You can use this list to carry out a final check of your submission before you send it to the journal for review. Ensure that the following items are present:

One author has been designated as the corresponding author with contact details:

• E-mail address

• Full postal address

All necessary files have been uploaded:

 

The manuscript should follow this format. Please download here.

Manuscript

• Include keywords

• All figures (include relevant captions)

• All tables (including titles, description, footnotes)

• Ensure all figure and table citations in the text match the files provided

• Indicate clearly if color should be used for any figures in print

• Graphical Abstracts / Highlights files (if applicable)

• Supplemental files (if applicable)

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Formatting requirements

• Manuscripts should be submitted as a Word document. The entire manuscript file, including the abstract, experimental section, results and discussion, references and footnotes, must be formatted as single-column, double-spaced text.

• The document must be typed in Arial, 12 point, regular, fully justified, normal. Italicize any words that should appear in italics. Don’t use the tab key to indent blocks of text such as paragraphs of quotes or lists.

• Fonts and Typography: The Symbol font (rather than the normal text font) must be used for Greek letters and mathematical symbols.

• Abbreviations: If abbreviations are used in the text either they should be defined in the text where first used, or a list of abbreviations can be provided.

• Manuscripts must contain the essential elements needed to convey your manuscript, for example Abstract, Keywords, Introduction, Materials and Methods, Results and Discussion, Conclusions, Artwork and Tables with Captions.

• Pages and lines should be consecutively numbered throughout the manuscript to ease the review process. The word limit for the papers is 7000 in maximum (Typically 4000-6000 words).

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Figures and tables embedded in text

Please ensure the figures and the tables placed in the bottom of the manuscript, rather than placed between the texts. The figure caption should be listed end of the manuscript. Tables must be prepared and submitted in word format (not as Figure). The figures should be of high resolution (300 dpi minimum for photos, 800 dpi minimum for graphs, drawings, etc., at the size the figure will be printed). Numbers and symbols incorporated in the figure must be large enough to be legible after reduction in figure size. Papers should include a maximum of 10 figures, with any additional figures submitted as supplementary data.

Manuscripts not conforming to the above guidelines are liable to returned to the authors for correction.

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Proofs.

Authors will be provided galleys for proofing, which must be returned with any corrections, within one week. No new material corrections will be allowed on proofs.

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Submission of Manuscript

Before submission please check your manuscript by the checklist.

All submissions to The Environment can be made via email: environmentjournalm@gmail.com

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Publishing charge

The Environment publishes papers without page or color charges to authors.

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