Guidelines to the Authors for Submission of Manuscript

The Journal of Water Management will publish articles relevant to the furtherance of the cause of water management pertaining to improvement in crop, water and soil productivity. The articles should be original research contributions, short research notes, case studies and invited review papers. The authors are required to submit the manuscript in duplicate, to the Secretary, Indian Society of Water Management, Water Technology Centre, Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi-110 012. The senior author should be member of the Indian Society of Water Management for consideration of the paper for publication. The official language of the journal is English. Initially, the journal will be published six monthly, but later on, based on the response, it may be published quarterly.

Manuscript should be typed on one side of good quality bond paper of quarter size (21.5 cm x 28 cm), with wide margins and double spacing throughout. Every page of the manuscript including tables, references should be numbered on the upper right hand comer. However, in the text, no reference should be made to page numbers. The length of the manuscript should be limited to 10 typed pages including figures, tables, etc. Short notes should not exceed 4 pages. Full length papers based on field experiments must include at least two years data.

Format of Research Paper

1. Manuscript of a research paper, in general, should be arranged in the following order:
   

   i) Title (should be brief, clear and descriptive), ii) Name(s) of author(s) along with their affiliation, iii) Abstract, iv) Footnote giving e-mail address of the corresponding author, v) Key words: Not more than five, vi) Introduction, vii) Materials and Methods, viii) Results and Discussion, ix) Acknowledgements, x) References, xi) Tables and xii) Figures with captions.

2. The short research note will not have the above sections as in a research paper.

Abstract

A well written, condensed form of the paper up to 150 words giving objectives, methods used, main results and a conclusion of the investigation should appear just before introduction. For a short research note, the abstract is not necessary.

Tables

1. Each table should be numbered with Arabic numerals and have a title and be designed to fit the page dimensions of the journal (18 cm x 25 cm).

2. Tables must not be included in the text but should be typed separately.

3. Any explanation essential for the understanding of a table should be given as foot note at the bottom of the table.

Illustrations

1. All illustrations (line drawings and photographs) should be submitted separately, unmounted and not folded.

2. Figures should be about twice the size required for final reproduction (20 cm x 15 cm maximum).

3. Each illustration should have a caption and the caption should be typed on a separate sheet.

4. Black and white photographs will be acceptable if they are of good quality. Photographs of glossy paper with sharp contrast may be submitted.

5. Colour illustrations will not usually be included unless the cost of their reproduction is paid by the author(s). The final decision in this regard will, however, rest with the Chief Editor.

References

1. All publications in the text should be presented in the list of references arranged alphabetically.

2. References cited in the text should be arranged chronologically. If an author’s name in the list is also mentioned with co-authors, the following order should be used: Publications of the single author, arranged according to publication dates, publication of the same author with one co-author, publications of the authors with more than one co-author.

3. Publication by the same author(s) in the same year should be listed by suffixing letters a, b, c, etc.

4. Full name of the periodicals should be used. No abbreviation will be accepted.

5. The references may be reported in the following format:
   

Research Journal

Liang, B.C., R. Remillard and A.F. Mackenzie 1991. Influence of fertilizer, irrigation and non-growing season precipitation on soil nitrate-nitrogen in corn. Journal of Environmental Quality, 20: 123-128.

Annual series such as Advances in Agronomy, Advances in Irrigation, Annual Reviews of Plant Physiology etc.

Norman, J.M. and G.S. Campbell 1983. Application of plant-environment model to problems of irrigation. Advances in Irrigation, 2: 155-188.

Books

Hansen, V.E., O.W. Israelsen and G. Stringham 1980. Irrigation Principles and Practices. Wiley and Sons, New York, Fourth Ed., pp. 417.

Published Proceedings of Symposia/Monographs containing Invited Paper

Shaw, R.H. 1988. Climate requirement. In G.F. Sprague and J.W. Dudley (eds.) Corn and Corn Improvement. Agronomy Monograph 18, ASA, Madison, Wisconsin.

Randhawa, N.S. and R.K. Rajput 1986. Irrigation water management research - National prespective. pp. 379-410. In J.S. Kanwar (ed.) Water Management - The Key to Developing Agriculture. Agricole Pub. Acad. New Delhi.

Bulletins

Agarwal, M.C. and S.S. Khanna 1983. Efficient Soil and Water Management in Haryana. CCS Haryana Agric. Univ. Hisar Res. Bull.

Reports

Govt. of India 1976. Report of the National Commission on Agriculture Part V. Resource Development pp. 344.

Formulae

1. All characters available on a standard type writer must be used in equations as well as in the text.

2. The letter ‘I‘ and numeral ‘1‘ and the letter ‘O‘ and numeral ‘0‘ should be identified throughout the paper to prevent errors in type-setting.

3. Give the meaning of all symbols immediately after the equation in which they are first used.

4. Equations should be numbered serially at the right hand side in parentheses.

5. The symbols * and ** are always used to show 5% and 1% probability levels of statistical significance, respectively and are not used for other foot notes.

Units and Symbols

The International System of Units (S.I.) including derived and specific non-SI units should only be used for presentation.

Nomenclature

1. All biotica (Crops, plants, insects, birds, mammals etc.) should be identified by their scientific names when the English term is first used, with exception of common domestic animals.

2. All biocides and other organic compounds must be identified by their genera names when first used in the text.

3. For chemical nomenclature, the convention of the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry and the official recommendations of the IUPAC-IUB combined Commission on Bio-Chemical nomenclature should be followed. The local name such as Kankar should be underlined.

Reporting Time and Date

Use the 24 hour time system with four digits: the first two for hours and the last two for minutes (e.g. 1630 hours for 4.30 P.M.). Dates may be reported with day of the month first, then month, followed by the year, e.g. 8 December, 1992.

Page proofs will be supplied to the author(s) for the purpose of correcting printing errors. Other alterations will be permitted only exceptionally. Proofs should be returned immediately to the Chief Editor. If no response is received from the author(s) within the stipulated date, the paper will be published as corrected by the Editorial Board and the responsibility, for any error, will be that of the author(s).

Review Papers

1. Only invited review papers will be published in the Journal. A review paper should be technically complete and be presented in a manner that minimizes the number of background articles the reader must read to understand the paper. The author(s) should clearly state the dominant problems in the field addressed by the paper. which of them have been solved, and which have been partially solved. If one particular approach appears to be the best for a given problem or class of problems, it would be beneficial to detail it to permit others to implement the approach directly from the paper. This allows the authors to add details that were not in the original paper (or condense several papers that led to the approach).

2. It is important for the author(s) to state explicitly what a particular methodology can and cannot do and how it can be used in decision making or learning applications. The author should place the developments in the field into perspective and indicate what problems might be significant in future and what directions to solve them might be fruitful. If key experiment needs to be performed, or if data should be collected from sampling networks over particular time horizons, the author should indicate their importance to future developments in the field.

3. Finally, a review paper should contain a complete set of significant and up to date references.