An International Journal Reporting Research on Wave Phenomena

Submissions of Papers
The Board of Editors will be pleased to receive contributions from all parts of the world.
Authors are encouraged to submit their papers using the Wave Motion Online Submission Tool. Alternatively authors can submit by sending three hard copies of the manuscript and matching disk or email directly to an editor who is an expert in the field of work being submitted. For specific enquiries on the preparation of electronic figures, consult ( http://www.elsevier.com/locate/wamot. A current list of members of the Board of Editors is supplied at the journal homepage ( http://www.elsevier.com/locate/05250) and is also published in every issue.
When sending your manuscript by mail, please send two copies to the editor most relevant to the topic of your paper, and one copy to the Editor-in-Chief.

Editor-in-Chief
Professor J.D. Achenbach
The Technological Institute
Department of Civil Engineering
Northwestern University
Evanston, IL 60201, USA
Email: achenbach@northwestern.edu No length limitations for contributions are set, but only concisely written papers are published. Letters and discussions of previously published papers are welcome.

Manuscript Preparation
The language of the Journal is English. Manuscripts submitted in other languages may be considered at the discretion of the Board of Editors. Manuscripts should be double spaced with wide margins and only one side of the page should be used. The title should be brief. The body of the manuscript should be preceded by an abstract, without formulae. All mathematical symbols which are not typewritten should be specified and listed separately. Unusual symbols or notations should be identified in the margins. Awkward mathematical notations which require special typesetting procedures must be avoided. The numbers identifying displayed mathematical expressions should be placed in parentheses at the right margin.

References
References to published literature should be cited in the text as numbers in square brackets and listed in numerical order at the end of the article. Journal titles should be abbreviated in the style of the 4th edition of the World List of Scientific Periodicals. References to journal articles should be arranged as:
[1] L. Beryland and R. Burridge, "The accuracy of the O′Doherty-Anstey approximation for wave propagation in highly disordered stratified medis" Wave Motion 21, 357-373 (1995).
Book references should be given as:
[2] J.D. Achenbach, Wave Propagation in Elastic Solids, North-Holland, Amsterdam (1973).
Upon acceptance of an article, the author(s) will be asked to transfer copyright of the article to the Publisher. This transfer will ensure the widest possible dissemination of information.

Illustrations
Illustrations are to be restricted to the minimum necessary. They should accompany the manuscript on separate sheets, in a form suitable for photographic reproduction and reduction. Each figure should have a number and a caption; the captions should be collected on a separate sheet. The appropriate place of a figure should be indicated in the margin.

Electronic publishing
The Publisher welcomes the receipt of an electronic version of your accepted manuscript (encoded in LaTeX). If you have not already supplied the final, revised version of your article (on diskette) to the Editor, you are requested herewith to send a file with the text of the accepted manuscript directly to the Publisher by e-mail or on diskette to the address given below. If the electronic file is suitable for processing by the Publisher, proofs will be produced without rekeying the full text. There is little restriction on the word processor used for preparing articles with few and/or uncomplicated equations. Articles containing many equations are more likely to be processed from author's files if encoded in LaTeX. Either standard LaTeX (with document style article ) or Elsevier style LaTeX are preferred. The Elsevier LaTeX package (including detailed instructions for LaTeX preparation) can be obtained from the Comprehensive TeX Archive Network (CTAN). Search for Elsevier on the CTAN Search page http://www.ucc.ie/cgi-bin/ctan, or the CTAN-Web page http://tug2.cs.umb.edu/ctan, or use direct access via FTP at http://ftp.dante.de (Germany), http://ftp.tex.ac.uk (UK), or http://tug2.cs.umb.edu (Massachusetts, USA) and go to the directory/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/elsevier. The Elsevier package consists of the files: asacii.tab (ASCII table), elsart.cls (use this file if you are using LaTeX2e, the current version of LaTeX), elsart.sty and elsart12.sty (use these two files if you are using LaTeX2.09, the previous version of LaTeX), instraut.dvi.and/or instraut.ps (instruction booklet), readme. CTAN is a mirrored network of http://ftp.tex.ac.uk, http://ftp.dante.de and http://tug2.cs.umb.edu, which are widely mirrored (see http://tug2.cs.umb.edu/ctan/ctansite.txt and hold up-to-date copies of all the public-domain versions of TeX, LaTeX, Metafont and ancillary programs.
No change from the version accepted by the Editor of the Journal are permissable without the prior and explicit approval of the Editor. The Publisher reserves the right to decide whether to process a manuscript from author's files or not.

After acceptance
There are no page charges. Costs for alterations in proof other than printer's errors will, however, be charged to the authors.

Author's Benefits
No page charges.
25 offprints free of charge. Additional offprint can be ordered at cost (order form will be sent before the proofs).
30% discount on all Elsevier books (order forms will be sent upon request).

Further information (after acceptance)
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