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RESOURCES AND ENVIRONMENT IN THE YANGTZE BASIN

ISSN 1004-8227

Published 12 issues per year

Editor: Xu Hou-ze

 

RESOURCES AND ENVIRONMENT IN THE YANGTZE BASIN is sponsored by Bureau of Science and Technology for Resources and Environment of Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) and the Wuhan Branch of the National Science Library, CAS, and published by Science Press. It is committed to publishing high-quality, original research on the aspects of resource and environment, including exploitation and conservation of natural resources, ecological environment, the sustainable development of social economy, eutrophication, restoration and protection of wetland, and natural disaster, especially in the Yangtze Basin.

Submission

Authors are recommended to use our online submission services. To submit a manuscript, please visit http://yangtzebasin.whlib.ac.cn, get an account, and follow the instructions to upload the text and image/table files. If in any case, access to the Internet is not available, a package of two copies of printout and a floppy disk with the files (in Word or PDF format) is requested.

Authors should also submit such accompanying materials as a short statement on the research background, area/subarea and significance of the work, a brief introduction to the first and corresponding authors including their mailing addresses, post codes, telephone numbers, fax numbers, and email addresses. Authors may suggest several referees (please supply full names, addresses, phone numbers, fax and emails), and/or request the exclusion of specific reviewers.

Peer review

All submissions will be reviewed by referees selected by the editorial board. The decision of acceptance or rejection of a manuscript is made by the editorial board based on the referees' reports. The entire review process may take 60 to 90 days, and the editorial office will inform the author of the decision as soon as the process is completed.

Authorship

Authors should guarantee that their submitted manuscript has not been published before, and has not been submitted elsewhere for print or electronic publication consideration.

Copyright transfer

Submission of a manuscript is taken to imply that all the named authors are aware that they are listed as co-authors, and they have seen and agreed to the submitted version of the paper. No change in the order of listed authors can be made without an agreement signed by all the authors.