The Journal is concerned with application of acoustics
in its widest sense. It is intended for engineers and scientists concerned with the design of buildings with active and passive noise
control and with structural and computational acoustics and vibration. It aims to present the current understanding of the acoustics
and acoustical devices in applications ranging from musical instruments to sound propagation through the atmosphere and underwater, and
to convey methods of exploiting that understanding.
In addition the Journal aims to encourage the exchange of practical experience,
whether in the form of a complete paper, short technical note or letter, and in so doing to create a fund of technological information
that can be used for solving related problems. The presentation of information in graphical or tabular form is especially encouraged.
Where mathematical or numerical developments are necessary, it is important to ensure that they are there only as an integral part
of a practical solution to a problem. It should be noted that the journal does not normally publish papers of a purely theoretical or
numerical nature, or that contain extensive mathematical or numerical developments, unless, at least, they include also reference to
a pertinent practical acoustical problem or are offered as a tutorial on a method for solving an explicit problem in acoustics or vibration.
Preferably. all submitted theoretical or numerical developments should be accompanied by experimental validation.
Special Issues
devoted to papers concerning a particular field of acoustics or vibration are a regular feature of the Journal. Authors who would be
interested in compiling a special issue and acting as Guest Editors for this issue should consult the Special Issue sub-topic in this
guide and contact the appropriate Associate Editor.
All papers submitted to the Journal are refereed rigorously. Authors may suggest
possible reviewers for their article. Please note that the selection of reviewers remains at the Editor's discretion.
Peer Review
Policy All articles submitted to Applied Acoustics are subject to peer review. For more information about how the process
is conducted for this journal, please take a look at the peer review policy statement here.
Short Overview of Manuscript Submission Requirements
Submission
of papers:
It is a condition of publication that all manuscripts must be written in clear and grammatically correct English.
Authors are strongly advised to submit their manuscript via the Applied Acoustics electronic submission site at http://ees.elsevier.com/apac Authors are requested to transmit the text and art of the manuscript in electronic form to this address.
Prior to submitting
your paper, please follow the instructions 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.
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,
removing the need for a hard-copy paper trail.
Detailed instructions on the use of the online submission system are available at
http://ees.elsevier.com/apac
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
Authors unable to submit their manuscript electronically may do so
by mail: Manuscripts (1 original and 2 copies) accompanied by a covering letter should be sent to the submission address. Only after
final acceptance does a disk/CD ROM need to be sent with the hardcopy.
Submission addresses: Contributors in the Americas
should submit their papers to: Dr Gilles Daigle Institute for Microstructural Sciences National Research Council
of Canada 1191 Montreal Road Ottawa Ontario K1A 0R6 Canada
Contributors in Japan/Far East should submit their papers
to: Prof. M. Morimoto Environmental Acoustics Laboratory Kobe University Faculty of Engineering Rokko Nada
Kobe 657-8501 Japan ealku@kobe-u.ac.jp
Contributions from china should submit thier papers to: Dr.
J. Tian Institute of Acoustics Chinese Academy of Sciences P.O.Box 2712 Beijing 100080 P.R.China tian@mail.ioa.ac.cn
Contributors in the rest of the world should submit their papers to: Prof. K. Attenborough Department of Engineering
The University of Hull Hull HU6 7RX UK
or, if the article deals with Building- or Electro-Acoustics or is a part
of a proposal for a Special Issue, to Prof. Y.W. Lam School of Computing, Science and Engineering Newton G55 University
of Salford Salford M5 4WT UK.
Publishers should send books for review to Professor Kirill Horoshenkov, School of Engineering,
University of Bradford, Bradford, BD7 1DP, UK.
Types
of contributions: Original research papers, Technical notes (i.e. short papers submitted, potentially, for faster reviewing than
full papers, or papers that in the Editor's opinion, although publishable in a shortened form, do not contain enough substance for publication
as a full paper), Review and tutorial articles, Book reviews, Announcements, Conference reports, Letters to the editor.
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. Authors using the online submission system will
be asked to confirm that the work contained in the manuscript is their own and has not been published or is under consideration for publication
elsewhere. (Authors submitting by mail must make this confirmation in their covering letter.)
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 paper that do not fit the scope of the journal, prior
to refereeing.
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copies (print or electronic) of the article for your own personal use, including for your own classroom teaching use - make copies
and distribute such copies (including through e-mail) of the article to research colleagues, for the personal use by such colleagues
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described in the article - include the article in full or in part in a thesis or dissertation (provided that this is not to be published
commercially) - use the article or any part thereof in a printed compilation of your works, such as collected writings or lecture
notes (subsequent to publication of your article in the journal) - prepare other derivative works, to extend the article into book-length
form, or to otherwise re-use portions or excerpts in other works, with full acknowledgement of its original publication in the journal
The aim of a special issue is to bring
together a selection of papers in one place to better reflect important advances and state-of-the-art in a particular field of applied
acoustics. A special issue typical has about 100 to 180 printed pages so it usually comprises of 5-8 papers. It is acceptable to have
some longer than usual papers (such as review papers) to set the context of the special issue. It is also possible to extend the number
of pages or split the issue into two parts if there are a lot of papers/expected printed pages. The time frame for a special issue to
be in print is typically around 12 months
The Guest Editors of the special issue will have overall editorial control over the issue
and will invite authors for contributions. Usually the Guest Editors will handle the review process. The appropriate Associate Editor
can assist with the review process but in that case would appreciate nominations of suitable referees. Normally the authors should be
asked to send the paper to the Guest Editor(s) in the first instance. When submitting online the authors should select the appropriate
choice to mark and paper as for a special issue and select the appropriate Guest Editors or Associate Editor.
Once all the papers
for the special issue are reviewed and finalised then the Guest Editor(s) can send the manuscripts using the usual manuscript transmittal
procedure, giving instructions to the publisher if the papers need to be organised in a specific order.
Manuscript Preparation:
General: Editors reserve the right to adjust style to certain standards
of uniformity. Please use Word, Word Perfect or LaTeX files for the text of your manuscript that you upload onto the submission site.
Authors submitting by mail should note that their original manuscripts are discarded one month after publication unless the Publisher
is asked to return original material after use. An electronic copy of the manuscript on disk should accompany the final accepted version.
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Captions and then Tables. 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. Generally, the size of the manuscript should not exceed 6000 words or about 12 printed
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new paragraph is clearly indicated. Table and figures may be presented with captions within the main body of the manuscript, and additionally
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Abstract: A self-contained abstract
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Maths: Equation numbers should appear
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to within the text. Particular care should be exercised in identifying all symbols and in avoiding ambiguities. Distinction should be
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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. In the text
refer to references by a number in square brackets on the line (e.g. Since Peterson[1]), and the full reference should be given in a
numerical list at the end of the paper. References should be given in the following form:
1. Callaway DB, Ramer LG. The use of
perforated facing in designing low frequency resonant absorbers. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 1952;24(3):309-312. 2.
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Use of the Digital Object Identifier (DOI)
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
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