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NOT A COMPLETE ARTICLE AND USED AS A MANUSCRIPT SAMPLE ONLY! [Please pay attention to the COLOR HIGHLIGHTED PARTS in the paper, where you should conform your paper to PEDOSPHERE style and spelling. Thanks] Running Title: CH4 EMISSIONS FROM FLOODED RICE FIELDS [A shortened title used as a running head and should be less than 50 letters including space between words] Estimate of CH4 Emissions from Year-Round Flooded Rice Fields During Rice Growing Season in China*[Foundation items concerning this research should be given as a footnote and marked with ‘*1’ behind the title] [All first letters of the substantives should be in capitalization] CAI Zu-Cong1,*, KANG Guo-Ding2, H. TSURUTA3 and A. MOSIER4 [The last name of any author should be in capitalization. The first and middle names for the foreign authors should be in abbreviation while those for the Chinese authors in full name] 1Institute of Soil Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing 210008 (China) 2Department of Demography and Economics, Nanjing College for Population Program Management, Nanjing 210093 (China) 3Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, Tokyo (Japan) 4USDA/ARS, Ft. Collins, CO (USA) (Received , 2004; revised , 2004) ABSTRACT A special kind of rice field exists in China that is flooded year-round. These rice fields have substantially large CH4 emissions during the rice-growing season and emit CH4 continuously in the non-rice growing season. CH4 emission factors were used to estimate the CH4 emissions from year-round flooded rice fields during the rice-growing season in China. The CH4 emissions for the year-round flooded rice fields in China for the rice growing season over a total area of 2.66 Mha were estimated to be 2.44 Tg CH4 year-1. The uncertainties of these estimations are discussed as well. However, the emissions during the non-rice growing season could not be estimated because of limited available data. Nevertheless, methane emissions from rice fiel