Authors
Guidelines
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Article processing
All submitted
articles are subjected to a double blind peer-review process. The review
process may take approximately 3 to 6 weeks. In initial review, it is ensured
that the similarity-index of submitted article is below 12% as per Journal of
Environmental Treatment Techniques (JETT) policy. Upon preliminary evaluation
by the Editorial Board, the papers are sent to two or more referees (experts in
respective fields) for evaluation. After the reviewers have submitted their
comments you will be contacted by an editor or AE regarding acceptance,
provisional acceptance, or rejection of a manuscript. The decision of the
Editor-in-Chief to publish a paper in concurrence with referee(s) opinion is
considered final.
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Frequency of publication
JETT, is published as a
quarterly journal with 4 issues per year. Special editions are also planned
subjected to the scope and need. Currently JETT is also publishing peer
reviewed papers of International and National level conferences conducted by
various research and academic institutions.
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Submission of articles
Authors are invited
to submit papers through (Online
Submission system). Submissions must be original and should not have been
published previously or be under consideration for publication while being
evaluated for this journal. Paper must be in JETT format. Download Manuscript Template. Please
follow these comments for manuscript preparation:
(1) Full name of
authors should be added to manuscript. Please do not use short form of author
name such as M.R. Salehikar.
(2) Pages should be
numbered consecutively. The full title of the paper should be followed by the
full name of all authors, the names and addresses of their institutions.
Telephone, fax and email address of corresponding author should be add in manuscript.
(3) The figures
should be placed in the text. Figures should be clear and the lettering legible
and proportional to the size of the figure so that reduction is possible if
necessary. Figures will appear in color online and in the final PDF once the
paper has been accepted.
(4) Figures, photos,
illustrations and graphs should be referred to in the text as figures and
numbered consecutively throughout the paper by Arabic numerals.
(5) The Abstract of the manuscript should not exceed 250 words and must be structured into separate sections: Introduction, the context and purpose of the study; Materials and methods, the research methods and main objectives; Results, the main findings; Conclusions, brief summary and potential implications. Please minimize the use of abbreviations and do not cite references in the abstract.
(6) Tables should be
cited in numerical order in the text using Arabic numbers. The table headings
should be as follows: Table 1, 2, 3. Each table should
have a descriptive title.
(7) We are pleased to
receive papers from all regions of the world where English is not the native
language. Please ensure that your paper is well presented in logic and good
English. If necessary, please have your paper edited by a colleague who is a
native speaker before you submit it. A clear and concise language will help
editors and reviewers concentrate on the scientific content of your paper and
thus help in the peer review process.
(8) References must
be identified by Arabic numerals (e.g. 1, 2 etc.), numbered consecutively in
the order in which they are first mentioned in the text (between square
brackets) and listed at the end of paper. Writing references as an Endnote file
will be considered as an advantage when submitting a manuscript. Journal
of Environmental Treatment Techniques accepts references based on a Vancouver
style. Please download the journal Endnote
style from here. Following a sample of references style can be found if you
do not like to use Endnote:
(9) Manuscript must be written by font of "Time New Roman" and font size of 9 pt. Please download Manuscript Template and use it to prepare your manuscript.
(10) The manuscript must have "conflict of interest statement" section.
(11) Accepted File formats for manuscript is Microsoft word (doc, docx) or Rich text format (rtf).
(12) SI units should be used throughout (liter and molar are permitted, however).
(13) The Introduction section should reflect the background of study, novelty, and the main objectives of the study.
(14) The materials and methods section should include the design of the study, the type of materials involved, a clear description of all comparisons, and the type of analysis used, to enable replication.
(15) The Results and discussion may be combined into a single section or presented separately. The Results and discussion sections may also be broken into subsections with short, informative headings.
(16) Conclusion section should state clearly the main conclusions of the research.
(17) The financial resources of study should be mentioned.
(18) Competing interests should be clearly addressed.
(19) Authors'
contributions is a optional part in the manuscript that shows the role of each
author.
(20) Acknowledgements is mandatory section. Please acknowledge anyone who
contributed towards the article by making substantial contributions to
conception, design, acquisition of data, or analysis and interpretation of data,
or who was involved in drafting the manuscript or revising it critically for
important intellectual content, but who does not meet the criteria for
authorship.
(21) Ethical
considerations is mandatory section. The following statements should be
inserted: “Ethical issues (Including plagiarism, Informed Consent, misconduct,
data fabrication and/or falsification, double publication and/or submission,
redundancy, etc) have been completely ob-served by the authors.”
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Copyright
Authors are also
instructed to submit the copyright transfer form once the article is accepted
for publication, without which the articles will not be processed. Author can
download the copyright transfer form, duly filled form
should be submitted to jett@dormaj.com.
Please Download
Copyright Form.
The facts and views
in the article will be of the authors and they will be totally responsible for
authenticity, validity and originality etc. The authors should give an
undertaking while submitting the paper that the manuscripts submitted to
journal have not been published and have not been simultaneously submitted or
published elsewhere and manuscripts are their original work. That if and when
the manuscript is accepted for publication, the authors agree to automatic
transfer of the copyright to the publisher.
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Publication Ethic
5-1- Plagiarism
Based on Journal of
Environmental Treatment Techniques policy only original article (i.e., article
which has neither been published elsewhere, nor is under review elsewhere) can
be published. Manuscripts that are found to have been plagiarized from a
manuscript by other authors, whether published or unpublished, will incur
plagiarism sanctions.
5-2- Duplicate
Submission
Manuscripts that are found to
have been published elsewhere, or to be under review elsewhere, will incur
duplicate submission/publication sanctions. If authors have used their own
previously published work, or work that is currently under review, as the basis
for a submitted manuscript, they are required to cite the previous work and
indicate how their submitted manuscript offers novel contributions beyond those
of the previous work.
5-3- Citation
Manipulation
Submitted manuscripts that
are found to include citations whose primary purpose is to increase the number
of citations to a given author’s work, or to articles published in a
particular journal, will incur citation manipulation sanctions.
5-4- Data Fabrication
and Falsification
Submitted manuscripts that
are found to have either fabricated or falsified experimental results,
including the manipulation of images, will incur data fabrication and
falsification sanctions.
5-5- Improper Author
Contribution or Attribution
All listed authors must have
made a significant scientific contribution to the research in the manuscript
and approved all its claims. It is important to list everyone who made a
significant scientific contribution, including students and laboratory
technicians.
5-6- Sanctions
In the event that there are documented violations of any of the
above mentioned policies is found, the following sanctions will be applied:
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Immediate rejection of the infringing manuscript.
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Prohibition against all of the authors for any new submissions to
Journal of Environmental treatment Techniques, either individually or in
combination with other authors of the infringing manuscript, as well as in
combination with any other authors. This prohibition will be imposed for a
minimum of 36 months.
In cases where the violations of the above policies are found to
be particularly egregious, the journal reserves the right to impose additional
sanctions beyond those described above.
5-7- Research
involving human participants and/or animals
5-7-1- Statement of
Human Rights
When reporting studies
that involve human participants, authors should include a statement that the
studies have been approved by the appropriate institutional and/or national
research ethics committee and have been performed in accordance with the ethical
standards as laid down in the 1964 Declaration of Helsinki and its later
amendments or comparable ethical standards.
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If doubt exists whether the research was conducted in accordance
with the 1964 Helsinki Declaration or comparable standards,
the authors must explain the reasons for their approach, and demonstrate that
the independent ethics committee or institutional review board explicitly
approved the doubtful aspects of the study.
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The following statements should be included in the text before the
References section:
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Ethical approval: All procedures performed in studies involving
human participants were in accordance with the ethical standards of the
institutional and/or national research committee and with the 1964 Helsinki
declaration and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards.
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For retrospective studies Ethical approval: For this type of study
formal consent is not required.
5-7-2- Statement on the
Welfare of Animals
The welfare of animals
used for research must be respected. When reporting experiments on animals,
authors should indicate whether the international, national, and/or
institutional guidelines for the care and use of animals have been followed,
and that the studies have been approved by a research ethics committee at the
institution or practice at which the studies were
conducted (where such a committee exists).
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For studies with animals, the following statement should be
included in the text before the References section:
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Ethical approval: All applicable international, national, and/or
institutional guidelines for the care and use of animals were followed.
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If applicable (where such a committee exists) Ethical approval:
All procedures performed in studies involving animals were in accordance with
the ethical standards of the institution or practice at which the studies were
conducted.
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If articles do not contain studies with human participants or
animals by any of the authors, please select one of the following statements:
1.
Ethical approval: This article does not contain any studies with
human participants performed by any of the authors.
2.
Ethical approval: This article does not contain any studies with
animals performed by any of the authors.
3.
Ethical approval: This article does not contain any studies with
human participants or animals performed by any of the authors
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Fee of publication
Journal of Environmental Treatment Techniques is a free of charge journal and there is no any publication fee.
7- CC BY license
Journal of Environmental Treatment Techniques follows the CC BY license. This license lets others distribute, remix, tweak, and build upon your work, even commercially, as long as they credit you for the original creation. This is the most accommodating of licenses offered. Recommended for maximum dissemination and use of licensed materials.
8- The journal review process
Journal of Environmental Treatment Techniques (JETT) possesses an online submission system (OSS) through which authors must submit their manuscripts. All the manuscripts' reviews can be easily processed using this OSS. The manuscripts go through a single-blind peer review which it means the reviewers are aware of the identity of the authors, but authors are unaware of the identity of reviewers. There are at least 30 or more reviewers for the total number of articles in each issue. Once we receive a manuscript, the titles of submitted manuscripts are evaluated by the editor-in-chief. In this stage, the manuscripts which are beyond the scope of JETT are rejected by the editor-in-chief. Then, an appropriate editor is assigned for each manuscript by editor-in-chief depending on its field. The assigned editor is usually one of the JETT editorial board members. Next, at least four reviewers are invited by the assigned editor to review the manuscript. The list of JETT reviewer team is available on the journal website. We usually expect to receive the reviewers' comments within one month. However, for many cases, the reviewers need more time to evaluate the manuscript. The typical time period required to complete the review process for a manuscript is 8 weeks. Upon receiving the reviewers' comments, the assigned editor decides on the manuscript status which can be either accepted with minor revisions, accepted with major revisions, or rejected. Based on the reviewers’ comments, the journal editor-in-chief arrives at the final decision, and they will be accessible for the manuscript corresponding author via OSS. There is a possibility that the journal editor-in-chief has the manuscript to be double-checked by another editor to ensure the right decision. In the case of accepting a manuscript with a revision, the authors must revise the manuscript and submit its revised version via the journal OSS. The revised version of the manuscript can be seen by the reviewers through the OSS. Finally, the accepted manuscripts are made online by the journal production team.
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