Author guidelines

Author Guidelines

Before you Begin

During the process of conducting research and publishing it, it is of great importance for an author, alongside all parties involved, to strictly adhere to codes of conduct relevant to existing regulatory bodies. As the quality and integrity of the work displayed directly mirrors that of the institution/author associated with it, publishing ethically is one thing to consider throughout the process.

International Journal of Environmental Science Sustainable Development has listed its guidelines for authors, for editors, and for reviewers. It outlines ethical issues or misconduct cases that could arise when submitting a manuscript and should be made familiar to an author.

Copyright

The ESSD journal is an open access journal. In other words, all published material will be immediately available for the public to read and download free of any charges. To publish, the journal has specific fees to be paid by the author(s) or on their behalf.

Authors, publishers and the research community/public are all closely governed by a set of guidelines in their use, distribution and publishing of articles as follows:

Author Rights
After communication of the final acceptance of an article, authors are required to carefully read and sign a publishing agreement, to be communicated upon acceptance notice, pinpointing the rights granted to the author and publisher by publishing the submitted article. In this case, authors are agreed to be given copyrights for the article but license exclusive rights to the publisher as well. Resale or distribution of the published material is only possible if permission is granted by the publisher.
Similarly, if the submitted manuscript includes works from a copyrighted material, permission must be granted and the source referenced/credited. More information on copyrights will be found within the license agreement. This agreement is to ensure that the author’s submitted work has not been previously published and is not under consideration for publication in another journal.

Publisher Rights
Rights given to IEREK Press over the published material is as follows:
- publish the article and distribute for commercial purposes
- grant rights to others for commercial purposes
- publish the article on its online platforms
- provide/generate the article in all forms, if needed, to allow its use on latest technology
- promote the published material and index it in the appropriate databases to provide it visibility
- enforce rights against third parties in the cases of breaches

Copyright Notice

The Author shall grant to the Publisher and its agents the nonexclusive perpetual right and license to publish, archive, and make accessible the Work in whole or in part in all forms of media now or hereafter known under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License or its equivalent, which, for the avoidance of doubt, allows others to copy, distribute, and transmit the Work under the following conditions:

Attribution: other users must attribute the Work in the manner specified by the author as indicated on the journal Web site;

With the understanding that the above condition can be waived with permission from the Author and that where the Work or any of its elements is in the public domain under applicable law, that status is in no way affected by the license.

The Author is able to enter into separate, additional contractual arrangements for the nonexclusive distribution of the journal's published version of the Work (e.g., post it to an institutional repository or publish it in a book), as long as there is provided in the document an acknowledgement of its initial publication in this journal.
Authors are permitted and encouraged to post online a pre-publication manuscript (but not the Publisher's final formatted PDF version of the Work) in institutional repositories or on their Websites prior to and during the submission process, as it can lead to productive exchanges, as well as earlier and greater citation of published work (see The Effect of Open Access). Any such posting made before acceptance and publication of the Work shall be updated upon publication to include a reference to the Publisher-assigned DOI (Digital Object Identifier) and a link to the online abstract for the final published Work in the Journal.
Upon Publisher's request, the Author agrees to furnish promptly to Publisher, at the Author's own expense, written evidence of the permissions, licenses, and consents for use of third-party material included within the Work, except as determined by Publisher to be covered by the principles of Fair Use.
The Author represents and warrants that:

The Work is the Author's original work;
The Author has not transferred, and will not transfer, exclusive rights in the Work to any third party;
The Work is not pending review or under consideration by another publisher;
The Work has not previously been published;
The Work contains no misrepresentation or infringement of the Work or property of other authors or third parties; and
The Work contains no libel, invasion of privacy, or other unlawful matter.

The Author agrees to indemnify and hold Publisher harmless from Author's breach of the representations and warranties contained in Paragraph 7 above, as well as any claim or proceeding relating to Publisher's use and publication of any content contained in the Work, including third-party content.

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

Submission Checklist

Before you submit, make sure that:

You’ve read the journal’s instructions for authors.
You’ve closely followed the writing template(s) provided.
All authors have been named on the paper, and the online submission form.
All material has been referenced in the text and in the References List clearly and thoroughly, even if it is your own.
You’ve obtained permission to reuse any figures, tables, and data sets if needed.
You have not submitted work that has been previously, or partly, published before.
You’ve only submitted the paper to one journal at a time.
The article has been checked for proper grammar and spelling.
You’ve notified all the co-authors that the paper has been submitted.

For more instructions on how to submit your manuscript onto our system, easily read through and follow our journal submission instructions.

Privacy Statement

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.

Plagiarism Policy

When citing others’ (or your own) previous work, please ensure you have:

Clearly marked quoted verbatim text ("") from another source with quotation marks.
Attributed and referenced the source of the quotation clearly using in-text citation and a reference is your bibliography.
Got approval from an author of another source in case of taking any material from his/her manuscript.

Before you submit, make sure that: