Computer-Aided Civil and Infrastructure Engineering

Edited by:
Hojjat Adeli

Print ISSN: 1093-9687
Online ISSN: 1467-8667
Frequency: Eight times a year
Current Volume: 25 / 2010
ISI Journal Citation Reports® Ranking: 2008: 14/38 (Construction & Building Technology); 45/91 (Engineering, Civil); 69/94 (Computer Science, Interdisciplinary Applications)
Impact Factor: 0.747

TopAuthor Guidelines

INSTRUCTIONS FOR AUTHORS

Submission of papers

Please email the Editor-in-Chief (Prof. H. Adeli, The Ohio State University, adeli.1@osu.edu) ALL of the following in the format requested (no hard copy is required):

1) A statement that this manuscript is your "original unpublished work and the manuscript or any variation of it has not been submitted to another publication previously," 2) the pdf file of your paper, 3) an editable Word file of your paper, 4) the names, affiliations, and full contact information including email addresses of six to ten leading researchers who have published in the subject area of the paper, preferably among the top 10 researchers in the world in the subject of the paper (They should not be your advisor, advisee, research sponsor, or research collaborator. They can include senior researchers cited in your paper. Please disclose potential conflicts of interest if any.), 5) the signed Copyright Assignment form (available on the journal web site here) as a pdf file, and 6) The Conscientious Reviewer form (available on the journal web site here) for each author (except students).

Below, authors will find instructions for the preparation of manuscripts. Strict adherence to these conventions of style will speed up the review and publication process.

Manuscript preparation

Authors should consult a recent issue of the journal for style and layout if possible. The length of the manuscript a major original contribution should be limited to 40 pages including tables and figures. The length of a short original contribution should be limited to 16 pages including tables and figures. The title page should contain the title, author(s) name(s) and affiliation(s), including a complete address for correspondence and proofs. When a graduate student/PostDoc or a junior researcher is the co-author of a manuscript we ask the professor/advisor to submit it and be the corresponding author because he/she is in an experienced position to appreciate issues of originality, copyright assignment, and the high standard of publication of rigorously peer-reviewed research journals. Each paper should be provided with an abstract of 100-150 words, reporting concisely on the purpose and results of the paper. The title of the paper should unambiguously reflect its contents. The title of the paper should not exceed 70 characters including blank spaces. Please avoid using abbreviations in the title. The Editor reserves the right to adjust style to certain standards of uniformity.

The SI system should be used for all scientific and laboratory data; if, in certain instances, it is necessary to quote other units, these should be added in parentheses. Temperatures should be given in degrees Celsius. The unit 'billion' (10⁹ in America, 10¹² in Europe) is ambiguous and should not be used.

Tables (numbered consecutively with Arabic numerals), references and legends to illustrations should be typed on separate sheets and placed at the end of the paper.

Footnotes should be avoided especially if they contain information which could equally well be included in the text.

Electronic final paper submissions guidelines

Authors are asked to deliver the final versions of their accepted manuscript on disk or CD. To do so, please adhere to the following guidelines: Submit your electronic file either in MS-DOS, Windows, or Macintosh format. LATEX or ASCII files are preferred. However, any word-processing software will be accepted. Send the native file and an ASCII copy. Name the file with your last name. Label the disk with your name, the file name, the program and versions used as well as the operating system. (For example, Smith, Smith.doc, Word 6.0, Windows.) Submit each illustration or figure as a separate file without captions. Name the file as it will appear in text. (For example, Figure 1, Figure 2, etc.) If using a program other than that used for the text, specify the program and version used. Submission by email is also encouraged. Emailed files should be combined and encoded in a standard way, for example, tarred and unencoded for UNIX. Author's name and the journal should appear in the subject line of the email, for example, Smith, CACAIE. Accepted articles can be emailed to: adeli.1@osu.edu. All disk or email submissions should be accompanied by two hard copies of the revised manuscript prepared according to the journal style guidelines and typed in single column and double-spaced. The hard copy must match the digital file (disk/CD). All submissions should also include the author's e-mail address and a signed Copyright Assignment Form.

Mathematical notation

Please type all formulas for clarity. Identify special symbols when they first occur. Distinguish between '0' (zero) and capital and lower case 'O' (oh) and between the lower case 'l' (ell) and arabic number '1' (one).

References

References should be cited at the appropriate point in the text by the last name of the author followed by the year of publication in parentheses. A list of references in alphabetical order should appear at the end of the paper without numbers. All references in this list should be cited at some point in the text and vice versa. Unpublished data or private communications should not appear in the list. Examples of layout of references are given below.

Adeli, H. & Hung, S. L. (1995), Machine Learning - Neural Networks, Genetic Algorithms, and Fuzzy Systems, John Wiley & Sons, New York.

Adeli, H. & Vishnubhotla, P. R. (1992), Parallel processing and parallel machines, in Adeli, H. (ed.), Parallel Processing in Computational Mechanics, Marcel Dekker, New York, pp. 1-20.

Samant, A. & Adeli, H. (2000), Feature extraction for traffic incident detection using wavelet transform and linear discriminant analysis, Computer-Aided Civil and Infrastructure Engineering, 15(4), 241-250.

Illustrations

The original and a copy of each illustration should be provided and each illustration should be printed out on a separate sheet. Line drawings may be submitted in any medium providing that the image is black and very sharp. They should preferably all require the same degree of reduction; large diagrams, more than four times final size, are discouraged due to handling difficulties. The type area of the journal is 177 mm wide x 240 mm deep, in two columns per page, each 85 mm wide, and lettering should therefore be large enough to be legible after reduction of the illustration to fit (ideally 7 pt lettering after reduction). Photographs should be submitted as contrasting black-and-white prints on glossy paper. Each illustration must be clearly numbered and the name(s) of the author(s) of the paper written on the reverse side. Color figures will be published in color only if the author can pay for the additional cost of printing in color through his/her own research sponsor or other sources.

Proofs

The author (or the corresponding author where several are involved) will receive a set of proofs for information purposes. No new material may be inserted in the text at the time of proofreading unless accepted by the Editor AND a fee paid by the author for any changes made at the proofreading stage.

Page charges and offprints
There will be no page charges. Twenty-five offprints of each paper are supplied free of charge. Additional copies can be ordered at current printing prices. Additioanlly, free access to the final PDF offprint or your article will be available via Wiley-Blackwell's Author Services. Please register to access your article PDF offprint and enjoy the many other benefits the service offers. Visit http://authorservices.wiley.com/bauthor/ to register.

Note to NIH Grantees
Pursuant to NIH mandate, Wiley-Blackwell will post the accepted version of contributions authored by NIH grant-holders to PubMed Central upon acceptance. This accepted version will be made publicly available 12 months after publication. For further information, see www.wiley.com/go/nihmandate.

Reviewers

If you wish to be on the roster of Conscientious Reviewers for Computer-Aided Civil and Infrastructure Engineering, please fill out the Reviewer Application (found here: http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/homepages/118514357/REVIEWER.pdf) and return it to Professor H. Adeli, Department of Civil Engineering, The Ohio State University, 470 Hitchcock Hall, 2070 Neil Avenue, Columbus, Ohio 43210, USA (Email address: adeli.1@osu.edu).