Short Overview

Manuscript Preparation:
General
Structure
Text Layout
Corresponding Author
Abstract
Keywords
Symbols
Units
Maths
References
Illustrations
Colour Costs and Queries
Free Online Colour
Tables
Electronic Annexes
Supplying the Final Accepted Print Version with Disk

Other:
Notification
Copyright
PDF Proofs
Author Benefits
Online Paper Tracking
Enquiries
Useful Links



Submission of papers:

Submission for all types of manuscripts to the Journal of Fluids and Structures proceeds totally online via our Elsevier Editorial System (EES) website at http://ees.elsevier.com/yjfls. When submitting via the EES website, you will be guided through the creation and uploading of various files and data, as well as a submission letter. Various formats are permitted for the initial submission, including PDF files. The final revision must be as a Word or other suitable word processor document. When a Word or equivalent document is uploaded as the initial submission, the system automatically generates an electronic (PDF) proof, which is then used for reviewing. All correspondence, including the editor's request for revision and final decision, will be by e-mail.

Submission language: English (Link to the Oxford English Dictionary http://dictionary.oed.com/entrance.dtl)

Authors in Japan kindly note that, upon request, Elsevier Japan will provide a list of people who can check and improve the English of an article before submission. Contact our Tokyo office: Elsevier Japan K.K., 4F Higashi-Azabu, 1 Chome Bldg, 1-9-15 Higashi Azabu, Minato-ku, Tokyo 106-044, Japan; Tel: 0081 3 5561 5032; Fax: 0081 3 5561 5045; e-mail: jp.info@elsevier.com

Types of contributions: The Journal publishes original full length papers and Brief Communications on (a) fundamental aspects of excitation mechanisms and fluid-structure interaction processes, flow- and flow-acoustic excited phenomena, independent of any concrete application or area of specialization; (b) application-orientated or -inspired papers dealing with fluid-structure interactions, flow-induced excitation, flow-induced instability and vibration of structures in various fields - involving "internal flows", e.g. in piping, turbomachinary, heat exchangers or physiological systems; or "external flows", e.g. in aeroelasticity and other relevant aeronautical applications, offshore and marine problems, and wind-induced phenomena; (c) appropriate topics in unsteady fluid dynamics. Theoretical, analytical or computational, and experimental research papers in any of the foregoing areas are of interest, as well as review articles. Important new findings, new ideas and breakthroughs in the field may be published on a priority basis, extra fast as Special Brief Communications.
Comments on previously published work and brief preliminary reports on new work, should be submitted as Brief Communications and Letters to the Editor. Breakthrough-type Special Brief Communications should be submitted by fax.
Announcements of, and brief reports on, relevant meetings or discussions may be submitted for publication. Books on Fluid-Structure Interactions or other closely related subjects may also be submitted for review to the Editor.

Corresponding author: Clearly indicate who is responsible for correspondence at all stages of refereeing and publication, including 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.

Editor's requirements:
For any item to be published in a given issue of the Journal, the final manuscript must reach the Editor at least 14 weeks before the publication date.

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.

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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. (For further information about LaTeX submission, please go to http://www.elsevier.com/latex.)
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Structure:
Follow this order when typing manuscripts: Title (an abbreviated title of less than 40 characters [including spaces] should also be suggested if the full title is longer than this), Authors, Affiliations, Abstract (not exceeding 300 words in length), Keywords, Main text, Acknowledgements, Appendix, References, Figure Captions and then Tables. In case a List of Symbols or Nomenclature is part of the paper, it should be placed at the end of the Introduction. 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.
Special Brief Communications should have no more than 2 to 4 figures
Letters need no abstract, nor the structure of a longer article and could be written as a unitary text, and so on.
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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, preferably by indenting each new paragraph. 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 responsible for correspondence at all stages of refereeing and publication, including 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.
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Abstract:
A self-contained abstract outlining in a single paragraph the aims, scope and conclusions of the paper must be supplied. Do not cite references in the Abstract. If necessary use, e.g., "...as first developed by White in 1970", instead of "...by White (1970)."
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Keywords:
Immediately after the abstract, provide a maximum of six keywords (avoid, for example, 'and', 'of'). Be sparing with abbreviations: only abbreviations firmly established in the field may be eligible.
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Symbols:
Mathematical symbols and formulae should be typed. All symbols should be normally typed in italics; except those that should be in bold (e.g., vectors), which should be typed in bold. Exceptions are the Reynolds number, Re, the Strouhal number, St, and other two-letter symbols, which should be typed in Roman. Also, subscripts which are words, e.g. in or out in U _in and U _out, should be Roman, whereas i and o in U_i and U_o should be in italics. Particular care should be exercised in identifying all symbols and in avoiding ambiguities. Distinction should be made between the number one (1) and the letter l and between zero (0) and the letter O.

Units:
Because of the international character of the journal, no rigid rules concerning notation or abbreviation need be observed by authors, but each paper should be self-consistent as to symbols and units which should be properly defined; if non-SI units are used, then the equivalent SI units or conversions should be given in at least a few cases, to aid the reader. All units should be typed in Roman; e.g. 5.0 kg/m.
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Maths:
Vectors and tensors should be marked clearly on the manuscript by being typed bold, or underscoring by a tilde. Equation numbers should appear in parenthesis and be numbered consecutively. All equation numbers must appear on the right-hand side of the equation and should be referred to within the text. Use the following sequence of parentheses: )]}.

References:
All publications cited in the text should be presented in a list of references following the text of the manuscript. References should be listed on a separate page, alphabetically by the first author's name and given in full. Citations in the text should be by name or author and year, thus Smith and Jones (1990). Alternatively names and year may go in parentheses: e.g. "...as found previously (Smith and Jones 1990; Black and White, 1991)". If some text also appears within the parentheses, do as follows: "...[e.g., see Smith and Jones (1990), Black and White (1991) and Brown (1993), and the references cited therein]". If there are three or more authors' names, the first author's name should be used followed by et al.; e.g. Black et al. (1990). If papers published in the same year by the same authors are referred to, add the letters a, b, c,...to the year: e.g., Black et al. (1989a,b) or (White 1990b,c).

References should be given in the following form:
Bendat, J.S., Piersol, A., 1980. Engineering Applications of Correlation and Spectral Analysis. Wiley Interscience, New York.
Belvins, R.D., Bressler, M.M., 1987. Acoustic resonance in heat exchanger tube bundles: Parts 1 and 2. ASME Journal of Pressure Vessel Technology 109, 275-288
Belvins, R.D., 1985. The effect of sound on vortex shedding from cylinders. Journal of Sound and Vibration 161, 217-237.
Fitzpatrick, J.A., Valeau, V., 1998. Measurements of the spatial coherence of the flow around two cylinders. In Proceedings of the 9th International Symposium on Application of Lasers in Fluid Mechanics, Lisbon, pp. 2071-2078. (If appropriate, add the name(s) of the Editor(s) after the conference title; e.g., "(A. Smith and B.C. Brown, editors)".
Rayleigh, Lord, 1896. The Theory of Sound, Vol. II. MacMillan & Co. Ltd., London
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Illustrations:
Please refer to Elsevier's artwork instructions, see http://www.elsevier.com/artworkinstructions for full details. Please also refer to a recent issue of the journal.
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Colour Costs and Queries:
For colour illustrations, a colour printing fee is charged to the author per colour page. Further information concerning colour illustrations and costs is available from Author Support at authorsupport@elsevier.ie, and at http://www.elsevier.com/artworkinstructions.
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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://www.elsevier.com/artworkinstructions. For colour illustrations in the print journal see Colour Costs above.
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Tables:
Tables should be numbered consecutively and given suitable captions and each table should begin 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.
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Electronic Annexes
Authors are encouraged to submit electronic annexes, such as short videos, computer-enhanced images, audio clips and large databases. Please refer to the Artwork Instructions (Multimedia files) at http://www.elsevier.com/artworkinstructions for details on file types to be used. In the text of your article you may wish to refer to the annex. This is not mandatory. However, if you do wish to refer to the annex in the text then please do so using this example: "...see Electronic Annex 1 in the online version of this article." Production will insert the relevant URL at the typesetting stage after this statement.
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Notification:

Authors will be notified of the acceptance of their paper by the editor. The Publisher will also send a notification of receipt of the paper in production.
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Copyright:

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' proprietary 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 from the copyright holder permission to reproduce any figures for which copyright exists. Elsevier has preprinted forms for use by Authors in these cases, available online.
For more information please go to our copyright page http://www.elsevier.com/copyright.
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PDF Proofs:

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 correct factual errors only, or errors introduced by typesetting.
For more information on proofreading please go to our proofreading page http://www.elsevier.com/locate/guidepublication. Please note that once your paper has been proofed we publish the identical paper online as in print.
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Author Benefits:

No page charges: Publication in this journal is free of charge.

Free offprints: The corresponding author, at no cost, will be provided with a PDF file of the article via e-mail or. 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.

Author discount: Contributors to Elsevier journals are entitled to a 30% discount on all Elsevier books. See http://www.elsevier.com/homepage/booksbutler for more information.

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Online Paper Tracking:

Authors can track the status of their accepted paper online at http://www.elsevier.com/trackarticle using the reference supplied by the Publisher.

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Author enquiries:

All author enquiries should be made to: authorsupport@elsevier.ie

Useful links: •A submissions checklist can be found at http://www.elsevier.com/locate/guidepublication
•Register for free to receive email updates from the article tracking service at http://www.elsevier.com/trackarticle
•If you are interested in submitting a book in this area, go to http://www.elsevier.com/bookauthors