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SUBMISSION OF PAPER
Requirements for new submission
Authors need to create an account in submission menu. Authors may choose to submit the manuscript as a single word file to be used in the refereeing process.
Requirement of revised submission
Only when the submitted paper is at the revision stage, authors will be requested to put the paper into a 'correct format' for acceptance and provide the items required for the publication of the manuscript.
Contact details for submission
If authors are submitting a manuscript for publication in a special issue, please contact the Editor-in-Chief or Guest Editor for submission instructions.
Authorship Guidelines
Authorship credit should be based on: (i) Substantial contributions to conception and design, acquisition of data, or analysis and interpretation of data, (ii) Drafting the article or revising it critically for important intellectual content; and (iii) Final approval of the version to be submitted for publication. All of these conditions should be met by all authors. Acquisition of funding, collection of data, or general supervision of the research group alone does not constitute authorship. All contributors who do not meet the criteria for authorship should be listed in an acknowledgments section. All authors must agree on the sequence of authors listed before submitting the article. All authors must agree to designate one author as the corresponding author for the submission. It is the responsibility of the corresponding author to arrange the whole manuscript upon the requirements and to dialogue with the co-authors during the peer-reviewing and proofing stages and to also act on behalf.
To find out more, please visit the Preparation section below.
BEFORE YOU BEGIN
Ethics in Publishing
Readers, authors, reviewers, and editors should follow these ethical policies once working with JEQUITY. The ethical policy of JEQUITY is liable to determine which of the typical research papers or articles submitted to the journal should be published in the concerned issue. The publishing decision is based on the suggestion of the journal's reviewers and editorial board members. The ethical policy insisted the Editor-in-Chief, may confer with other editors or reviewers in making the decision. The reviewers are necessary to evaluate the research papers based on the submitted content in a confidential manner. The reviewers also suggest the authors improve the quality of the research paper by their reviewing comments. Authors should ensure that their submitted research work is original and has not been published elsewhere in any language. Applicable copyright laws and conventions should be followed by the authors. Any kind of plagiarism constitutes unethical publishing behavior and is unacceptable.
Peer-Review Process
In order to sustain the peer review system, authors have an obligation to participate in the peer-review process to evaluate manuscripts from others. When appropriate, authors are obliged to provide retractions and/or corrections of errors to the editors and the Publisher. All papers submitted to the JEQUITY journal will be peer reviewed for at least one round. JEQUITY journal adopts a double-blinded review policy: authors are blind to reviewers, but reviewers are not blind to authors. The peer review process is conducted in the online manuscript submission and peer-review system. After a manuscript is submitted to the online system, the system immediately notifies the editorial office. After passing an initial quality check by the editorial office, the manuscript will be assigned to two or more reviewers. After receiving reviewers’ comments, the editorial team member makes a decision. Because reviewers sometimes do not agree with each other, the final decision sent to the author may not exactly reflect recommendations by any of the reviewers.
The decision after each round of peer review may be one of the following:
Post-Publication Evaluation
In addition to the rapid Peer Review Process, the JEQUITY Journal has Post-Publication Evaluation by the scientific community. Post-Publication Evaluation is concentrated to ensure that the quality of published research, review, and case report meets certain standards and the conclusions that are presented are justified. The post-publication evaluation includes online comments and citations on published papers. Authors may respond to the comments of the scientific community and may revise their manuscript. The Post-Publication Evaluation is described in such a way; it is allowing authors to publish quickly about Environmental science, management, engineering, and technology concepts.
Preparation of Manuscripts
Manuscripts must be submitted only in English and should be written according to sound grammar and proper terminology. Manuscripts should be typed in Times New Roman of 11 pt. font and in MS-Word format in one column with a 2.5 cm margin at each side. Manuscript submission must be applied once in order to obtain only one submission ID number. More than one submission for a single manuscript can lose the chance of the manuscript consideration. The manuscript must be accompanied by a covering letter including the title and author(s) name.
Manuscript Language
All publications in the JEQUITY are in English language.
New Submissions
Submission to JEQUITY journal proceeds totally online and authors will be guided stepwise through the creation and uploading of the manuscript files. As part of the manuscript, authors may choose to submit the manuscript as a single file to be used in the refereeing process. This can be a Word document (*.doc or *.docx), that can be used by referees to evaluate the manuscript. All figures, tables, and supplementary data should be embedded and included in the main manuscript file.
References
References list must be provided according to the American Psychological Association Styles 7th Edition
Formatting requirements
All manuscripts must contain the essential elements needed to convey your manuscript, for example, Abstract, Keywords, Introduction, Materials and Methods, Results and Discussion, Conclusion, Acknowledgement, and Conflict of Interest. Artwork and Tables with Captions. Please ensure all figures, tables, and supplementary data should be embedded and included in the main manuscript file.
For more information, the author needs to see Journal Template
As part of the submission process, authors are required to check off their submission's compliance with all of the following items, and submissions may be returned to authors that do not adhere to these guidelines.
When submitting a manuscript to Journal of Environmental Quality and Sustainability, the Author acknowledges that if the manuscript is accepted for publication, the copyright of the article will be transferred to the journal publisher, Environmental Sustainability Research Group. The copyright entails the exclusive right to publish and disseminate the article in all forms and media, including reprints, photographs, microfilms, translations, and more. Any distribution, storage in databases, or publication of any part of the journal, including electronic, electrostatic, and mechanical copies, photocopies, records, magnetic media, etc., will only be authorized with written permission from Journal of Environmental Quality and Sustainability, Environmental Sustainability Research Group.
The Editors and International Advisory Board of Journal of Environmental Quality and Sustainability, Environmental Sustainability Research Group, take every precaution to ensure that no false or misleading data, opinions, or statements are published in the journal. However, the contents of published articles are solely the responsibility of each individual Author.
The names and email addresses entered in this journal site will be used exclusively for the stated purposes of this journal and will not be made available for any other purpose or to any other party.
