Submissions

Author Guidelines

OPEN ACCESS POLITIC

The WRIM journal is published under the open access model and allows anyone reading and downloading the articles, as well as copying and dissemination of the published content.

PAPER SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS:

1.  WRIM - Water Resources and Irrigation Management, ISSN 2316-6886 (on-line), is a continuous publication of the Universidade Federal do Recôncavo da Bahia.

2. The journal publishes original papers in all areas relevant to the Agricutural Engineering, including climatology; water catchment and storage systems; hydrology; planning, management and quality of water resources; irrigation efficiency and water productivity; crop management under irrigation; irrigation and drainage techniques and systems; evaluation and development of equipments for irrigation automation; irrigation and drainage projects economical analysis; water use optimization models; hydraulics of irrigation systems; crops water demand (evapotranspiration); optimization and management of hydroponics systems; crops response function to the water application and deficit irrigation; water reuse for agricultural means; salinity.

3. The authors declare that their manuscript is a inedited, and that it is not submited, partly or entirely, to the analysis for publication in other means of scientific dissemination under under penalty of exclusion.

4. During manuscript submission authors must indicate their filiation. The filiation must not contain the name of the city, country, ZIP code or telephone, and the name of departaments and/or universities should appear unabbreviated. E.g.: "Department of Biosystems Engineering - Universidade de São Paulo".

5. The data, ideas, opinions and concepts published in the articles, as well as the reference accuracy, are entirely of the author(s) responsability. The eventual mentioning of products and commercial brands does not mean its recommendation by the Editorial Board of the journal.

6. The reports must be based in the most advanced and adequate techniques for the research. When appropriate, the authors must certificate that the research was approved by the Ethics and Biosafety Comitee of the institution.

7. The papers can be submitted in Portuguese or English, with priority for the articles in English during the revision and publishing procedures.

8. The quality of the written Portuguese and English is the author(s) entirely responsability. In the case of papers submitted in English, the authors must justify the quality of the English revision or translation in the Comments to the Editor section (CV of translator/author or translation certificate from spetialized agency). 

9. Changing the article language between submission and publication is only permited with previous authorization from the Editorial Team of the Journal.

10. The papers will be evaluated by pairs of reviewers from the knowledge area of the research, from brazilian and foreigner teaching and/or research institutions, with proven scientific production.

11. By submitting the manuscript, the authors are responsible for acknowledging and revealing finantial conflicts or conflicts of other nature that may have influenced the work. The authors must identify in the manuscript all the finantial support obtained for performing the research.

To prepare the manuscript, it is recommended to follow the model (Manuscript Template WRIM).