A Multidisciplinary Journal of Environmental Sciences, Ecology, and Public Health

Environmental Research: A Multidisciplinary Journal of Environmental Sciences, Ecology, and Public Health publishes original reports describing studies of the toxic effects of environmental agents and conditions in humans and animals, including both experimental subjects and ecosystems. The principal aims of the journal are to increase understanding of the etiology of preventable disease and environmental impairments, and to increase understanding of the mechanisms by which environmental agents cause disease and ecological effects.

The study of environmental health is inherently multidisciplinary and international. Therefore, the journal welcomes relevant articles in epidemiology, risk analysis and policy, toxicology and related sciences, environmental and occupational medicine, exposure assessment, geosciences and environmental chemistry, and wildlife biology and ecology.

Reports that bridge one or more of these disciplines are particularly encouraged, as are studies employing biological marker of exposure and effect.

Submission of Manuscripts

Authors are requested to submit their papers electronically by using online manuscript submission available at http://ees.elsevier.com/er. This site will guide authors stepwise through the submission process. Authors can upload their articles as Microsoft (MS) Word, WordPerfect, or LaTeX files. It is also possible to submit an article in PostScript or Adobe Acrobat PDF format, but if the article is accepted, the original source files will be needed. If you submit a word processing file, the system generates an Adobe Acrobat PDF version of the article for the reviewing process. Authors, reviewers, and editors send and receive all correspondence by e-mail and no paper correspondence is necessary. The manuscript will be edited according to the style of the journal, and authors must read the proofs carefully.

Online submissions require:

Cover Letter: Document (Word, WordPerfect, RTF, PDF, LaTex) containing your cover letter to the Editors.

Response to Reviews (Resubmissions Only): Document (Word, WordPerfect, RTF, PDF, LaTex) detailing your response to the reviewers' and editor's comments of a previously rejected manuscript that you are re-submitting.

Manuscript: Single word processing (Word, WordPerfect, RTF) or LaTex file consisting of the title page, abstract, manuscript text, and any figure/table legends.

Tables: Tables should be separate from the manuscript text, and can be uploaded individually or consolidated into a single file. The file description you input below when uploading your table must include the table number or range (e.g. Table 1, Tables 2-4).

Figures: Figures should be uploaded individually as TIF or EPS files. While other figure formats are allowed by the system (GIF, JPEG, Postscript, PICT, PDF, Excel and PowerPoint), they will delay the production process, should your manuscript be accepted. The file description you input when uploading your figure must include the figure number (e.g., Fig. 2A).

Manuscripts must be written in English. There are no submission fees or page charges. Manuscripts are accepted for review with the understanding that no substantial portion of the study has been published or is under consideration for publication elsewhere and that its submission for publication has been approved by all of the authors and by the institution where the work was carried out; further, that any person cited as a source of personal communications has approved such citation. Written authorization may be required at the Editor's discretion. Manuscripts that do not meet the general criteria or standards for publication in Environmental Research will be immediately returned to the authors without detailed review.

Upon acceptance of an article, authors will be asked to transfer copyright (for more information on copyright, see http://www.elsevier.com/copyright). This transfer will ensure the widest possible dissemination of information. A letter will be sent to the corresponding author confirming receipt of the manuscript. A form facilitating transfer of copyright will be provided after acceptance.

US National Institutes of Health (NIH) voluntary posting (" Public Access") policy
Elsevier facilitates author response to the NIH voluntary posting request (referred to as the NIH "Public Access Policy"; see http://www.nih.gov/about/publicaccess/index.htm) by posting the peer-reviewed author's manuscript directly to PubMed Central on request from the author, 12 months after formal publication. Upon notification from Elsevier of acceptance, we will ask you to confirm via e-mail (by e-mailing us at NIHauthorrequest@elsevier.com) that your work has received NIH funding and that you intend to respond to the NIH policy request, along with your NIH award number to facilitate processing. Upon such confirmation, Elsevier will submit to PubMed Central on your behalf a version of your manuscript that will include peer-review comments, for posting 12 months after formal publication. This will ensure that you will have responded fully to the NIH request policy. There will be no need for you to post your manuscript directly with PubMed Central, and any such posting is prohibited.

If material from other copyrighted works is included, the author(s) must obtain written permission from the copyright owners and credit the source(s) in the article. Elsevier has preprinted forms for use by authors in these cases: contact Elsevier Global Rights Department, P.O. Box 800, Oxford OX5 1DX, UK; phone: (+44) 1865 843830, fax: (+44) 1865 853333, e-mail: permissions@elsevier.com.

Articles and any other material published in Environmental Research represent the opinions of the author(s) and should not be construed to reflect the opinions of the Editor(s) and the Publisher.

Environmental Research, Section A, will publish full-length articles (usually 10-20 printed pages) and short communications. Short communications, which will be published on an expedited schedule after rapid review, should be no longer than six typewritten pages and contain no more than two figures or tables. Occasional critical reviews and selected book reviews may be invited and, after review, published.

Preparation of Manuscript

Manuscripts should be double-spaced throughout. Number all pages consecutively beginning with the title page.

Page 1 should contain the article title, the names and affiliations of all authors, and the name, telephone and fax numbers, e-mail address, and complete mailing address of the person to whom all correspondence should be sent.

Page 2 should contain an abstract and five descriptive keywords.

Page 3 provides information on funding sources supporting the work described in the manuscript. For all papers dealing with research or studies on human subjects or experimental animals, evidence must be provided of review and approval by an appropriately constituted committee for human subjects or animal research. If this information is not provided upon submission, the paper will be returned without review.

The Introduction should be as concise as possible, without subheadings.

Materials and methods should be sufficiently detailed to enable the experiments to be reproduced.

Results and Discussion may be combined and may be organized into subheadings.

Acknowledgments should be brief and should precede the references.

Abbreviations should follow the usage established by Chemical Abstracts. If others are utilized define on first use.

References should be cited in the text by the author's name and year of publication. References should be listed alphabetically in an unnumbered list at the end of the paper in the following style:

Baecklund, M., Pedersen, N.L., Bjorkman, L., Vahter, M., 1999. Variation in blood concentrations of cadmium and lead in the elderly. Environ. Res. 80, 222-230.

Letourneau, D.K., 1997. Plant-arthropod interactions in agroecosystems. In: Jackson, L.E.(Ed.), Ecology in Agriculture. Academic Press, San Diego, pp. 239-290.

Morgan, W.K.C., Seaton, A. (Eds.), 1995. Occupational Lung Diseases, 3rd ed. Saunders, Philadelphia, pp. 308-373.

The names of journals should be abbreviated according to the latest available edition of Index Medicus or Chemical Abstracts Service Source Index. Only articles that have been published or are in press should be included in the references. "Manuscript in preparation," "personal communication," and "unpublished observation" should be cited as such in the text.

Figures. Number figures consecutively with Arabic numerals. Please visit our Web site at http://www.elsevier.com/artworkinstructions for detailed instructions on preparing electronic artwork.

Color Figures. Illustrations in color in the printed issue can be accepted only if the authors defray the cost. However, if together with your accepted article, you submit usable color figures, then Elsevier will ensure, at no additional charge, that these figures will appear in color on the Web (e.g., ScienceDirect and other sites) regardless of whether these illustrations are reproduced in color in the printed version. For color reproduction in print, you will receive information regarding the costs from Elsevier after receipt of your accepted article.

Please note: Because of technical complications that can arise in converting color figures to "gray scale" (for the printed version should you not opt for color in print), please submit in addition usable black-and-white files corresponding to all the color illustrations.

Tables should be numbered consecutively with Arabic numerals in order of appearance in the text. Type each table double-spaced on a separate page with a short descriptive title typed directly above and with essential footnotes below.

Language editing

Information on author-paid and pre-accept language editing services available to authors can be found at http://authors.elsevier.com/LanguageEditing.html.

Authors in Japan kindly note: Upon request Elsevier Japan will provide a list of people who can check and improve the English of an article (before submission). Please contact our Tokyo office: Elsevier Japan K.K., 1-9-15 Higashi Azabu, Minato-ku, Tokyo 106-0044, Japan; tel.: +81-3-5561-5032; fax: +81-3-5561-5045; e-mail: jp.info@elsevier.com.

Proofs

PDF proofs will be e-mailed to the corresponding author. To avoid delay in publication, only necessary changes should be made, and corrections should be returned promptly. Authors will be charged for alterations that exceed 10% of the total cost of composition.

Offprints
The corresponding author, at no cost, will be provided with a PDF file of the article via e-mail. The PDF file is watermarked.

Online Publication

Your article will appear on Elsevier's online journal database ScienceDirect as an "Article in Press" within approximately 4-6 weeks of acceptance. Articles in Press for this journal can be viewed at http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/00139351. An Article in Press may be cited prior to its publication by means of its unique digital object identifier (DOI) number, which does not change throughout the publication process.

Author Inquiries

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