Guide for Authors
The Journal on Environmental Degradation of Materials and its Control
An Official Journal of the Institute of Corrosion
The Elsevier Editorial System
Authors can now submit their manuscript online via the Elsevier Editorial
System, EES. Online submission considerably shortens the overall publication time.
All papers should be submitted electronically
to the Editor-in-Chief, Professor G.T. Burstein at
http://ees.elsevier.com/corsci. Detailed instructions on the use of the
online submission system are available at
http://ees.elsevier.com/corsci. Please read the "Hints" for information on how
to register, and review the "Tutorial for Authors" for a run-through of the submission process.
If you need any further help, please
do not hesitate to contact our Author Support Department at:
authorsupport@elsevier.com. The system automatically converts
source files to a single Adobe Acrobat PDF version of the article, which is used in the peer-review process. Please note that even though
manuscript source files are converted to PDF at submission for the review process, these source files are needed for further processing
after acceptance.
All correspondence, including notification of the Editor's decision and requests for revision, takes place
by e-mail and via the Author's homepage, removing the need for a hard-copy paper trail. Please note that papers submitted in hard
copy can no longer be accepted.
Editor's requirements: Authors of papers published in
Corrosion Science are
expected to act as referees for papers submitted to the Journal when asked to do so by the Editor. Referees are expected to provide a
critical unbiased assessment of manuscripts sent to them for review, and to do so promptly: review of a paper should take no longer than
four weeks from the date of receipt.
The Publisher and the Editor-in-Chief together with the Editorial Board cannot guarantee the
accuracy or correctness of anything published in
Corrosion Science, and cannot accept responsibility for that. Accuracy, correctness
and reproducibility of any paper or of any of the work therein are the sole responsibility of the authors of that paper.
Types of Contributions: Reviews, Papers, Discussions (normally on already published papers and authors'
replies that follow), Short Communications, Letters.
Papers submitted to
Corrosion Science should represent either original
research or critical reviews not previously published in the field of pure and applied corrosion science. Papers may be of a theoretical,
experimental or practical nature, provided that they make a contribution to knowledge.
Letters: Letters should be short
articles, up to six manuscript pages (including tables and figures) in length, which report on something which is sufficiently new, timely,
exciting or otherwise merit-worthy, as to require fast publication. These will be put through a fast-track procedure when it is deemed
desirable by the Editors, and publication can be expected within four months of the date of receipt of the manuscript in the Editorial
Office. Letters need not be subdivided into conventional sections with headings; they should, however, contain an Abstract. It is ultimately
the Editor-in-Chief's decision whether a particular manuscript should be fast-tracked or not.
Correspondence Section: Authors
should ensure that their manuscripts contain nothing which may be regarded as of a personal nature, or is capable of being perceived
as such. Correspondence should discuss the science, technical or engineering content only. Any manuscript submitted which does not follow
this standard will be rejected.
Ethics in Publishing
For information on Ethics in Publishing and Ethical guidelines for journal publication
see
http://www.elsevier.com/publishingethics and
http://www.elsevier.com/ethicalguidelines.
Conflict of interest
All authors are requested to disclose any actual or potential conflict of interest
including any financial, personal or other relationships with other people or organizations within three years of beginning the submitted
work that could inappropriately influence, or be perceived to influence, their work. See also
http://www.elsevier.com/conflictsofinterest.
Submission declaration
Submission of an article implies that the work described has not been published previously
(except in the form of an abstract or as part of a published lecture or academic thesis), that it is not under consideration for publication
elsewhere, that its publication is approved by all authors and tacitly or explicitly by the responsible authorities where the work was
carried out, and that, if accepted, it will not be published elsewhere in the same form, in English or in any other language, without
the written consent of the copyright-holder.
Contributors
Each author is
required to declare his or her individual contribution to the article: all authors must have materially participated in the research
and/or article preparation, so roles for all authors should be described. The statement that all authors have approved the final article
should be true and included in the disclosure.
Copyright
Upon acceptance
of an article, authors will be asked to complete a 'Journal Publishing Agreement' (for more information on this and copyright see
http://www.elsevier.com/copyright).
Acceptance of the agreement will ensure the widest possible dissemination of information. An e-mail will be sent to the corresponding
author confirming receipt of the manuscript together with a 'Journal Publishing Agreement' form or a link to the online version of this
agreement.
Subscribers may reproduce tables of contents or prepare lists of articles including abstracts for internal circulation
within their institutions. Permission of the Publisher is required for resale or distribution outside the institution and for all other
derivative works, including compilations and translations (please consult
http://www.elsevier.com/permissions). If excerpts
from other copyrighted works are included, the author(s) must obtain written permission from the copyright owners and credit the source(s)
in the article. Elsevier has preprinted forms for use by authors in these cases: please consult
http://www.elsevier.com/permissions.
Retained author rights
As an author you (or your employer or institution) retain certain rights; for details
you are referred to:
http://www.elsevier.com/authorsrights.
Role of the
funding source
You are requested to identify who provided financial support for the conduct of the research and/or preparation
of the article and to briefly describe the role of the sponsor(s), if any, in study design; in the collection, analysis and interpretation
of data; in the writing of the report; and in the decision to submit the paper for publication. If the funding source(s) had no such
involvement then this should be stated. Please see
http://www.elsevier.com/funding.
Funding body agreements and policies
Elsevier has established agreements and developed policies to allow authors whose
articles appear in journals published by Elsevier, to comply with potential manuscript archiving requirements as specified as conditions
of their grant awards. To learn more about existing agreements and policies please visit
http://www.elsevier.com/fundingbodies.
Language and language services
Please write your text in good English (American or British usage is accepted,
but not a mixture of these). Authors who require information about language editing and copyediting services pre- and post-submission
please visit
http://www.elsevier.com/languagepolishing or our customer support site at
http://epsupport.elsevier.com
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Submission
Submission to this journal proceeds totally online and you will be guided stepwise through
the creation and uploading of your files. The system automatically converts source files to a single PDF file of the article, which is
used in the peer-review process. Please note that even though manuscript source files are converted to PDF files at submission for the
review process, these source files are needed for further processing after acceptance. All correspondence, including notification of
the Editor's decision and requests for revision, takes place by e-mail removing the need for a paper trail.
Papers submitted for publication
in
Corrosion Science must be written in good English. Any paper written in poor English will be returned to the authors for
revision, even if the paper is otherwise acceptable.
The standard spelling of English for papers published in Corrosion Science
is the UK spelling. Spellings can be found in the one of the several Oxford English Dictionaries, or their UK equivalent. Authors who
submit manuscripts written using a word processor should set the spelling check for UK English, not US English.
Use of wordprocessing software
It is important that the file be saved in the native format of the wordprocessor
used. The text should be in single-column format. Keep the layout of the text as simple as possible. Most formatting codes will be removed
and replaced on processing the article. In particular, do not use the wordprocessor's options to justify text or to hyphenate words.
However, do use bold face, italics, subscripts, superscripts etc. Do not embed "graphically designed" equations or tables, but prepare
these using the wordprocessor's facility. When preparing tables, if you are using a table grid, use only one grid for each individual
table and not a grid for each row. If no grid is used, use tabs, not spaces, to align columns. The electronic text should be prepared
in a way very similar to that of conventional manuscripts (see also the Guide to Publishing with Elsevier:
http://www.elsevier.com/guidepublication).
Do not import the figures into the text file but, instead, indicate their approximate locations directly in the electronic text and on
the manuscript. See also the section on Electronic illustrations.
To avoid unnecessary errors you are strongly advised to use the
"spell-check" and "grammar-check" functions of your wordprocessor.
Article structure
Follow this order when typing manuscripts: Title, Authors, Affiliations,
Abstract, Keywords, Main text, Acknowledgements, Appendix, References, Figure Captions and then Tables. Do not import figures into the
text - see Illustrations. Collate acknowledgements in a separate section at the end of the article and do not include them on the title
page, as a footnote to the title or otherwise.
Introduction
State
the objectives of the work and provide an adequate background, avoiding a detailed literature survey or a summary of the results.
Material and methods
Provide sufficient detail to allow the work to be reproduced. Methods already
published should be indicated by a reference: only relevant modifications should be described.
Theory/calculation
A Theory section should extend, not repeat, the background to the article already dealt with in
the Introduction and lay the foundation for further work. In contrast, a Calculation section represents a practical development from
a theoretical basis.
Results
Results should be clear and concise.
Discussion
This should explore the significance of the results of the work, not repeat them. A combined
Results and Discussion section is often appropriate. Avoid extensive citations and discussion of published literature.
Conclusions
The main conclusions of the study may be presented in a short Conclusions section, which
may stand alone or form a subsection of a Discussion or Results and Discussion section.
Appendices
If there is more than one appendix, they should be identified as A, B, etc. Formulae and equations in
appendices should be given separate numbering: Eq. (A.1), Eq. (A.2), etc.; in a subsequent appendix, Eq. (B.1) and so on.
Essential title page information
•
Title.
Concise and informative. Titles are often
used in information-retrieval systems. Avoid abbreviations and formulae where possible.
•
Author names and affiliations.
Where the family name may be ambiguous (e.g., a double name), please indicate this clearly. 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 and in front of the appropriate address. Provide the full postal address of each affiliation, including the country name,
and, if available, the e-mail address of each author.
•
Corresponding author.
Clearly indicate who will handle
correspondence at all stages of refereeing and publication, also post-publication.
Ensure that telephone and fax numbers (with country
and area code) are provided in addition to the e-mail address and the complete postal address.
•
Present/permanent
address.
If an author has moved since the work described in the article was done, or was visiting at the time, a "Present address"
(or "Permanent address") may be indicated as a footnote to that author's name. The address at which the author actually did the work
must be retained as the main, affiliation address. Superscript Arabic numerals are used for such footnotes.
Abstract
A concise and factual abstract is required. The abstract should state briefly the purpose of the
research, the principal results and major conclusions. An abstract is often presented separately from the article, so it must be able
to stand alone. For this reason, References should be avoided, but if essential, then cite the author(s) and year(s). Also, non-standard
or uncommon abbreviations should be avoided, but if essential they must be defined at their first mention in the abstract itself.
Abstract must not exceed 100 words.
Keywords
Immediately after the abstract, provide a maximum of 6 keywords from the Keywords List at the end of these instructions. Use
British spelling and avoid general and plural terms and multiple concepts (avoid, for example, 'and', 'of'). Each keyword should be accompanied
by the capital letter denoting the category from which the keyword has been selected.
Nomenclature and units
Follow internationally accepted rules and conventions: use the international system of units (SI).
If other quantities are mentioned, give their equivalent in SI. You are urged to consult IUPAC: Nomenclature of Organic Chemistry:
http://www.iupac.org/
for further information.
Each paper should be consistent within itself as
to abbreviations, symbols and units. The SI system should be used for all scientific and laboratory data; if, in certain instances, it
is necessary to quote other units, these should be added in parentheses. Temperatures should be given in degrees Celsius. The unit 'billion'
(109 in America, 1012 in Europe) is ambiguous and must not be used. Axes for graphs and headings for tables should be given in quantity
calculus form, e.g. times as t (s), potential as E (mV/SHE), current density as I (A/m2).
Artwork
Electronic artwork
General points
•
Make sure you use uniform lettering and sizing of your original artwork.
• Save text in illustrations as "graphics" or enclose
the font.
• Only use the following fonts in your illustrations: Arial, Courier, Times, Symbol.
• Number the illustrations
according to their sequence in the text.
• Use a logical naming convention for your artwork files.
• Provide captions
to illustrations separately.
• Produce images near to the desired size of the printed version.
• Submit each figure
as a separate file.
A detailed guide on electronic artwork is available on our website:
http://www.elsevier.com/artworkinstructions
You are urged to visit this site; some excerpts from the detailed information are given here.
Formats
Regardless
of the application used, when your electronic artwork is finalised, please "save as" or convert the images to one of the following formats
(note the resolution requirements for line drawings, halftones, and line/halftone combinations given below):
EPS: Vector drawings.
Embed the font or save the text as "graphics".
TIFF: color or grayscale photographs (halftones): always use a minimum of 300 dpi.
TIFF: Bitmapped line drawings: use a minimum of 1000 dpi.
TIFF: Combinations bitmapped line/half-tone (color or grayscale): a
minimum of 500 dpi is required.
DOC, XLS or PPT: If your electronic artwork is created in any of these Microsoft Office applications
please supply "as is".
Please do not:
• Supply embedded graphics in your wordprocessor (spreadsheet, presentation)
document;
• Supply files that are optimised for screen use (like GIF, BMP, PICT, WPG); the resolution is too low;
•
Supply files that are too low in resolution;
• Submit graphics that are disproportionately large for the content.
Color artwork
Please make sure that artwork files are in an acceptable format (TIFF, EPS or MS Office
files) and with the correct resolution. If, together with your accepted article, you submit usable color figures then Elsevier will ensure,
at no additional charge, that these figures will appear in color on the Web (e.g., ScienceDirect and other sites) regardless of whether
or not these illustrations are reproduced in color in the printed version.
For color reproduction in print, you will receive information
regarding the costs from Elsevier after receipt of your accepted article. Please indicate your preference for color in print or on
the Web only. For further information on the preparation of electronic artwork, please see
http://www.elsevier.com/artworkinstructions.
Please note: Because of technical complications which can arise by converting color figures to "gray scale" (for the printed version
should you not opt for color in print) please submit in addition usable black and white versions of all the color illustrations.
Tables
Number tables consecutively in accordance with their appearance in the text. Place footnotes to tables
below the table body and indicate them with superscript lowercase letters. Avoid vertical rules. Be sparing in the use of tables and
ensure that the data presented in tables do not duplicate results described elsewhere in the article.
Reference style
Text: Indicate references by number(s) in square brackets in line with the
text. The actual authors can be referred to, but the reference number(s) must always be given.
Example: "..... as demonstrated [3,6].
Barnaby and Jones [8] obtained a different result ...."
List: Number the references (numbers in square brackets) in the
list in the order in which they appear in the text.
Examples:
Reference to a journal publication:
[1] J. van der
Geer, J.A.J. Hanraads, R.A. Lupton, The art of writing a scientific article, J. Sci. Commun. 163 (2000) 51-59.
Reference to a book:
[2] W. Strunk Jr., E.B. White, The Elements of Style, third ed., Macmillan, New York, 1979.
Reference to a chapter in an edited
book:
[3] G.R. Mettam, L.B. Adams, How to prepare an electronic version of your article, in: B.S. Jones, R.Z. Smith (Eds.), Introduction
to the Electronic Age, E-Publishing Inc., New York, 1999, pp. 281-304.
Supplementary
material
Elsevier accepts electronic supplementary material to support and enhance your scientific research. Supplementary
files offer the author additional possibilities to publish supporting applications, movies, animation sequences, high-resolution images,
background datasets, sound clips and more. Supplementary files supplied will be published online alongside the electronic version of
your article in Elsevier Web products, including ScienceDirect:
http://www.sciencedirect.com. In order to ensure that your
submitted material is directly usable, please ensure that data are provided in one of our recommended file formats. Authors should submit
the material in electronic format together with the article and supply a concise and descriptive caption for each file. Video files:
please supply 'stills' with your files: you can choose any frame from the video or make a separate image. These will be used instead
of standard icons and will personalize the link to your supplementary information. For more detailed instructions please visit our artwork
instruction pages at
http://www.elsevier.com/artworkinstructions.
Submission
checklist
It is hoped that this list will be useful during the final checking of an article prior to sending it to the journal's
Editor for review. Please consult this Guide for Authors for further details of any item.
Ensure that the following items are
present:
One Author designated as corresponding Author:
• E-mail address
• Full postal address
• Telephone
and fax numbers
All necessary files have been uploaded
• Keywords
• All figure captions
• All tables (including
title, description, footnotes)
Further considerations
• Manuscript has been "spellchecked" and "grammar-checked"
•
References are in the correct format for this journal
• All references mentioned in the Reference list are cited in the text,
and vice versa
• Permission has been obtained for use of copyrighted material from other sources (including the Web)
•
Color figures are clearly marked as being intended for color reproduction on the Web (free of charge) and in print or to be reproduced
in color on the Web (free of charge) and in black-and-white in print
• If only color on the Web is required, black and white
versions of the figures are also supplied for printing purposes
For any further information please visit our customer support site
at
http://epsupport.elsevier.com.
Keywords for Corrosion Science
The keywords for
Corrosion Science are separated into three categories:
A. TYPES OF MATERIAL
B. TECHNIQUES
C. PROPERTIES AND PHENOMENA
A. TYPES OF MATERIAL
acid solutions
alloy
aluminium
brass
ceramic
ceramic matrix composites
cobalt
concrete
copper
electronic materials
glass
intermetallics
iron
low
alloy steel
magnesium
metal coatings
metal matrix composites
mild steel
molten salts
nickel
organic coatings
platinum
polymer
rare earth elements
silver
sputtered films
stainless steel
steel
steel reinforced concrete
stonework
superalloys
tantalum oxide
tin
titanium
zinc
zirconium
B. TECHNIQUES
AES
AFM
AFS (EXAFS & XANES)
cyclic voltammetry
EIS
electrochemical calculation
ellipsometry
EPMA
erosion
galvanostatic
hydrogen permeation
in-line diffuse reflection spectroscopy
ion
implantation
IR spectroscopy
modelling studies
Mössbauer spectroscopy
polarization
potentiostatic
Raman
spectroscopy
RBS
RDA/RCE X
scratching electrode
SEM
SIMS
STEM
TEM
thermal cycling
weight loss
XPS
XRD
X-ray diffraction
C. PROPERTIES AND PHENOMENA
acid corrosion
acid inhibition
alkaline corrosion
amorphous structures
anodic films
atmospheric corrosion
carburization
cathodic
protection
chlorination
corrosion fatigue
crevice corrosion
de-alloying
effects of strain
electrodeposited films
exfoliation corrosion
fretting corrosion
hardening
high temperature corrosion
hot corrosion
hydrogen absorption
hydrogen embrittlement
hydrogen overpotential
hydrogen permeation
inclusion
interfaces
intergranular corrosion
internal oxidation
kinetic parameters
LME
microbiological corrosion
neutral inhibition
oxidation
oxide
coatings
oxygen reduction
paint coatings
passive films
passivity
pitting corrosion
polymer coatings
potential
parameters
Pourbaix diagram
reactor conditions
repassivation
rust
segregation
selective oxidation
stress
corrosion
sulphidation
sulphide cracking
thermodynamic diagrams
transpassivity
welding
Use of the Digital Object Identifier
The
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) may be used to cite and link to electronic documents. The DOI consists of a unique alpha-numeric character
string which is assigned to a document by the publisher upon the initial electronic publication. The assigned DOI never changes. Therefore,
it is an ideal medium for citing a document, particularly 'Articles in press' because they have not yet received their full bibliographic
information. The correct format for citing a DOI is shown as follows (example taken from a document in the journal
Physics Letters
B):
doi:10.1016/j.physletb.2003.10.071
When you use the DOI to create URL hyperlinks to documents on the web, they are guaranteed
never to change.
Proofs
One set of page proofs (as PDF files) will be
sent by e-mail to the corresponding author (if we do not have an e-mail address then paper proofs will be sent by post) or, a link will
be provided in the e-mail so that authors can download the files themselves. Elsevier now provides authors with PDF proofs which can
be annotated; for this you will need to download Adobe Reader version 7 (or higher) available free from
http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2.html.
Instructions on how to annotate PDF files will accompany the proofs (also given online). The exact system requirements are given at the
Adobe site:
http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/acrrsystemreqs.html#70win.
If you do not wish to use the PDF annotations
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to get your article published quickly and accurately. Therefore, it is important to ensure that all of your corrections are sent back
to us in one communication: please check carefully before replying, as inclusion of any subsequent corrections cannot be guaranteed.
Proofreading is solely your responsibility. Note that Elsevier may proceed with the publication of your article if no response is received.
Offprints
The corresponding author, at no cost, will be provided with a PDF file of the article via e-mail.
The PDF file is a watermarked version of the published article and includes a cover sheet with the journal cover image and a disclaimer
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