The Journal on Environmental Degradation of Materials and its Control An Official Journal of the Institute of Corrosion
Guide for Authors
Authors can now submit their manuscript online via the Elsevier Editorial System, EES. Prior to submission, authors are encouraged
to read the instructions available by following this link and clicking on the 'help' icon in the top right hand corner of the page. EES
SubmissionOnline submission considerably shortens the overall publication time.
Submission of papers: The entire submission
and review process for Corrosion Science is now handled electronically, which shortens publication times. All papers should be submitted
electronically to the Editor-in-Chief, Professor G.T. Burstein through http://ees.elsevier.com/corsci.
Prior to submitting
your paper, please follow the instructions on manuscript preparation given below. Please note that you must have an e-mail address to
use the online submission system.
Authors submit their article online by simply registering, logging-in, and submitting.
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: 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.
Submission Language:
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.
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: All letters should be submitted direct to the Editor-in-Chief Professor G.T. Burstein.
These 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. Three copies of the manuscript, plus a disk containing the full paper, must be submitted for this
course to be adopted. 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.
Corresponding author: Clearly indicate who is willing to 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. Full postal addresses must be given for all co-authors.
Please consult a recent journal paper for style if possible.
Original material: 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 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 Publisher.
English Language: Manuscripts should be proof-read and have English language errors corrected before submission as we may
have to return papers due to poor language usage. Elsevier has negotiated with five different language editing companies to provide
their services to our authors at favourable rates. You will find a listing of these companies which provide pre-submission language
editing on http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/authorsview.authors/languageediting/.
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 that 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.
Detailed instructions on manuscript preparation and artwork instructions can
be found below. The editor reserves the right to return manuscripts that do not conform to the instructions for manuscript preparation
and artwork instruction, as well as papers that do not fit the scope of the journal, prior to refereeing.
General: Editors reserve the right to adjust style to certain standards of uniformity. Please use Word, or Word Perfect files for the text
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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. Back
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Text Layout: Use double spacing and wide
(3 cm) margins. (Avoid full justification, i.e., do not use a constant right-hand margin.) Ensure that each new paragraph is clearly
indicated. Present tables and figure legends on separate pages at the end of the manuscript. If possible, consult a recent issue of the
journal to become familiar with layout and conventions. Number all pages consecutively, use 12 or 10 pt font size and standard fonts.
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Corresponding
author: Clearly indicate who is willing to 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. Full postal addresses must be given for all co-authors. Please consult a recent journal paper
for style if possible. Back to the contents list
Abstract: A self-contained abstract (not exceeding 100 words) outlining in a single paragraph the aims, scope and conclusions
of the paper must be supplied. Back to the contents list
Keywords: Immediately after the abstract, provide a maximum of 5 keywords from the Keywords
List at the end of these instructions (avoid, for example, 'and', 'of'). Each keyword should be accompanied by the capital
letter denoting the category from which the keyword has been selected. Back to the contents list
Units: 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). Back to the contents
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References: All publications cited in the text should
be presented in a list of references following the text of the manuscript.
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. Back to the contents list
FREE ONLINE COLOUR If, together with
your accepted article, you submit usable colour and black/white figures then Elsevier will ensure, at no additional charge, that these
figures will appear in colour on the web (e.g., ScienceDirect and other sites) regardless of whether or not these illustrations are reproduced
in colour in the printed version.
Please note: Because of technical complications which can arise by converting colour figures to
"grey scale" (for the black/white printed version of e-colour) please submit in addition usable black and white versions of all the
colour illustrations. Also make sure that in your captions and text you do not refer to colour, as the images will be black and white
in print, and references to colour will not make any sense to the reader of the print journal. 'Usable' means the formats comply
with our instructions. See the information about Illustrations at http://authors.elsevier.com/artwork. For colour illustrations
in the print journal see colour costs above. Back to the contents list
Tables: Tables should be numbered consecutively and given suitable caption and each table is laid out on a new page.
No vertical rules should be used. Tables should not duplicate results presented elsewhere in the manuscript (for example, in graphs).
Footnotes to tables should be typed below the table and should be referred to by superscript lowercase letters. Back
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Supplementary Data:
Elsevier now 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 is 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. For more detailed instructions please visit http://authors.elsevier.com/artwork and follow the link to "Multimedia
Files".
All authors must sign the Transfer of Copyright agreement
before the article can be published. This transfer agreement enables Elsevier to protect the copyrighted material for the authors, but
does not relinquish the authors' proprietory rights. The copyright transfer covers the exclusive rights to reproduce and distribute
the article, including reprints, photographic reproductions, microfilm or any other reproductions of similar nature and translations.
Authors are responsible for obtaining copyright from the holder permission to reproduce any figures for which copyright exists. Elsevier
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One set of page proofs in PDF format will be sent by e-mail to the corresponding author, to be checked for typesetting/editing. The
corrections should be returned within 48 hours. No changes in, or additions to, the accepted (and subsequently edited) manuscript will
be allowed at this stage. Proofreading is solely the author's responsibility. Any queries should be answered in full. Please only correct
factual errors, or errors introduced by typesetting. For more information on proofreading please go to http://www.elevier.com/authors
Please note that once your paper has been proofed we publish the identical paper online as in print. Back
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No page charges:
Publications in this journal is free of charge.
Free Offprints: Twenty-five offprints will be supplied free of charge. Corresponding
authors will be given the choice to buy extra offprints before printing of the article. Authors who pay for colour illustrations will
receive an extra fifty offprints free of charge.
Author Discount: Contributors to Elsevier journals are entitled to a 30%
discount on all Elsevier books. Go to http://www.elsevier.com/bookauthors for more information.
