Instructions_for_Authors_2014

Environmental Engineering and Management

Journal

INSTRUCTIONS TO AUTHORS

1. Introduction Environmental Engineering and Management Journal is an international medium for publication of Original Papers, Reviews, Case Studies, Short Communications, Book Reviews on the fundamentals,

applications in environmental engineering and

technologies, applied environmental sciences,

environmental health, management, sustainable

development, education for sustainability. Advertising is

also accepted with contractual payment forms.

Submission of a manuscript implies that the work

described has not been published before (except in the

form of an abstract or as part of a published lecture,

review, or thesis); that it is not under consideration for

publication elsewhere; that its publication has been

approved by all coauthors, if any, as well.

Papers, books for review, offers to review, suggestions

and commercials (advertising) should be submitted to

the Managing Editor. All papers will be published in

English. Non-English speaking authors should seek the

advice of a professional language expert or an English

speaker to help translate the paper.

2. Legal requirements

The author(s) guarantee(s) that the manuscript is/will

not be published elsewhere in any language without the

consent of the copyright holders, that the rights of third

parties will not be violated, and that the publisher will

not be held legally responsible should there be any

claims for compensation.

Authors wishing to include figures or text passages that

have already been published elsewhere are required to

obtain permission from the copyright holder(s) and to

include evidence that such permission has been

granted when submitting their papers. Any material

received without such evidence will be assumed to

originate from the authors. The author(s) are encouraged to transfer the copyright

of the article to the publisher upon acceptance of an

article by the journal, using the Authors’ Warranty and

Assignment of Copyright agreement. This transfer

enables the Editor to protect the copyrighted material for

the authors, but does not relinquish the author’s

proprietary rights. The publication of an article is

conditioned by the signature of the author to whom

correspondence should be addressed on this Authors’

Warranty and Assignment of Copyright that is provided

by the Editor.

Ethics in Publishing For information on ethics in publishing for journal publication see http://omicron.ch.tuiasi.ro/EEMJ/plagiarism.htm

Conflict of interest All authors are requested to disclose any actual or potential conflict of interest such as any financial, personal or other relationships with other people or organizations concerning the submitted work that could inappropriately influence, or be perceived to influence, their work. 3. Editorial procedure For original papers , an upper limit of 7000 words is recommended (including Abstract, Keywords, References, Figures and Tables), processed with MS editing facilities. For review papers (critical evaluation of existing data, defined topics or emerging fields of investigation, critical issues of public concern), an upper limit of 15000 words is recommended (including Abstract, Keywords,

References, Figures and Tables). Manuscripts should be written in US English and submitted electronically , in .doc format (please do not use .docx) to the Managing Editor , at eemjournal at yahoo dot com ; eem_journal at yahoo dot com ; eemjournal at gmail dot com; Please be sure to include your full affiliation address and e-mail address (see Sample manuscript) When submitting the manuscript, it is mandatory to include a covering letter to the editor. The covering letter must state: - that all the authors mutually agree that it should

be submitted to EEMJ - it is the original work of the authors - that the manuscript was not previously submitted to EEMJ. - state the novelty in results/findings, or significance of results. Manuscripts are evaluated first in the Editorial Office (as a preliminary condition for acceptance) in terms of meeting the requirements of the journal, including attempts of plagiarism. The authors are responsible for the accuracy of the whole paper and references.

Authors will be notified promptly about the registration of their contribution. Only those contributions, which conform to the following instructions, can be considered for the peer-review process. Otherwise, the papers are returned to the authors, with observations, comments and annotations.

The peer review process is decisive for paper acceptance. It could be done in several stages, depending on the revision quality of the manuscript in accordance with the requirements of paper evaluators. Please do not transmit electronic data or requirements to the publisher until your manuscript has been reviewed and accepted for publication. Please follow the instructions below.

4. Manuscript preparation

General:

Authors must follow guide for authors strictly, failing which the manuscripts would be rejected without review. Editors reserve the right to adjust the style to certain standards of uniformity.

Manuscripts should be concise, in 1.5 line spacing, and should have 2 cm all over margins. The font should be Times New Roman of size 12 points. The numbering of chapters should be in decimal form. Ensure that each new paragraph is clearly indicated, using TAB at 1.25 pts.

Title page will contain:

? A concise and informative title (Times New Roman

bold, all caps of size 14 points); the maximum length

of the title should be maximum 100 letters and spaces;

The full name(s) of the author(s) (first name, then last

name, with Times New Roman bold 12 points) should

be written below the title. The affiliation(s) and

complete postal address (es) of the author(s) will be

provided immediately after the full name of the authors

and will be written with Times New Roman 12 points.

When the paper has more than one author, their name

will be followed by a mark (Arabic numeral) as superscript; for the corresponding author, an asterix

will be added using

Word_Insert_Reference_Footnote_Symbol sequence.

Also, the full and e-mail addresses, telephone and fax

numbers of the corresponding author will be provided

in the footer of the first page, as: Author to whom all

correspondence should be addressed: email…..,

Phone…….., Fax…………

? Abstract: each paper must be preceded by an

abstract presenting the most important results and

conclusions in no more than 250 words.

? Key words: three to five key words should be supplied after the Abstract for indexing purposes, separated by comma, ordered alphabetically, using American spelling and avoiding general and plural terms and multiple concepts (avoid, for example, "and", "of"). Be sparing with abbreviations: only abbreviations firmly established in the field may be eligible. These keywords will be used for indexing purposes. ? The text of the paper should be divided into

Introduction, Experimental, Results and Discussion, Conclusions, References (for the Environmental Management papers and similars, the Experimental part can be replaced by Case-studies presentation).

The text layout must be on a single column.

Introduction

State the objectives of the work and provide an adequate background, avoiding a detailed literature survey or a summary of the results.

Material and methods

Provide sufficient detail to allow the work to be reproduced. Methods already published should be indicated by a reference: only relevant modifications should be described.

Experimental

Provide sufficient detail to allow the work to be reproduced. Methods already published should be indicated by a reference: only relevant modifications should be described.

Results and Discussion

Results should be clear and concise. Discussion should explore the significance of the results of the work, not repeat them. Avoid extensive citations and discussion of published literature.

Conclusions

The main conclusions drawn from results should be presented in a short Conclusions section (maximum 100 words). Formulae, symbols and abbreviations: Formulae will be typeset in Italics (preferable with the Equation Editor) and should be written or marked for such in the manuscript, unless they require a different styling. The formulae should be quoted on the right side, between brackets: a 3

= 3M / 4N (1) Refer in the text to Equations as (Eq. 1), Eqs. 1-4 etc. The more complex Chemical Formulae should be presented as Figures. Abbreviations should be defined when first mentioned in the abstract and again in the main body of the text and used consistently thereafter.

SI units must be used throughout.

Footnotes should be avoided. (in parentheses). References: The list of References should only include works that are cited in the text and that have been published. References should be cited in the text in brackets (Harvard style) as in the following example: (Chisti, 1989), (Gavrilescu and Roman, 1996), (Moo-Young et al., 1999).

References should be alphabetically listed at the

end of paper, with complete details, as follows:

Books: Names and initials of authors; year, article title; editors; title of the book (italic); edition; volume number; publisher; place; page number:

Mauch K., Vaseghi S., Reuss M., (2000), Quantitative Analysis of Metabolic and Signaling Pathways in

Saccharomyces cerevisiae, In: Bioreaction

Engineering, Schügerl K., Bellgardt K.H. (Eds.),

Springer, Berlin Heidelberg New York, 435-477.

Faber K., (2000), Biotransformations in Organic Chemistry – A Textbook, vol.VIII, 4th Edition,

Springer, Berlin-Heidelberg-New York.

Handbook, (1951), Handbook of Chemical Engineer, vol. II, (in Romanian), Technical Press, Bucharest,

Romania.

Symposia volumes: Names and initials of authors;

year; article title; full title; symposium abbreviated;

volume number; place; date; page number:

Clark T. A., Steward D., (1991), Wood and Environment, Proc. 6th Int. Symp. on Wood and

Pulping Chemistry, Melbourne, vol. 1, 493.

Journal papers: Names and initials of authors; year (between brackets); full title of the paper; full name of

the journal (italic); volume number (bold); first and last

page numbers:

Tanabe S., Iwata H., Tatsukawa R., (1994), Global contamination by persistent organochlorines and

their ecotoxicologcial impact on marine mammals,

Science of the Total Environment, 154, 163-177.

Patents: Names and initials of authors; year; patent title; country; patent number:

Grant P., (1989), Device for Elementary Analyses. USA Patent, No. 123456.

Dissertations: Names and initials of authors; year; title; specification (Ph. D. Diss.); institution; place:

Aelenei N., (1982), Thermodynamic study of polymer solutions, PhD Thesis, Institute of Macromolecular

Chemistry Petru Poni, Iasi, Romania.

Star K., (2008), Environmental risk assessment generated by natural hazards, MSc Thesis, Institute

of Hazard Research, Town, Country.

Legal regulations and laws, organizations: Abbreviated name; year (between round brackets); full name of the referred text; document type; author; URL address:

ESC, (2007), Improving access to modern energy services for all fundamental challenge, Economic and

Social Council, ENV/DEV/927, On line at:

https://www.wendangku.net/doc/d618868447.html,/News/Press/docs/2007/envdev927

.doc.htm

EPA, (2007), Biomass Conversion: Emerging Technologies, Feedstocks, and Products, Sustainability Program, Office of Research and

Development, EPA/600/R-07/144, U.S.

Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, D.C.,

On line at:

https://www.wendangku.net/doc/d618868447.html,/Sustainability/pdfs/Biomass%20

Conversion.pdf

EC Directive, (2000), Directive 2000/76/EC of the

European Parliament and of the Council of 4

December 2000, on the incineration of waste, Annex

V, Official Journal of the European Communities, L

332/91, 28.12.2000, Brussels.

GD, (2004), Governmental Decision no. 1076/2004

surnamed SEA Governmental Decision, regarding

the procedure for strategic environmental impact

assessment for plans or programs, published in

Romanian Official Monitor, part I, no. 707 from 5th of

August, 2004.

Web references

The full URL should be given in text as a citation, if no

other data are known. If the authors, year, title of the

documents are known and the reference is taken from a

website, the URL address has to be mentioned after

these data.

Burja C., Burja V., (2008), Adapting the Romanian rural

economy to the European agricultural policy from the

perspective of sustainable development, MPRA,

Munich Personal RePEc Archive, On line at:

http://mpra.ub.uni-

muenchen.de/7989/1/MPRA_paper_7989.pdf

Web references must not be listed separately, after the

reference list.

All references must be provided in English with a

specification of original language in round brackets.

Citation in text

Please ensure that every reference cited in the text is

also present in the reference list (and vice versa). Do

not cite references in the abstract.

Unpublished results, personal communications as well

as URL addresses are not recommended in the

reference list, but may be mentioned in the text.

Citation of a reference as "in press" implies that the item

has been accepted for publication.

Papers which have been accepted for publication

should be included in the list of references with the

name of the journal and the specification "in press".

Reference style

Text: All citations in the text may be made directly (or

parenthetically) and should refer to:

- single author: the author's name (without initials,

unless there is ambiguity) and the year of publication:

“as previously demonstrated (Smith, 2007)”; “as Smith

(2007) demonstrated” - two authors: both authors' names and the year of

publication: (Arnold and Sebastian, 2008; Smith and

Hansel, 2006; Stern and Lars, 2009)

- three or more authors: first author's name followed by

"et al." and the year of publication: “As has recently

been shown (Werner et al., 2005)…”, “Kramer et al.

(2000) have recently shown ...."

Citations of groups of references should be listed first

alphabetically, then chronologically.

Examples: "…..as demonstrated (Aden, 1996a, 1996b, 1999; Allan and Jones, 1995; Han et al., 2007; Weiss

and Schmidt, 1988)”.

Abbreviations

Define all abbreviations at their first mention in the text. Ensure consistency of abbreviations throughout the article.

Acknowledgements

Include acknowledgements in a separate section at the end of the article before the references and do not, therefore, include them on the title page, as a footnote to the title or otherwise. List here those individuals who provided help during the research (e.g., providing language help, writing assistance or proof reading the article, funding supports etc.).

Footnotes

Footnotes must be avoided. Do not include footnotes in the Reference list.

Table footnotes

Indicate each footnote in a table with a superscript lowercase letter.

Tables

Draw the tables in grid format using a basic, solid line style without shadows.

Ensure that the data presented in Tables do not duplicate results described in Figures or elsewhere in the article

Figures

Number Figures consecutively in accordance with their appearance in the text. All illustrations should be provided in camera-ready form, suitable for reproduction, which may include reduction without retouching.

Photographs, charts and diagrams are all to be referred

to as Figure(s) and should be numbered consecutively,

in the order to which they are referred. Figures may be inserted as black line drawings. They should be pasted on, rather than taped, since the latter results in unclear edges upon reproduction.

Ensure that each illustration has a caption, placed below the Figure.

A caption should comprise a brief title (not on the Figure itself) and a description of the illustration. Keep text in the illustrations themselves to a minimum but explain all symbols and abbreviations used.

Multiple Figures can be expressed as one Figure (for e.g. 1a, 1b, 1c etc...), while retaining the maximum limit of 6.

ALL Figures must be submitted in either .jpg or .tiff format with a very good resolution (but do not s ubmit graphics that are disproportionately large for the content).

Figures and Tables must be embedded in the text. Proofs

Proofs will be sent to the corresponding author (mainly by e-mail) and should be returned within 48 hours of receipt. Corrections should be restricted to typesetting errors; any other changes may be charged to the author.

Article in Electronic Format:

Authors are asked to submit their final and accepted manuscript as an attachment as .doc or .rtf document to the e-mail.

5. Page charge

There is no charge per printed page.

6. Reprints

Authors are provided with one issue of the journal containing the paper as well as the electronic format of the article as .pdf, free of charge. Further supplies may be ordered on a reprint order form, which will be sent to the author from the Editor’s office. This request will be formulated when the final form of the manuscript (the electronic one) is provided by the author.

Annotations on the editorial management of Environmental Engineering and Management Journal Starting with volume 13/2014, the members of the Scientific Advisory Board and the Corresponding authors will receive each issue of the journal in electronic .pdf format. Printed copies can be delivered on request, with a fee of 40 Euro per printed copy.

An author cannot appear on more than two papers per regular issue. An author cannot appear on more than three papers in a Guest Editor/Conference issue.

The evaluation/peer-review process of manuscripts submitted for Guest Editor/Conference issues will be handled and evaluated as with regular manuscripts, so that only consistent papers will be published. The manuscripts must be sent at least six months before the presumed data of publication. Those manuscripts which do not fulfill the journal requirements will be rejected. This is to discourage superficiality in the development of the manuscript, from formal and scientific points of view. No amount of money will be refunded following the rejection of manuscripts.

No more than 160 pages and no more than 20 papers are allowed for regular issues. No more than 180 pages and no more than 25 papers are allowed for special issues. The number of pages is based on the published version of an article, not on the submitted version (for instance, when page breaks are changed and when images are enlarged for easier viewing).

A regular issue can include, as an exception, a maximum number of 25 papers. This situation could appear when the authors of an already accepted paper ask for early publication. A charge of 500 Euro will be applied for each already accepted paper published in advance.

The same fee is valid for the publication of a newly-received manuscript in urgent situations, since each extra paper will be prepared and evaluated as a regular manuscript, but as an emergency, in a maximum of 6 months. A deposit of 200 Euro shall be paid in advance, and the rest of the fee will be paid if the manuscript meets all requirements for publication. If the manuscript is deemed unsuitable for publication, the authors will not be eligible for a refund.

Failure to pay mandatory charges may result in the paper being withheld from publication.

In all cases, the corresponding author will sign an agreement with the Editor-in-Chief. Automated software is used for checking against plagiarism. In order to avoid false results, the generated reports are cautiously checked and confirmed by journal staff. We do not send plagiarism reports to authors. Any manuscripts which do not prove to be at least 90% original will be rejected. The rejection for plagiarism may arise at any phase of the editorial / review process, even if the manuscript was accepted for publication. The authors are solely responsible for the originality of their submission. Therefore, any manuscript should be carefully checked for such inconsistencies before submitting to EEMJ.

The authors are required to follow academic publishing rules, to adhere to the principles of scientific ethics and to sign the Authors’ warranty and Copyright transfer.

Detailed information concerning these issues may be found of the EEMJ website, under Editorial Procedure and Policy.