The Open Environmental Pollution & Toxicology Journal
is an Open Access online journal, which publishes Research
articles, Reviews and Letters in all area of pollution and
toxicology studies in the environment. Aiming at providing
the most complete and reliable source of information on current
developments in the field.
Manuscripts may be submitted directly to toeptj@benthamopen.org.
Each peer-reviewed article that is published in a Bentham
OPEN Journal is universally and freely accessible via
the Internet in an easily readable and printable PDF format.
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online submission and tracking service via Internet facilitates
a speedy and cost-effective submission of manuscripts.1
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Alternatively, you may also submit your full manuscript by
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Manuscripts must be submitted by one of the authors of the
manuscript and should not be submitted by anyone on their
behalf. The principal/corresponding author will be required
to submit a Covering Letter along with the manuscript, on
behalf of all the co-authors (if any). The author(s) will
confirm that the manuscript (or any part of it) has not been
published previously or is not under consideration for publication
elsewhere. Furthermore, any illustration, structure or table
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of all the materials (main text in MS Word or Tex/ LaTeX),
figures/ illustrations in TIFF, PDF or JPEG, and chemical
structures drawn in ChemDraw (CDX)/ISISDraw (TGF) as separate
files, while a PDF version of the entire manuscript must also
be included, embedded with all the figures/ illustrations/tables/chemical
structures etc.
It is imperative that before submission, authors should carefully
proofread the files for special characters, mathematical symbols,
Greek letters, equations, tables and images, to ensure that
they appear in proper format.
A successful electronic submission of a manuscript will be
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author within 72 hours of the dispatch of
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NOTE: Any queries therein should
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All pages must be numbered sequentially, facilitating in the
reviewing and editing of the manuscript.
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Research Articles: The total number of words
for a published research article is from 4000 to 8000 words.
Review Articles: The total number of words
for a published comprehensive review article article is from
8000 to 40000 words, and for mini-review articles from 3000
to 6000 words.
Letter Articles: The total number of words for a
published letter/short communication article is from 3000
to 6000 words.
There is no restriction on the number of figures, tables or
additional files, e.g. video clips, animation and datasets,
that can be included with each article online. Authors should
include all relevant supporting data with each article.
Manuscripts Published: The Journal
accepts letters/short communications, original research articles,
and mini- and full-length review articles written in English.
Supplements, proceedings of conferences and book reviews may
also be considered for publication.
Supplements/Single Topic Issues: The journal
also considers Supplements/Single topic issues for publication.
A Supplements/Single topic will be a collection of articles
(minimum of 6, maximum of 20 articles) based on a contemporary
theme or topic of great importance to the field. Mini-supplements
consisting of between 3 to 5 articles are also welcome. A
Supplement can consist of either all review articles or a
mixture of review and research articles. The Guest Editors'
main editorial task is to invite the contributors to the Supplement
and to manage the peer review of submitted manuscripts. A
short summary or proposal for editing a supplement should
be submitted to the Editor-in-Chief at e-mail to toeptj@benthamopen.org
with a copy to specialissue@benthamopen.org
Conference Proceedings: The
journal will consider for publication proceedings of relevant
conferences in the field. Proposals for publishing conference
proceedings should be submitted to the Editor at e-mail toeptj@benthamopen.org
with a copy to oa@benthamscience.org
Open Access Book Reviews: This
journal publishes open access reviews on recently published
books (both print and electronic) relevant to the journal.
Publishers and authors of books are invited to contact our
book reviews editor at toeptj@benthamopen.org
with book review requests. All submitted books will be reviewed
by an independent expert in the field.
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for research articles and letters submitted to the respective
journals should be divided into the following sections; however,
there can be an extension in the number of sections in review
articles in accordance with the requirements of the topic.
Covering letter
Title page
Abstract
Keywords
Text organization
List of abbreviations (if any)
Conflict of interest (if any)
Acknowledgements (if any)
References
Appendices
Figures/ illustrations (if any)
Chemical structures (if any)
Tables and captions (if any)
Supportive/ supplementary material (if any)
COVERING LETTER: It is a mandatory requirement that
a signed covering letter also be submitted along with the
manuscript by the author to whom correspondence is to be addressed,
delineating the scope of the submitted article declaring the
potential competing interests, acknowledging contributions
from authors and funding agencies, and certifying that the
paper is prepared according to the 'Instructions
for Authors'. All inconsistencies in the text
and in the reference section, and any typographical errors
must be carefully checked and corrected before the submission
of the manuscript. The article contains no such material or
information that may be unlawful, defamatory, fabricated,
plagiarized, or which would, if published, in any way whatsoever,
violate the terms and conditions as laid down in the agreement.
The authors acknowledge that the publishers have the legal
right to take appropriate action against the authors for any
such violation of the terms and conditions as laid down in
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the Covering letter
TITLE: The title should be precise and
brief and must not be more than 120 characters. Authors should
avoid the use of non standard abbreviations. The title must
be written in title case except for articles, conjunctions
and prepositions.
Authors should also provide a short ‘running title’.
ABSTRACT: The abstract should not exceed 250 words
for review and research papers and should be limited to only
150 words for letters, summarizing the essential features
of the article. The use of abbreviations should be reduced
to a minimum and the references should not be cited in the
abstract.
Keywords: Provide 6 to 8 keywords in alphabetical
order.
TEXT ORGANIZATION: The main text should begin
on a separate page and should be divided into separate sections.
For Research articles, the preparation of the main text must
be structured into separate sections as Introduction,
Materials and Methodology, Results, Discussion and Conclusion.
For Review and Letter articles, the manuscript should be divided
into title page, abstract and the main text. The text may
be subdivided further according to the areas to be discussed,
which should be followed by the Acknowledgement (if any) and
Reference sections. The review article should mention any
previous important reviews in the field and contain a comprehensive
discussion starting with the general background of the field.
It should then go on to discuss the salient features of recent
developments. The authors should avoid presenting material
which has already been published in a previous review. The
manuscript style must be uniform throughout the text and 10
pt Times New Roman font should be used. The full term for
an abbreviation should precede its first appearance in the
text unless it is a standard unit of measurement. The reference
numbers should be given in square brackets in the text. Italics
should be used for Binomial names of organisms (Genus and
Species), for emphasis and for unfamiliar words or phrases.
Non-assimilated words from Latin or other languages should
also be italicized e.g. in vivo, in vitro, per se, et
al. etc. Protein and Nucleic acid sequences may be included
and should conform to International databases. Genomic and
Proteomic studies may be included and should conform to International
databases.
It is advisable that the observations be presented and discussed
in brief. Make available all products that they generate such
as protein, DNA, clone, cell or other types of material that
they describe to other investigators in the field who require
them for bona fide purposes. This should be done
with the spirit that the data that are published can be duplicated
and that other ideas can be tested. For research involving
human subjects, authors must name the committee(s) that approved
the experiments in the Materials and methods section of the
paper and include with their submission a statement to confirm
that informed consent was obtained from all subjects.
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submit the Microarray experiment data to the ArrayExpress
using the MIAMExpress submission tool (www.ebi.ac.uk/miamexpress),
which will be subjected to reviewing by the curation team
and if accepted, an ArrayExpress accession number would be
assigned for it. The ArrayExpress offers the facility to maintain
the data until the related paper is published.
Microarray data should be made available for reviewers and
editors at the time of manuscript submission in a MIAME compliant
and widely accessible format. Submission of large raw and/or
analyzed microarray data files as supplementary data to the
journal should be discouraged, which may alternatively be
submitted either to the Gene Expression Omnibus http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/geo/
or ArrayExpress http://www.ebi.ac.uk/arrayexpress
repositories, thereby obtaining an accession number for the
journal and any necessary passwords, to facilitate the reviewers
and editors of a manuscript to access the data. The submission
of the microarray data to either of these repositories should
be done at or before acceptance of a paper for publication,
with accession number being allotted well before publication.
Nomenclature:
The authors are encouraged to use standardized nomenclature
wherever necessary:
- The SI units should be used; if
not exclusively, please provide the SI value in parentheses
after each value.
- Species names should be italicized
(e.g., Homo sapiens). The generic name of a species
should be given in full the first time it appears in the
text. The author authority for each species is desirable
on its first mention. Chemical formulae may not be used
as abbreviations in the text.
- Genes, mutations, genotypes, and
alleles should also be indicated in italics but the protein
product of a gene should be in Roman type . Use the recommended
name by consulting the appropriate genetic nomenclature
database, e.g., HUGO for human genes. It is sometimes
advisable to indicate the synonyms for the gene the first
time it appears in the text. Gene prefixes such as those
used for oncogenes or cellular localization should be
shown in roman: v-fes, c-MYC, etc.
- The Recommended International
Non-Proprietary Name (rINN) of drugs should be provided.
- In case of usage of symbols that
do not conform to those that have previously appeared
in the literature, their aliases may be obtained from
the approved nomenclature in the Human Gene Nomenclature
Database (Genew) [www.gene.ucl.ac.uk/nomenclature/guidelines.html]
and LocusLink, to allow retrieval of all the information
available for each gene.
Taxonomic nomenclature: The Latin name and
taxonomic authority (e.g. Linnaeus) should be given for all
experimental species. Chemical nomenclature must conform to
the Subject Index of Chemical Abstracts.
Accession Numbers:
All appropriate datasets, images, and information
should be deposited in public resources. Please provide the
relevant accession numbers (and version numbers, if appropriate)
and any necessary passwords to enable the reviewers and editors
of a manuscript to access the data.
Providing accession numbers facilitates linking to and from
the established databases and integrates the article with
a broader collection of scientific information, therefore
list all accession numbers should be listed directly after
the Supporting Information section.
All accession numbers for all entities such as genes, proteins,
mutants, diseases, etc., for which there is an entry in a
public database should be included in the manuscript. Experimental
data should be submitted to the appropriate databases, with
a release date corresponding to the date of publication.
Greek Symbols and Special Characters: Greek symbols
and special characters often undergo formatting changes and
get corrupted or lost during preparation of manuscript for
publication. To ensure that all special characters used are
embedded in the text, these special characters should be inserted
as a symbol but should not be a result of any format styling
(Symbol font face) otherwise they will be lost during
conversion to PDF/XML2.
Authors are encouraged to consult reporting guidelines. These
guidelines provide a set of recommendations comprising a list
of items relevant to their specific research design. All kinds
of measurements should be reported only in International System
of Units (SI).
LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS: Abbreviations use should be
restricted to a minimum. All non-standard abbreviations should
be listed in alphabetical order, along with their expanded
form, defining them upon the first use in the text. Non-standard
abbreviations should not be used unless they appear at least
three times in the text. If abbreviations are used in the
text either they should be defined in the text where first
used, or a list of abbreviations can be provided.
CONFLICT OF INTEREST: Financial contributions to
the work being reported should be clearly acknowledged, as
should any potential conflict of interest.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS: Please acknowledge anyone (individual/company/institution)
who has contributed to the study 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. Please list the source(s) of funding for the study,
for each author, and for the manuscript preparation in the
acknowledgements section.
This journal complies with the International Committee of
Medical Journal Editors' Uniform Requirements for Manuscripts
Submitted to Biomedical Journals www.icmje.org
and the FDA's Good Reprint Practices for the Distribution
of Medical Journal Articles and Medical or Scientific Reference
Publications on Unapproved New Uses of Approved Drugs and
Approved or Cleared Medical Devices http://www.fda.gov/oc/op/goodreprint.html
REFERENCES: References must be listed in the numerical
system (Vancouver). All references should be numbered sequentially
[in square brackets] in the text and listed in the same numerical
order in the reference section. The reference numbers must
be finalized and the bibliography must be fully formatted
before submission.
See below few examples of references listed in the correct
Vancouver style:
Typical Paper Reference:
[1] McKenney DW, Hutchinson MF, Kesteven JL, Venier LA. Canada’s
plant hardiness zones revisited using modern climate interpolation
techniques. Can J Plant Sci 2001; 81: 129-43.
Typical Chapter Reference:
[2] DePauw R, Hunt T. In: Bomjean AP, Angus WJ, Eds. Canadian
wheat pool. The world wheat book: A history of wheat breeding.
Lavoisier, Paris, France 2001; 479-515.
Book Reference:
[3] Munshower FF. Disturbed land revegetation, Lewis Publishers,
Boca Raton, FL. 1994; pp. 265.
Edited Book:
[4] Santaniello V, Evenson RE, Zilberman D, Carlson GA, Eds.
Agriculture and intellectual property rights: Economic, institutional,
and implementation issues in biotechnology. CABI Publishing,
10 E 40th St., Suite 3203, New York, NY 10016, 2000.
Conference Paper:
[5] Vanclay F. Agriculture, environment and society: Contemporary
issues for Australia. In: Lawrence G, Vanclay F, Furze B,
Eds. Macmillan, Melbourne. 1992; pp. 94-121.
Conference Proceedings:
[6] Goss K, Chisholm T, Graetz D, Noble I, Barson M. Australian
Agronomy Conferences. Proc. 5th
(Perth), 6th (Armidale) and
7th (Adelaide) Conferences,
1989, 1991 and 1993. Sustaining the agricultural resource
base. Office of the Chief Scientist, Dept. of the Prime Minister
and Cabinet, AGPS Canberra. 1995.
Journal Article on the Internet:
[7] Collinge DB, Kragh KM, Mikkelsen JD, Nielsen KK, Rasmussen
U, Vad K. Plant chitinases. Plant J 1993 Jan, 3 (1), 31–40.
doi:10.1046/j.1365-313X.1993.t01-1-00999.x
Book/Monograph on the Internet:
[8] Donaldson MS, Ed. Measuring the quality of health care
[monograph on the internet]. Washington: National Academy
Press; 1999 [cited 2004 Oct 8]. Available from: http://legacy.netlibrary.com/
Web site/Homepage:
[9] HeartCentreOnline [homepage on the Internet]. Boca Raton,
FL: HeartCentreOnline, Inc.; c2000-2004 [updated 2004 May
23; cited 2004 Oct 15]. Available from: http://www.heartcenteronline.com/
Journal with Part/Supplement:
If a journal carries continuous pagination throughout the
volume, then the issue number can be omitted.
Issue with Supplement:
[10] Kamenik C, Koinig KA, Schmidt R, et al. Eight
hundred years of environmental changes in a high Alpine lake
(Gossenköllesee, Tyrol) inferred from sediment records.
J Limnol 2000; 59(suppl. 1): 43-52.
Volume with Part:
[11] Abend SM, Kulish N. The psychoanalytic method from an
epistemological viewpoint. Int J Psychoanal 2002; 83(Pt 2):
491 5.
Issue with Part:
[12] Ahrar K, Madoff DC, Gupta S, Wallace MJ, Price RE, Wright
KC. Development of a large animal model for lung tumors. J
Vasc Interv Radiol 2002; 13(9 Pt 1): 923-8.
Patent:
[13] Spiering BA, Carter GA, inventors; Plant chlorophyll
content imager with reference detection signals. United States
patent US 20006114683. 2000 Sep.
E-citations:
[14] Citations for articles/material published exclusively
online or in open access (free-to-view) , must contain the
exact Web addresses (URLs) at the end of the reference(s),
except those posted on an author’s Web site unless editorially
essential, e.g. ‘Reference: Available from: URL’.
Some important points to remember:
*All references must be complete and accurate.
*If the number of authors exceeds six then et al.
will be used after three names (the term “et al.”
should be in italics).
*Online citations should include the date of access.
*Journal abbreviations should follow the Index Medicus/MEDLINE.
*Take special care of the punctuation convention as described
in the above-mentioned examples.
*Avoid using superscript in the in-text citations and reference
section.
*Abstracts, unpublished data and personal communications
(which can only be included if prior permission has been obtained)
should not be given in the reference section but they may
be mentioned in the text and details provided as footnotes.
*The authors are encouraged to use a recent version of EndNote
(version 5 and above) or Reference Manager (version 10) when
formatting their reference list, as this allows references
to be automatically extracted.
APPENDICES: In case there is a need to present
lengthy, but essential methodological details, use appendixes,
which can be a part of the article. An appendix must not exceed
three pages (Times New Roman, 12 point fonts, 900 max. words
per page).The information should be provided in a condensed
form, ruling out the need of full sentences. A single appendix
should be titled APPENDIX, while more than one can be titled
APPENDIX A, APPENDIX B, and so on.
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the illustrations as separate files, as well as embedded in
the text file, numbered consecutively in the order of their
appearance. Each figure should include a single illustration.
No charges will be levied on the use of color figures except
in the reprints. Each figure should be closely cropped to
minimize the amount of white space surrounding the illustration.
If a figure consists of separate parts, it is important that
a single composite illustration file be submitted, containing
all parts of the figure.
Photographs should be provided with a scale bar if appropriate,
as well as high-resolution component files.
Scaling/ Resolution:
For Line Art image type, which is generally an image
based on lines and text and does not contain tonal or shaded
areas, the preferred file format is TIFF or EPS, with colour
mode being Monochrome 1-bit or RGB, in a resolution of 900-1200
dpi.
For Halftone image type, which is generally a continuous tone photograph and contains no text, the preferred file format is TIFF, with colour mode being or RGB or Grayscale, with a minimum resolution of 300 dpi.
For Combination image type, which is generally an image containing
halftone in addition to text or line art elements, the preferred
file format is TIFF, with colour mode being or RGB or Grayscale,
in a resolution of 500-900 dpi.
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For illustrations, the following file formats are
acceptable:
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• PDF (also especially suitable for
diagrams)
• PNG (preferred format for photos
or images)
• Microsoft Word (version 5 and above;
figures must be a single page)
• PowerPoint (figures must be a single
page)
• TIFF
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the original file)
• BMP
• CDX (ChemDraw)
• TGF (ISISDraw)
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If the large size of TIFF or EPS figures acts as an obstacle
to online submission, authors may find that conversion to
JPEG format before submission results in significantly reduced
file size and upload time, while retaining acceptable quality.
JPEG is a 'lossy' format, however. In order to maintain acceptable
image quality, it is recommended that JPEG files are saved
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which are already compressed.
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1. Supply embedded graphics in your word processor (spreadsheet,
presentation) document;
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BMP, PICT, WPG); the resolution is too low;
3. Supply files that are too low in resolution;
4. Submit graphics that are disproportionately large for the
content.
Image Conversion Tools:
There are many software packages, many of them freeware
or shareware, capable of converting to and from different
graphics formats, including PNG.
Good general tools for image conversion include GraphicConverter
on the Macintosh, PaintShop Pro, for Windows, and ImageMagick,
which is available on Macintosh, Windows and UNIX platforms.
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as, EPS format. In case the images have been originally prepared
in an Office application, such as Word or PowerPoint, then
the original Office files should be directly uploaded to the
site, instead of being converted to JPEG or another format
that may be of low quality.
Chemical Structures: Chemical structures MUST be prepared according to the guidelines below.
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[As according to the ACS style sheet]
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Fixed length 14.4 pt (0.500cm, 0.2in)
Bold width 2.0 pt (0.071cm, 0.0278in)
Line width 0.6 pt (0.021cm, 0.0084in)
Margin width 1.6 pt (0.096cm)
Hash spacing 2.5 pt (0.088cm, 0.0347in)
Text settings:
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Size 8 pt
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Detailed legends may then follow.
*Table number in bold font i.e. Table 1,
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the first letter in caps. A full stop should be placed at
the end of the title.
*Tables should be embedded in the text exactly according
to their appropriate placement in the submitted manuscript.
*Columns and rows of data should be made visibly distinct
by ensuring that the borders of each cell are displayed as
black lines.
*Tables should be numbered in Arabic numerals sequentially
in order of their citation in the body of the text.
*If a reference is cited in both the table and text, please
insert a lettered footnote in the table to refer to the numbered
reference in the text.
*Tabular data provided as additional files can be submitted
as an Excel spreadsheet.
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We do encourage to append supportive material, for example
a PowerPoint file containing a talk about the study, a PowerPoint
file containing additional screenshots, a Word, RTF, or PDF
document showing the original instrument(s) used, a video,
or the original data (SAS/SPSS files, Excel files, Access
Db files etc.) provided it is inevitable or endorsed by the
journal's Editor.
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you have obtained written permission from the copyright holder,
which must be forwarded to the Editorial Office in case of
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not be a part of the submitted paper. In-text citations as
well as a section with the heading "Supportive/ Supplementary
Material" before the "References" section should
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