Notes for Contributors

Landscape Architecture, supervised by the Ministry of Education of the People's Republic of China, and hosted by Beijing Forestry University, is an international journal that publishes papers home and abroad covering modern landscape architecture design and planning, theoretical issues on landscape architecture planning and design, academic papers on environmental science and technology in landscape architecture, as well as the overall design in landscape architecture and empirical urban design program, landscape design and public art works, etc. Our articles are included in the Chinese Science and Technology Journal Database (CSTJ-full text), Chinese Academic Journal(CAJ-CD), and the Chinese Core Journal (Selection).

Copyright infringement, plagiarism or other academic misconducts in publication are prohibited. Authors are requested not to make multiple submissions of the same article to different journals at the same time and should be responsible for any malpractice. Articles must provide precise and suf ficient acknowledgements for cites, figures or pictures. Authors should take responsibility for obtaining permission from copyright holders for reproducing any illustrations, tables, figures or lengthy quotations previously published elsewhere. Landscape Architecture is not to assume the joint liability for any plagiarized manuscripts and photographs or articles included copyrighted material without permission or with insuf ficient acknowledgement.

All paper should be submitted through the online submission system (www.lalavision.com), and email or paper delivery will not be accepted.

1 General Information Concerning Submissions

1.1 Please read this guide and our recent articles carefully and revise the relevant content.

1.2 Submissions are normally reviewed within 3 months of submission,during which an editorial decision of "revised" or "accepted" is generally reached to the author. Authors who are not informed of a decision can decide otherwise the manuscripts beyond 3 months from the date of receipt. Authors are requested not to make multiple submissions of the same article to different journals at the same time. Please note that copies of rejected articles will not be retained. Please keep the original manuscript.

1.3 The draft fee and layout fee are free of charge. When the manuscript is published, a copy of the current issue will be sent to each author.

2 Format Guidelines

2.1 Number of words

Article submissions should normally be between 4,000 and 6,000 words in length, inclusive of references and tables with concise language, clear arguments and reliable data.

2.2 Title

Title of the article should be concise, sepci fic and exact, summarizing the gist of the article, which conforms to the relevant principles of compiling,indexing and searching, and helps to select keywords. Chinese title should be no more than 20 characters, and the corrseponding English translation should be provided.

2.3 Abstract

Each article must be accompanied by an abstract in both Chinese and English summarizing such main points as the background and purpose of the paper (research), the methods used in the study, the results or the conclusions of the study. The Chinese abstract is generally about 200 words and the English abstract must correspond to Chinese abstracts in line with the principle of"having the same amount of information as the paper".

2.4 Keywords

All academic papers and commentaries should provide 3 to 8 Chinese keywords and corresponding English. The keywords should be the most searchable terms, which can be used to reflect the content or domain of the paper and the comments, so that the reader can retrieve the paper. Use a semicolon for each keyword as separation.

2.5 Headings

In dividing articles under headings, please use the following format: The headings of each level shall be numbered consecutively using Arabic numerals.

The numbers of different levels of the same heading should be separated by dots, and the last digits should not be punctuated, such as "1", "1.1", "1.1.1".Please avoid using more than three levels of subheadings.

3 Illustrations and tables

3.1 Illustrations usually no more than 20 should be submitted in a clear highquality artwork suitable for reproduction. Illustrations and their headings should be put in the text and tables, identified by an Arabic numeral and indicated clearlyin parentheses in the text where they are to appear. Note that illustrations should also supplied in a separate file labelled clearly as same as the text. Also,the English version for the heading is required.

3.2 Photo taken by a digital camera requiresno less than 4 megapixels (2272 x 1704 pixels) and recommend 5 megapixels (2592 x 1944 pixels)in the JPG format.If it's a digital SLR camera, more than 6 megapixels and TIF format is required.

3.3 For computer rendering or color drawings please provide the electronic files with resolution above 350dpi. The size of the drawings should be not less than 12cm x 8cm. Drawing file should also be attached.

3.4 Maps must be drawn with the newly published map of China.

3.5 Three-line table is preferred above which the number and heading are labeled in the middle.The number should be indicated clearly in parentheses in the text where they are to appear. Also, the English version for the heading is required.

4 References and Notes

4.1 References are the published bibliography used by the author of the submitted article. They should be listed in full in an Arabic numeral based on the order of the text it appears at the end of the article. Notes, a further explanation or supplement to the speci fic content of the text, or non-public publications cited, are also placed in an Arabic numeral at the end of the text. The numbers of reference are marked with square brackets ([1]), and notes are marked with numbers in circles (e.g ① , ② ...).

4.2 The references for the illustrations should be listed as notes after the text in order or closely after the illustration.There should be no notes in the illustration.

4.3 The references for tables should be listed as table notes in order. If you have to mark it in the table, you can put the citation mark in brackets to avoid confusion with other numbers in the table.

4.4 The principal responsible author refers to the author, the editor of the essay proceedings, the applicant for the degree, the applicant for the patent,the author of the report, the author of the journal article. The two authors are separated by ", "and notice that “…” is not allowed in this column. Principal responsible author is listed only with the name, not followed by "writing","editing", "editor-in-chief" or "co-editor".

4.5 The specific description of formats for references can be referred to"References in the literature (GB/T7714-2005)"

5 Authors

5.1 The author's Chinese name in Pinyin should use the form of surname before given name with a space in between, all letters of the surname should be capitalized; the first letter of the given name should be capitalized, doublecharacter given name should be hyphened, surnames and names are not abbreviations. Please mark with * after corresponding author's name. If the author of the article is a foreigner, please state the author's nationality in front of the author's name and place it in brackets.

Such as: ZHANG Ying, WANG Xi-lian, ZHUGE Hua, foreign author's name should follow the internationalconventions.

5.2 The brief introduction of the author should include the following: Name /Year of Birth / Sex / (Ethnicity - Han may be omitted) / Birthplace / Highest Degree / Workplace, Title and Research Area (Optional) (Communications City,ZIP Code) and the corresponding Englishtranslation. After the corresponding author's Chinese introduction, please add his/her mailbox.

5.3 Other key authors of the same article can be listed one line after the other. No more than 4 authors altogether.

6 Requirements for work submissions

Required to provide introductory text, master plan, project completed photos,if necessary, provide conceptual and analyzing images reflecting the design idea or construction drawings, of fice name and other related project information.

6.1 Title should be concise, generally no more than 20 Chinese characters,and should provide the appropriate English translation.

6.2 The author of the article can be the project design company, it can be the host designer, the article author needs to provide the corresponding English translation.

6.3 Project information must include: project location, project area, project design time and completion time, client, design company and image source, the design company may provide the project consultant, the host designer, other designers involved in the project, designers or design companies for the related supporting facilities or the construction companyaccording to the specific circumstances of the project.