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1、该刊只有国际刊号。
2、投稿方式：在线投稿。
3、官网网址（主办单位微信公众信息）：
https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/ebes-sustainable-building
https://www.keaipublishing.com/en/journals/ebes-sustainable-building/
4、投稿系统：
https://www.editorialmanager.com/ebesb/default2.aspx
5、出刊日期：季刊，逢季末月出版。
6、承办单位微信公众号：哈尔滨工业大学建筑与设计学院
2026年5月6日星期三
Guide for authors
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About the journal
Aims and scope
EBES Sustainable Building is an international academic journal focused on sustainable development. It publishes original research and review articles covering the entire lifecycle of buildings, including design, construction, operation, renovation, and demolition. The journal aims to introduce new sustainable architectural concepts, research findings, proven methods, tools, and practices that use intelligent approaches to improve energy and material efficiency, reduce environmental impact, and ensure the health and comfort of occupants. Additionally, the journal serves as an interdisciplinary forum to explore the application of green materials and high-performance equipment in buildings.
This journal contains four sections:
Section A（Building energy saving）
- Passive Building Design: Methods, technologies, tools, and practical applications of passive building design.
- Energy-efficient Building Operations: Methods, technologies, tools, and practical applications for energy-efficient building operations.
- Renewable Energy Utilization: Methods, technologies, and practical applications for integrating renewable energy in buildings.
Section B（Green Building Materials）
- Recycled Materials in Construction: Methods, technologies, and practical applications for the use of recycled materials in buildings.
- Environmental Impact Assessment of Building Materials: Methods and integration with architectural design.
- High-performance Building Materials: Methods and practical applications for the use of high-performance materials in buildings.
- Photovoltaic and Photothermal Materials: Methods and practical applications for the integration of photovoltaic and photothermal materials in buildings.
Section C（Intelligent Design）
- Building Information Modeling (BIM) and Digital Twins: Methods, technologies, tools, and practical applications for BIM and digital twins.
- Computational Design: Methods, technologies, tools, and practical applications for computational design.
- AI-assisted Design: Methods, technologies, tools, and practical applications for AI participation in design.
- Human-Centric and Adaptive Design: Methods, technologies, tools, and practical applications for user-centered design.
- IoT Data Integration in Building and Systems Design: Methods, technologies, tools, and practical applications for integrating IoT data.
- Interactive Building Design: Methods and practical applications for interactive building design.
Section D（Building Carbon Footprint）
- Carbon Footprint Assessment: Methods, technologies, tools, and practical applications for carbon footprint evaluation.
- Low-carbon Design: Methods, technologies, tools, and practical applications for low-carbon architectural design.
- Carbon Management in Construction and Operation Phases: Methods, technologies, tools, and practical applications for managing carbon emissions during construction and building operation.
Peer review
This journal follows a double anonymized review process. Your submission will initially be assessed by our editors to determine suitability for publication in this journal. If your submission is deemed suitable, it will typically be sent to a minimum of two reviewers for an independent expert assessment of the scientific quality. The decision as to whether your article is accepted or rejected will be taken by our editors. This decision is final.
Our editors are not involved in making decisions about papers which:
they have written themselves.
have been written by family members or colleagues.
relate to products or services in which they have an interest.
Any such submissions will be subject to the journal's usual procedures and peer review will be handled independently of the editor involved and their research group.
All manuscripts are reviewed by the editorial office. Any papers which fail to meet the basic standards of the journal will be desk-rejected for reasons like out of scope, ethical conflicts, high similarities, lack of originality, flaws in research design or methods, etc. The editorial office will reassign selected papers to the Editor-in-chief.
The Editor-in-chief will invite multiple reviewers to review the paper or assign an editorial board member to invite reviewers to review this paper.
After at least two reviewers give their reviews and comments, the Editor-in-chief (or the assigned Editor) provides feedback to the authors, based on reviewer comments and his own review comments.
When the author submits the revised manuscript, the assigned editor and Editor-in-chief will collaborate to make a final decision.
For submissions from the Editor-in-Chief, Associate Editors, Guest Editor(s), other journal Board members, and authors who have conflicts of interest with them, we ensure that the paper is handled confidentially by a different team member.
For submissions to Special Issues; if there are conflicts of interest between the Guest Editor(s) and authors, the submissions will be handled by another Editor from the Editorial Board who will manage the peer review process and make the decision whether to accept or reject the paper after peer review.
Read more about peer review.
KeAi Guide for authors: Open Access
This is an open access journal: all articles will be immediately and permanently free for everyone to read and download. To provide open access, this journal has an open access fee (also known as an article publishing charge APC) which needs to be paid by the authors or on their behalf e.g. by their research funder or institution. Permitted third party (re)use is defined by the following Creative Commons user licenses.
Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY)
Allows users to: distribute and copy the article; create extracts, abstracts, and other revised versions, adaptations or derivative works of or from an article (such as a translation); include in a collective work (such as an anthology); and text or data mine the article. These uses are permitted even for commercial purposes, provided the user: gives appropriate credit to the author(s) (with a link to the formal publication through the relevant DOI); includes a link to the license; indicates if changes were made; and does not represent the author(s) as endorsing the adaptation of the article or modify the article in such a way as to damage the authors' honor or reputation.
Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs (CC BY-NC-ND)
Allows users to: distribute and copy the article; and include in a collective work (such as an anthology). These uses are permitted only for non-commercial purposes, and provided the user: gives appropriate credit to the author(s) (with a link to the formal publication through the relevant DOI); provides a link to the license; and does not alter or modify the article.
If you need to comply with your funding body policy you can apply for a CC BY license after your manuscript is accepted for publication.
Article Publishing Charge (APC)
As an open access journal with no subscription charges, a fee (Article Publishing Charge, APC) is payable by the authors, or their institution or funders, to cover the costs associated with publication. This ensures your article will be immediately and permanently free to access by everyone.
Ethics and policies
Ethics in publishing
Authors must follow ethical guidelines stated in Elsevier's Publishing Ethics Policy.
Submission declaration
When authors submit an article to a journal it is implied that:
the work described has not been published previously except in the form of a preprint, an abstract, a published lecture or academic thesis. See our policy on multiple, redundant or concurrent publication.
the article is not under consideration for publication elsewhere.
the article’s publication is approved by all authors and tacitly or explicitly by the responsible authorities where the work was carried out.
if accepted, the article 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.
Submissions to KeAi journals are automatically screened using iThenticate's CrossCheck within the editorial system to detect plagiarism issues including instances of overlapping and similar text in submitted manuscripts. Details can be found here. High similarity papers will be desk rejected.
ORCiD ID: Our journal supports the use of ORCiD ID. Authors are encouraged to provide ORCiD ID at submission.
Authorship
All authors should have made substantial contributions to all of the following:
The conception and design of the study, or acquisition of data, or analysis and interpretation of data
Drafting the article or revising it critically for important intellectual content.
Final approval of the version to be submitted.
All authors are accountable for all aspects of the work, to ensure that questions related to the accuracy or integrity of any part of the work are appropriately investigated and resolved.
Authors should appoint a single corresponding author to communicate with the journal during the editorial process. This individual submits the manuscript and all required documentation to the journal, and serves as the primary contact between the journal and the co-authors. Only the corresponding author’s affiliation will be used to determine eligibility for a publishing agreement, and possible discounts related to it. Affiliations of other co-authors are not relevant for eligibility.
Changes to authorship
The editors of this journal generally will not consider changes to authorship once a manuscript has been submitted. It is important that authors carefully consider the authorship list and order of authors and provide a definitive author list at submission.
The policy of this journal around authorship changes:
All authors must be listed in the manuscript and their details entered into the submission system. Changes can only be made prior to acceptance, and only if approved by the journal editor. This includes additions, deletion, or rearrangement of author names.
Requests to change authorship must be made by the corresponding author using the Authorship Change Request form. The corresponding author must provide the reason for the request to the journal editor with written confirmation from all authors, including any authors being added or removed, that they agree with the changes. Requests which do not comply with the instructions outlined in the form will not be considered.
This journal does not allow authorship changes after acceptance. This includes additions, deletions, or the rearrangement of author names, including changes to the corresponding author.
The review process may be paused while a change in authorship request is being considered.
Change requests made by the authors without the Authorship Change Request form or editor approval may result in the rejection of the manuscript, or retraction if the article has already been published.
Declaration of competing interests
All authors must disclose any financial and personal relationships with other people or organizations that could inappropriately influence or bias their work. Examples of potential competing interests include:
Employment
Consultancies
Stock ownership
Honoraria
Paid expert testimony
Patent applications or registrations
Grants or any other funding
Affiliation with the journal as an Editor or Advisory Board Member
The declarations tool should always be completed.
Authors with a journal affiliation to declare should enter the following text under “Other Activities” within the declarations tool and should inform the journal and publisher prior to completing the submission process: Given their role as [insert journal role title], [insert your name] had no involvement in the peer-review of this article and has no access to information regarding its peer-review. Full responsibility for the editorial process for this article was delegated to another journal editor.
Authors with no competing interests to declare should select the option "I have nothing to declare".
The resulting Word document containing your declaration should be uploaded at the "attach/upload files" step in the submission process. It is important that the Word document is saved in the .doc/.docx file format. Author signatures are not required.
For transparency, for manuscripts submitted after January 1, 2026, all authors are requested to also disclose any potential conflict of interest including any employment, funding or other relationships with other people or organizations within three years of beginning the submitted work that could inappropriately influence, or be perceived to influence, their work. See also https://www.elsevier.com/conflictsofinterest.
Funding sources
Authors must disclose any funding sources who provided financial support for the conduct of the research and/or preparation of the article. The role of sponsors, if any, should be declared in relation to the study design, collection, analysis and interpretation of data, writing of the report and decision to submit the article for publication. If funding sources had no such involvement this should be stated in your submission.
List funding sources in this standard way to facilitate compliance to funder's requirements:
Funding: This work was supported by the National Institutes of Health [grant numbers xxxx, yyyy]; the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Seattle, WA [grant number zzzz]; and the United States Institutes of Peace [grant number aaaa].
It is not necessary to include detailed descriptions on the program or type of grants, scholarships and awards. When funding is from a block grant or other resources available to a university, college, or other research institution, submit the name of the institute or organization that provided the funding.
If no funding has been provided for the research, it is recommended to include the following sentence:
This research did not receive any specific grant from funding agencies in the public, commercial, or not-for-profit sectors.
Declaration of generative AI in scientific writing
Authors are encouraged to declare the use of generative AI in scientific writing upon submission of the paper. The following guidance refers only to the writing process, and not to the use of AI tools to analyse and draw insights from data as part of the research process:
Generative AI and AI-assisted technologies should only be used in the writing process to improve the readability and language of the manuscript.
The technology must be applied with human oversight and control and authors should carefully review and edit the result, as AI can generate authoritative-sounding output that can be incorrect, incomplete or biased. Authors are ultimately responsible and accountable for the contents of the work.
Authors must not list or cite AI and AI-assisted technologies as an author or co-author on the manuscript since authorship implies responsibilities and tasks that can only be attributed to and performed by humans.
The use of generative AI and AI-assisted technologies in scientific writing can be declared by adding a statement at the end of the manuscript when the paper is first submitted. The statement will appear in the published work and should be placed in a new section before the references list. An example:
Title of new section: Declaration of generative AI and AI-assisted technologies in the writing process.
Statement: During the preparation of this work the author(s) used [NAME TOOL / SERVICE] in order to [REASON]. After using this tool/service, the author(s) reviewed and edited the content as needed and take(s) full responsibility for the content of the published article.
The declaration does not apply to the use of basic tools, such as tools used to check grammar, spelling and references. If you have nothing to disclose, you do not need to add a statement.
We advise you to read our policy for authors on the use of generative AI and AI-assisted technologies for Elsevier.
Please note: to protect authors’ rights and the confidentiality of their research, this journal does not currently allow the use of Generative AI or AI-assisted technologies such as ChatGPT or similar services by reviewers or editors in the peer review and manuscript evaluation process. We are actively evaluating compliant AI tools and may revise this policy in the future.
Preprint sharing
Authors may share preprints in line with Elsevier's article sharing policy. Sharing preprints, such as on a preprint server, will not count as prior publication.
We advise you to read our policy on multiple, redundant or concurrent publication.
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