National Ground Water Association

Click to join the mailing list!

NGWA.org / Professional Resources / Publications / Groundwater / Editorial policies

All Site Content

Editorial policies

We do not publish case studies in Ground Water unless the paper also presents new information of general interest to our readers. Authors should identify new general principles and innovative ideas and/or methods in the research. One or more case study examples may be used to illustrate the application of new methods and/or concepts. However, the new general principles to be explored in the paper must be highlighted in the abstract, the introduction, and conclusion sections. The title, also, should reflect the focus on new principles/methods rather than the case study aspects of the paper.

Reviewers are asked to consider the following questions when evaluating a paper.

Do the ideas/techniques/methods presented in the paper change the way we perform or look at our science?
What are the important contributions of this paper?
Is the hypothesis clearly stated and the experimental design correctly chosen to test the hypothesis?
Is the analysis technically correct?
Does the paper present new ideas? If it contains new information, is it a fundamentally useful contribution or is it only marginally useful?
Is the literature cited complete or are important references left out?
Has this work, or very similar work, been published elsewhere?
Is the abstract clearly written and informative? Does it convey the essence of the research?

Read the editorial by Editor-in-Chief Mary P. Anderson on plagiarism and dual publication (PDF).

Read the editorial by Editor-in-Chief Mary P. Anderson "To Be or Not to Be..." that covers the publication's general policies (PDF).

Read the editorial by Editor-in-Chief Mary P. Anderson "What Is 'Ground Water'?" (PDF).

Editorial-policies i:0#.w|dev-ngwa\devener i:0#.w|sharepoint\devener NGWAGeneralContentPage

Advertise on NGWA.org

navigation

customer service

customerservice@ngwa.org
800 551.7379 (614 898.7791 outside the United States)
8 a.m.-5 p.m. ET Monday through Friday
fax 614 898.7786

payment mailing address

NGWA
PO Box 715435
Columbus, OH 43271-5435
USA

headquarters

National Ground Water Association
601 Dempsey Rd.
Westerville, OH 43081
USA
800 551.7379
(614 898.7791 outside the US)
fax 614 898.7786
ngwa@ngwa.org