期刊名称：ARID LAND RESEARCH AND MANAGEMENT
 期刊简介(About the journal)
投稿须知(Instructions to Authors)
编辑部信息(Editorial Board)
About the journal
Arid Land Research and Management is a common outlet and a valuable source of information for fundamental and applied research on soils affected by aridity. This journal covers and land ecology, including flora and fauna, as well as and soil chemistry, biology, physics, and other edaphic aspects. The journal emphasizes recovery of degraded lands and practical, appropriate uses of and soils. Reports of biotechnological applications to and land use and recovery are included. Full papers and short notes, as well as review articles and book and meeting reviews are published. All manuscripts are peer-reviewed for quality and acceptability before publication. Arid Land Research and Management is a cooperating journal of the International Society of Soil Science.
Instructions to Authors
ARID LAND RESEARCH AND MANAGEMENT (previusly Arid Soil Research and Rehabilitation) publishes papers on fundamental and applied research on arid lands and on soils in desert, arid and semiarid regions, including agricultural, pastoral and forested ecosystems. The subjects include soil biology, biochemistry, chemistry, physics, and landscape ecology, its flora and fauna. Papers on applied research dealing with desertification, reclamation, and biotechnological applications to arid land use and recovery are included. The journal accepts communications describing innovative and theoretically sound research results of interest to a broad readership. Review articles and book reviews are published. All manuscripts are peer-reviewed for scientific quality and acceptability.
ARID LAND RESEARCH AND MANAGEMENT is a cooperating journal of the International Union of Soil Science.
Submission of Manuscripts
Manuscripts should be submitted to the Editor-in-Chief: Prof. J. Skujin? Department of Biology, Utah State University, 5305 Old Main Hill, Logan, UT 84322-5305, USA, in triplicate: one original and two copies.
Authors are strongly encouraged to submit finalized manuscripts on a 9-cm (3?) disk, prepared in MS Word or WordPerfect.
Each manuscript must be accompanied by a statement that it has not been published elsewhere and that it has not been submitted simultaneously for publication elsewhere. Authors are responsible for obtaining permission to reproduce copyrighted material from other sources and are required to sign an agreement for the transfer of copyright to the publisher. All accepted manuscripts, artwork, and photographs become the property of the publisher.
Authors are strongly advised to consult "Notes for Preparation of Successful Manuscripts: Instructions to Authors Elaborated" and "Short Guide to the Use of SI Units", both published in this journal, volume 15, issue 3, pages 275-284 (2001) before submitting manuscripts to the editorial office for consideration.
The Editorial Board and the Publisher reserve the right to edit all manuscripts linguistically and stylistically.
Manuscript
The manuscript should be typewritten, double-spaced, with margins of 2.5 cm. The preferred order of presentation is as follows: Title page (title, names of authors with their affiliations, acknowledgments, complete address of the corresponding author, and a running head not exceeding 50 character spaces), Abstract, Keywords, Introduction, Materials and Methods, Results, Discussion, Conclusions, References, tables, figure legends, and copies of figures (illustrations). Do not underline anything (nor type in italics) unless the material is to be printed in italics, such as scientific binomial names of organisms and publication titles in References. Do not type any titles, headings or captions in capital letters. All headings for sections and subsections should be typed in lowercase letters and placed on separate lines.
The total number of double-spaced pages submitted, including the Abstract, References and tables should not exceed 18. Publication of longer manuscripts will be at the discretion of Editorial Board.
Title
Title must be consistent with clarity and not exceed 15 words. Uninformative initial phrases such as "Effect of? Influence of? Examination of? Studies on? and similar wording must be avoided.
Abstract
Should not exceed 250 words. An abstract should provide the objective of the research, followed by a few sentences describing methods. The main body should describe results and provide important numerical values. It ends with a brief conclusion statement. The Abstract is typed as a single paragraph and there are no references, tables nor abbreviations.
Keywords
Placed following the abstract, the authors must provide from three to ten alphabetized keywords or two-word key phrases that are not already listed in the title.
Introduction
Introduction should be short and should describe matters directly pertinent to the subject of the paper. Include a statement specifying why this research was done; include hypotheses addressed.
Materials and Methods
All methods and techniques used must be noted, described and referenced in detail. List sources of organisms used. Describe the experimental design. Soil classification in FAO or USA taxonomic nomenclature must be provided (include FAO or USA reference). For field experiments the geographic location (longitude, latitude), elevation and pertinent climatic characteristics must be provided. Description of statistical methods used is required.
Results
Write methods and results in the past tense. The text must be written in a scientifically rigorous manner (just as the rest of the paper). The mean values reported should be rounded off to three significant digits. Statistical evaluation of results must be included and documented. Indicate the number of replicates and sample sizes ("n" numbers).
It is strongly suggested to describe findings in a separate Discussion section and not to present a combined "Results and Discussion" section. He text must be written in a scientifically rigorous manner (just like the rest of the paper). Avoid subjective adjectives, adverbs and anthropocentric expressions.
References
Literature citations in the text should be by the author's surname and year. When references are by three or more authors list the first author's surname and "et al.,": "Smith (1992) has shown匬revious work (Smith & Jones, 1995; Jackson, 1996a,b) has demonstrated匤ackson et al. (2000) have shown? The listing of surnames in References should be given in an alphabetical order with all authors and editors listed. Spell out everything in full. Full titles of publications and full pagination should be given.
Follow the examples and note punctuation:
Journal article:
Hamilton, M. A., D. T. Westermann, and D. W. James. 1993. Factors affecting zinc uptake in cropping systems. Soil Science Society of America Journal 57:1310-1315.
Book:
Tate III, R. L., and D. A. Klein. 1985. Soil reclamation processes. Marcel Dekker. New York, USA.
Chapter from a book:
Bremner, J. M., and C. S. Mulvaney. 1982. Nitrogen - total, pp. 595 - 624, in A. L. Page, R. H. Miller, and D. R. Keeney, eds., Methods of soil analysis, part 2, 2nd edition. American Society of Agronomy, Madison, Wisconsin, USA.
Report: Parker, J. C., and M. Th. van Genuchten. 1984. Determining transport parameters from laboratory and field tracer experiments. Virginia Agricultural Experiment Station Bulletin 84-3. Virginia Agricultural Experiment Station, Blacksburg, Virginia, USA.
Tables
Tables should not be imbedded in the text but should be included as separate pages (or files) following the Reference section. A short descriptive title should appear above each table. All abbreviations should be described in the footnotes, indicated by superscript letters, beginning with a in each table. The tables and figures shall be understood independently without reference to the text.
Do not use vertical lines to separate columns. Delete all computer generated horizontal lines. Horizontal lines are used to separate table headings only. Tables must be double-spaced.
Figures (illustrations)
Figures submitted should be clean originals or digital files and should be limited to a minimum needed to clarify the text. Double documentation in tables and figures is not acceptable. Micrographs should have an internal magnification marker. Digital files are recommended for highest quality reproduction and they should be 300 dpi or higher, and in EPS, TIFF, or PSD format only, submitted as separate files, not imbedded in text files.
Legend (caption) to a figure should not appear on the page with the figure but should be typed on a separate page.
Color illustrations will be considered for publication but the author will be required to pay for their publication. The charge for the first figure is US$ 1,200. Subsequent figures, totaling not more than 4 are US$ 500 each. The publisher has the right to refuse publication of any illustration deemed unacceptable.
Legends to figures (illustrations)
Each illustration should be provided with a legend sufficiently clear so that the meaning of data is understandable without reference to the text. A legend of symbols should be included in a graph. Legends should be typed, double-spaced on a separate page, placed following the tables.
Units of measurement and abbreviations
Use of International System of Units (SI, Systeme international d'unites) is required. In the text, tables and figures use the minus index instead of a slash and conform to the SI abbreviations (see "The Short Guide to the Use of SI Units"). Use chemical designations instead of spelling out chemical names, e.g., CO2 release, C and N cycling. Define each uncommon abbreviation the first time it is used, e.g., "modified universal buffer (MUB) was used."
The conventional designation of a binomial scientific name author(s) for an organism must be noted the first time it is introduced in the main text (except in the Abstract). Fertilized values should be expressed in terms of elemental P, K, etc., not as oxides.
Specific suggestions
- Type everything double-spaced, including title page, tables, titles for tables and legends to figures, footnotes.
- Always place zeros before decimal fractions: write 0.05, not .05.
- Do not use dashes in the tables: distinguish and specify ND (not determined), NA (not applicable), or 0 (not found).
- Do not use "levels" when you mean concentrations ("wt. per "wt.") or amounts (total, or per area, per volume). Avoid the use of "rates" for concentrations and amounts used.
- Never use "ppm". Express concentrations in SI units.
- Use SI designations for units, e.g., Mg (not ton), mL (not ml), Mpa (not bars), J (not cal.), kat (not U), cmolc kg-1 (not meq./100 g), etc. - see "The Short Guide to the Use of SI Units", 15:281-284, 2001.
- Do not use % values where the concentrations may be expressed in SI units, e.g., C, N, and water presence in soils.
- When using a word processor for typing the manuscript do not use the "right margin justification."
Notes
Notes, not exceeding 1500 words, are intended for the presentation of research reports that do not warrant full-length papers. Notes are peer-reviewed and are not considered as preliminary communications. A Note has an Abstract of no more than 100 words and Keywords. Section headings are not used in the body of Note. The number of tables and figures should not exceed three. The Reference section is similar to a full-length paper.
Page charges
Page proofs are sent to authors for checking before publication. Part of the publication costs are covered by a page charge of $ 40.00 per printed page (invoice included with the page proofs). If these charges are paid, the senior author will receive 50 offprints of the article. The acceptance and publication of papers are not dependent on the payment of page charges.
Editorial Board
Prof. J. Skujins
Dept. of Biology
Utah State University
5305 Old Main Hill
Logan, UT 84322-5305, USA
Fax: (435) 797-1575
e-mail: skujins@cc.usu.edu
Editorial Board Members
A.S. Abdel-Ghaffar - University of Alexandria, Alexandria, Egypt
R. Aguilar - Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA
J. Aronson - CEFE/CNRS,Montpellier Cedex, France
A.G. Babaev - Desert Institute, Ashgabat, Turkmenistan
J.M. Barea - Estacion Exparimental del Zaidin, Granada, Spain
Y.R. Dommergues - Nice, France
C. Floret - IRD-DAKAR, Dakar, Senegal
H.M. Gaber - University of Alexandria, Alexandria, Egypt
F. Ganry - CIRAD-CA, Montpellier, France
C.W. Gay - Utah State University, Logan, Utah, USA
J.J. Germida - University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canada
M. Gueye - ISRA/IRD, Dakar, Senegal
M. Habte - University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA
D. Heil - Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, USA
H.N. Le Houerou - Montpellier, France
G. Hussain - RINRE, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
J.O. Klemmedson - University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, USA
B.P. Klubek - Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, Illinois, USA
G.A. Lehrsch - USDA-ARS, Kimberly, Idaho, USA
S. Loftin - Los Alamos National Laboratory Los Alamos, New Mexico, USA
T.A. Lumpkin - Washington State University, Pullman, Washington, USA
E. McDonald - Desert Research Institute, Reno, Nevada, USA
F.B. Metting - Battelle Pacific Northwest Laboratories, Richland, Washington, USA
H.C. Monger - New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, New Mexico, USA
P. Nannipieri - Universita degli Studi, Firenze, Italy
Y. Okon - Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Rehovot, Israel
A.V. Rao - Central Arid Zone Research Institute, Jodhpur, India
E.F. Redente - Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, USA
C.W. Robbins - USDA-ARS, Kimberly, Idaho, USA
A.Roldan - CEBAS-CSIC, Murcia, Spain
R.A. Rosell - Universidad Nacional del Sur, Bahia Blanca, Argentina
J. Schwencke - Gif sur Yvette, France
M.J. Singer - University of California, Davis, California, USA
S.E. Smith - University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, USA
Y. Steinberger - Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, Israel
D. Tongway - CSIRO, Canberra, ACT, Australia
N.E. West - Utah State University, Logan, Utah, USA
B.J. Wienhold - USDA-ARS, Lincoln, Nebraska, USA
I.I. Yattara - University of Mali, Bamako, Mali
E. Zaady - Ben-Gurion University of Negev, Sede Boker Campus, Israel
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