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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.
  • 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).
  • The submission file is in OpenOffice, Microsoft Word, or RTF document file format.
  • Where available, URLs for the references have been provided.
  • The text is single-spaced; uses a 12-point font; employs italics, rather than underlining (except with URL addresses); and all illustrations, figures, and tables are placed within the text at the appropriate points, rather than at the end.
  • The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines.
  • If submitting to a peer-reviewed section of the journal, the instructions in Ensuring a Blind Review have been followed.
  • Before submitting the manuscript, the Author Consent Form (https://www.ecocycles.net/MS-Templates/ECOCYCLES_AUTHOR_CONSENT_FORM.pdf) has been signed by all authors and has been deposited at the corresponding author.
  • In the case the research contains identifiable individual data of human subjects, the manuscript has included a statement demonstrating that they all are aware of the intended publication and their consent has been acquired.

Author Guidelines

We recommend that you visit the section "About the journal" to consult our Editorial Policy. If you wish to submit a paper to ECOCYCLES please send your manuscript to the Editor in Chief of the journal (please use both email addresses: komives.tamas[at]atk.hu and komives.tamas[at]gmail.com). 

In the case of initial submissions, ECOCYCLES accepts "format-free" manuscripts. Thus, at first submission, authors can submit their manuscript in any format that is easily readable by the reviewers and the editors.

The TITLE needs to give a clear description of the work presented in the paper, and the full names and affiliations of the AUTHORS should also be given. The KEYWORDS should be neither too broad nor too specialized.

The MAIN TEXT should preferably be divided into introduction, methods, results, discussion, and conclusions.

IN-TEXT REFERENCES should follow the Harvard Referencing: after a relevant statement to be referenced (author, year), for example: (Darwin, 1859) or in case of 2 authors (Watson and Crick, 1953) and in case of more than two authors (Casida et al., 1983).

TABLES AND FIGURES can be inserted in a single column or as a full page width arrangement. Each table should be numbered (Table 1, Table 2, etc.), with the caption being placed above the table. Each figure should be numbered (Figure 1, Figure 2, etc.), with the caption being placed below the figure. In the text, figures and tables should be referred to as follows: “Fig. 1 shows the relationship …” or “the measured values are given in Table 1.” Figures and tables should be inserted into the text soon after they are first referenced (as illustrated by Table 1).

For EQUATIONS and SYMBOLS use the “Equation Editor” whenever possible. Equations should be centered, with the equation number flush with the right margin. Equations should be cited in the text with their number, for example, “…as shown in Eq. (1)...”. Symbols used in equations should be italicized and explained after the equation. For example:

                                                pV = RT                               Eq. (1)

where p is pressure in kPa, T is the temperature in K, V is the molar volume in m3·mol-1, and R is the gas constant. 

Informed Consent. Please note that in the case the research contains identifiable individual data of human subjects, your manuscript has to include a statement demonstrating that they all are aware of the intended publication and their consent has been acquired. In addition, before submitting the paper, the Author Consent Form has to be prepared and deposited at the corresponding author.

Public Interest Statement (optional but recommended) - in order to increase the impact of their research authors may give a description (up to 150 words in length) of their work in a language that is easily understandable to the general public.

Articles

All research papers will be accommodated in this section.

Copyright Notice

Authors retain copyright and grant the journal right of first publication with the work simultaneously licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License (CC-BY) that allows others to share the work with an acknowledgment of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.

The original submitted version of the manuscript (the version that has not undergone peer review) may be posted at any time.  Authors should disclose details of preprint posting, including DOI, upon submission of the manuscript to ECOCYCLES.

This journal provides immediate open access to its content on the principle that making research freely available to the public supports a greater global exchange of knowledge. LICENCE: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

Privacy Statement

Privacy Statement

ECOCYCLES journal is managed under the open-access software platform Open Journal Systems (OJS).

The data collected from users (registered and non-registered) falls within the scope of the standard functioning of academic journals. The information collected serves the organized and recorded communication during the editorial process and monitors the number of site visits- and download statistics.

Data that will assist in developing OJS may be shared with its developer Public Knowledge Project (PKP) in an anonymized and aggregated form.

The names and email addresses entered in this journal site will be used exclusively for the stated purposes of this journal and will not be made available for any other purpose or to any other party.

Registered users

All users (including the editorial staff, the authors, and the reviewers) who register with ECOCYCLES journal, including authors and peer reviewers, consent to having their personal information stored in OJS.

Rights of the Individual

The managers of the OJS platform and the journal's staff seek to be compliant with industry standards for data privacy, including the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) provision for "data subject rights". These rights include the right of access to registered personal data, as well as the right of deletion of such data (also known as "the right to be forgotten").