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.
The work/manuscript submitted is free of plagiarism and authors have not committed publication ethics violations.
The submission has not been previously published, nor is it before another journal for consideration (or an explanation has been provided in Comments to the Editor).
The submission file is in OpenOffice, Microsoft Word, or RTF document file format.
Where available, URLs for the references have been provided.
The manuscript has been written according to the provided template; and all illustrations, figures, and tables are placed within the text at the appropriate points, rather than at the end.
The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the manuscript template provided.
The Article has been structured according to the template
Author Guidelines
Prior to submitting your work to Sustinere: Journal of Environment and Sustainability, please make sure your topic is within our scopes.
Manuscript Preparation
Language
Sustinere publishes scientific manuscripts in good English (either American or British but not a mixture of them). Authors who wish to use proofreading or editing services to improve their manuscripts may contact professional language service providers.
Declaration of Submission
Authors must write a cover letter to be submitted together with the manuscript. In this letter author is required to declare that the manuscript being submitted is free of plagiarism, is not under consideration for publication elsewhere and has not been published before. The letter must also state that the article publication is approved by all authors and/or responsible authorities where the work was carried out.
Manuscript template
The manuscript must be written in accordance with the Sustinere’s template. The formatting standard for text, figures, tables, references etc., is described in the provided template. Download the template here.
As Sustinere welcomes original communication (research paper), reviews, discussion papers, letter to editor and short communications, the length of word count could range from 3,000 to 7,000 words. However, 8,000 to 10,000 words manuscript will be considered, depends on the type of manuscript.
General communication or research paper is an academic writing where author reports the research that includes background, methods and finding. It normally 4,000-7,000 word-long. Review is a scientific writing of literature of a specific issue that contains a critical and constructive analysis of literature. It can be a summary, classification, analysis and comparison. The length of a review is similar to or longer than general communication. A review with 8,000 to 10,000 word-long will be considered. Discussion paper is an academic writing that discusses specific issues. This type of manuscript should be supported by scientific evidence of issues being debated and contains no more than 8,000 words. Short communication is a concise report of research that is written no longer than 3,000 words. The main aim of short communication is to disseminate the issue or research report as fast as possible.
Submission of Paper
All manuscripts should be submitted electronically through Sustinere’s Open Journal System that can be accessed at http://sustinerejes.com Authors are required to register prior submission. Please refer to OJS for Author if you find difficulties in registration and submission process.
Authorship
Authorship Changing
Before the accepted manuscript is published in an online issue, requests to add/remove/rearrange the author names must be sent by the corresponding author of the accepted manuscript to the Journal Manager and must include: (a) the reason of this changing (b) written confirmation (e-mail, fax, or letter) from all authors that they agree with the changing. Please note that publication of the accepted manuscript in an online issue is suspended until authorship changing has been agreed. After the accepted manuscript is published in an online issue, requests for authorship changing will not be accepted.
Multiple Authorship
If requested, we can provide multiple first-authorship if more than one authors have contributed equally to a paper. In that case, a footnote will be added to the author names and an explanation will be given.
Copyright
Sustinere has the right for first publication; the works submitted here must never have been published elsewhere before. All the works published in this journal is under Creative Common with Attribution-Share Alike (CC BY-CA) licensing. Learn more about this license here.
Author’s Right
Author and author’s institutions have the right to reuse the manuscript.
Publication Ethics
Sustinere committed to practicing a sound publication ethics and requested authors to be aware and comply with the International Standards for Author.
