Instructions for authors

Submission of Papers

Earthquake Engineering & Engineering Vibration operates an online submission and peer review system that allows authors to submit articles online and track their progress via a web interface.

Please visit http://mc03.manuscriptcentral.com/eeev and navigate to the Earthquake Engineering & Engineering Vibration online submission site. By using the online form to submit your manuscript, you can minimize the delay until your work will be considered by the Editorial Office and reviewed by the referees.

Acceptance for publication is subject to the manuscript being an unpublished work presenting a significant original contribution in earthquake engineering and/or engineering vibration. Submission of a manuscript is taken to imply that it is not being considered for publication elsewhere. The author is responsible for obtaining any necessary permission to publish from contracting agencies involved in the work or from holders of copyrights on material  used in the paper. 

Manuscript Preparation

Earthquake Engineering and Engineering Vibration conducts blinded peer-review. When uploading your manuscript you will need to upload a manuscript file with no identifying author information (designate as Main Document) and a separate title page (designate as Title Page) with author details.

Title Page: The title page should contain: Title, Authors, Affiliations, Acknowledgement, and Footnotes supplying: Correspondent author‘s information including: the full name, complete mailing address, telephone and fax number, and, if available, e-mail address; Job titles of all authors; and The name(s) of sponsor(s) of the research contained in the paper, along with grant number(s), if any.

General: The manuscript should be provided in single-spaced

typing Time New Roman, 10.5 pt., on A4 size pages in electronic

format using Microsoft Word. It must be written in English and

should not exceed 13,000 word-equivalents. (A journal page

contains approximately 1,300 words.) Technical notes should

not exceed 4,000 word-equivalents. If it is necessary to include

additional information, such as appendices, these should be

submitted electronically for inclusion on a web site for the

journal.

Abstracts: Each paper should include an Abstract of 150-200

words, reporting concisely on the purpose of the work, the scope

of the effort, the procedures used to execute the work (if of special

interest), the major findings, and a list of three to eight keywords.

The abstract must be self-contained, and it must not require

reference to the paper to be understood.

Text: Follow this order when typing manuscripts: Title, Abstract,

Keywords, Main text, Appendix, References, Vitage, Figures

(including captions) and then Tables. Footnotes are to be avoided

(except for table footnotes). Please complete text minus the title

page, acknowledgment, and any running headers with author

names, to allow blinded review.

Units: The SI system is to be used throughout; if it is necessary to

use other units, these should be added in parentheses.

References

References should appear within the text as the author name(s)

followed by the year of publication in parentheses. A list of all

references must be given at the end of the text in alphabetical

order by last name of first author. Make sure the reference

information is complete and accurate, including as necessary

and in the following order: last names and initials of all authors;

year of publication; title of paper, report or book chapter (in

quotes); title of book or periodical (in italic); volume and issue

numbers; name and location of publisher (for books), name and

location of publisher or sponsor for proceedings), or city of

publication (for non-U.S. journals); and inclusive page numbers.

The references should be listed in the following style:

Liu Huixian and Zhang Zaiyong (1980), “Lessons Learned

from the 1976 Tangshan Earthquake,” Proceedings of the 7th

World Conference on Earthquake Engineering, Vol. IX, Istanbul,

Turkey, pp. 453– 460.

Huo Linsheng and Li Hongnan (2004), “Torsionally Coupled

Response Control of Offshore Platform Structures Using Circular

Tuned Liquid Column Dampers,” China Ocean Engineering,

18(2): 173–183. (in Chinese)

Newmark NM and Rosenblueth E (1971), Fundamentals of

Earthquake Engineering, Prentice-Hall, Inc., Englewood Cliffs,

N.J.

Roesset JM (1977), “Soil Amplification of Earthquake,” in

C. S. Desai and JT Christian, editors, Numerical Methods in

Geotechnical Engineering, Chapter 19, John Wiley.

Trifunac MD (1982), “A Note on Rotational Components of

Earthquake Motions on Ground Surface for Incident Body

Waves,” Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering, 1(1):

11–19.

All illustrations must be suitable for reproduction (which may

include reduction) without further modifications. Photographs,

charts and diagrams are all to be referred to as “Figure(s)" and

must be numbered consecutively in the order to which they are

referred. They can be integrated into the text, in final size, if

possible. Alternatively, they can be grouped together at the end

of the manuscript.

Line drawings: 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. It is recommended to use a sans-serif font, at a 12 pt. size

to ensure clarity when reproduced.

Tables: Tables must be numbered consecutively and given a

suitable caption and can also be integrated into the text with a

suitable size, if possible. Footnotes should be typed below the

table and referred to by superscript lowercase letters. No vertical

rules should be used.

Further information

Proofs will be sent to the author (first named author if no

corresponding author is identified of multi-authored papers) and

should be corrected and returned without delay. The preferred

method of the return of corrections is by e-mail. Corrections

should be restricted to typesetting errors; any others may be

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