Article Submissions

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Guidelines for Authors

Manuscripts have to be double-spaced with one-inch margins. Headings must be used to designate the major divisions of the paper. To facilitate the review process, manuscripts should contain page and line numbering.

Manuscripts must be written in English. Authors whose native language is not English are strongly advised to have their manuscript checked by a language editing service, or by an English mother-tongue colleague prior to submission.

The first page must contain: i) title (lowercase), without acronyms; ii) first name and family name of each author, separated by commas; iii) affiliation(s) of each author; iv) acknowledgments; v) full name and full postal address of the corresponding author. Phone, fax number and e-mail address for the correspondence should also be included; vi) three to five key words.

The second page should contain: i) authors’ contributions, e.g., information about the contributions of each person named as having participated in the study; ii) disclosures about potential conflict of interests; iii) further information (e.g., funding, conference presentation ...). If tables are used, they should be double-spaced on separate pages. They should be numbered and cited in the text of the manuscript.

If figures are used, they must be submitted as .jpg files, with the following digital resolution: i) color (saved as CMYK): minimum 300 dpi; ii) black and white/grays: minimum 600 dpi; iii) one column width (8.5 cm) or 2 column widths (17.5 cm). A different caption for each figure must be provided at the end of the manuscript, not included in the figure file.

If abbreviations are used in the text, authors are required to write full name+abbreviation in brackets [e.g. Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD)] the first time they are used, then only abbreviations can be written (apart from titles; in this case authors have to write always the full name).

Articles need to be in MS Word format with file extension .doc or .docx, PDF and others cannot be accepted.

Research Articles (3500 words max, abstract 180 words max, 30 references max, 3/5 tables and/or figures): In general, this kind of publication should be divided into an Abstract, Introduction, Materials and Methods, Results, Discussion, Conclusions and References.

Analysis Articles (Including Meta-analysis & surveys) (3500 words max, abstract 180 words max, 30 references max, 3/5 tables and/or figures): In general, this kind of publication should be divided into an Abstract, Introduction, Materials and Methods, Results, Discussion, Conclusions and References.

Reviews / perspectives (4000 words max, abstract 250 words max, minimum 40 references, 3/5 tables and/or figures): They should be introduced by a general summary of content in the form of an Abstract. Following a short introduction, putting the study into context and defining the aim, reviews will concentrate on the most recent developments in the field. A review should clearly describe the search strategy followed (key words, inclusion, exclusion criteria, search engines, ...). No particular format is required; headings should be used to designate the major divisions of the paper.

Reports / Communication / Case Study (about 2000 words, abstract 150 words max, 20 references max, 3 tables and/or figures): Short reports of results from original researches. They should be introduced by a general summary of content in the form of an Abstract. They must provide conclusive findings: preliminary observations or incomplete findings cannot be considered for publication.

Method Articles (about 2000 words, abstract 150 words max, 10 references max, 3 tables and/or figures). They must provide conclusive findings: preliminary observations or incomplete findings cannot be considered for publication. These articles describe a new experimental or computational method, test or procedure, and should have been well tested. This includes new study methods, substantive modifications to existing methods or innovative applications of existing methods to new models or scientific questions.

References

The references should be in Roman script {examples (Seenivasagam, 2018), (Seenivasagam and Ishaan, 2018), (Seenivasagam et al., 2018)}. Numeric referencing style {example [3], [7] } cannot be accepted for publication. References to personal communications and unpublished data should be incorporated in the text and not placed under the numbered references [Example: (Wright 2011, unpublished data) or (Wright 2011, personal communication)]. Where available, URLs for the references should be provided directly within the MS-Word document.

References in the References section must be prepared as follows:
i) more than three authors, cite 3 authors, et al. If the paper has only 4 authors, cite all authors (a few journals cite 6 authors, et al.;)
ii) title style: sentence case; please use a capital letter only for the first word of the title;
iii) journal titles mentioned in the References list should be abbreviated according to the following website:
  ISI Journal Abbreviations Index (http://library.caltech.edu/reference/abbreviations/);
iv) put year after the journal name;
v) never put month and day in the last part of the references;
vi) cite only the volume (not the issue in brackets);
vii) pages have to be abbreviated, e.g., 351-8.

Examples:

Journal article

Al-Awadi NA. Gas Phase pyrolytic reaction. J. Chem. Soc. 1990: 2: 2179-89.

Proceedings

Waked A. Energy conversion measures in Kuwaiti buildings. Proceedings of the First Regional Symposium in Thermal Insulation in the Gulf States. Kuwait Institute for Scientific Research, Kuwait. 1980. pp 182-91.

Books

Verklig AJ, Schat H. Mechanisms of metal tolerance in plants. In: Shaw, A.J. (Ed.). Heavy Metal Tolerance in Plants. CRC Press, Boca Raton: 1990. pp 179-193

Submission Preparation Checklist

As part of the submission process, authors are required to check off their submission's compliance with all of the following items, and submissions may be returned to authors that do not adhere to these guidelines.

1. The submission has not been previously published, nor is it before another journal for consideration (or an explanation has been provided in Comments to the Editor field).
2. Articles need to be in MS Word format with file extension .doc or .docx, PDF and others cannot be accepted.
3. We fight plagiarism: please understand that your article will be checked with available tools for discovering plagiarism.
4. The text is double-spaced; uses a 12-point font; employs italics, rather than underlining (except with URL addresses); and all illustrations, figures, and tables are placed at the end of the manuscript.
5. The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines, which is found in About the Journal.
6. All published material should be acknowledged and copyright material should be submitted along with the written permission of the copyright holder.
7. Authors are kindly required to suggest at least two potential reviewers (name, affiliation and e-mail) for their manuscript.

Peer review policy

All papers submitted to Climate Change are subject to peer review process. All accepted papers will be suitably edited before publication. The Editorial Board of the journal will immediately screen all articles submitted for publication in that journal. Those articles which fail to reach the scientific standards of the journal may be declined without further review. Those articles which satisfy the requirements of the Editorial Board will be sent to a maximum of three referees. These are experts in the field who have agreed to provide a rapid assessment of the article. Every effort will be made to provide an editorial decision as to acceptance for publication within 4-6 weeks of submission. Referees may request a revision of the article to be made. In this case, it is generally understood that only one revised version can be considered for a further appraisal under the peer-review system.

Copyright Notice

Author(s) will be asked to sign a transfer of copyright agreement, which recognizes the common interest that both journal and author(s) have in the protection of copyright. It will also allow us to tackle copyright infringements ourselves without having to go back to authors each time.

COPYRIGHT TRANSFER AGREEMENT Downloadable form

Article Processing Charge

There is no processing or publishing charge. Its absolutely free. This is because Discovery Scientific Society believes that the interests of the researchers to contribute innovative work in the fields of Engineering can best be served by an immediate, worldwide, unlimited, open access to the full text of research articles.

Article Withdrawal policy

There is no processing or publishing charge. Its absolutely free only, but if the author wish to withdraw the article after the acceptance mail or once we start to process the article, authors are solely responsible for the preparation of the article. For the preparation of the article the author have to pay the penalty fee.
After the publication of the article, if the author ask for correction / modification / retraction the author have to pay the penalty fee 150 USD only. Its mandatory.

To avoid the penalty,

Authors should not submit their article simultaneously to multiple journals. If so happen, authors are solely responsible.
If the authors wish to withdraw the article, the authors have to mail us within 3 working days soon after receiving the acceptance mail.

Publication Ethics

Plagiarism

The Editorial Board of our journal will immediately screen all articles submitted for publication in that journal. Plagiarism is not limited to the Results and Discussion sections; it can involve any part of the manuscript, including figures and tables, in which material is copied from another publication without attestation, reference, or permission. Note that wording does not have to be exact to be copyright infringement; use of very similar words in almost the same sequence can also be infringement. Any suspected misconduct ends up with a quick rejection. We are using the commercial tool Plagiarism Checker X to check the plagiarism.

Redundant or duplicate publication

Duplicate or redundant publication is a publication that overlaps substantially with one already published, in press, or in an electronic media submission.

Duplicate or redundant submission is the same manuscript (or the same data) that is submitted to different journals at the same time. International copyright laws, ethical conduct, and cost effective use of resources require that readers can be assured that what they are reading is original.

Submitted manuscripts should not have been published or currently submitted elsewhere. Duplicate publication is a violation of the APA code of ethics (APA Publication Manual, 2010) and will be grounds for prompt rejection of the submitted manuscript. If the editor was not aware of the violation and the article has been published, a notice of duplicate submission and the ethical violation will be published.

Conflict of Interests

A conflict of interest exists if authors or their institutions have financial or personal relationships with other people or organizations that could inappropriately influence (bias) their actions. A conflict can be actual or potential, and full disclosure to the Editor is absolute requirement. All submissions must include disclosure of all relationships that could be viewed as presenting a potential conflict of interest.

All authors must disclose any financial and personal relationships with other people or organizations that could inappropriately influence (bias) their work. If there are no competing interests in their submitted manuscripts, authors should state so explicitly: "The authors declare that they have no conflict of interest."

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