical review of a special subject. These reviews must provide a Synthesis and Critical Evaluation of the state of the knowledge of the subject and indicate research directions. The Editors also periodically invite review articles.

3. Short Communication
Short communication that present original and significant material for rapid dissemination. Short communication should not exceed 4000 words (including abstract, figures, and tables but excluding references).