Guides for Authors
1. Submission Instructions
1.1 Submission Method: The journal adopts online submission. Please submit your manuscripts via the journal’s official website (https://sjwj.cbpt.cnki.net/), and note that there is no other submission method. Before submission, please register in Author Center, and then follow the guidance to submit your manuscript.
1.2 Basic Requirements on Manuscripts: The journal only accepts original research works that have not been published or submitted to other journals. Academic misconduct including plagiarism, fabricated data, multi-submission, redundant publishing is strictly prohibited. Manuscripts should have clear points, reliable statements, concise wording, and be in compliance with the national regulations on confidentiality. All accepted manuscripts will be published and archived in the journal’s official website and the database of CNKI. Authors who disagree with this are suggested to submit to other journals. Authors are required to fill in and submit the scanned version of the Copyright Transfer Agreement & Academic Standards Commitment Letter, which should be signed by all authors and stamped by the institution of the first of corresponding author. Please carefully check the author and fund information before submission, since this information cannot be changed after the acceptance of your manuscript. In addition, it is allowed to have two corresponding authors on a single article.
1.3 In the process of submission, authors should indicate their contact information in the Submission System, including postal address, postal code, phone number, and E-mail. In the event of any modification, please notify the Editorial Department to update.
2. Writing Requirements for Chinese Manuscripts
Please refer to the page of "投稿指南" for detailed requirements on writing and format for Chinese Manuscripts.
3. Writing Requirements for English Manuscripts
3.1 Innovation: The journal focuses on the innovations of scientific research and applied technology in the field of water conservancy and hydropower engineering. The innovation of research should be clearly reflected in the article’s title, introduction, methods, discussion of results, and conclusion.
3.2 Word Count: The number of words in the full text (excluding the abstract and references) should generally be at least 3000 words. International standard units of measurement should be employed.
3.3 Title & Authors: Title should be brief and concise. Only the main participants of the research and article could be listed as authors. The affiliations of all authors should be indicated.
3.4 Abstract & Keywords: The abstract should be written in a structured style, stating the Objective, Methods, Results, and Conclusion of the study, with emphasis on innovations and findings. The abstract should be at least 300 words. The number of keywords should be 5 to 8.
3.5 Introduction: In this part, it is necessary to introduce the work of peers and the innovations of the paper. For original research articles, there should be necessary discussion before drawing the conclusion. For technical articles, there should be a review and evaluation of relevant background, problems, etc.
3.6 Fund: The journal only accepts articles with funded projects, and articles with national-level funded projects would be given priority for publication. The information about funding, award, and patent related to the article should be indicated in the footer of the first page.
3.7 Figures & Tables: Please use Three-line Tables. Figures and tables should be placed after the corresponding text. Please do not duplicate the contents of figures and tables in the text. In particular, please try not to use world or China maps in article. If necessary, for maps involving national borders (including some regions in China, the entire country, some regions in the world, and the entire globe), please use the standard maps provided by the Ministry of Natural Resources of P. R. China (download link: http://bzdt.ch.mnr.gov.cn). The boundaries of the map of China used must not be modified (including the location of the islands in the South China Sea). To adapt to the scaling of figures during typesetting, line scale rulers should be used uniformly instead of numeric scale rulers.
3.8 Formula: The meaning of the physical quantity represented must be indicated when it first appears in the formula. Note that the same symbol should be used consistently to represent the same physical quantity throughout the text. The letters in the formula should distinguish between uppercase and lowercase, subscripts and superscripts, and regular and italic fonts.
3.9 Conclusion: The conclusion is the summary of the main results and arguments of the article. It is an important part of the article. The conclusion should not be repeated with the abstract or introduction.
3.10 Author Introduction: Please attach a brief introduction of all authors, including gender, year of birth, academic title, position, degree, main research area, and e-mail.
3.11 References: Each article should have at least 20 references, with more than half of them being academic literature published in the last 5 years. References should be written in full English, and non-English references should be translated into English.
4. Review Process
There are three rounds of review on each manuscript, including preliminary review by executive editors, peer review by external experts, and final review by the Editor-in-Chief.
4.1 Preliminary Review: Executive editors would conduct preliminary review on the manuscript. All submitted manuscripts shall be tested by the "Academic Misconduct Literature Detection System" developed by CNKI to avoid plagiarism and overly high rate of repetition. It is required that the repetition rate is no higher than 10%. Manuscripts with an overly high repetition rate will be rejected in the preliminary review.
4.2 Peer Review: At least two external experts would be selected by the Editorial Department to conduct a double-blind peer review on the manuscripts that passed the preliminary review. When selecting reviewers, the Editorial Department would avoid experts from the same institution or research team as the author, and editors are not allowed to disclosure the names and affiliations of authors and reviewers to each other. Specially, interdisciplinary manuscripts would be sent to experts of different disciplines.
4.3 Final Review: After a manuscript pass the peer review process, it will be submitted to the Editor-in-Chief for final review. The Editor-in-Chief would be assisted by the Editorial Board Members to give final comments on the manuscript with regard to its innovation, practical values, significance of the research, compliance with academic norms, etc.
For manuscripts submitted by the Editorial Board Members or editors of this journal, they must follow all the review and editing procedures of the journal. All review procedures will be conducted independently of the relevant Editorial Board Members, editors and their research teams. All Editorial Board Members and editors of this journal are not allowed to participate in the review, editing and employment decisions of the manuscripts written by themselves, their families or colleagues.
5. Article Publication Fee
For accepted articles, the journal would only charge authors for article publication fee (APC), which is 1500 CNY for manuscripts with three or less pages and 800 CNY for each additional page. No fees would be charged during the review process and any phone calls asking for review fees is sham. The APCs would be charged for once after the acceptance of manuscripts and no other fees are demanded.
6. Publishing Cycle
The time length of the review process depends on the article’s quality, and is no longer than one month on average. It is recommended that authors shall carefully check the manuscript content before submission, and try to revise their manuscripts and bring them up to our requirements in one go to reduce the review time. For manuscripts from postgraduates, it is recommended that postgraduate students invite their supervisors to review their manuscripts prior to submission.
If you do not receive the notification of acceptance from the Editorial Department after six months of submission, you can handle your manuscript at will. After the acceptance of manuscripts, the Editorial Department will present the authors with two printed copies of the issue and pay the remuneration.