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Environment & We An International Journal of Science & Technology |
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ISSN: 0975-7112 (Print) |
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ISSN:
0975-7120 (Online) |
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Instruction to authors: |
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Celebrating 20th Year of EWIJST Publication © Society for Environment and Development, (India) |
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“Environment & We an International Journal of Science & Technology” accepts articles from any source on the understanding that they are the original work of the authors named, and that they are being offered only to the EWIJST. Since the Journal serves a multidisciplinary readership, articles should serve multidisciplinary or multi-institutional areas of interest, and authors are requested to write their papers and reports in a manner and style that is intelligible to specialists and non-specialists alike. Articles are judged by referees at the discretion of the Editor. Various kinds and categories of article are welcome. (Please consult a recent issue of the Journal for examples.) Research communications are of three kinds: Research Letters, Research Articles, and Review Articles. Research Letters are shorter reports (normally no longer than 1500–2000 words of text), and should be up-to-date accounts of interesting and noteworthy scientific developments. Although these reports may be concerned with very particular advances, they should be of wider than specialist interest. Research Articles are longer papers (normally no more than 6 000 words in length). Here the criteria of intelligibility and wider interest are strictly applied. Review Articles (up to 6 000 words long) should be up-to-date surveys of important current developments in science. Preference is given to concise, reader-friendly submissions. Submission of manuscripts for
consideration Covering
letter: When submitting a manuscript, authors should furnish a separate
covering letter with the following information: the name(s) and title(s) of
the author(s); the position, affiliation, and contact details of each author;
and the author to whom all correspondence should be addressed. In addition,
authors are encouraged to provide the names and full contact details
(including e-mail addresses) of 4 or 5 potential referees to evaluate the
work. The covering letter should also indicate briefly the significance of
the work being reported. It should include a declaration that the research
material in the paper submitted to the Journal has neither
been published elsewhere nor is being considered elsewhere for publication.
It should also include a paragraph summarizing briefly the nature of the
contribution made by each of the authors listed, along the lines of the
following example: Authors'
contributions: J.K. was the project leader. L.M.N. and A.B. were responsible
for experimental and project design. L.M.N. performed most of the
experiments. P.R. made conceptual contributions and S.T., U.V. and C.D.
performed some of the experiments. S.M. and V.C. prepared the samples and
calculations were performed by C.S. J.K. and U.V. wrote the manuscript. Finally,
the corresponding author should confirm that each named author has read and
approved the manuscript submitted for consideration. Electronic
format: Manuscripts for consideration should be submitted in Microsoft Word
electronic format (as an e-mail attachment) to editor.ewijst@gmail.com Presentation
of content Manuscripts
should use single spacing, and Times New Roman, fonts size 12, with each page
clearly numbered. (Contributors should keep presentation consistent and
simple, and avoid using a range of type styles and sizes, special fonts, or
elaborate formatting.) The first line of each paragraph should be indented.
Tables and figures should be presented just before the Reference section, and
captions should be presented together. Tables and figures (including
photographs) should be numbered consecutively with Arabic numerals. The
opening paragraph of each research paper should make clear the purpose and
main conclusions of the work being reported. All submissions should be
concise and reader-friendly, take proper account of previous relevant
literature, and avoid undue repetition of facts or experimental methods
already in the public record. A short abstract (up to 200 words), written
concisely in simple words and phrases, must accompany each research article
and letter. Authors
submitting a paper for consideration should consult the notes below as well
as a recent issue of the Journal, and note and follow the house
style of presentation. Abbreviations should be used
sparingly, and should be defined at their first use unless they are very
familiar (e.g. DNA, E. coli). The
significance of statistical tests should be written in the form P <
0.001, or ‘n.s.’ for ‘not significant’. ‘Degrees of
freedom’ is abbreviated as ‘d.f.’; ‘standard error’
is abbreviated as ‘s.e.’ (and ‘standard error of
the mean’ as ‘s.e.m.’); ‘coefficient of variation’
is abbreviated as ‘CV’. Units should conform to the SI
convention and be abbreviated accordingly. Metric units and their
international symbols are used throughout, as is the decimal point (not the
decimal comma), and the 24-hour clock (e.g. 08:00;
17:25). When radiocarbon dates are quoted they
should be accompanied by a laboratory index number and a statement of
probable error. Prefixes for mass numbers should precede the symbols of the
elements (e.g. 14C). Spacing and punctuation: There should be
one space (not two) between sentences; one space before unit terms (e.g. 5 kg, 5 cm, 5 mmol, 5 days); no space before % or °
(e.g. 5%, 23°C, 26°10’S). Thousands/millions are marked with a space, not a
comma (e.g. 1 000, 1 000 000). Ranges are expressed
with an extended hyphen, not with a short hyphen (e.g.
3–5 km). Dates, italics, and spelling: Dates are
written in the following style: 13 July 1973. Phrases within the text that
are not English (for example, et al.) should be italicised. The British (not the American) spelling
convention is followed. References Authors are responsible for the accuracy, layout, and presentation of
their references, and for compiling the typescript in the Journal's
house style. Footnotes and acknowledgements should not be included among the
references. ‘Personal communication’, ‘unpublished observations’, and
‘manuscript in preparation’ should be incorporated in the text. Papers
accepted for publication in a (named) journal may be cited, but not those
merely submitted for publication. References to the literature must be indicated in the
text by indicating the last name of the first author and the year of
publication, for instance, (Hassan, 1997), (Otaki and Ohgaki,
1998), (Fattoruso et al., 2002). References
should not be set as footnotes or endnotes as defined in MS Word. Articles in periodicals are cited by full title and
inclusive pagination. Titles of periodicals are abbreviated in accordance
with the World List of Scientific Periodicals. References
provided in manuscript submissions should be presented, formatted, and
punctuated in the style of the following example: Agbenin, J.O., Goladi, J.T., 1997. Carbon, nitrogen and phosphorus
dynamics under continuous cultivation as influenced by savanna of northern
Nigeria. Agriculture, Ecosystem and Environment 36, 17-24. References to quotations, chapters or articles in books should
follow the style of the following examples: Lovegrove B., 1999. In The
Living Deserts of Southern Africa, chap. 1, pp. 40-41. Fernwood Press,
Cape Town. Mason S.J., Tyson P.D., 1999. The
occurrence and predictability of droughts over southern Africa. In Drought,
a Global Assessment, vol. 1, ed. D.A. Wilhite, pp. 113-134. Routledge,
London. De Villiers C., Visser W.,
1998. Survey of Environmental Reporting in SA, 5th edn, p. 93. KPMG, Cape Town. References to published conference
papers should provide details as follows: Moll E.J., 1994. The origin and
distribution of fairy rings in Namibia. In Proc. 13th Plenary Meeting
AETFAT, Zomba, Malawi, eds J.H. Seyani and
A.C. Chikuni, pp. 1203-1209. National Herbarium and
Botanic Gardens of Malawi, Zomba. Thesis references
should be presented as follows: Kumar, P., 2004. Energy
consumption pattern for rural villages at different altitudes of Himachal
Pradesh. M.Sc. Thesis, IARI, New Delhi, India. Newspaper references follow the
example below: Kirk P. 2001. New AIDS battle
looms. Mail & Guardian (Johannesburg), 11-17 May, 4. References to reports available
online should
be presented as follows: Department of Science and
Industry 2007. National Research and Industrial Policy. Online
at: www.osdindia.org/NRIP.pdf Climate Change Synthesis Report
2007. Summary for Policymakers: An Assessment of the
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Online from: http://www.ipcc.ch/pdf/assessment-report/ar4/syr/ar4_syr_spm.pdf Fischer, G., Shah, M., and Velthuizen, H. 2002. Climate Change and Agricultural
Vulnerability. International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis: Laxenburg, Austria. Online at: http://www.iiasa.ac.at/Research/LUC/JB-Report.pdf Preparation and submission of diagrams New printing technology requires updated specifications for preparing
diagrams, tables, graphs, and other visual material for reproduction in
the Journal. Authors should pay special attention to the details
below (and to enquire about special needs as necessary). Electronic diagrams and illustrations · Artwork may be supplied in electronic format. Corel-DRAW
(version 8, 9, or 10) is ideal for printing purposes (but line thickness
should be set by the operator, as defaults are often too fine for reduction).
If Excel diagrams are submitted, each must be placed on a separate page in
Microsoft Word. Black-and-white line drawings should ideally be supplied at 1
200 dpi (but no less than 600 dpi). Authors must specify in which programme diagrams have been drawn. · Photographs and artwork in colour
must be supplied at high resolution (at least 300 dpi) for good quality
reproduction, as separate files, in TIFF (preferably) or JPEG format. · No illustrations saved in the native formats of specialised statistical packages should be submitted. No specialised
fonts should be used in labelling. Use Arial or Helvetica. (If a specialised font is unavoidable in material sent
electronically, supply the font itself as well, in TrueType or in PostScript
Type 1 format.) If an author is unable to supply artwork in the appropriate form, and
additional Journal time is needed to modify diagrams for
publication, that time will be charged to the author (fees are available on
enquiry). Colour reproduction: Colour printing is expensive and should be used only when
essential. The additional cost involved will be charged to the author
(details available on enquiry). Final accepted and updated manuscripts must be
submitted in Microsoft Word. Figure captions and tables should not be
incorporated in the main text but set out on separate pages. A covering
letter must confirm that the final manuscript has been approved by all the
cited authors. Proofs Authors will receive provisional page proofs electronically as PDF
files; these must be returned promptly to the Editor (within 48h) to avoid
delays in publication. Substantial changes made at proof stage will be
charged to the author. Electronic PDF An electronic PDF of article will be sent to the corresponding author
after publication. Reprints and Open Access (Not
Necessary for Publication) If the author requires reprints and open access the additional cost
involved will be charged to the author (details available on enquiry). Order
will be given at the time of proofs. Strict adherence to these guidelines and authorial conformity to
the Journal’s house style streamline the processing of
manuscripts, expedite publication, and enable the EWIJST to continue
publishing research papers. SEDINDIA member can publish their papers without
charging page fees. This set of guidelines is available on www.sedindia.in/ewijst/ or from
the Editor (on request). Electronic submissions to be sent by e-mail to editor.ewijst@gmail.com Manuscripts for
consideration only sent by mail. |
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