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MANUSCRIPT SUBMISSION GUIDELINES FOR AUTHORS 'EDITORIAL POLICY The Water Law Review welcomes the submission of articles of timely interest to the water law community. Articles should discuss topical issues in water law and related areas, such as environmental and natural resource law, land use, and water quality, They should provide an original, analytical, and in-depth treatment of the issue rather than a summary of previous research efforts. Anonymous peer review of articles is available upon request. In addition to articles, the Water Law Review also invites submissions of shorter works, such as book reviews, commentaries, and bibliographies, STYLE Articles should be well organized, concisely written, and presented in an articulate and scholarly manner. More descriptive presentation should be limited to background matter, and use of direct quotations should be kept to a minimum. FORMAT Manuscripts should be typed in MS Word format, double-spaced, and printed on 8"" x 11 paper. The text should be broken into appropriate headings and subheadings. The text should conform to the Chicago Manual of Style (14th ed. 1993). Citations to authority should be contained in footnotes. Footnotes may also include elaboration on points raised in the text or references to research sources pertaining to points peripheral to those discussed in the text. Footnotes must conform with The Bluebook: A Uniform System of Citation (17th ed. 2000), published by the Harvard Law Review Association, and should be current as of the date of submission. When the Water Law Review accepts a manuscript for publication, the author will be required to provide a copy of the manuscript on a 3.5" diskette, preferably in MS Word 6.0 or higher format. As is the standard practice of journals in the United States, the Water Law Review will gain copyright as of publication.