GUIDE TO AUTHOR

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Manuscript Submission.Sciences in Cold and Arid Regionsoperates an online submission and peer review system that allows authors to submit articles online and track their progress via a web interface. To submit a manuscript, please visit http://www.SCAR.ac.cn/, log on, get an account, and follow the instructions to upload the paper files (in Word format). The signedCopyright Transfer Form(Download on home page) should be scanned and uploaded as "Supplementary files not for review" with the online submission of your article. Alternatively, the signed Copyright Transfer Form can be sent immediately following the online submission of your article to: LiangYing Sun (Full-time Vice Chief Editor; Email: SCAR@lzb.ac.cn), Cold and Arid Regions Environmental and Engineering Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences. No. 320 West Donggang Road, Lanzhou, Gansu 730000, China.

Authors are encouraged to suggest the names and full contact details of potential referees on the understanding that the Editor has the final decision on the selection of referees. Submission of a manuscript will be held to imply that it contains original unpublished work and is not being submitted for publication elsewhere at the same time.

1.Contributions published inSciences in Cold and Arid Regions:

●Review: authoritative and foresighted articles, which review the present research status, progress and problems of active, rapidly developing research fields, and bring forward perspicacious assume for future study; summarize the representative achievements of a certain important field, findings,progresses and problems in the emerging research fields and make suggestions for the future work.

●Research articles: report innovative, systematic and integrated study results.

●Brief express: report prominently innovative investigation with great academic significance. Text comprises only a heading (no subhead) and a brief abstract, totaling less than 3,000 words (two page spaces). The full text of final investigation results can still be published in "Research articles" of this Journal.

●Forum or news: introduce and comment on quality monographs of natural sciences, discuss and make reply to the contributions published inSciences in Cold and Arid Regions, or introduce and comment on a controversial issue of general interest; report important scientific news, information, and academic affairs, as well as the significant international conferences held in China (800 words).2. Manuscript composition(in the order given)

1)Title: Concise and informative title is often used in information-retrieval systems, so it is suggested avoiding abbreviations and formulae where possible.

2)Author names and affiliations: Please give full name details for all authors who are responsible for the paper’s gist and data, cited with given name before family name (e.g., YaFeng Shi, James S. Gardner). Where the family name may be ambiguous (e.g., a double name), please connect them with hyphen. Present the authors’ affiliation addresses (where the actual work was done) below the names. Indicate all affiliations with a lower-case superscript letter immediately after the author’s name. Provide the full postal address of each affiliation, including the country name, and the permanent e-mail address of the correspondence author (who is willing to handle correspondence at all stages of refereeing and publication, also post-publication).

3)Abstract:Abstracts should state briefly the purpose and method of the study, the principal results and major conclusions. An abstract is often presented separate from the article, so references, non-standard or uncommon abbreviations should be avoided

4)Keywords:Immediately after the abstract, provide a maximum of 6 keywords, avoiding general and plural terms and multiple concepts (avoid, for example,'and', 'of').

5)Introduction:State the objectives, the method of the work and provide an adequate background, avoiding a detailed literature survey or a summary of the results.

6)Materials and methods:Provide sufficient detail to allow the work to be reproduced. Methods already published should be indicated by a reference.

7)Discussion and conclusions:Please relate your findings to past and current published work, indicating the significance of your contribution, with its limitations, advantages and possible applications.

8)Acknowledgments:Acknowledgments include information on grants received, and if applicable, the information regarding fund.

9)References:Please ensure that every reference cited in the text is also present in the reference list (and vice versa). Unpublished results and personal communications should not be in the reference list, but may be mentioned in the text. In text, references are cited as "Pegan, 2006" for single author, as"Osterkamp and Romanovsky, 1999" for two, and as "Bhandarkaret al., 2006" for three or more authors. Citations may be made directly (or parenthetically).Groups of references should be listed first chronologically, then alphabetically. In the reference list, references should be arranged first alphabetically and then further sorted chronologically if necessary. More than one reference from the same author(s) in the same year must be identified by the letters "a", "b", "c",etc.,placed after the year of publication.

Examples:

●Reference to a journal publication:

Frank A, Kocurek G, 1996. Toward a model for airflow on the lee side of aeolian dunes. Sedimentology, 43(3): 451–458.

●Reference to a book:

Cooke RU, Warren A, Goudie A, 1993. Desert Geomorphology, Second edition. UCL Press, London.

●Reference to a chapter (or a paper) in an edited book (or a proceeding):

Brouwer R, Dewit CT, 1969. A simulation model of plant growth with special attention to root growth and its consequences. In: Whittington WJ (ed.). Root Growth. Butterworth, London. 224–244.

3. Manuscripts format

1) Please write your text in good English (American or British usage is accepted, but not a mixture of these) and save as .doc format. The manuscripts should be organized in a 10 pt Times New Roman font with 1 line spacing. The text, tables and figures must be in one document. Please read the sample:The sample of manuscript.doc(Download on home page).

2) Tables and Figures or Photographs must be numbered consecutively with Arabic numerals respectively and should be placed in their corresponding places in the text. Tables should be concise and exact and should use three-lines. Photographs should be of sufficiently high quality with respect to detail and contrast,indicated the magnification by a bar on the photograph.

It is recommended that drawings are processed with Excel or CorelDraw or are readable and editable in CorelDraw; Photographs (or combined with drawings)should be high-resolution (over 600 dpi) files readable and editable in Adobe Photoshop. Their widths are given alternatively in 80 mm (half column), 160 mm(single column), 160 mm × 240 mm (including figure caption). The lettering and symbols, as well as other details Figures are not larger than 8 pt Times New Roman font.

4. Reviewing, revision and acceptance of manuscripts

Every manuscript is independently reviewed by peers. If two or more reviewers consider the manuscript unsuitable for publication in this journal, a statement for the decision will be sent to authors within one or two months of the submitting date. A manuscript sent back to corresponding author for revision should be returned to the editor without delay. One to two months before the manuscript is published, a press proof in “.pdf” format will be emailed to authors. Authors check and approve the press proof, then upload or email back in 3 days.

5. Publishing

Once the article is published in this journal, three samples and ten complimentary offprints will be provided to the corresponding author.

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