Submissions

Author Guidelines

General

The corresponding author should be identified (include a Fax number and E-mail address). The full postal address of the corresponding author must be given. Authors should consult a recent issue of the journal for style if possible. An electronic copy of the paper should accompany the final version. The Editors reserve the right to adjust the style to certain standards of uniformity. Authors should retain a copy of their manuscript since we cannot accept responsibility for damage or loss of papers. 

Manuscript Template

Please download and use the Microsoft Word template to format your manuscript.

Manuscript Preparation Overview

Line Spacing: All copies must be single-spaced, including the references and list of figure captions.

Page and Line Numbering:  All submissions must include line numbering. Pages must be numbered sequentially.

Font: Black text, Palatino Linotype, Sized 10 pt. font

Paper Length: Maximum 7500 words (approximately 26 ) including the body text, acknowledgments, and appendixes. The word limit does not include the title page, abstract, references.

Spelling: British or American but not a mixture of both.

Units: S.I. unless this is precluded by the nature of measurements, in which case conversion factors must be given. Use negative indices rather than / and leave space between symbols, e.g. m s^-1 not ms^-1, or m/s.

Symbols: Define in text or in a list of notations where units or dimensions should be given.

Maths: Type if possible. Avoid double subscripts or superscripts. Punctuate carefully.

Manuscript Components

Title: Long enough to be informative. Avoid chemical formulae in the title. If the paper covers a specific location, this should usually be mentioned in the title.

Abstracts: English, 250 words max. Give all the main points of the whole paper. Do not repeat the title. Avoid specialist terms. Do not give full references.

Key Word Index: Include five maximum keywords.

Order of manuscript components: Follow this order when preparing manuscripts: Type of paper, Title, Authors, Affiliations, Correspondence, Abstract, Keywords, Main body (The main body should be divided into sections, each with a separate heading and numbered consecutively such as; Introduction, Data, and Methods, Results, Discussions, and conclusions, etc...), Acknowledgements, Appendix, References.

References: All publications cited in the text should be presented in a list of references following the text of the manuscript. In the text refer to the author’s name (without initials) and year of publication (e.g. “Since Peterson (1993) has shown that...” or “This is in agreement with results obtained later (Kramer, 1994)”. For three or more authors use the first author followed by “et al.”, in the text. The list of references should be arranged alphabetically by authors’ names. The manuscript should be carefully checked to ensure that the spelling of authors’ names and dates are exactly the same in the text as in the reference list.

References should be given in the following form:

Journal article: Last name and initials of author(s) (if nine or more, the first author is followed by "and Coauthors"), year of publication, the title of the paper, the title of the journal (italicized),* volume of journal (bolded), issue or citation number (only if required for identification), page range, and DOI (if available).

• Acharya, R. H., Sigdel, M., Ma, Y., & Wang, B. (2019). Diurnal and seasonal variation of heat fluxes over an agricultural field in southeastern Nepal. Theoretical and Applied Climatology, 137(3-4), 2949-2960. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00704-019-02790-3
• Barros, A. P., G. Kim, E. Williams, and W. Nesbitt, 2004: Probing orographic controls in the Himalayas during the monsoon using satellite imagery, Nat. Hazards Earth Syst. Sci., 4, 29 –51, https://doi:10.5194/nhess-429-2004
• Bhatt, B. C., and K. Nakamura (2005), Characteristics of monsoon rainfall around the Himalayas revealed by TRMM precipitation radar, Mon. Weather Rev., 133, 149–165, https://doi:10.1175/MWR-2846.1.
• Collins, W. D., and Coauthors, 2006: The formulation and atmospheric simulation of the Community Atmosphere Model Version 3 (CAM3). J. Climate, 19, 2144–2161, https://doi.org/10.1175/JCLI3760.1.

Books: Last name and initials of author(s), year of publication of the book, the title of the book (italicized), publisher’s name, and total pages.

• Thring, M. W., 1957. Air Pollution, Butterworths, London, pp. 132-134.

Chapter in a book: Last name and initials of author(s) of the chapter, year of publication of the book, the title of the chapter, title of the book (italicized), name of editor(s), publisher’s name, and page range.

Anthes, R. A., 1986: The general question of predictability. Mesoscale Meteorology and Forecasting, P. S. Ray, Ed., Amer. Meteor. Soc., 636–656.

Dataset: Whenever possible, datasets should be cited directly via a listing in the references and in-text citations in the following style.

• Dataset authors/producers, data release year: Dataset title, version. Data archive/distributor, access date (DD Month YYYY), data locator/identifier (DOI or URL).
• Knutti, R., 2014: IPCC Working Group I AR5 snapshot: The rcp85 experiment. DKRZ World Data Center for Climate, accessed 14 October 2014, https://doi.org/10.1594/WDCC/ETHR8.

Internal publications, conference proceedings, etc.; include sufficient information for the reader to locate the reference. In particular references to conferences should contain the address of the organization responsible.

Illustrations: All illustrations should be provided in the camera-ready form, suitable for reproduction (which may include reduction) without retouching. Photographs, charts, and diagrams are all to be referred to as “Figure(s)” and should be numbered consecutively in the order to which they are referred. They should accompany the manuscript, but should not be included within the text. All illustrations should be clearly marked on the back with the figure number and the author’s name. All figures are to have a caption. Captions should be supplied on a separate sheet.

Line drawings: Good quality printouts on white paper produced in black ink are required. All lettering, graph lines, and points on graphs should be sufficiently large and bold to permit reproduction when the diagram has been reduced to a size suitable for inclusion in the journal. Dye-line prints or photocopies are not suitable for reproduction. Do not use any type of shading on computer-generated illustrations.

Ordinates: Label with adequate graduations. Give three intermediate points (normally x₂, x₃, x₅) between the decades on logarithmic scales.

Photographs: Original photographs must be supplied. If necessary, a scale should be marked on the photograph. Please note that photocopies of photographs are not acceptable.

Tables: Tables should be numbered consecutively and given a suitable caption and each table typed on a separate sheet. Footnotes to tables should be typed below the table and should be referred to by superscript lowercase letters. No vertical rules should be used. Tables should not duplicate results presented elsewhere in the manuscript (e.g. in graphs).

Acknowledgments: As brief as possible, in a separate section before the references, not in the text or as footnotes.

Appendix: Items of interest only to specialists in the author’s field e.g. model formulations. Descriptions of methods, experimental results, etc. Symbol lists may also be included here.

Supplementary materials:  Supplementary material such as method applications, images, and sound clips, can be published with your article to enhance it. Submitted supplementary items are published exactly as they are received (word, pdf, Excel, or PowerPoint files will appear as such online). Please submit your material together with the article and supply a concise, descriptive caption for each supplementary file. If you wish to make changes to supplementary material during any stage of the process, please make sure to provide an updated file. Do not annotate any corrections on a previous version. Please switch off the 'Track Changes' option in Microsoft Office files as these will appear in the published version.

Sub-Divisions: Number sections of the paper (and if necessary sub-sections) if there is any substantial cross-referencing within the paper.

Cover Letter

A cover letter must be included with each manuscript submission. It should be original and has not been published elsewhere, nor is it currently under consideration for publication elsewhere. Explain more concisely, why the content of the paper is significant and this manuscript is appropriate for publication by JALAWAAYU. 

You can use this sample cover letter for the author. 

Online Submission

Authors should submit their manuscripts via the journal’s online submission system (see website).  Journal will not accept any submission via email.

Revised Manuscript

The revised manuscript in Word format should be uploaded to the journal website. Upload a separate response to the reviewer's files with detailed responses to the reviewer's comments. An optional cover letter accessible by the editor only may be used to provide additional information.

Editorial and Publication process

Be familiar with the process of article publishing, then you can know exactly where your article is in the whole publication process, such as Article Reviewed, Article Accepted, and Article Published. The whole process is based on the Journal Article Workflow of the open journal system (OJS).