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2025年5月22日星期四
Guide for Authors
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INTRODUCTION
Types of Paper
Contributions falling into the following categories will be considered for publication: full-length articles/research papers, review articles, short communications, editorials and short reviews. Please ensure that you select the appropriate article type from the list of options when making your submission. Authors contributing to special issues should ensure that they select the special issue article type from this list.
BEFORE YOU BEGIN
Ethics in publishing
Please see our information on Ethics in publishing.
Regional Sustainability (electronic ISSN 2666-660X) and its Publisher, Elsevier, are dedicated to following best practices on ethical matters, errors, and retractions. The prevention of publication malpractice is one of the important responsibilities of the Editorial Board. Any kind of unethical behavior is not acceptable, and the Editorial Board of this journal does not tolerate plagiarism in any form. Authors submitting articles to the Regional Sustainability affirm that manuscript contents are original.
The Editors and Editor-in-Chief evaluate submitted manuscripts exclusively on the basis of their academic merit (importance, originality, studies validity, clarity) and its relevance to the journal's scope, without regard to the authors' race, gender, sexual orientation, ethnic origin, citizenship, religious belief, political philosophy or institutional affiliation. Decisions to edit and publish are not determined by the policies of governments or any other agencies outside of the journal itself. The Editor-in-Chief has full authority over the entire editorial content of the journal and the timing of publication of that content.
Editors, authors, and reviewers will also adhere to the Regional Sustainability submission guideline policies:
Duties of Editors
1. Publication Decisions: Based on the review report, the Editors have complete responsibility and authority to accept, reject or request modifications to the manuscript.
2. Review of Manuscripts: Each Editor must ensure that each manuscript is initially evaluated by the Editors and Editor-in-Chief for originality, making use of appropriate software to do so. Those manuscripts that meet the criteria for peer review are passed on to one of the Associate Editors to invite at least 2 expert reviewers to blind peer review the manuscripts.
3. Fair Review: The Editors must ensure that each manuscript submitted to the Regional Sustainability is reviewed for its intellectual content without regard to sex, gender, race, religion, citizenship, etc. of the authors.
4. Confidentiality: The Editors must ensure that information regarding manuscripts submitted by the authors is kept confidential.
5. Disclosure and Conflicts of Interest: The Editors of Regional Sustainability shall not use unpublished materials disclosed in a submitted manuscript for his/her own research without the written consent of the author.
6. Errata Information: The Editors must publish errata pages or make corrections when needed.
7. Ethical Guidelines: The Editors shall ensure that all research materials they publish conforms to internationally accepted ethical guidelines.
8. Proof of Misconduct: The Editors should not reject papers based on suspicions, but they should have proof of misconduct.
9. Accountability: Editors should attend four annual meetings through video conferences or virtual communications and make suggestion on journal policy and scope, including suggest ideas, new initiatives and programs if necessary. They may review submitted manuscripts, identify topics for special issues or attract new authors and submissions if necessary.
MORE ON ETHICS IN PUBLISHING
Submissions to KeAi journals are automatically screened using iThenticate's CrossCheck within the editorial system to detect instances of overlapping and similar text in submitted manuscripts. Details can be found here.
Ethics approval and consent to participate
Manuscripts reporting studies involving human participants, human data or human tissue must:
Include a statement on ethics approval and consent (even where the need for approval was waived)
Include the name of the ethics committee that approved the study and the committee's reference number if appropriate
All materials must adhere to high ethical and animal welfare standards. Any use of animals must be based on ethological knowledge and respect for species-specific requirements for health and well-being. A statement indicating that the protocol and procedures employed were ethically reviewed and approved, and the name of the body giving approval, must be included in the Methods section of the manuscript.
Consent for publication:
If your research or manuscript contains any individual person's data in any form (including any individual details, images or videos), consent for publication must be obtained from that person, or in the case of children, their parent or legal guardian. All presentations of case reports must have consent for publication.
Declaration of competing interest
All authors must disclose any financial and personal relationships with other people or organizations that could inappropriately influence (bias) their work. Examples of potential conflicts of interest include employment, consultancies, stock ownership, honoraria, paid expert testimony, patent applications/registrations, and grants or other funding. Authors should complete the declaration of competing interest statement using this template and upload to the submission system at the Attach/Upload Files step. Note: Please do not convert the .docx template to another file type. Author signatures are not required. If there are no interests to declare, please choose the first option in the template. More information.
SUBMISSION DECLARATION AND VERIFICATION
Submission of an article implies that the work described has not been published previously (except in the form of an abstract or as part of a published lecture or academic thesis or as an electronic preprint,see Multiple, redundant or concurrent publication for more information, that it is not under consideration for publication elsewhere, that its publication is approved by all authors and tacitly or explicitly by the responsible authorities where the work was carried out, and that, if accepted, it will not be published elsewhere in the same form, in English or in any other language, including electronically without the written consent of the copyright-holder. To verify originality, your article may be checked by the originality detection service CrossCheck.
Changes to Authorship
This policy concerns the addition, deletion, or rearrangement of author names in the authorship of accepted manuscripts:
Before the accepted manuscript is published in an online issue: Requests to add or remove an author, or to rearrange the author names, must be sent to the Journal Manager from the corresponding author of the accepted manuscript and must include: (a) the reason the name should be added or removed, or the author names rearranged and (b) written confirmation (e-mail, fax, letter) from all authors that they agree with the addition, removal or rearrangement. In the case of addition or removal of authors, this includes confirmation from the author being added or removed. Requests that are not sent by the corresponding author will be forwarded by the Journal Manager to the corresponding author, who must follow the procedure as described above. Note that:
Journal Managers will inform the Journal Editors of any such requests and
publication of the accepted manuscript in an online issue is suspended until authorship has been agreed.
After the accepted manuscript is published in an online issue: Any requests to add, delete, or rearrange author names in an article published in an online issue will follow the same policies as noted above and result in a corrigendum.
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