Oxford Journals

Instructions to Authors

Scope
Editorial review
Submission
Copyright
Open Access Option for Authors
Format
Abbreviations
Figures
Permissions
Supplementary data
Proofs
Offprints
post-print

SCOPE OF JOURNAL

The International Journal of Low-Carbon Technologies is a quarterly publication concerned with the challenge of climate change and its effects on the built environment and sustainability. The Journal publishes original, quality research papers on issues of climate change, sustainable development and the built environment related to architecture, building services engineering, civil engineering, building engineering, urban design and other disciplines. It features in-depth articles, technical notes, review papers, book reviews and special issues devoted to international conferences. The journal encourages submissions related to interdisciplinary research in the built environment. The journal is available in paper and electronic formats. All articles are peer-reviewed by leading experts in the field.

EDITORIAL REVIEW AND ACCEPTANCE

The acceptance criteria for a manuscript are the quality and originality of the research and its significance to our readership. Except where otherwise stated, manuscripts are single-blind peer reviewed by at least two anonymous reviewers and the editor. Final acceptance or rejection rests with the Editorial Board, who reserves the right to refuse any material for publication.

SUBMISSION OF MANUSCRIPTS

The International Journal of Low-Carbon Technologies accepts contributions in three broad categories:

Original papers reporting research and development work. These should typically be 3000–4000 words in length plus figures and tables.
Short communications – allowing the rapid publication of preliminary announcements concerning new ideas or current work. These should typically be 1000–1500 words in length with a maximum of four figures and/or tables.
Reviews or critical assessments of research and development work, dealing with their subject in broad perspective. These should typically be 4000–5000 words in length plus figures and tables.

Book reviews and special conference issues are also featured, and the Editor particularly encourages submissions originating from interdisciplinary research in the built environment.

Manuscripts should be written in English and must be submitted online through our Online Submission Website. For full instructions click here. Once you have prepared your manuscript according to the instructions please visit the online submission website.

COPYRIGHT

Copyright of any article published in The Internationl Journal of Low-Carbon Technologies will belong to the author or their designee. However, it is a condition of publication in the journal that authors grant an exclusive licence to publish to Oxford University Press. This ensures that requests from third parties to reproduce articles are handled efficiently and consistently and allows the article to be as widely disseminated as possible. As part of the licence agreement, authors may use their own material in other publications provided that the Journal is acknowledged as the original place of publication and Oxford University Press as the Publisher. Manuscripts will not be published without submission of an original signed copyright form.

Authors are reminded that it is their responsibility to comply with copyright laws. It is essential to ensure that no part of the text or illustrations have appeared or are due to appear in other publications, without prior permission from the copyright holder. Submission of the manuscript will be taken to indicate the authors compliance with these conditions.

The corresponding author will be asked to complete the licence to publish form upon acceptance of their manuscript. No article will be published unless the signed licence has been received at Oxford Journals. Faxing a copy of the form when requested will assist the rapid publication of your article.

As the Author(s), copyright of the Article remains yours (or your employer’s if your employer claims copyright in your work). See here for full details of Oxford Journals' copyright policy.

OPEN ACCESS OPTION FOR AUTHORS

International Journal of Low-Carbon Technologies authors have the option, at an additional charge, to make their paper freely available online immediately upon publication, under the Oxford Open initiative. After your manuscript is accepted, as part of the mandatory licence form required of all corresponding authors, you will be asked to indicate whether or not you wish to pay to have your paper made freely available immediately. If you do not select the Open Access option, your paper will be published with standard subscription-based access and you will not be charged.

For those selecting the Open Access option, the charges for International Journal of Low-Carbon Technologies vary depending on the institution at which the Corresponding author is based:

International Journal of Low-Carbon Technologies:
Regular charge - £900 / $1800 / €1350
List B developing country charge** - £450 / $900 / €675
List A developing country charge** - £0 / $0 / €0

For a Corresponding author based at an institution that does not subscribe to the online journal:
Regular charge - £1500 / $3000 / €2250
List B developing country charge** - £750 / $1500 / €1125
List A developing country charge** - £0 /$0 / €0

*Visit http://www.oxfordjournals.org/jnls/devel/ for list of qualifying countries

Orders from UK will be subject to a 15% VAT charge. For orders from the rest of the EU, we will assume that the service is provided for business purposes, please provide a VAT number for yourself or your institution and ensure you account for your own local VAT correctly.

The above Open Access charges are in addition to any page charges and colour charges that might apply.

If you choose the Open Access option you will also be asked to complete an Open Access charge form online Open Access charge form online. You will be automatically directed to the appropriate version of the form depending on whether you are based at an institution with an online subscription to International Journal of Low-Carbon Technologies. Therefore please make sure that you are using an institutional computer when accessing the form. To check whether you are based at a subscribing institution please use the Subscriber Test link for International Journal of Low-Carbon Technologies.

FORMAT OF MANUSCRIPT

Title page

Title of paper.
Full name(s) and affiliation(s) of author(s), including one email address for correspondence.
An abstract in English of no more than 100 words.
Up to 5 keywords.

Main text

Use SI units throughout.
Use italic typeface for variables; bold for vectors and matrices.
Cite figures and tables like this: Table 1; Fig. 5; Figs 3(a) and (b).
Cite references as follows: 'a recent study [1]'.
Define terms and abbreviations, except for those commonly used.
Avoid footnotes to text; include them in the text or reference list.

References: The Vancouver system of referencing should be used (examples are given below). In the text, references should be marked using [Arabic numerals] in the order in which they appear.

In the reference list, if a reference has many authors, list only the first three authors, followed by 'et al.' Reference to unpublished data and personal communications should not appear in the list but should be cited in the text only (e.g. Smith A, 2000, unpublished data). All citations mentioned in the text, tables or figures must be listed in the reference list.

Names of journals should be abbreviated. Authors are responsible for the accuracy of the references.

Kennedy T, Jones R. Effect of obesity on esophageal transit. Int J Low Carbon Tech1985;149:177–81.

Manners T, Jones R, Riley M. Relationship of overweight to haitus hernia and reflux oesophagitis. In Newman W (ed). Low Carbon Technology. Elsevier Science, 1997, 352–74.

Hou Y, Qiu Y, Vo NH et al. 23-O derivatives of OMT: highly active against H. influenzae. In: Programs and Abstracts of the Forty-third Interscience Conference on on Low Carbon Technology, Chicago, IL, 2003. Abstract F-1187, p.242.

Tables: Tables should be self-contained and complement, but not duplicate, information contained in the text. Tables should be consecutively numbered in the text in Arabic numerals. Legends should be concise but comprehensive: the table, legend and footnotes must be understandable without reference to the text. Vertical grid lines should not be used to separate columns. Each column in a table must have a heading, with units of measurement in parentheses; all abbreviations must be defined in footnotes.

ABBREVIATIONS

Abbreviations should be used sparingly: only where they ease the reader's task by reducing repetition of long, technical terms. Initially use the word in full, followed by the abbreviation in parentheses. Thereafter use the abbreviation only.

FIGURES

Please be aware that the requirements for online submission and for reproduction in the journal are different: (i) for online submission and peer review, please upload your figures either embedded in the word processing file or separately as low-resolution images (.jpg, .tif, .gif or. eps); (ii) for reproduction in the journal, you will be required after acceptance to supply high-resolution .tif files (1200 d.p.i. for line drawings and 300 d.p.i. for colour and half-tone artwork) or high-quality printouts on glossy paper. We advise that you create your high-resolution images first as these can be easily converted into low-resolution images for online submission.

For useful information on preparing your figures for publication, go to http://cpc.cadmus.com/da/index.jsp. Figures will not be relettered by the publisher. The journal reserves the right to reduce the size of illustrative material. Any photomicrographs, electron micrographs or radiographs must be of high quality. Wherever possible, photographs should fit within the print area of 169 x 235 mm (full page) or within the column width of 82 mm. Photomicrographs should provide details of staining technique and a scale bar. Patients shown in photographs should have their identity concealed or should have given their written consent to publication. Normally no more than six illustrations will be accepted for publication in the print issue without charge.

Figures should be cited in consecutive order in the text, if possible. Graphs should be drawn professionally or with a computer graphics package. Pictures should be supplied electronically. Individual photographs forming a composite figure should be of equal contrast. Magnifications should be indicated using a scale bar on the illustration.

Figure legends should be concise but comprehensive: the figure and its legend must be understandable without reference to the text. Include definitions of any symbols used and define/explain all abbreviations and units of measurement.

The quality of reproduction is limited by the quality of the submitted material. All figures must be of high quality - they should be sharply focused, have good contrast and any lettering must be clear and legible. Colour illustrations can be reproduced if there is sufficient scientific merit in doing so. Authors will be expected to bear the cost of colour origination by the Journal’s printers.

Guidance for preparation of Figures
Figures should be sized to fit a single column of the Journal where possible (88 mm) or a double column if necessary (180 mm). The preferred font for lettering is Times; lettering should have an upper case height of 2 mm and a lower case height of 1 mm at publication size (corresponding to point size 8). Line thickness should be set at 0.5 points. Shading used on line drawings should be clear and distinctive; shades of grey and heavy stippling do not reproduce well. Lines and symbols should be drawn boldly enough to withstand reduction. The preferred symbols are filled circles, open circles, filled squares, open squares, filled triangles and open triangles, and should be no smaller than 1 mm (height/diameter) at publication size. Part labels should be lower case letters within parentheses, e.g. (a), (b), (c) etc.

PERMISSIONS

Authors must:

obtain permission from the original publisher and, if requested, the original author (i.e. the corresponding author of the article from which the figure/table has come) for reproducing/modifying figures/tables.
request the following when seeking to reproduce any kind of third party material:

(i) non-exclusive rights to reproduce the material in the specified article and journal.
(ii) print and electronic rights, preferably for use in any form or medium.
(iii) the right to use the material for the life of the work.
(iv) world-wide English-language rights. If rights for all languages can be secured, this is preferable.
(v) the right to use images with a resolution of 150 dpi in the PDF version of the journal or 72 dpi in the HTML version.
include a statement indicating that permission has been obtained in the relevant legend/footnote.
provide the Editorial Office with copies of any relevant paperwork.

For further details, as well as a template permissions request letter, please contact the Editorial Office.

SUPPLEMENTARY DATA

Only directly relevant experimental data should be included in the full text of manuscripts. Supporting data should be submitted for review as supplementary material, in a separate file from the manuscript, for publication online only. Material that has not been peer-reviewed will be made available only through a link to the author's home page, at the discretion of the Editor. Supplementary Material can be published in these formats: .txt, .htslp, .shtml, .html, .htm, .jpg, .jpeg, .gif, .mov, .mpg, .avi, .pdf, .xls, .zip, .doc, .rtf, .tif, .dtl.