Potential papers for Environmental Impact Assessment Review are to be submitted in electronic format via our author/reviewer website, the Elsevier Editorial System (EES) at http://ees.elsevier.com/eir.

To submit a manuscript, first visit this website, and then follow its instructions. You will be asked to upload your manuscript files into the EES. All subsequent correspondence, including notification of the editor's decisions and requests for revision, will be transmitted either through this website or by email.

Authors are welcome to suggest suitable referees. Papers must be written in acceptable English. Information on language editing services available to authors can be found at http://authors.elsevier.com/LanguageEditing.html. Papers may not have been published previously (except in the form of an abstract or as part of a published lecture or academic thesis), and they may not be under consideration for publication elsewhere.

Publication must be approved by all authors and by appropriate authorities where work was conducted. If accepted, the paper may not be published elsewhere in the same form, in English or in any other language, without written consent of the Publisher. If excerpts from other copyrighted works are included, the author(s) must have written permission from the copyright owners and credit the source(s) in the article. For details and forms, contact (+44) 1865 843830 or permissions@elsevier.com. Upon acceptance for publication, authors are asked to transfer copyright to the publisher (see http://authors.elsevier.com).

Presentation of manuscript
American or British English usage is accepted, but not a mixture of the two. Italics are not used for expressions of Latin origin, for example, in vivo, et al., per se. With numbers, use decimal points (not commas) and use a space for thousands (10 000 and above).

The manuscript must be double spaced with wide (3 cm) margins. (Avoid full justification, i.e. a constant right-hand margin.) If possible, consult a recent issue of the journal to become familiar with layout and conventions. Make sure all pages are numbered, and numbered consecutively.

First, a separate cover page with:

• The article's title.
• Author name(s), affiliations, addresses and emails.
• Corresponding author, with email, telephone and postal address.

Second, a separate biographical page with:• Author name(s), affiliations and brief (5-10 lines) biography for each.

Third, a separate title page with:

• The article's title.
• Abstracts are ideally about one-third of a page. Start the purpose of the research, the principal results and major conclusions.
• Keywords. Immediately after the abstract, list up to six keywords.
• Acknowledgements

Fourth, separate pages with the manuscript.
Make sure that headers or footers do not reveal the author(s) identity.

Arrangement of the Article

Divide your article into clearly defined sections, all with headings. We prefer, but do not require, that subsections are numbered 1, 2, 3, then 1.1, then 1.1.1, 1.1.2, 1.2 and so on. Do not include the abstract in section numbering. Do use this numbering for internal crossreferencing.

• Figure legends, tables, figures, schemes.
Present these, in the above order, at the end of the article. High-resolution graphics files must always be provided separately from the main text file

• Mathematical formulae.
Present simple formulae in the line of normal text where possible. In principle, variables are to be presented in italics. Use the solidus (/) instead of a horizontal line. Powers of e are best denoted by exp. Number consecutively any equations that are displayed separate from the text (if referred to explicitly in the text).

• Footnotes.
Footnotes should be used sparingly. Number them consecutively throughout the article, using superscript Arabic numbers. Many word processors build footnotes into the text, and this feature may be used. If not, place footnote marks in the text and present the footnotes themselves on a separate sheet at the end of the article. Do not include footnotes in the Reference list. Table footnotes. Indicate each footnote in a table with a superscript lowercase letter.

• Tables.
Number tables consecutively in accordance with their appearance in the text. Place tables footnotes below the table body; mark them with superscript lowercase letters. Avoid vertical rules

• Nomenclature and units.
Follow internationally accepted rules and conventions: use the international system of units (SI). If other units are mentioned, give their equivalent in SI.

• Supplementary data.
Elsevier accepts supplementary material that supports and enhances your paper. Supplementary files can be applications, movies, animation sequences, high resolution images, background datasets and sound clips. These will be published online alongside the electronic version of your article in Elsevier web products, including ScienceDirect: http://www.sciencedirect.com Authors should submit the material in electronic format together with the article and supply a concise and descriptive caption for each file. For details, see our Author Gateway at http://authors.elsevier.com

References
Citations in the text:
Unpublished results and personal communications should not be in the reference list, but may be mentioned in the text. Citation of a reference as .in press. implies that the item has been accepted for publication. For web references: the full URL should be given, and further information (author names, dates, reference to a source publication) is desirable.

All citations in the text should refer to:
1. Single author: the author's name (without initials, unless there is ambiguity) and the year of publication;
2. Two authors: both authors. names and the year of publication;
3. Three or more authors: first author's name followed by .et al.. and the year of publication. Citations may be made directly (or parenthetically). Groups of references should be listed first alphabetically, then chronologically.


Examples: "as demonstrated (Allan, 1996a, 1996b, 1999; Allan and Jones, 1995). Kramer et al. (2000) have recently shown ...."

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:


Journal publication:


Van der Geer, J, Hanraads, JAJ, Lupton, RA. The art of writing a scientific article. J Sci Commun 2000; 163: 51-59.

Book:
Strunk Jr W, White EB. The Elements of Style. Third ed. New York: Macmillan; 1979.

Chapter in an edited book:
Mettam GR, Adams LB. How to prepare an electronic version of your article. In: Jones BS, Smith RZ, editors. Introduction to the Electronic Age. New York: E-Publishing Inc; 1999, 281-304.


Journal names should be abbreviated according to list of serial title word abbreviations: http://www.issn.org/lstwa.html

Illustrations

• Always supply high-quality printouts of your artwork, in case conversion of the electronic artwork is problematic.
• Use uniform lettering and sizing
• Save text in illustrations as "graphics" or enclose the font.
• Use only the following fonts: Arial, Courier, Helvetica, Times, Symbol.
• Number illustrations according to their sequence in the text.
• Use logical names for your artwork files, and supply a separate listing of the files and the software used.
• Provide all illustrations as separate files and as hardcopy printouts on separate sheets.
• Provide captions to illustrations separately.
• Provide images near to the desired size of the printed version

Details on are available on our website: http://authors.elsevier.com/artwork

Proofs
A manuscript as received by the Publisher is in its final form.

Proofs are not drafts. One set of page proofs in PDF format will be sent by e-mail to the corresponding author, to be checked for typesetting/editing. No changes in, or additions to, the accepted (and subsequently edited) manuscript will be allowed at this stage. Proofreading is solely your responsibility.

A form with queries from the copyeditor may accompany your proofs. Please answer all queries and make any corrections or additions required. The Publisher reserves the right to proceed with publication if corrections are not communicated. Return corrections - all of them in one communication - within 2 days of receipt of the proofs. Should there be no corrections, please confirm this. Subsequent corrections will not be possible.

Offprints
The corresponding author, at no cost, will be provided with a PDF file of the article via e-mail or, alternatively, 25 free paper offprints. The PDF file is a watermarked version of the published article and includes a cover sheet with the journal cover image and a disclaimer outlining the terms and conditions of use.

Submission Checklist

• One author designated as corresponding author
• E-mail address
• Full postal address
• Telephone and fax numbers
• Are all text pages present?
• Keywords
• riginal artwork (high-quality prints)
• All figure captions included?
• All tables (including title, description, footnotes)
• Has manuscript has been spell checked?
• References are in the correct format for this journal
• All references listed are cited in the text, and vice versa
• Permission for use of copyrighted material from other sources (including the Web)
• Colour figures marked as intended for colour reproduction or in black-and-white