Guidelines for Authors
Tables should be numbered consecutively and referred to in the
Preparing a submission
Papers should be submitted online at
http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/suco
Manuscripts should be submitted with double line spacing and
wide margins. The first page should include the full title of the
paper and the full name(s) of the author(s), followed by their
position held and the institution(s) where the work was done. The
contact address, telephone and fax numbers, and e-mail address of
the lead author should also be supplied. Photographs of the
author(s), clearly identified, should also be supplied.
Please try to use an official email address when registering to
the submission system. Email providers such as Yahoo, Google or
Microsoft sometimes block our emails.
Please also make sure to enter the full and correct contact
details of you and your co-authors. These addresses will be used to
send you the author copies when your paper has been accepted
and printed in the journal Structural Concrete.
Text
The paper length is strictly limited to 4500 words /
30,000 characters (blanks included), excluding notation, tables and
figures. Papers should be accompanied by a synopsis of about 150
words. If you need to exceed the word/character limit, please
contact the editorial office and send your manuscript prior to
submission to ask for an exception.
Spelling should follow the first spelling in the latest edition of the
Oxford English Dictionary.
Abbreviations should conform in general to the
recommendations of the current edition of BS 350: Part I.
SI units should be used unless a paper describes a project which
used imperial units, in which case these should be given and a
table of the conversion factors supplied.
Trade and place names should have initial capital letters.
Mathematical expressions should be presented in clear form.
Each equation should be typed on a separate line and be
numbered consecutively. A notation should be provided on a
separate sheet. Greek characters should be identified in the
margin when they first occur. Matrix and vector quantities should
be identified in the notation.
Figures
Only those drawings and photographs essential to the
understanding of the text should be included. It is essential that
the original artwork files are supplied as individual files.
Figures should be referred to in the text and listed on a separate
sheet in the order in which they appear.
Figures must be a minimum of 600 dots per inch (dpi) for line
drawings and 300 dpi for all other images. Photographs must be of
good quality with sharp focus and clear definition. Photographs
must be supplied as tif, jpg or eps format. The width of the image
should be at least 1500 pixels or dots, using a digital camera
setting of 1500 x 1000 pixels or scanning a 150 x 100 mm print or
drawing at a resolution of at least 300 dpi.
Tables
text. They should not duplicate information already given in the
text nor contain material which would be better presented
graphically. Tabular matter should be as simple as possible, with
brief column headings and a minimum number of columns.
References
References should be indicated in the text by consecutive superior
numerals. They should be listed on a separate sheet in numerical
order, giving full details in the following style
1. Taylor, H. F. W. (ed.): Cement Chemistry, 2nd edn.
Academic press, London, 1990.
2. Taylor, H. F. W., Smelter H. W. and Cowper: T. Properties of
slurries. In Cement Chemistry (ed. D. W. Smith), Wiley,
London, 1990, vol. 2, pp. 390394.
3. Collins, F. G. and Kirk, G. A: Electrochemical removal of
chlorides from concrete. In Proceedings of a Conference on
the Rehabilitation of Concrete Structures (eds D. W. Smith
and F. Lewis), Thomas Telford, London, 1994, pp. 230.
4. Diamond, S. E.: New uses for PFA. Proceedings of the 9th
International Conference on Concrete, London, 1973, p. 69.
5. British Standards Institution. Steel Fabric for
Reinforcement. BSI, Milton Keynes, 1995, BS 4486: part 2.
6. Barker, J.: A Study of Breakdown in Concrete. PhD Thesis,
University of Sussex, Falmer, 1995.
7. Jordet, E. A. and Jakobsen, S. E.: The Svinesund Bridge.
Structural Concrete, 2007, 8, No. 4, 201209.
Copyright
Authors are responsible for obtaining permission from the owners
of the copyright when reproducing material in their paper which
has been published elsewhere. Papers with more than one author
should be submitted with a letter signed by all authors or a
declaration by the lead author that the paper has been approved
by all the other authors.
The copyright transfer agreement must be also uploaded.
Further Information
For more information on any aspect of the publication of papers by
Ernst & Sohn contact Francisco Velasco.
Email: francisco.velasco@wiley.com
Updated: August 12, 2015