The Tsunami Society's
journal SCIENCE OF TSUNAMI HAZARDS offers authors the perfect
place to publish and reach the largest possible audience of professionals
and government officials around the world involved in the emerging
field of Tsunami Science and the mitigation of the adverse impact
of Tsunami Hazards.
The Tsunami Society
encourages a holistic multidisciplinary approach that combines
theoretical and applied sciences and mathematics, as well as
social sciences, to the understanding of the tsunami phenomenon.
The Society promotes the mitigation of the impact of tsunamis
disasters on humanity through the implementation and establishment
of effective, early warning systems and through programs of education
and preparedness. To meet this mandate and to assist in efforts
encouraging research and the mitigation of destructiveness of
another tsunami disaster - such as the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami
- we have expanded the multidisciplinary scope and content of
the SCIENCE OF TSUNAMI HAZARDS. Furthermore, we have made our
journal available to all - particularly to scientists in developing
countries that have been severely affected by recent tsunami
disasters.
To assure high quality
standards of publication, all papers submitted to the Science
of Tsunami Hazards Journal - regardless of the diversity of content
- receive a thorough "peer-review" by an Editorial
Board of senior scholars with specific multidisciplinary expertise.
The archived published papers in the Society's journal - covering
a time span of 25 years - include a wealth of data, research
results and references on tsunamis that does not exist anywhere
else.
Reasons
for publishing in SCIENCE OF TSUNAMI HAZARDS
There are many reasons why an increasing numbers of tsunami researchers
choose to publish in the International Journal of the Tsunami
Society's SCIENCE OF TSUNAMI HAZARDS. The reasons include: the
promise of rapid and thorough peer review; immediate access to
current data and on-going research on tsunamis; free access to
25 years of archived published research on tsunamis; the scope
and reputation of our journal - and much more. Because all past
journals can be downloaded free of charge and current journals
at a nominal fee, papers published in SCIENCE OF TSUNAMI HAZARDS
receive extensive dissemination and readership.
Instructions
for authors
To help you submit your research paper or your data report related
to the tsunami hazards, we've created the following quick instructions
guide for the online submission process, including tips and advice
as well as detailed author instructions.
Quick Instructions
on manuscript submission
Electronic submission
by e-mail to the Editor, SCIENCE OF TSUNAMI HAZARDS at drgeorgepc@yahoo.com
Text Area is 22 by
17 cm. (approximate margins top 1.17 inches, bottom 1.17 inches,
left 0.83 inches, right 0.83 inches; header and footer 0 inches)
Font Times/New Roman
12
One column text. Justified.
All text to be single
space
Indent 5 spaces to
start a new paragraph
Top half of first
page to contain title in CAPITALS followed by authors and author
affiliation, centered on page.
Bottom half of first
page to contain abstract only with heading ABSTRACT centered
on page.
See a 2006 journal
issue for Desired Style.
Microsoft Word Document
that can be edited.
Do not number pages.
Place allfigures and
tables at the end of the paper.
Send Microsoft Word
manuscrpipt by e-mail to: drgeorgepc@yahoo.com
If mailing a camera
ready paper, please notify Editor by e-mail and send to:
Editor, SCIENCE
OF TSUNAMI HAZARDS
P.O. Box 8523
Honolulu,
Hawaii 96815, U.S.A.
Manuscript
Preparation and Submission
The journal SCIENCE
OF TSUNAMI HAZARDS is a forum for the publishing of original
papers and the expression of carefully considered ideas and opinions
based on scientific principles.
The Research Section
of the journal publishes original manuscripts reporting scientific
research on tsunamis. Because of the multidisciplinary nature
of tsunami science, research articles may come from any field
of basic or applied scientific research, engineering, or mathematics,
as well as from related fields of social sciences.
In addition to tsunami
research papers and data reports the journal may also publish
or include in the Society's website the following types of articles
or announcements:
Forum articles - Brief reports on topics such
as recent research advances, scientific meetings, policy and
legislative updates pertaining to tsunami preparedness, and academic,
industry, government, and nongovernmental organization tsunami
activities and research.
Focus articles - Major articles on a wide range of national
and international topics related to tsunami research or the deployment
of instrumentation for early warnning systems.
Innovations articles - Articles describing new methodologies
or instrumentation for early warning systems and the mitigation
of tsunami hazards.
Criteria
for Publication
The criteria for
publication are weighted toward quality and significance of research
as well as validity of assumptions, adopted methodology and data.
Manuscripts are assessed according to their originality and scientific
merit, and evaluated for conciseness, clarity, and presentation.
Although word limits are not placed on articles, we encourage
careful review by prospective authors to avoid redudancy or inclusion
of irrelevant data or references. Papers that include redundant
or irrelevant data will be returned to the author(s) for shortening
before the review process can begin.
Detailed
instructions on manuscript preparation and submission
Conformance
to SCIENCE OF TSUNAMI HAZARDS Style Requirements
To facilitate editing,
manuscripts that are submitted to SCIENCE OF TSUNAMI HAZARDS
must conform to the style requirements, briefly outlined previously.
Additionally, authors should take special note of clarifications
listed below for manuscript preparation, citations/references,
figures, and tables. Manuscripts that do not conform to the journal's
requirements will be returned to the authors for modification
before the initiation of the peer review process. This additional
step will cause delay in publication. Also, authors must ensure
that the final PDF or Microsoft Word submission or mauscript
to SCIENCE OF TSUNAMI HAZARDS is accurate. Once the manuscript
is accepted, the paper in PDF format will be published online
- generally within a brief period of time. Any substantive changes
after this stage will require an erratum to be published. We
try to avoid erratums so your co-operation for accuracy is needed.
Manuscript
Preparation
Manuscripts must
be written in the active voice and be typed single-spaced in
English, on one column. The reference list, tables, and figure
legends should begin on separate pages and should also be single-spaced.
Use Times/New Roman font, size 12.
Page one: The first page of the manuscript
should list the title, authors (first or second names spelled
out in full), full address of the institution where the work
was performed, and affiliation of each author. Titles should
not exceed 20 words and should generally not contain abbreviations
or numerical values. When submitting, please Indicate in your
email or letter the author with whom e-mail exchanges should
be sent and include complete address for express mail service
(if needed), telephone and fax numbers, and e-mail address.
The top half of first
page of the manuscript should contain the title of the paper
in CAPITALS, followed by names of the authors and author affiliation,
centered on the page. The bottom half of the first page should
contain a structured abstract only with the heading ABSTRACT
centered. The abstract should not normally exceed 250 words and
should not include references. No information should be reported
in the abstract that does not appear in the subsequent text of
the manuscript. A listing of 5-10 key words for indexing purposes
on this first page could be included, but it is not necessary.
Page two: Begin with the INTRODUCTION
and the body of the text on a new second page. The text area
should be 22 by 17 cm. (approximate margins top 1.17 inches,
bottom 1.17 inches, left 0.83 inches, right 0.83 inches; header
and footer zero inches). All new paragraphs should be indented
by 5 spaces. Do not number the pages since the final PDF journal
will have a different, cumulative, sequential paging order.
Subsequent pages: In subsequent pages recommended
headings, where appropriate, are " Methods," "Results,"
"Discussion" or "Conclusion," and "References."
Do not include tables and figures in the text. Place them after
the References section. The Journal Editor will make the final
formatting.
Suggested
Article Length
Submissions should
not exceed the following limits: Editorials, 1,000 words; Correspondence,
1,000 words; Commentaries, 5,000 words; Reviews, 10,000 words;
Research Articles, 7,000 words; Meeting Reports, 5,000 words;
Workgroup Reports, 8,000 words. All limits include references,
tables, and figures.
References/Citations/Footnotes:
All citations must be
placed in name/date form. Place the citation immediately after
the textual information cited, placing name and date within parentheses
without a comma.
Single author: (Theilen-Willige 2006)
Two authors: ( Rastogi and Jaiswal 2006)
Three or more authors: Use first author's name plus
"et al." (Henson et al. 2006).
Different first
authors but same last name and date: Use first author's last name plus initial(s)
(Smith A 2006; Smith J 2007)
Several sources
cited at one time:
List publications alphabetically by author in the citation. Separate
publications by the same author(s) with commas and those by different
authors with semicolons.
Quotations: Provide references for any quotations
used in the text. For example: According to Gisler et al. (2006),
"enter quotation."
The list of references
should begin on a separate page. All references must include:
1. Author/editor last
name plus initials (for six or fewer authors; if there are more
than six authors, use "et al." after the sixth) or
authoring agency
2. Year of publication
3. Full title of article or chapter (lower case)
4. Title of journal (abbreviated according to Biosis or Index
Medicus) or book/proceedings in title case
5. City/state/country of publication and name of publisher
6. Volume and inclusive page numbers
If you are uncertain
what to include, please include all information.
List references alphabetically
by the last name of the first author. If the first author has
more than one publication, list references in alphabetical order
(letter by letter) of subsequent authors. If the first author
shares the last name with another first author (Smith JM vs.
Smith RB), alphabetize by initials. If you list more than one
publication by the same author/group of authors, arrange publications
by date, early to late. If you list more than one publication
published in the same year by the same author/group of authors,
use a, b, c, d, and so on to distinguish the publications.
Finally, authors should double-check all references for accuracy
and completeness of information, spelling, accents, symbols,
subscripts and superscripts, and italics. Authors are fully responsible
for the accuracy of their references. Check the final draft to
make sure citations and references match. Any manuscript that
is not properly formatted will be returned to the author for
correction before review.
Footnotes: Do not use footnotes; instead,
place all textual information within the manuscript and all citations/references
in the proper form.
Manuscript
Submission
Please submit the
final paper in unpaged Microsoft Word Document format. We will
convert it to Acrobat PDF format and page it sequentially. If
you are submitting the paper in Acrobat PDF format make sure
that it is in a version that can be edited. However, submissions
in Microsoft Word document form are preferred. For a sample of
Desired Style for the final format, please look up a 2006 journal
issue.
File size should not
exceed 5 MB. Graphics must fit the page dimensions listed previously
(22 by 17 cm.) or smaller. Line graphs generally provide acceptable
images at 72-100 dpi. Electronic images should be in TIFF or
JPEG format at a resolution of 300 dpi or higher for color and
grayscale images, and 600 dpi or higher for line art (black-and-white
art). JPEG files should be saved on the "highest quality"
setting. Color images should be RGB and saved at 8 bits per channel,
minimum. Figures may be reduced or enlarged to fit our layouts,
so sufficient resolution is essential. All figures must be identifiable
in the submission file (Microsoft Word of Acrobat PDF.
Figure Format Requirements: Please format all figures in
Macintosh format (if possible) and indicate the type of software
used to create the figures.
If there are questions
about preparing the manuscript submission, please contact the
journal's Editor.
At the present time manuscripts may be submitted as follows:
1. E-mail the manuscript
file submission is strongly encouraged (to: drgeorgepc@yahoo.com
or itmc@pixi.com )
At a later time we
may obtain software that will allow online submissions.
Manuscript
Processing and Peer Review
All manuscripts will be sent to three expert reviewers for the
peer review process and then returned to the Journal's Editor.
After editorial consideration, a decision letter and reviewers'
comments will be e-mailed to authors. For more information go
to our Peer Review Policy link on this website.
Page Charges
Authors ARE NOT required to pay page charges but are requested
to become members of the Tsunami Society so they could have free
access to all recently published papers (less than two years
old) - including their own. Printed papers and journals will
be provided (upon request) to the libraries of Institutional
Members.
Copyrights,
Reproduction, and Citations
Authors publishing in the SCIENCE OF TSUNAMI HAZARDS maintain
the copyright of their intellectual property. Permission to use
research articles or photographs from the Journal shouls be requested
directly from the authors. Use of any materials published in
the SCIENCE OF TSUNAMI HAZARD should be appropriately acknowledged.
Pertinent reference information should be provided for the article
from which the material was reproduced.