For Authors

Refer to the American Meteorological Society’s Author’s Guide online for specifics about the required style of submitted manuscripts not specifically addressed by this document.

One difference between the American Meteorological Society’s Author’s Guide and the style adopted by EJSSM is the hyphenation of collective adjectives such as “sea-level pressure” in EJSSM.

We strongly encourage authors to consult the EJSSM Guidelines for Reviewers, especially Review Guidelines Part A. Scientific Content. This will help them to understand the content standards to which manuscripts will be held.

When responding to reviewer comments, the author will divide the responses into two sections: substantive and technical. Substantive comments refer to a manuscript's scientific content, including the overall quality of the presentation. Technical comments refer to minor issues, such as suggested rewording of sentences or phrases, identifying spelling errors, typographical errors, punctuation, grammar, and so on. In responding, the authors should provide a point-by-point response to each separate critical comment. The reason for the distinction between substantive and technical is that substantive comments and the author responses will be appended to the article at the time of publication. Technical comments will not be appended.

Cost to the author for an accepted manuscript is $200 for up to 50MB. Cost for larger files is determined on a case-by-case basis.  These charges serve as the EJSSM's primary means of support, covering Hosting and DOI fees. However, inability to pay should not preclude the opportunity to publish. Grants or exemptions may apply to hardship cases.

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• The submission has not been previously published, nor is it before another journal for consideration (or an explanation has been provided in Comments to the Editor).
• The submission file for review is in Microsoft Word, or Adobe Acrobat (.pdf), RTF file format. Accepted final draft is in Adobe Acrobat (.pdf) format.
• All URL addresses in the text (e.g., http://ejssm.org) are activated and ready to click. Such URLs should be on nonperishable web sites.
• All illustrations, figures, and tables are placed within the text at the appropriate points, rather than at the end.
• The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Style section above.
• Stand-alone copies of images (.jpg, .png, .gif, .swf or .mpeg file formats - please write the editor regarding other formats), animations, and animation poster (static) images are ready to be uploaded as supplemental files.

Metadata is ‘data about data.’ In this case, the original ‘data’ is your submitted manuscript. So, the metadata here would be ‘data about your manuscript.’ This would include any of the title, keywords, abstract, author name(s), author affiliations, ORCID information, and so on. Metadata is meant to help search engines find your article more easily, that is, make it more ‘discoverable.’ Therefore, you should make the metadata as comprehensive as possible.

Keywords:  Keywords are typically one- to three-word phrases that are used to indicate the main topics of a submission.

Subjects:  Subjects will be keywords, key phrases or classification codes that describe a topic of the submission.

Disciplines:  Disciplines are types of study or branches of knowledge as described by university faculties and learned societies.

Supporting Agencies:  Supporting agencies may indicate the source of research funding or other institutional support that facilitated the research.

Coverage: Coverage will typically indicate a work's spatial location (a place name or geographic coordinates), temporal period (a period label, date, or date range) or jurisdiction (such as a named administrative entity).

Source:  The source may be an ID, such as a DOI, of another work or resource from which the submission is derived.

Type:  The nature or genre of the main content of the submission. The type is usually "Text", but may also be "Dataset", "Image" or any of the Dublin Core types.

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