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University of Szeged, Department of Physical Geography and Geoinformatics
H-6722 Szeged, Egyetem str. 2-6

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Instructions for Authors

Types of Paper

The Journal welcomes only research articles and publishes peer-reviewed works. The articles have to be written in good English (both American and British usage are accepted).

Submission declaration

Submission of an article implies that the work has not been published previously (except in the form of an abstract or as part of a published lecture or academic thesis) and it will not be published elsewhere in the same form, in English or in any other language, without the written consent of the copyright-holder. The publication is approved by all authors and by the responsible institute where the work was carried out.

Copyright

The authors of an accepted article will be asked to complete a 'Journal Publishing Agreement'. Acceptance of the agreement will ensure the widest possible dissemination of information.

Submission

The manuscripts have to be submitted online on the journal’s website (www.geo.u-szeged.hu/journal/). The submission is guided stepwise through the uploading of the necessary files. All necessary correspondence, including the notification of the Editor's decision and requests for revision, takes place by e-mail (Ez az e-mail-cím a szpemrobotok elleni védelem alatt áll. Megtekintéséhez engedélyeznie kell a JavaScript használatát.). The journal does not have article processing charges (APCs) nor article submission charges.

Article structure

The article has to be divided into clearly defined sections (and subsections if needed) without numbering. The recommended structure is the following:

Abstract (brief summary of the article, not containing any undefined abbreviations or unspecified references, but the purpose of the research, the principal results and the major conclusions)

Introduction (providing an adequate background and describing the objectives of the work)

Study area (allocation and description of the study site)

Methods (providing the details of the applied materials and methods, to allow the work to be reproduced)

Results (the clear and concise presentation of research results)

Discussion (emphasizing the significance of research results; a combined Results and Discussion section is also appropriate)

Conclusions (short section describing the main conclusions of the study)

Acknowledgement (acknowledgements of people, grants, funds etc.)

References (list of references)

Formal requirements of submission

Title page

It should include the title of the research paper, the name(s) of the author(s) and their affiliation and e-mail address (Times New Roman 10 pt, single spaced). Furthermore, the telephone and fax number of the corresponding author is also required. Please provide and abstract of 150 to 250 words. Take care to make it stand alone, since it will also be presented separately from the article. Please provide 4 to 6 keywords that can be used for indexing purposes.

Text

Manuscripts should be submitted in MS Word (.doc format), and be limited to 50.000 characters with spaces/7500 words. A font size of 10 pt Times New Roman and automatic line numbering is required. The text should be single spaced with 2.5 cm margins. Use professional help for language editing if English is not your mother tongue. Figure and table captions should be placed at the end of the manuscript after the references. Do not use footnotes.

Citation in the text:

Taylor (1998) demonstrated ...

Taylor et al. (1998) has recently shown...

The first results (Taylor 1998) showed ...

The phenomenon has been widely studied (Taylor 1998; Smith et al. 2000; Smith and Osterkamp 2011).

Please ensure that every reference, cited in the text, is also present in the list of references and vice versa. Figure (Fig.2) and table references (Table 1) should be indicated in italics.

References

The list of references should be written in alphabetical order according to the following samples:

Journal article:

Lovelock, L. 2005. Cloud morphology. Weather Issues 34(2), 125–134.

Baude, M., Meyer, B.C. 2010. Changes of landscape structure and soil production function since the 18th century in North-West Saxony. Journal of Environmental Geography 3(1–4), 11–23

Book:

Kovács, E. 1998. Basics of Landscape Metrics. Blackwell, London, 356 p.

Book chapter:

Kovács, H. 2003. Historical floods. In: Szabó, Z. (ed.) Hungarian rivers. Akadémiai Kiadó, Budapest, 345–367.

The title of the articles, written in any other languages than English, must be translated and the original language must be indicated in brackets. 

Pálfai, I. 2000. Inland excess water hazard and drought-sensitiveness in the Great Hungarian Plain. In: Pálfai, I. (ed.) A víz szerepe és jelentősége az Alföldön. A Nagyalföld Alapítvány Kötetei 6. Nagyalföld Alapítvány, Békéscsaba, 85–96. (in Hungarian)

Tables and figures

Figures must be submitted electronically in JPG, EPS or TIFF format. Use a minimum of 300 dpi resolution. Colour figures are accepted. Number all figures in the order they appear in the text and label the files according to these. Ensure that each illustration has a caption, and supply them separately, not attached to the figure!

Number tables consecutively in accordance with their appearance in the text, too. Place footnotes to tables below the table body and indicate them with superscript lowercase letters.

Necessary files before uploading

            Cover letter (.doc file)

            Title page (.doc file)

            Manuscript text (.doc file)

Figures (.tiff, .jpg, .gif file)

Tables (.doc file)

After acceptance

In case of articles accepted for publication, PDF proofs will be sent by e-mail to the corresponding author. Please list the corrections and return them in .doc format in an e-mail to Ez az e-mail-cím a szpemrobotok elleni védelem alatt áll. Megtekintéséhez engedélyeznie kell a JavaScript használatát.. Significant changes to the article, in the stage of ‘accepted for publication’, will only be considered with the permission of the Editor. Proofreading is your responsibility; in case of no response within a week, you proceed with the publication of your article. Language quality of individual articles is the responsibility of the author(s).

For all parties involved in the act of publishing (the author, the journal editor(s), the peer reviewer and the publisher) it is necessary to agree upon standards of expected ethical behavior. The ethics statements for the Journal of Environmental Geography are based on the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) Best Practice Guidelines for Journal Editors.

Editor Responsibilities

Accountability
The editor of a peer-reviewed journal is responsible for deciding which articles submitted to the journal should be published, and, moreover, is accountable for everything published in the journal. In making these decisions, the editor may be guided by the policies of the journal’s editorial board as well as by legal requirements regarding libel, copyright infringement and plagiarism. The editor may confer with other editors or reviewers when making publication decisions. The editor should maintain the integrity of the academic record, preclude business needs from compromising intellectual and ethical standards, and always be willing to publish corrections, clarifications, retractions and apologies when needed.
Fairness
The editor should evaluate manuscripts for intellectual content without regard to race, gender, sexual orientation, religious belief, ethnic origin, citizenship, or political philosophy of the author(s). The editor will not disclose any information about a manuscript under consideration to anyone other than the author(s), reviewers and potential reviewers, and in some instances the editorial board members, as appropriate.
Confidentiality
The editor and any editorial staff must not disclose any information about a submitted manuscript to anyone other than the corresponding author, reviewers, potential reviewers, other editorial advisers, and the publisher, as appropriate.
Disclosure, conflicts of interest, and other issues
The editor will be guided by COPE’s Guidelines for Retracting Articles when considering retracting, issuing expressions of concern about, and issuing corrections pertaining to articles that have been published in the Journal of Environmental Geography.
Unpublished materials disclosed in a submitted manuscript must not be used in an editor’s own research without the express written consent of the author. Privileged information or ideas obtained through peer review must be kept confidential and not used for personal advantage.
The editor is committed to ensuring that advertising, reprint or other commercial revenue has no impact or influence on editorial decisions.
The editor should seek to ensure a fair and appropriate peer review process. Editors should recuse themselves (i.e. should ask a co-editor, associate editor or other member of the editorial board instead to review and consider) from considering manuscripts in which they have conflicts of interest resulting from competitive, collaborative, or other relationships or connections with any of the authors, companies, or (possibly) institutions connected to the papers. Editors should require all contributors to disclose relevant competing interests and publish corrections if competing interests are revealed after publication. If needed, other appropriate action should be taken, such as the publication of a retraction or expression of concern.
Involvement and cooperation in investigations
Editors should guard the integrity of the published record by issuing corrections and retractions when needed and pursuing suspected or alleged research and publication misconduct. Editors should pursue reviewer and editorial misconduct. An editor should take reasonably responsive measures when ethical complaints have been presented concerning a submitted manuscript or published paper.

Reviewer Responsibilities

Contribution to editorial decisions
Peer review assists the editor in making editorial decisions and, through the editorial communication with the author, may also assist the author in improving the manuscript.
Promptness
Any invited referee who feels unqualified to review the research reported in a manuscript or knows that its timely review will be impossible should immediately notify the editor so that alternative reviewers can be contacted.
Confidentiality
Any manuscripts received for review must be treated as confidential documents. They must not be shown to or discussed with others except if authorized by the editor.
Standards of objectivity
Reviews should be conducted objectively. Personal criticism of the author is inacceptable. Referees should express their views clearly with appropriate supporting arguments.
Acknowledgement of sources
Reviewers should identify relevant published work that has not been cited by the authors. Any statement that an observation, derivation, or argument had been previously reported should be accompanied by the relevant citation. A reviewer should also call to the editor's attention any substantial similarity or overlap between the manuscript under consideration and any other published data of which they have personal knowledge.
Disclosure and conflict of interest
Privileged information or ideas obtained through peer review must be kept confidential and not used for personal advantage. Reviewers should not consider evaluating manuscripts in which they have conflicts of interest resulting from competitive, collaborative, or other relationships or connections with any of the authors, companies, or institutions connected to the submission.

Author Responsibilities

Reporting standards
Authors reporting results of original research should present an accurate account of the work performed as well as an objective discussion of its significance. Underlying data should be represented accurately in the manuscript. A paper should contain sufficient detail and references to permit others to replicate the work. Fraudulent or knowingly inaccurate statements constitute unethical behavior and are unacceptable.
Originality and Plagiarism
The authors should ensure that they have written entirely original works, and if the authors have used the work and/or words of others that this has been appropriately cited or quoted.
Multiple, redundant or concurrent publication
An author should not in general publish manuscripts describing essentially the same research in more than one journal or primary publication. Parallel submission of the same manuscript to more than one journal constitutes unethical publishing behavior and is unacceptable.
Acknowledgement of sources
Proper acknowledgment of the work of others must always be given. Authors should also cite publications that have been influential in determining the nature of the reported work.
Authorship of a manuscript
Authorship should be limited to those who have made a significant contribution to the conception, design, execution, or interpretation of the reported study. All those who have made significant contributions should be listed as co-authors. Where there are others who have participated in certain substantive aspects of the research project, they should be named in an Acknowledgement section.
The corresponding author should ensure that all appropriate co-authors (according to the above definition) and no inappropriate co-authors are included in the author list of the manuscript, and that all co-authors have seen and approved the final version of the paper and have agreed to its submission for publication.
Hazards and human or animal subjects
If the work involves chemicals, procedures or equipment that have any unusual hazards inherent in their use, the authors must clearly identify these in the manuscript.
Disclosure and conflicts of interest
All authors should disclose in their manuscript any financial or other substantive conflict of interest that might be construed to influence the results or their interpretation in the manuscript. All sources of financial support for the project should be disclosed.
Fundamental errors in published works
When an author discovers a significant error or inaccuracy in his/her own published work, it is the author’s obligation to promptly notify the journal’s editor or publisher and cooperate with them to either retract the paper or to publish an appropriate erratum.

Publisher’s Confirmation

In cases of alleged or proven scientific misconduct, fraudulent publication or plagiarism the publisher, in close collaboration with the editors, will take all appropriate measures to clarify the situation and to amend the article in question. This includes the prompt publication of an erratum or, in the most severe cases, the complete retraction of the affected work.

All articles in the Journal of Environmental Geography are peer-reviewed. The submitted manuscripts should meet the following general criteria:

• of great importance in the field
• novelty in the field
• well-founded conclusions

All submitted manuscripts are read by the editorial staff. Papers that seem to meet the editorial criteria are sent for formal review. Papers out of the aims and scope of the Journal are rejected without external review.
Manuscripts are sent to generally two reviewers. Based on the reviewer’s advices and comments, the editors make a decision according to the following possibilities:

• accept with or without editorial revisions
• invite authors to revise their manuscript considering the reviewer’s comments
• reject

In cases, where reviewers disagree with each other on the acceptance of the paper, a further reviewer is asked to give an opinion about the manuscript.
The selection of the reviewers is crucial part of the publication process. The decision is generally based on many factors, including expertise, reputation and experiences in the given field. The reviewer’s evaluation form contains the main aspects of the reviewing process. The primary purpose of the review is to provide information to the editors on the acceptance of the paper and the appropriateness of the professional content. Furthermore, the review should call the attention of the authors on the weaknesses of the manuscript, thus authors can revise them according to the comments or can understand the reasons of rejection. In this way, they can improve the manuscript for publication elsewhere. However, referees are not obliged to provide a detailed, constructive advice to authors of papers that do not meet the criteria of the journal.

The Journal of Environmental Geography prefers rapid editorial decisions and publications and makes an effort to give a valuable service to both authors and the scientific community as a whole. Therefore, reviewers are asked to respond within a maximum of two months.

The reviewers and the authors remain anonymous throughout the review process and beyond. The comments of the reviewers are sent to the authors without any modifications. Reviewers are asked to avoid statements that may cause needless offence. All reviewers undertake to keep submitted manuscripts and associated data confidential and not to redistribute them.
If the language of the article is poor and the paper contains many grammatical errors making the understanding difficult, the reviewers do not need to correct the English. They are asked to call the attention of the Editor.

Editor-in-Chief: Gabor Mezosi
Department of Physical Geography and Geoinformatics, University of Szeged
Egyetem str. 2-6,Szeged, Hungary
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Editor: Zsuzsanna Ladanyi
Department of Physical Geography and Geoinformatics, University of Szeged
Egyetem str. 2-6, Szeged, Hungary
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Editorial Board

• Andrea Kiss (Vienna, Austria)
• Ádám Kertész (Budapest, Hungary)
• Burghard Meyer (Leipzig, Germany)
• Carsten Jürgens (Bochum, Germany)
• Gyula Gábris (Budapest, Hungary)
• Jing Li (Beijing, China)
• Johannes Steiger (Clermont-Ferrand, France)
• József Szabó (Debrecen, Hungary)
• Jürgen Breuste (Salzburg, Austria)
• Karl Donert (Liverpool, UK)
• Katalin Bódis (Ispra, Italy)
• Kenneth Foote (Boulder, Colorado, USA)
• Paolo Billi (Ferrara, Italy)
• Rainer Duttmann (Kiel, Germany)
• Slobodan B. Markovic (Novi Sad, Serbia)
• Steve Kite (Morgantown, USA)
• Peter Freckmann (Karlsruhe, Germany)
• Volker Albrecht (Frankfurt am Main, Germany)
• Vít Voženílek (Olomouc, Czech Republic)
• Zoltan Vekerdy (Enschede, Netherlands)