Guide for Authors The aim of Land Use and Water Resources Research is to publish peer-reviewed research papers, letters and solicited reviews relevant to the interdisciplinary nature of the effects of land use change. This topic is rapidly growing in importance and of necessity cuts across many issues. For this reason, the journal will carry contributions related not just to traditional hydrological concerns but also economic, socio-economic, ecological and policy issues on land use and water resources planning and decision-making. We welcome original contributions from academics, researchers and policy makers and practitioners alike, and would be particularly pleased to receive material that draws on experience from case studies. We also aim to encourage the submission of appropriate review papers from time to time. Areas covered, and their inter-relationships in informing Land Use and Water Resource decision-making, will include any of the following: Water quality and quantity issues Land productivity e.g., for agricultural, timber, natural resource products etc. Sustainable livelihoods and social development Biodiversity and environmental conservation Soil and water conservation and erosion Agro-environment policy and payments Strategic environmental assessment Sustainability assessment Climate change and carbon offset payments Policy development and implementation and inter-institutional links Stakeholder involvement and interactive research We place no size limit on paper length (in either direction!) but would suggest that contributions greater than 5000 words might be better routed to other outlets, since the aim of LUWRR is to use the potential immediacy of the electronic media to its best advantage: readers having to scroll through many pages and/or download long files might lose some interest in what you have to say. We are confident that the opportunities afforded by electronic publishing in terms of unlimited use of colour, the potential for incorporating video clips, model packages, etc. will be regarded as positive incentives to limiting the number of words and the sometimes lengthy prose descriptions inevitable in hard-copy publication. High standards will be maintained throughout. All published articles will be fully refereed through our international Editorial Board and its network of associated editors. The review process will be `double-blind', i.e. reviewers will be unaware of the authors' identities and feedback to authors is anonymous. Reviewers will be held to a 4-week turnaround as the intention is for rapid publication. We operate on the basis of a maximum of four months lag between receipt of submission and release on the LUWRR site since the prime aim is to ensure rapid dissemination and dynamic discussion of ideas and results. For this reason, we welcome early contact with submission of an abstract of approximately <150 words, for example, before receipt of full texts. As the strength of LUWRR is its interdisciplinary nature, the Editors will be actively seeking a balanced mix of subject material and constantly striving to ensure the soundness, timeliness, originality and readability of all contributions published. Papers should be submitted to a member of the Editorial Board or the Production Editor. All papers submitted must be original works that have not been published previously and must be submitted exclusively to this journal. Following acceptance, the Publisher reserves copyright of all materials uploaded on the LUWRR site and such material may not then be reproduced in any form without the written permission of the Publisher. Papers may be submitted in paper format (3 copies) and/or electronic files, with text in Word or WordPerfect and figures as EPS files, please, since material will be reformatting with Adobe PageMaker, v. 6.5m, PC platform, prior to subsequent release as .pdf files. All papers will be acknowledged and refereed but will not be returned. To help with the review process, please identify author(s) on the cover page only. Authors may be required to revise their manuscripts for reasons of style and content but compliance with such amendments does not automatically bind LUWRR to publication. Submission to LUWRR implies that the work has not been published before (except as an abstract, part of a published lecture, review or thesis), and that it is not under consideration for publication elsewhere. Further, that its publication has been approved by all the authors and by the organisations where the work was carried out and that, once accepted, it will not be published elsewhere in the same form, in either the same or another language, without the consent of the publishers of LUWRR. The author(s) must secure the right to reproduce any material that has been published elsewhere. Formatting your paper Title page : Title (concise but informative) Name(s) of author(s) Full institutional addresses of all authors, including email details Clear indication as to which is the corresponding author Abstract: Should be a concise summary of the paper and its main results (not a list of contents), suitable for inclusion in international abstract vehicles. Include a list of key words (6 maximum). Main text: No more than three levels of sub-heads, please. Avoid footnotes (think about the scope for stepping through the main document pages with such subsidiary information for those who will read the document on screen). Figures and tables will be inserted within the text as appropriate: if you have embedded these within your text files, please supply separate files in the format in which they were created so that any amendments can be made to the original. Please format tables using tabs, not the various word-processing Table Editor formats as PageMaker does not recognise such tags and column formats will be lost in the translation process. Units should be metric, following SI rules wherever possible. Equations should be numbered sequentially with Arabic numerals in parentheses on the right-hand side; if the equations are very long, they will have to be split to fit the column format so please do this for us if appropriate. Please avoid possible confusion between numbers and letters (L and I, I and l, o and 0, etc.). References: Please use the Harvard system for citation. Only works that are cited in the text should be listed and only those that are actually in print. Use standard journal abbreviations if known and include both first and last page numbers of the text cited.