Pollution

Guide for Authors

Manuscript Submission & Charges

Journal does not charge authors for submission/publication of the manuscript. However, the papers that are submitted by Iranian authors should pay 7.2 million Rials if the paper is accepted for publication. Pollution is an open access journal. Accordingly, readers are allowed to copy, use, distribute, transmit and display the work publicly and to make and distribute derivative works, in any digital medium for any responsible purpose, subject to proper attribution of authorship. Manuscripts should be submitted through this website only (http://jpoll.ut.ac.ir) and Email submissions are not acceptable.

USER LICENSE AGREEMENT

Pollution provides access to archived material through the journal archives. All articles published open access will be immediately and permanently free for everyone to read and download. Permitted reuse is defined by Creative Commons user license called "Creative Common Attribution" (Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)).

Language

The journal's language is English. British English or American English spelling and terminology may be used. We appreciate any efforts that you make to ensure that the language is corrected before submission. This will greatly improve the legibility of your paper if English is not your first language.

Manuscript Presentation

Manuscript should contain titles such as: Abstract, Introduction, Materials & Methods, Results & Discussion, Conclusion, Akcknowledgement and finally References. No other subheadings should be given in the manuscript. Please do not number the headings. The length of the manuscript at 1.5 line spacing should not be more than 18 pages.

Manuscripts should be typewritten with a font Times New Roman of 12 pt, leaving adequate margins on all sides to allow reviewers' remarks. Please double-space all material. Number the pages consecutively with the first page containing:

Title of the Manuscript

Author(s) as :

Names of authors should be written in accordance with the journal format (Please write your ORCID too). Example

Right:- Abdolreza Karbassi, Touraj Nasrabadi and Javad Amiri

Wrong:- Karbassi, A. R., Nasrabadi, T. and Amiri, J.

Write the addresses in proper form. If all the authors are from the same addresses, don’t number them. If they have a different affiliation number the authors. Example

Abdolreza Karbassi, Touraj Nasrabadi, and Javad Amiri

Graduate Faculty of Environment, University of Tehran, P.O.Box 14155-6135, Tehran, Iran

Abdolreza Karbassi¹, Touraj Nasrabadi¹ and Javad Amiri²

¹Graduate Faculty of Environment, University of Tehran, P.O.Box 14155-6135, Tehran, Iran

²Department of Environment, University of Tousi, Mashhad, P.O.Box 12341-2234, Tehran, Iran

Affiliation(s)

Full address for correspondence, including telephone number, fax number, and e-mail address.

Text

The text should include: Title, author(s)' names and addresses, an abstract, keywords, introduction, materials and methods, results and discussion, conclusion, acknowledgement, and references.

Abstract

Please provide a short abstract of 150 to 250 words. The abstract should not contain any undefined abbreviations or references. The abstract should contain the main findings. Include clear objectives, methods, key findings, and implications in the first 250 words

Key words

Please provide 3 to 5 keywords that are not derived from the main title.

Notes

Please avoid notes and footprints.

Introduction

Materials & Methods

Results & Discussion

Conclusion

Acknowledgements

Authors MUST add the following three items before the reference list:-

GRANT SUPPORT DETAILS

IF YES: The present research has been financially supported by ???????? (Grant No.?????).

IF NO: (JUST KEEP THIS SENTENCE.) The present research did not receive any financial support.

CONFLICT OF INTEREST

IF YES: Please indicate…

IF NO: (JUST KEEP THIS SENTENCE.) The authors declare that there is no conflict of interest regarding the publication of this manuscript. In addition, the ethical issues, including plagiarism, informed consent, misconduct, data fabrication and/ or falsification, double publication and/or submission, and redundancy has been completely observed by the authors.

LIFE SCIENCE REPORTING

Authors should clearly report any involvement of hazards, human or animal subjects, patient images, case details, and other materials and information. Their experiments should be performed in compliance with laws and relevant institutional guidelines. When requested, authors should provide the ethics committee with approval documents, consent to release personal information such as images of individuals, and other necessary documents used in the approval process. In addition, it should be stated within the manuscript that proper consent has been obtained for experiments with human subjects.

IF YES: Please indicate…

IF NO: (JUST KEEP THIS SENTENCE.) No life science threat was practiced in this research.

Acknowledgements of people, grants, funds, etc., should be placed in a separate section before the References.

References

All publications cited in the text should be presented in the list of references following the text of the manuscript. In the text, refer to the authors' name (without initials) and year of publication (e. g. Williams, 2004). For three or more authors, use the first author followed by "et al.," in the last. The list of references at the end of the manuscript should be arranged alphabetically by authors' names and chronologically per author. The list of references should be given in the following style (APA style):

1. Journal article:

Deegan, C. (2002). Introduction: The legitimizing effect of social and environmental disclosures – a theoretical foundation. Account. Org. Soc., 15(3), 283-311.

Cormier, D., & Magnan, M. (1999). Corporate environmental disclosure strategies: determinants, costs and benefits. Account. Org. Soc., 14(3), 429–451.

Cormier, D., Magnan, M., & Van Velthoven, B. (2005). Environmental disclosure quality: do firms respond to economic incentives,public pressures or institutional conditions? Account. Org. Soc., 14(1), 1–37.

(Journal names should be indicated in abbreviated forms. You may find the list in

http://www.efm.leeds.ac.uk/~mark/ISIabbr/E_abrvjt.html ).

2. Book chapter:

Cutrona, C. E. and Russell, D. Eds.(1990). Type of social support and specific stress: Towards a theory of optimum matching. (In I.G. Sarason, B. R. Sarason, & G. Pierce (Eds.), Social support: An interactional view (pp. 341-366). New York: Wiley.)

3. Book, authored:
Capland, G. (1964). Principles of preventive psychiatry. (New York: Basic Books)

4. Book, edited:
Felner, R. D., Jason, L. A., Moritsugu, J. N. and Farber, S. S. (Eds.) (1983). Preventive psychology: Theory, research and practice. (New York: Pergamon Press)

5. Paper presented at a conference:
Phelan, J. C., Link, B. G., Stueve, A. and Pescosolido, B. A. (1996, November). Have public conceptions of mental health changed in the past half century? Does it matter? (Paper presented at the 124th. Annual Meeting of the American Public Health Association, New York)

6. Dissertation:
Trent, J.W. (1975) Experimental acute renal failure. Dissertation, University of California

7. Internet publication/Online document

7.1. Internet articles based on a print source
VandenBos, G., Knapp, S., & Doe, J. (2001). Role of reference elements in the selection of resources by psychology undergraduates [Electronic version]. J. Bibliog. Res., 5, 117-123.

VandenBos, G., Knapp, S., & Doe, J. (2001). Role of reference elements in the selection of resources by psychology undergraduates. J. Bibliog. Res., 5, 117-123. Retrieved October 13, 2001, from http://jbr.org/articles.html.

7.2. Article in an Internet-only journal
Fredrickson, B. L. (2000, March 7). Cultivating positive emotions to optimize health and well-being. Prevention & Treatment, 3, Article 0001a. Retrieved November 20, 2000, from http://journals.apa.org/prevent/vol3/pre03.html.

Figures
All photographs, graphs, and diagrams should be referred to as a 'Figure,' and they should be numbered consecutively (1, 2, etc.). Multipart figures ought to be labeled with lowercase letters (a, b, etc.). Please insert keys and scale bars directly in the figures. Provide a detailed legend (without abbreviations) to each figure, refer to the figure in the text, and note its approximate location in the margin. Figures should be submitted in separate files. The resolution of each figure must be at least 300 dpi. jpg and tiff files are accepted. Figures that are prepared by Excel should be sent along with their source of data. Please avoid giving Figures as Fig.1a, Fig.1b, etc. Each Figure should stand alone.

Tables

Each table should be numbered consecutively (1, 2, etc.). In tables, footnotes are preferable to long explanatory material in either the heading or body of the table. Such explanatory footnotes, identified by superscript letters, should be placed immediately below the table. Please provide a caption (without abbreviations) to each table, refer to the table in the text, and note its approximate location in the manuscript. The same data should not be presented simultaneously in tables and figures.

Review process

The objective is to provide detailed, constructive feedback on submitted papers and publish high-quality papers within a very short period of time. The target for a first reply is three months. You may be requested by the Editor to submit a revision. Please assist us in achieving our ambitious goals for short publication times by submitting a revision at your earliest convenience.

Copyright

Authors will be asked, upon acceptance of an article, to transfer copyright of the article to the Publisher. This will ensure the widest possible dissemination of information under copyright laws.

The submitted materials may be considered for inclusion, but can not be returned.

Note

Editors of the Journal reserve the right to accept, reject, and edit any article at any stage, if necessary. The sole responsibility for the whole contents if the article published, remains only with the authors. Published papers can not be withdrawn from the Journal.

Please check the following items

Author/authors are kindly advised to check out the following items. Otherwise, the time of publication would be unnecessarily postponed.

The paper should not contain a short title.
Names of authors should be written in accordance with journal format. Example
Right:- Abdolreza Karbassi, Touraj Nasrabadi and Javad Amiri
Wrong:- Karbassi, A. R., Nasrabadi, T. and Amiri, J.
1. Write the addresses in proper form. If all the authors are from the same address, don’t number them. If they have different affiliation numbers the authors. Example
Abdolreza Karbassi, Touraj Nasrabad,i and Javad Amiri

Graduate Faculty of Environment, University of Tehran, P.O.Box 14155-6135, Tehran, Iran

Abdolreza Karbassi¹, Touraj Nasrabadi¹ and Javad Amiri²

¹Graduate Faculty of Environment, University of Tehran, P.O.Box 14155-6135, Tehran, Iran

²Department of Environment, University of Tousi, Mashhad, P.O.Box 12341-2234, Tehran, Iran

Please don’t write the position of authors (Professor, Associate Professor, Assistant Professor, Student, Director, Manager, etc...) in the addresses.
Keywords should not be selected from the main title. Keywords should be single or a maximum of two words. The number of keywords should be 4 to 6.
Don’t number the headings.
Pollution accepts the following main titles only, and there should not be any subtitles:-

-Main title

-Name of Authors

-Addresses

-Email of corresponding author

-Abstract

-Introduction

-Material & Methods

-Results and Discussion

-Conclusion

-Acknowledgement

-References

Therefore the following example is indicative of a wrong submission

2. Materials & Methods

2.1. Study of area

2.2. Chemical analysis

The length of the Introduction part should be 1 to 1.5 pages. The Introduction part should be supported by at least 15 references from recent years. At the end of the introduction part, clearly write the aims of the study in one or two lines.
The length of the Materials and Methods should be 1 to 1.5 pages. This part should be supported by classic references.
The length of the manuscript, including everything (text, tables, figures, references), should not be less than 10 pages and should not be more than 18 pages. The line spacing is considered as 1.,5 and the font size is 12.
Review papers' length can be up to 24 pages. The number of references for a review paper should not be less than 100.
Maps should have Latitude and Longitude along with a scale.
Units should be in accordance with the journal format. For instance, mg/kg is right, and mg kg-1 is wrong.
Please look at the following reference. The references should be exactly in this format.

Karbassi, A. R. (2017). Geochemistry of marine sediment in the northern part of Oman. Int. J. Environ. Res., 2(3); 234-256.

Karbassi, A. R., & Nasrabadi, T. (2017). Geochemistry of marine sediment in the northern part of Oman. Int. J. Environ. Res., 2(3); 234-256.

Karbassi, A. R., & Nasrabadi, T. (2017). Geochemistry of marine sediment in the northern part of the Oman Sea. Int. J. Environ. Res., 2(3); 234-256.

Karbassi, A. R., Nasrabadi, T., & Amiri, J. (2017). Geochemistry of marine sediment in the northern part of Oman. Int. J. Environ. Res., 2(3); 234-256.

Avoid any HTTP references.
Avoid any unknown reports.
The title of the tables should be given above them. The title of the tables should be self-explanatory, with preferably longer titles. Tables should have units – if applicable.
The title of the figures should be given under them. The title of the figures should be self-explanatory, with preferably longer titles. Figures should have units – if applicable.
References within text should follow as:

The main source of pollution in the marine environment is from oil transport (Karbassi, 2017; Karbassi & Nasrabadi, 2017). The lithogenic portion of metals is decreasing in the marine environment (Karbassi & Nasrabadi, 2017). It is well known that toxic metals can be transported in various forms (Karbassi et al., 2017; Karbassi, 2017; Karbassi & Nasrabadi, 2017).

All references given in text should appear in the reference section too (and vice versa).
We cannot publish papers with too many self-citations. The maximum number of references from authors should not be more than 4.
The number of references in the manuscript should not be less than 30.
While submitting the revised manuscript, all figures and tables should be placed within the text in their appropriate places.

Additional Information

Published papers cannot be withdrawn from the journal.

Authors MUST add the following three items before the reference list:-

GRANT SUPPORT DETAILS

IF YES: The present research has been financially supported by ???????? (Grant No.?????).

IF NO: (JUST KEEP THIS SENTENCE.) The present research did not receive any financial support.

CONFLICT OF INTEREST

IF YES: Please indicate…

LIFE SCIENCE REPORTING

IF YES: Please indicate…

IF NO: (JUST KEEP THIS SENTENCE.) No life science threat was practiced in this research.

Additional information can be obtained from:

Pollution
Graduate Faculty of Environment, University of Tehran

P.O. Box: 14155-6135, Tehran, Iran

E-mail: jpoll@ut.ac.ir

http://jpoll.ut.ac.ir

Tel: +9821 61113586

Fax: +9821 66407719