ASCE Journals Posted Ahead of Print Initiative
Beginning in January 2009, accepted papers for all ASCE journals submitted through Editorial Manager, in manuscript form, will be posted online, before the final, copyedited issue is published online and in print.
Early posting of accepted manuscripts reduces time to publication by several months thereby disseminating the literature as quickly as possible. Each ASCE journal will have a dedicated section to Preview papers. Participation by authors is optional.
Preview papers are citable. The posted date will appear with the title, and the citation will end with the Digital Object Identifier (DOI), an automatically generated unique identifier for intellectual property in the digital environment. A sample citation of a paper in Preview Manuscripts follows:
Gao, P. "Transition between Two Bed-Load Transport Regimes: Saltation and Sheet Flow." J. Hydraul. Eng., (2/15/2008), 10.1061/(ASCE)IR.1943-4774.1234567
After a paper is posted online, it will proceed through the copyediting and production process and be published both online and in print. The final version published online will be the version of record. It will bear the original posted date and DOI in addition to the publication, date, volume, issue, and page numbers. The final, formal citation of a paper in the journal that was first published as a Preview Manuscripts paper follows:
Gao, P. "Transition between Two Bed-Load Transport Regimes: Saltation and Sheet Flow." J. Hydraul. Eng., 134(3), 340-349. Posted online on February 15, 2008; 10.1061/(ASCE)IR.1943-4774.1234567
After final publication, the manuscript version of a paper will be removed from the active list of Preview papers and stored in an accessible, permanent archive, linked to the final version of the article.
Preview papers are functionally integrated into ASCE's Research Library and all papers are searchable. Preview papers are also included in the e-mail notification of new papers, which can be requested through the ASCE Research Library's email alerting system.