Manuscript Submission Guidelines:
Waste Management & Research: The Journal for a Sustainable Circular Economy (WM&R) satisfies the growing demand for scientifically based essential information that can be utilised by waste management professionals in academia, government, industry, engineering, management, planning, and public health.
WM&R is a fully peer reviewed international journal that publishes original research and review articles relating to both the theory and practice of waste management and research. In this regard, Editors are obliged to avoid acceptance of plagiarized manuscripts. Instead the Editorial Group seeks to promote innovation and provide a bridge between academic studies and practical problems. Articles should address problems and solutions that are of general interest to the readers.
Waste Management & Research strongly encourages authors to include additional materials alongside their articles. These may take the form of datasets, images, graphical abstracts, tables, audio, and video. For more information on submitting supplementary files, please refer to these guidelines here.
WM&R also encourages authors to share their research data in a suitable public repository subject to ethical considerations and where data is included, to add a data accessibility statement in their manuscript file. Authors should also follow data citation principles. For more information please visit the Research Data Sharing Policies, which includes information about SAGE’s partnership with the data repository Figshare.
WM&R also offers optional open access publishing via the SAGE Choice programme. The Article Processing Charge (APC) is $3,000, however, you may be eligible for a discount. For more information please visit the SAGE Choice website. For information on funding body compliance, and depositing your article in repositories, please visit SAGE Publishing Policies on our Journal Author Gateway.
Guidance for the preparation and submission of your manuscript is given below. More detail is available by using the links provided in the text where appropriate.
1. Preparing your manuscript
1.1 Manuscript peer reviewing and acceptance policy
All manuscripts are reviewed initially at the Editorial Office and then by the Associate Editors. Only manuscripts that meet the scientific and editorial standards, and fit within the Aims and Scope of the journal, will be sent for outside peer review. Each manuscript that is sent for peer review is reviewed by a minimum of two independent reviewers.
Be advised that WM&R receives many manuscripts. In order to offer both peer reviewers and editors fair and reasonable workloads, manuscripts uploaded by authors must comply strictly with the WM&R manuscript guidelines, for example in terms of substance, structure and language.
WM&R operates a single-blind reviewing policy in which the peer reviewers’ names are always concealed from the submitting author. Authors are requested to suggest the names, affiliations and contact information of five individuals who may suitably serve as peer reviewers (also known as referees). The suggested reviewers should preferably represent international expertise, and not in any way be associated to the authors or the reported work. The Editors are under no obligation to use all or any of these individuals as reviewers.
1.2 Manuscript Format
All Tables and Figures should form part of the submitted manuscript. They should not be submitted separately. Characters specified below include Tables and Figures, but not References.
•Review articles: Between 70,000 and 80,000 characters (with spaces), including up to 10 illustrations and/or tables. A review article presents a critical evaluation of information that has already been published, and considers the progress of current research toward clarifying a stated problem or topic. It should meet both of the following criteria:
◦Cite at least 100 references; and
◦Review must appear as a word in the title, and the abstract must state that it is a review article
•Mini-review articles: Between 40,000 and 50,000 characters (with spaces), including up to 7 illustrations and/or tables. A mini-review article presents a critical evaluation of information that has already been published in a topic related to waste management, and considers the progress of current research toward clarifying a stated problem or topic. It should meet both of the following criteria:
◦Cite at least 50 references; and
◦Mini-review must appear as a word in the title, and the abstract must state that it is a mini-review article
•Original articles: Between 25,000 and 35,000 characters (with spaces), including up to 7 illustrations and/or tables. An original article presents new information on a specific waste management and research topic or problem. Novel concepts, proven results and interesting perspectives for waste management in theory or practice and evidence of thorough literature research are important criteria when considering acceptability for peer review.
•Short communications: Between 10,000 and 15,000 characters (with spaces), including up to 4 illustrations and/or tables. A short communication would typically describe topical and/or innovative preliminary data in the field of waste management which may be of interest to an international professional audience and that is deemed worthy of expedited publication.
•Letters to the Editor: Between 3,000 and 3,500 characters (with spaces), including (optional) one figure or table. Letters to the editor must be concise and specific and relate to an already published article in WM&R or to the journal’s operations. Letters to the Editor should be sent directly to the Editor-in-chief (agamuthu@um.edu.my) and copied to the WMR Editorial Office (wmr@iswa.org).
•Editorials: Between 8,000 and 9,000 characters (with spaces), including (optional) one figure or table. Editorials address topics that editors or invited guest editors deem of particular concern or general interest.
Authors are asked to prepare their manuscript in Arial 12 point font. Further details on format, layout, and structure are outlined below.
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