Continuous Article Publishing

Effective 2013, Water, Air, & Soil Pollution will change its publication structure from paginated issues to a new publication model: Continuous Article Publishing.

This means that papers will be published immediately after acceptance in a volume/issue. The Online First queue will become obsolete and the result will be a much shorter time to publication in its final form.

Articles will no longer be paginated sequentially by issue. Therefore every article will start on page 1. Page numbers will not be used for article citation but every article will have a citation ID number, called the ArticleCitationID. The ArticleCitationID replaces the page numbers in the citation line. The citation line includes the journal citation title, year of publication, volume number and ArticleCitationID.

Example:

Old: Water Air Soil Pollut (2012) 223:29–47

New: Water Air Soil Pollut (2013) 224:1234

This method of citation is recognized by the Web of Science/Journal Citation Reports (ISI).

We feel that our authors and readers will benefit from this change in the publication structure of Water, Air, & Soil Pollution.