How to Submit an Article to Hydro Review


You're invited to submit articles to Hydro Review. Articles are welcome which address subjects that will be helpful and interesting to our readers. These readers include a wide range of hydroelectric personnel, including utility executives, managers, and operators, public power producers, developers, regulators, consultants, engineers, designers, and other technicians, as well as providers of hydro goods and services.

Getting Started:
To determine our interest in your article idea, please submit an article proposal – an abstract and/or outline – for our review and comment.

How Long?
We prefer for most articles to be about 3,000 words – that's equivalent to 12 double-spaced typewritten pages. We also like for articles to include, as appropriate, several photographs, tables, charts, graphs, or figures. It's also occasionally helpful to include a "sidebar"; this consists of text related to the main article but which is more helpful or effective if set off by itself.

Photographs:
Black and white glossy prints, 5 x 7 inches or larger, are ideal, but any good quality sharply focused photo – color, black and white, or slide – is acceptable. Polaroid prints are not acceptable.

Drawings, Charts, and Graphs:
Send us the best quality artwork you can. In most cases, we try to use artwork as submitted, but we will redraw if necessary.

Form of Manuscript:
Any legible form of manuscript, in English, is acceptable. If you use PC-based word processing equipment, send us, along with a hard copy of your manuscript, a diskette version in WordPerfect or Word. Do not embed photos or tables in text.

Contributor's Agreement:
We require a signed Contributor's Agreement with article submittals. This agreement conveys to HCI Publications (the publisher of Hydro Review magazine) rights to print and reprint the article, and also provides certain warranties with respects to originality, use of copyrighted materials, etc. (Click here to access the Contributor's Agreement.)

What Happens After Submittal?
If your article is technical or deals with material unfamiliar to our editors, we may seek to have it reviewed by industry experts. (This is similar to the "peer review" process used by many technical and scientific journals.) After this review is complete (or if the review is not required), we will edit the article to conform to our publication standards. At this stage, we will usually contact you to resolve any questions that we have. If we substantially alter what you have submitted, we will request that you review the edited article prior to publication.

How Long Does All This Take?
Typically, from the time you submit your manuscript it will be several months before the article is published, although this time varies significantly.

Contact Us!
If at any time during the process of preparing your article (or when awaiting publication after submittal) you have questions about how to proceed (or about the status of your manuscript), call, fax, write to us, or send us an e-mail. We're always pleased to answer your queries.