Please follow these guidelines carefully to avoid delays in processing your manuscript and to facilitate the work of our Editors and reviewers.
General information
Upon submission, we ask for the following information:
- A cover letter.
- A title page with title, authors, affiliations, acknowledgements and Data availability Statement.
- Separate .doc or .docx files for your main text and Supplementary materials/Supporting documents.
- Declaration of the corresponding author that the submitted manuscript has not have been published in substantial part or in full in a scientific journal, book, or similar entity or that are being considered for publication elsewhere (.pdf signed).
Blinding the submission:
To blind the submission, authors submit a title page with names and affiliations as a separate file and do not include a title page with the main manuscript body. The title page will not be visible to reviewers.
To comply with JMRE double-anonymous review policy, authors should be mindful when preparing their files to ensure that the manuscript body, supporting information, and file names are devoid of any information that may reveal their identity or their institutions´. If you are including additional data as supplementary materials, please ensure that you and your co-authors cannot be identified from them. Also, the Authors´ response to reviews should not be signed. Your manuscript will be sent back to you for revision if the authors have identified themselves in the manuscript, Author´s response, other accompanying materials or file´s names.
Cover letter: A cover letter to the Editor-in-Chief should describe why the submitted work is of general interest to the wide readership of JMRE. The corresponding author must state explicitly in a paragraph how the paper fits the Aims and Scope of the journal. Failure to include the paragraph will result in returning the paper to the author.
Manuscript preparation
Manuscripts should be concise and carefully prepared and uploaded. Keep in mind that if the manuscript, figures, or tables are difficult for you to read, they will also be difficult for the editors and reviewers, and the editorial office will send it back to you for revision. Manuscripts judged to be incomplete or poorly prepared will be returned to authors. Manuscripts should be written in clear, concise, and grammatically correct English (American or British usage is accepted, but not a mixture of these).
The manuscripts should meet the following requirements:
- All documents that comprise your submission (including text, figures, and tables and Supporting Information) should be editable files.
- In all files (manuscript and Supporting information), use double spacing throughout. Add continuous line numbering (except the Reference list) for ease of placing comments in review. Do not restart the line numbering on each page.
- All required sections should be contained in your manuscript: abstract, introduction, methods, results, discussion and conclusions.
- Figures and tables should be easily readable and have legends. Figures should be uploaded in the highest resolution possible.
- Text font sizes should pe Times New Roman 12.
- Legends: written to stand alone from the text, defining all acronyms and abbreviations.
- References may be submitted in any style or format, as long as it is consistent throughout the manuscript. We encourage to use the following reference style: author(s) name(s), journal title/book title, chapter title/article title, year of publication, volume number/book chapter and the article number or pagination must be present. Use of DOI is mandatory. We also encourage the use of bibliography software to ensure that there is correspondence between the references cited in the text and the Reference section. Note that missing data will be highlighted at proof stage for the author to correct.
- Supplementary materials/Supporting documents should be submitted in a single separate file with clear descriptions of where the content links to the main text.
Title page
A separate title page file with the following information:
- Article title
- Full name(s) of all author(s), affiliation(s), e-mail address(es) of all author(s). JMRE Editor team will keep all co-authors informed of the outcome of the peer review process.
- Author Contribution Statement.
- Up to 6 keywords listed alphabetically for indexing purposes.
- The type of article (Review, Research Paper, Perspective, Letter, Comment)
- A single sentence that describes the target audience for the paper.
- Acknowledgment of financial or institutional support should be brief (150 words maximum)
- Data Accessibility Statement, including a link to the repository used to archive their data (see policy on Data Sharing and Accessibility). If data, scripts, or other artefacts used to generate the analyses presented in the paper are available via a publicly available data repository, authors should include a reference to the location of the material within their paper. However, make sure that the authors cannot be identified through these references. Authors should also (where relevant) provide a statement of the ethics review process that was adhered to in gathering the data.
- The number of words in the abstract and in the manuscript as a whole (from the Abstract through Acknowledgements and excluding the References)
- The name and complete mailing address (including telephone and e-mail address) of Corresponding author.
In addition, the title page of the manuscript should include statements relating to JMRE ethics and integrity policies, which may include any of the following:
- data availability statement
- funding statement
- conflict of interest disclosure
- ethics approval statement
- permission to reproduce material from other sources
ORCID: As part of the journal’s commitment to supporting authors at every step of the publishing process, the journal encourages the submitting author to provide authors ORCID number when submitting a manuscript.
Acknowledgements.
In this section, authors are also expected to disclose any potential conflicts of interest, financial or otherwise, that a reasonable person could construe as possibly influencing the objectivity of the research. Please include a conflict-of-interest statement within your manuscript’s acknowledgments, even if no conflict exists.
Abstract page
The abstract page should contain a short abstract summarizing the paper not exceeding 300 words for Reviews and Research Papers. Abstracts for Perspectives and Letters should not exceed 150 words. No abstracts are required for Comments.
Main text
Please provide your text in an editable format only in Word. Do not submit as a .pdf file.
For manuscript included in Perspective, Letter and Comment the authors can decide on the sections of the manuscript main text.
The following sections provide a guide to content that must be included in Reviews and Research Papers manuscripts. Subheadings are optional.
(1) Introduction. The Introduction should summarize briefly the background and aims, and end with a brief statement of what has been achieved by the work.
(2) Methods. This section should contain sufficient detail so that all procedures can be clearly understood by the reader. This section should also be included in Reviews indicating the procedures used to search for, filter and curate the data. Further technical details can be given in Supporting Information, which should be detailed enough that all procedures can be repeated (in conjunction with cited references).
When reporting on studies that involve human participants (for example but not restricted to: interviews, questionnaires, and social or anthropological studies) or animal subjects, the methods should include a statement that specifies the ethical guidelines with which you complied to ensure the rights and well-being of human or animal subjects. If this information discloses the author´s affiliations or identity you may anonymize it during review and make it explicit once the manuscript has been accepted. In addition, report on any measures taken to ensure that data collected using monitoring devices, social media or other technologies, does not violate privacy or cause other harm.
(3) Results. The Results section should present the evidence that supports the conclusions to be drawn in the Discussion. The Results section should conform to a high standard of rigour.
(4) Discussion. The Discussion section should be separate from the Results section. It allows authors to propose their interpretation of the results, and to suggest what they mean in a wider context.
(5) Conclusions. Manuscript should end with a clear statement of the main conclusions of the research, and a clear explanation of their importance for natural resource management and conservation.
(6) References in text.
References may be submitted in any style or format, as long as it is consistent throughout the manuscript. We encourage to use the following reference style: author(s) name(s), journal title/book title, chapter title/article title, year of publication, volume number/book chapter and the article number or pagination must be present. Use of DOI is mandatory. We also encourage the use of bibliography software to ensure that there is correspondence between the references cited in the text and the Reference section. Note that missing data will be highlighted at proof stage for the author to correct.
(7) Figures and tables
A maximum number of 4 figures and 3 tables will be accepted in the manuscript body. Captions should be sufficiently detailed such that a reader should be able to interpret tables and figures without referring to the main text. Please ensure the readability of your figures and tables. Text in your illustrations includes the numbers on the axes, legends and titles in the graphs, text and legends in diagrams, and scales and legends on the maps. Font size in the figures should be close to the size of the text in your main manuscript.
Supplementary materials/Supporting documents.
Supplementary materials/Supporting documents can be a useful way for an author to include important but ancillary information with the online version of an article. Examples of Supporting Information include additional tables, data sets, figures, nonessential methodological detail, and related nonessential multimedia files. Supporting Information should be cited within the article text, and a descriptive legend should be included. Figure and Tables in the Supporting Information should be numbered sequentially as Figure S1, Table S1, etc.
Ideally, all Supplementary materials/Supporting documents should be in a single all-inclusive PDF file. Supplementary materials/Supporting documents is published as supplied by the author, there is no typesetting, and a proof is not made available prior to publication.
Units and symbols
Authors are requested to use the International System of Units (S.I.) where possible for all measurements (see Quantities, Units and Symbols, 2nd edn, 1975, The Royal Society, London). Note that mathematical expressions should contain symbols, not abbreviations. If the paper contains many symbols, it is recommended that they should be defined as early in the text as possible, or within a subsection of the Methods section.
Statistics
Any article reporting p-values must also report 95% Confidence Intervals (CIs) in the text and in figures. All figures that include data used in statistical analyses must show error bars on the figure, either in the main text or Supplementary materials/Supporting documents. Where possible, these error bars should show 95% CIs, but in all cases authors must be explicit about what the error bars show.
MANUSCRIPT PROCESSING
Review Process
Journal for Mountain Resources and Environment employs a double anonymous peer review process. All manuscripts are assessed initially by a the Editor-in-Chief who determines that the manuscript topic is appropriate for the journal and meets standards of content and presentation, then they assign the manuscript to an Editor with expertise in the manuscript’s topic. If the Editor deems the manuscript is of sufficient quality and relevance, they will request reviews. The number of reviews required is at the discretion of the Editor but is typically 2-3.
Once reviews have been received, the Editor summarizes reviewer points, provides an assessment, and makes a recommendation (acceptance, some degree of revision, or rejection) to the Editor-in-Chief. Revised and resubmitted papers will generally be assigned to the same Editor as handled the original submission. The reviewers selected may be the same or different reviewers to those used for the previous submission.
At submission of a revision or resubmission, authors are required to describe how the previous reviews have been considered and addressed by providing detailed point-by-point responses to the comments of reviewers and Editors. State in the response to review when a previous review comment is no longer applicable due to a section being removed. This response should be blinded, and line numbers should match those on the version to which editors and reviewers will refer. Include a PDF with the tracked changes, do not use highlighter, we need to see what was actually deleted, added or moved, to to facilitate the job of the reviewers.
If you have any concerns or wish to communicate about your paper during the review or publication process, please email the Editorial Office (contact) rather than an individual editor. They will transmit your email to the correct person. To avoid unnecessary delays, always quote your manuscript number in any correspondence to the journal, even if the message is generated from within Scholar one.
Decision times
We aim to expedite the review process and editorial decisions to the extent possible. Please note that the decision times can be affected by delays due to factors such as errors in submission, missing information or files, or lack of anonymity. Also, please keep in mind that sometimes securing enough reviewers to make an informed decision can take longer than expected. Reviewing a manuscript is a voluntary activity and a courtesy. Editors strive to minimize the time in review, but ultimately that depends on the reviewers.
PUBLICATION PROCESS AFTER ACCEPTANCE
An Accepted Article has undergone full peer review and has been accepted for publication. Following acceptance, manuscripts require additional steps to make them suitable for publication: copyediting, typesetting, pagination, and proofreading process. Upon acceptance of approved page proofs, accepted articles will be published in a final version and numbered according to the volume, issue and article number for that year.
Only FINAL papers will be given a Digital Object Identifier (DOI), which allows them to be cited and tracked. The DOI remains unique to a given article in perpetuity. More information about DOIs can be found online at http://www.doi.org/faq.html.
Proofs
Once the paper is typeset, the author will receive an email notification with full instructions on how to provide proof corrections. Note that proofs should be returned within one week from receipt of first proof. Should you have any problems meeting this deadline, please contact the production editor, as soon as possible.
Please note that the author is responsible for all statements made in their work, including changes made during the editorial process – authors should check proofs carefully.
