Journal Guide

Hydrological Processes is an international journal devoted to the publication of original scientific and technical papers in hydrology. The objective of these communications is to improve our understanding of hydrological processes. The scope of the journal encompasses disciplines focussing on the physical, biogeochemical, mathematical and methodological aspects of hydrological processes together with research on instrumentation and techniques. The journal also publishes several issues annually, which relate to themes emergent from conferences, hydrological science societies and key research topics identified by editorial board members. Comments on previously published papers may be submitted to HP. The authors of the original work will be given the opportunity to submit a reply for simultaneous publication with the Comment. Comments and Replies will be subject to the normal journal review process. For publication of a Comment or a Reply, they must be judged by the referees to be scientifically significant. Comments should preferably be in the form of a short paper not exceeding the length of two printed journal pages. Publication will take place only when all parties have had an opportunity to respond appropriately. All papers for HP should be prepared in accordance with the notes for contributors . Submit papers to the Editor-in-Chief of HP or one of the Associate Editors HPToday is devoted to research and sources of information which are considered to be deserving of rapid dissemination to hydrologists. As such, it should be seen as a forum for rapid scientific communication and as a vehicle for up-to-date dialogues in hydrological sciences. HPToday includes invited commentaries, letters to the editor, and refereed scientific briefings. All papers for HPToday should be prepared in accordance with the notes for contributors . The journal to which you are submitting your manuscript employs a plagiarism detection system. By submitting your manuscript to this journal you accept that your manuscript may be screened for plagiarism against previously published works is devoted to research and sources of information. Please note: Effective from the start of the 2011 volume, this journal will be published online-only.

IEEJ Transactions on Electrical and Electronic Engineering (hereinafter called TEEE ) publishes 6 times per year as an official journal of the Institute of Electrical Engineers of Japan (hereinafter 'IEEJ'). This peer-reviewed journal contains original research papers and review articles on the most important and latest technological advances in core areas of Electrical and Electronic Engineering and in related disciplines. The journal also publishes short communications reporting on the results of the latest research activities TEEE ) aims to provide a new forum for IEEJ members in Japan as well as fellow researchers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from around the world to exchange ideas and research findings. To fully cover this wide field of study, IEEJ's five technical societies (subsidiary groups under IEEJ) take responsibility for editing one issue per year while additionally selecting issue topics and soliciting papers. Areas covered by the five technical societies are:

The field of biometric recognition - automated recognition of individuals based on their behavioural and biological characteristics - has reached a level of maturity where viable practical applications are both possible and increasingly available. Since the engineering of effective biometric systems requires integration of image analysis, pattern recognition, sensor technology, database engineering, security design and many other strands of understanding, the technological focus of the journal is diverse. IET Biometrics has a wide scope to account for the interdisciplinary nature of the field. While focusing on the core technological issues it also encompasses human factors, data security and database technologies, and takes into consideration the associated psychological and physiological issues. IET Biometrics includes papers that increase our understanding of biometric systems, signal future developments and applications for biometrics, and/or promote greater practical uptake for relevant technologies. Some of the topics covered include: • Development and enhancement of individual biometric modalities including established and traditional modalities (e.g. face, fingerprint, iris, signature and handwriting recognition) and also newer or emerging modalities (gait, ear-shape, and neurological patterns) • Multibiometrics, theoretical and practical issues, implementation of practical systems, multiclassifier and multimodal approaches • Soft biometrics and information fusion for identification, verification and trait prediction • Human factors and the human–computer interface issues for biometric systems, exception handling strategies • Position papers on technology or on the industrial context of biometric system development • Adoption and promotion of standards in biometrics, improving technology acceptance, deployment and interoperability, avoiding cross-cultural and cross-sector restrictions • Relevant ethical and social issues

lET Communications covers the theory and practice of systems, networks and applications involving line, mobile radio, satellite and optical technologies for telecommunications, and internet and multimedia communications. Topics include: • Coding and communication theory • Modulation and signal design • Applications of signal processing, equalisation, coding, error detection and error correction • Video-telephony, videoconferencing and multimedia communications • Optical communications, services and applications • Fading channel, mobile systems, wireless transmission, services and applications • Indoor communications, WPAN and WLANi cross layer design

IET Computer Vision publishes original research papers in a wide range of areas of electronic visual interpretation and recognition, including reconstruction of 3D depth information, estimation of object motion, attribute-based recognition, and high-level scene understanding. It publishes the most relevant and topical research in its field, explores new horizons, and aims to set the agenda for future research in computer vision. Some of the topics covered are: • Biologically and perceptually motivated approaches to low level vision (e.g. feature detection) • Object recognition • Image understanding • Motion analysis and object tracking • Control in vision systems

IET Computers & Digital Techniques publishes technical papers on recent research and development work in all aspects of digital system-on-chip design and test of electronic and embedded systems, including the development of design automation tools (methodologies, algorithms and architectures). It also publishes papers based on the problems associated with the scaling down of CMOS technology. The key subject areas covered include: • Design: Hardware description languages, high-level and architectural synthesis, hardware/software co-design, platform-based design, system-on-chip architectures and IP cores, embedded systems, logic synthesis, low-power design and power optimisation • Verification: Electrical and timing simulation, hardware/software co-simulation, mixed-domain technology modelling and simulation, power analysis and estimation, interconnect modelling and signal integrity analysis • Test: Design-for-testability, embedded core testing, system-on-chip testing, on-line testing, test quality and reliability, microprocessor testing, low-power testing, fault modelling and fault tolerance, automatic test generation and delay testing • Processor and system architectures: General-purpose and application specific processors, computational arithmetic for DSP applications, arithmetic and logic units, cache memories, memory management, co-processors and accelerators, systems and networks on chip, embedded cores, platforms, multiprocessors, distributed systems, communication protocols and low-power issues • Configurable computing: Embedded cores, FPGAs, rapid prototyping, adaptive computing, evolvable and reconfigurable hardware • Case studies: State-of-the-art CAD/EDA tools, applications in industrial designs, and design frameworks

IET Control Theory & Applications is dedicated to control systems in the broadest sense, and publishes theoretical papers which discuss the applications of new and established control methods. Most of its papers represent original research from industrial and government laboratories and universities. However it also covers subject reviews and tutorial expositions of current methods and correspondence discussing published papers. Topics covered include system modelling, identification and simulation, the analysis and design of control systems (including computer-aided design), and practical implementation. The scope encompasses technological, economic, physiological (biomedical) and other systems, including man–machine interfaces.

IET Cyber-Physical Systems: Theory & Applications is a fully gold open access journal that aims to attract original research and survey articles dedicated to methodologies, techniques and tools for the design, implementation and operation of cyber-physical systems, including associated security and privacy issues and data analytics techniques.

IET Electric Power Applications publishes papers of a high technical standard with a suitable balance of practice and theory. The scope covers a wide range of applications and apparatus in the power field. In addition to papers focusing on the design and development of electrical equipment, it also publishes analytical papers where the arguments are conveyed succinctly and the conclusions are clear. IET Electric Power Applications covers topics including: • The design and analysis of motors and generators of all sizes • Rotating electrical machines • Linear machines • Actuators • Power transformers • Railway traction machines and drives • Machines and drives for electrically powered vehicles

IET Electrical Systems in Transportation covers all aspects of electrical power systems in modern transport applications including generation, storage, distribution and utilisation. IET Electrical Systems in Transportation’s coverage extends to all sectors of transportation: aerospace, marine (including sub-sea), automotive or land-based and rail. The central theme focuses on the system and sub-system aspects of electrical energy including system architectures and integration, energy management, control and protection. • Energy sources: Batteries, fuel cells, generators • Energy storage: Capacitors, flywheels, SMES • Energy management: Control, protection, condition-monitoring, fault-tolerance and re-configuration • System architectures and integration issues • Energy distribution: Cabling, connectors, switchgear • Electro-mechanical energy conversion: Motors, actuation systems • Starter/generator systems • Aerospace electrical technologies: Civil, defence, UAVs • Electric/fuel cell/hybrid vehicles • Marine propulsion, drives and power systems: Ships, submarines, submersibles • Automotive systems • Railway systems: Overground, underground, light-rail, tram

IET Generation, Transmission & Distribution provides a forum for the publication and discussion of current best practice and future developments in electric power generation, transmission and distribution. IET Generation, Transmission & Distribution includes papers on: • Design of transmission and distribution plants • Operation and control of power generation • Power system management and planning • Power system operation and control • Power system measurement and correction • Computer applications and computational intelligence in power flexible AC transmission systems

The IET Image Processing journal encompasses research related to the generation, processing and communication of visual information. The focus of the journal is the coverage of the latest research results in image and video processing, including image generation and display, enhancement and restoration, segmentation, colour and texture analysis, coding and communication, implementations and architectures as well as innovative applications. Principal topics include: • Generation and Display: Imaging sensors and acquisition systems, illumination, sampling and scanning, quantisation, colour reproduction, image rendering, display and printing systems, evaluation of image quality • Processing and Analysis: Image enhancement, restoration, segmentation, registration, multispectral, colour and texture processing, multiresolution processing and wavelets, morphological operations, stereoscopic and 3-D processing, motion detection and estimation, video and image sequence processing • Implementations and Architectures: Image and video processing hardware and software, design and construction, architectures and software, neural, adaptive, and fuzzy processing • Coding and Transmission: Image and video compression and coding, compression standards, noise modelling, visual information networks, streamed video • Retrieval and Multimedia: Storage of images and video, database design, image retrieval, video annotation and editing, mixed media incorporating visual information, multimedia systems and applications, image and video watermarking, steganography • Applications: Innovative application of image and video processing technologies to any field, including life sciences, earth sciences, astronomy, document processing and security

IET Information Security publishes original, peer-reviewed, research papers in information security and cryptography. Information security is a multidisciplinary field that spans the very broad area of computer security, modern cryptography, and the electronic aspects of hardware security. The aim of the journal is to bring together papers from all disciplines contributing to information security. Some of the topics covered by this journal are: access control and database security; block ciphers and hash functions; financial cryptography; economic aspects of information security; key management and secret sharing; malware; peer-to-peer security; quantum cryptography; secure electronic commerce; and watermarking and fingerprinting.

IET Intelligent Transport Systems is an interdisciplinary journal devoted to research into the practical applications of ITS and infrastructures. This journal covers many topics including the following: • Information collection and processing • In-vehicle ITS, safety and vulnerable road user aspects • ITS aspects of electric vehicles • Public transport • Demand management and electronic payment systems • Traffic management • Fleet and public transport logistics • Emergency and incident management • Policy and institutional issues • Interoperability, standards and architectures • Deployment and evaluation • Sustainability and environmental issues • Funding scenarios • Enforcement • Human machine interaction • Education, training and outreach • Deployments with enabling technologies

IET Microwaves, Antennas & Propagation comprehensively covers microwave and RF circuits, microwave and millimetre wave amplifiers, oscillators, switches, mixers and other components. Topics covered include: • Microwave circuits: RF, microwave and millimetre wave amplifiers, oscillators, switches, mixers and other components implemented in monolithic, hybrid, multi-chip module and other technologies. Papers on passive components may describe transmission-line and waveguide components, including filters, multiplexers, resonators, ferrite and garnet devices. Papers also cover microwave sub-systems for use in communications, radar, aerospace, instrumentation, and industrial and medical applications • Antenna topics include: antennas for operation at all frequencies, multiband antennas, antenna measurement techniques and systems, antenna analysis and design, aperture antenna arrays, adaptive antennas, printed and wire antennas, microstrip and integrated antenna • Propagation topics include: radiowave propagation at all frequencies and Environments

Nanobiotechnology extends from single molecule measurements using scanning probe techniques, through to interactions between cells and microstructures, micro- and nano-fluidics, and aspects of lab-on-chip technologies. The primary aim of IET Nanobiotechnology is to provide a resource that brings together important developments in this exciting interdisciplinary field. It achieves this by publishing cutting-edge research papers and expert review articles from the international engineering and scientific community. IET Nanobiotechnology covers all aspects of research and emerging technologies in the field including: • Fundamental theories and concepts applied to biomedical-related devices and methods at the micro- and nano-scale (including methods that employ electrokinetic, electrohydrodynamic, and optical trapping techniques) • Micromachining and microfabrication tools and techniques applied to the top-down approach to nanobiotechnology • Nanomachining and nanofabrication tools and techniques directed towards biomedical and biotechnological applications (e.g. applications of atomic force microscopy, scanning probe microscopy and related tools) • Colloid chemistry applied to nanobiotechnology (e.g. cosmetics, suntan lotions, bio-active nanoparticles) • Microtechnologies such as lab-on-chip applied to pharmaceutical, biomedical and biotechnological applications • Techniques for probing cell physiology, cell adhesion sites and cell–cell communication • Molecular self-assembly, including concepts of supramolecular chemistry, molecular recognition, and DNA nanotechnology • Societal issues such as health and the environment