Weather and Forecasting
Information for Contributors
Manuscripts should be submitted electronically on the AMS Web pages. Hard copy manuscripts and original copyrights for Weather and Forecasting should be sent to:
Lauren Foster
American Meteorological Society
45 Beacon St.
Boston, MA 02108
Phone: 617-227-2426 ext. 336
Fax: 617-973-0468
To contact the Chief Editors:
David J. Stensrud and Harold E. Brooks
Joint Chief Editors
NOAA/National Severe Storms Laboratory
1313 Halley Circle
Norman, OK 73069
Tel. Number (Dr. Stensrud): (405) 366-0418
Tel. Number (Dr. Brooks): (405) 366-0499
Fax Number: (405) 366-0472
e-mail: waf@noaa.gov
Authors may be members or nonmembers of the American Meteorological Society and may be of any nationality, but only manuscripts in the English language can be accepted. When a manuscript is submitted, the author must inform the Chief Editor if it has been previously published in any language or if it is under consideration for publication by another journal. The author must also promptly inform the Chief Editor if it is submitted for publication elsewhere before its disposition by Weather and Forecasting.
Each manuscript should be accompanied by a statement transferring copyright from the authors (or other holder of the copyright) to the American Meteorological Society. The appropriate form for the transfer of copyright to AMS is printed near the back of the January and/or December issues of AMS journals. Copies of the form are also available from the Chief Editor's office, from the society, and on the AMS web site . The written, signed transfer of the copyright is required under new U.S. Copyright Law (Title 17 USC, as revised by P. L. 94-533) in order to have valid rights to continue its wide dissemination of research results and other scientific information. Editorial action on a manuscript that is not accompanied by the completed copyright transfer form, signed by all the authors , will be delayed until the form and signatures are received. FAXED OR COPIED SIGNATURES ARE NOT ACCEPTABLE.
Additional Information for Contributors
Authors will receive the page proof for correction. Authors' institutions are requested to pay a publication charge, that, if honored, entitles them to 50 free reprints. The rate is $135.00 per page. Reprint order blanks will be furnished by the Society. Each manuscript must be complete and final when submitted. Article length should be less than 7,500 words or about 26 double-spaced typed pages. For hard copy submissions, five copies of the text and small photocopies of large drawings are required . All copies (including tables, references, and figure captions) must be double-spaced on one side only, have wide margins, and all pages must be numbered consecutively. Each manuscript should include the following components, which should be presented in the order shown.
These items should appear on an unnumbered cover page, separate from the remainder of the manuscript. The date of receipt will be supplied by the editors.
A brief, concise abstract is required at the beginning of each article and, at the discretion of the chief editors, at the beginning of appropriate shorter contributions. Authors are reminded to summarize their conclusions and methodology in the abstract. References should be omitted since they are not available per se to abstracting services.
The text should be divided into sections, each with a separate heading and numbered consecutively. The section/subsection headings should be typed on a separate line [e.g.: 1. Introduction; a. Data; 1) RADIOSONDE; and (i) Experiment 1].
Omit the word "number" from the grant or contract acknowledgments.
Lengthy, mathematical analyses whose details are subordinate to themain theme of the paper should normally appear in an appendix. Each appendix should have a title.
References should be arranged alphabetically without numbering. The text citation should consist of the author's name and year of publication,[e.g., "according to Rossby (1945)," or "as shown by an earlier study (Rossby1945)"]. When there are two or more papers by the same author in the same year, the distinguishing suffix (a, b, etc.) should be added. The AMS Guidelines for Preparing References contains further details and examples of references.
Each figure must be provided with an adequate caption, all captions should be listed together, double-spaced, for typesetting. Authors should include single-spaced captions on the figures used for reviewer copies. AMS production no longer requires that captions be removed from the press-quality hard copy figures, but uncaptioned figures are still recommended in order to reduce processing time and costs if they must be scanned.
Each figure and table should be cited specifically in the text. The figure number will be typeset and should not be part of the illustration. Authors should label figure panels with lowercase lettering, preferably in the upper-left corner within the figure panel. All tables should have a title or legend. Part 2, section 10, of the online Authors' Guide gives additional guidance for figures.