Aerosol and Air Quality Research
Instructions for Authors
(1) NEW SUBMISSION
Manuscript Types
AAQR accepts Original Articles, Technical Notes, Short Communications, Data Reports, Invited Reviews, Focus Articles, Letters to the Editor, and Joint Publications with JAAST and KAPAR. Additionally, we publish Special Issues on topical themes.
Original articles: These articles report previously unpublished research or review published research. Literature reviews herein are expected to be in-depth, critical pieces on specific subjects. The length is limited to less than 6500 words.
Technical Notes: These articles cover topics which may be simpler in structure but are usually of urgent matter. Technical notes may describe significant modifications to or adaptations of methods and tools. “Materials” and “Methods” should be concise, with routine instrumental methods placed in “Supplementary Materials.” The length is limited to less than 3000 words, or 4 typeset pages.
Short communications: These communications provide a brief description of significant scientific findings or practical developments that are of outstanding interest and urgency to the aerosol and air quality community. The need for Short Communication must be clearly stated in the cover letter. The length is limited to less than 3000 words, or 4 typeset pages.
Data Reports: These reports present new, preliminary or partial results from analysis of data (sets), and may have limited conclusions/implications compared to original articles. The data (sets) may include original measured/modeling data or readily-available data of sufficient quality. Upon acceptance of publication, the data (sets) must be made publicly available for at least five years. Please refer to the section on Accessibility of Materials and Data for details. AAQR reserves the right to deny publication when authors do not comply with this data policy. The length is limited to less than 3000 words, or 4 typeset pages.
Invited Reviews: Invitations for these reviews are issued by the Editor(s)-in-Chief of AAQR. The length is limited to less than 10000 words.
Focus Articles: These brief perspective reviews (2 authors max.) assess the current status of a field and highlight recent key findings. Not intended to be comprehensive and text-only pieces are welcome; figs. should be simple and low in number (preferably 1). The length is limited to less than 1000 words, or 2 typeset pages.
Letters to the Editor: These letters comment or remark on published results and substantial issues of aerosols and air quality. The length is limited to less than 1000 words, or 2 typeset pages.
Joint Publications with JAAST and KAPAR: Manuscripts published in Earozoru Kenkyu (Journal of Aerosol Research) or Particle and Aerosol Research may be recommended by JAAST or KAPAR, respectively, for secondary publication in AAQR. Submissions must include the approval letter.
Note 1: The above word-count limits exclude the title, author names, affiliations, table texts and references.
Note 2: The publication fee is charged according to the number of typeset pages.
Manuscript
A cover letter should be prepared separately from the manuscript file, and either uploaded into or typed into the text box of the online submission system. This is mandatory.
Papers must be written in American or British English, but not a mixture of both. Spelling and grammar should be checked by an English-speaking editor if English is not the authors’ first language. In any case, the authors are strongly advised to use the spell- and grammar-check functions of the Word processor to avoid unnecessary grammatical and typographical errors.
The manuscript in Word format should be submitted on-line here. The system will convert the Word file into pdf/html files for review purpose only. Upon approval of the format and appropriateness of the submitted manuscript, the manuscript will be sent through the review process. You must first create an account in the on-line submission system before you are able to submit the manuscript.
The main text of the manuscript must be typed in Times New Roman 12-pt font, double-spaced, on A4 or Letter using appropriate margins. The font size of the title and sub-title is 16 pt and 14 pt, respectively. All pages should be numbered at the bottom of each page. This is mandatory, otherwise the manuscript will be returned to the authors for correction.
Authors are encouraged to write clearly and concisely. Page charges are increased for longer manuscripts and editors may return the manuscript without review if the length is superfluous to the corresponding amount of new results. Do not include extraneous information or tables that are inconsequential to the scientific analysis. The main manuscript should include all essential materials to understand the methods and interpretation; extra materials can be included in the supplemental section.
Insert continuous line numbers in the left margin of all pages (including the title and abstract). This feature can be found in the MS Word menu commands: “File/Page Setup/Layout/Line Numbers.” This is mandatory for the review process, otherwise the manuscript will be returned to the authors for correction.
New submissions must be clean versions (i.e. 'track changes' from the word processor must not be visible).
Leave only one space after periods.
Manuscripts should contain the following elements in sequence: title, names and affiliations of authors, contact info of corresponding author(s), abstract, keywords, main text (introduction, methods, results and discussion, conclusions), acknowledgements, appendices, references, tables (with titles above), and figures (with captions below).
Download the Manuscript Template for manuscripts and follow the same format to prepare your manuscript.
A manuscript that does not adhere to the instructions will be returned to the authors for correction or directly rejected.
Title
Title should be informative and specific, not to exceed 110 characters (including spaces).
Capitalize only major words of the title.
Avoid chemical formulae in title.
Name of Author and Affiliation
List each author’s first, middle initial and last name, and affiliation, and identify the corresponding author(s) with asterisk. The maximum number of corresponding authors is two.
Include the e-mail address, telephone and fax for the corresponding author below the author name/affiliation list.
All authors should be added and linked to the submission in the online submission system. This is mandatory for ethical reasons, otherwise the manuscript will be returned to the authors for correction.
Abstract
Abstract should be formatted as a single paragraph and not to exceed the 300-word limit.
The purposes, methods, contents, conclusions, as well as new significant findings, should be summarized in the abstract, but do not include subheadings in the abstract.
Keywords
Include 3 to 5 keywords to facilitate literature searches.
Avoid duplicating words already contained in the title.
The first letter of the keywords should be capitalized, and the keywords separated with commas.
Nomenclature
This is optional if the number of symbols in the manuscript is limited.
A list of symbols is required when a manuscript contains numerous formulae and hence mathematical symbols.
Nomenclature is prepared in a separate section and placed after the Keywords and before the Main text.
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