Submission
Template (Word, 185 kB)
These instructions are
provided to help authors prepare their manuscripts.
Submitted papers should report new work or ideas.
Full-length papers, critical reviews, technical notes,
comments on published papers and short communications are
acceptable for submission.
Manuscript
1. Papers must be written in
English. Spelling and grammar should be checked by an
English-speaking editor if English is not the first language.
2. The manuscript in the word format should be submitted
on-line at http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/aaqr. The system will
convert the word file into pdf/html files for the review
purpose only. Upon approval for the format and
appropriateness of the submitted manuscript, the manuscript
would be in review process. You must first create an account
in the on-line submission system before you are able to
submit the manuscripts.
3. The main text of the
manuscript must be typed in 12 Times New Roman font,
double-spaced on one side of A4 or 8.5” x 11” paper using
appropriate margins. The font size of the title and
sub-title is 16 and 14, respectively. The submitted
manuscript should not exceed 35 pages including text,
references, tables, and figures. All pages should be
numbered at the bottom of each page.
4. Insert consecutive
line numbers in the left margin of all pages. This feature
can be found in “Page Setup”.
5. Leave only one space
after periods.
6. Manuscripts should
contain the following elements in sequence: title, names and
affiliations of authors, abstract, keywords, introduction of
paper, text, conclusions, acknowledgements, appendices,
references, list of table titles, tables, list of figure
captions, and figures.
7. Download the
submission template of the manuscript at http://www.aaqr.org/ and follow the same format to
prepare the manuscripts.
Title
1. Title should be
informative and specific, not to exceed 20 words.
2. Avoid chemical
formulae in title.
Name of author and affiliation
1. List each
author’s first, middle and last name and affiliation.
2. Include the fax,
telephone and e-mail address for the corresponding author in
a footnote on page one.
Abstract
1. Maximum of 300 words
should be used in the abstract, not to exceed one-page,
including list of authors, affiliation and keywords.
2. The purposes, methods,
contents, conclusions, as well as new significant findings,
should be summarized in the abstract.
Keywords
1. Include up to five
keywords to facilitate literature searches.
2. Avoid duplicating
words already contained in the title.
References
1. All references to
literature in the text should be cited in the form Smith
(1997) if there is one author, Smith and Jones (1997) if
there are two authors, or Smith et al. (1997) if there are
more than two authors. The manuscript should be carefully
checked to ensure that the information given in the text is
exactly the same as that given in the reference list.
2. References should be
arranged in alphabetical order by the first author’s last
name.
3. Some examples for
arranging the references:
(i) Journals:
Watson, J.G., Chow, J.C.
and Chen, L.-W.A. (2005). Summary of Organic and Elemental
Carbon/Black Carbon Analysis Methods and Intercomparisons.
Aerosol Air Qual. Res. 5: 65-102.
Charell, P.R. and Hawley, R.E.
(1981). Characteristics of Water Adsorption on Air Sampling
Filters. Am. Ind. Hyg. Assoc. J. 42: 353-360.
(ii) Books:
Kerker, M. (1969). The
Scattering of Light, Academic Press, New York.
(iii) Edited books:
Crittenden, B.D. and
Long, R. (1976). In Carcinogenesis--A Comprehensive Survey,
Vol. 1, R. I. Freudenthal and P. W. Jones (Eds.), Raven
Press, New York, p. 209.
(iv) Conference
proceedings, symposia, etc.:
Fissan, H.J., Franzen,
H., Helsper, C. in: Benarie, M.M. (Ed.) Atmospheric
Pollution 1978, Proc. 13th Int. Colloq., Paris, France,
1978, Elsevier, Amsterdam, p. 263-266.
4. The title of the cited
journal should be abbreviated as in the Word List of
Scientific Periodicals. For example, Aerosol and Air Quality
Research should be abbreviated as Aerosol Air Qual. Res.
Include the full title if the correct abbreviation is not
known.
Tables and Figures
1. Submit each table and figure on a separate page.
2. Number tables and
figures consecutively with Arabic numerals (Table 1, etc.)
in order of citation in the text. The text should include
references to all tables and figures.
3. Excessive tabulation
of data or large tables should be avoided.
4. Each table and figure
should have a brief and self-explanatory title. The title
should be above the table or below the figure. Also provide
a list of table and figure titles on a separate page.
5. Tables should be
presented in the simplest style. Vertical lines should not
be used.
6. Explanations should be
given in footnotes with superscript italic Roman letters (a,
b, c, etc.)at the bottom of the table, if it is necessary
for the understanding of the table.
7. Figures should be
clearly legible when reduced to a single-column width.
8. Color figures are to
be avoided, unless paid for by the author.
9. In the text, refer to
figures as “Fig. (1)”, or “Figs. 1(a) and (b)”.
Units
1. The use of S.I. units
throughout is highly recommended.
2. Other metric units may
be used with advance permission from the Editors-in-Chief.
Symbols
1. Define symbols
(including Greek letters and other non-Latin symbols) at
their first appearance in the text or in a separate list of
notations.
2. Use mathematics type
if it is possible.
3. At the first reference
to a chemical compound, write the compound’s name in full,
followed by its abbreviation in parentheses. Thereafter, use
the abbreviation.
4. Take care to clearly
differentiate zero (0) and the letter (O), one (1) and the
letter (l), times sign (’) and the letter (x).
Equations
1. All equations must be
clearly typewritten.
2. Subscripts and
superscripts should be clearly legible.
3. The meanings of all
symbols must be defined immediately after the equation in
which they are first used.
4. Equations should be
sequentially numbered in parentheses at the extremely right
of the line,
according to their appearance in the text.
5. When referring to
equations in the text, preface the number with the word
“Eq.” or “Eqs.”
and place the number within the bracket as Eq. (1), or Eqs.
(1-4), etc.
Acknowledgements
Written the
acknowledgements in a separate section briefly before the
references.
Template for Manuscript Preparation
A template
for manuscript preparation can be downloaded from the
on-line submission web page, or the AAQR web site in the
icon of “Instruction to Authors”. Insert line numbers at the
left margin of the entire manuscript using “page setup”
function.
After the Manuscript is Accepted
Authors are
requested to submit the original and revised manuscripts
on-line. Upon acceptance, authors are requested to e-mail
the signed copyright form, the reprint order form, the AAQR
subscription form and the finalized manuscript in MS Word format
and every figure in *.tiff format (at least 1,000 dpi for
line art and 300 dpi for half-tones) to the production
center of AAQR for final processing and publishing. E-mail
address: hhyang@cyut.edu.tw , mailing address: Prof. Hsi-Hsien
Yang; Production center of AAQR; Department of Environmental
Engineering and Management, Chaoyang University of
Technology; No. 168, Jifong E. Rd., Wufong Township,
Taichung County 41349, Taiwan.
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