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Submission Preparation Checklist

As part of the submission process, authors are required to check off their submission's compliance with all of the following items, and submissions may be returned to authors that do not adhere to these guidelines.
  • The submission has not been previously published, nor is it before another journal for consideration (or an explanation has been provided in Comments to the Editor).
  • The submission file is in OpenOffice, Microsoft Word, or RTF document file format.
  • Where available, URLs for the references have been provided.
  • The text is single-spaced; uses a 12-point font; employs italics, rather than underlining (except with URL addresses); and all illustrations, figures, and tables are placed within the text at the appropriate points, rather than at the end.
  • The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines.

Author Guidelines

The editorial board of Studia Universitatis Babeş-Bolyai, series Ambientum welcomes original
contributions in environmental science and management, environmental engineering, environmental risk assessment, and related fields.

All papers are reviewed independently by two referees, but the authors are entirely responsible for the content of their papers.

All published papers will become property of the journal.

The official language of the journal is English.

The preferred modality of submission is online or via e-mail to the address: cristina.rosu@ubbcluj.ro or crisrosu@yahoo.com.

The required format of the page is A4 with the following margins: top 4.8 cm, bottom 4.8 cm, left - right 4 cm, header 4.8 cm, footer 4.6 cm, in one column, with single spaced text written using the Arial 11 pt. font, in MS®Word format. It is recommended that beside the MS®Word version, the authors will submit a pdf version. However, the pdf version cannot replace the MS®Word version.

The suggested length of papers is 8-10 to 18-20 pages, including references and figures. The manuscripts should be arranged as follows: title, including name and affiliation of the authors, abstract, key words, main text, reference list, table captions and tables (example: Table 1 – bold, followed by the title of the table, centered and italic and also the table is centered), figures and figure captions (example: Fig. 1. – bold, and the title is centered and italic).
The submitted papers must also follow closely the instructions below.

Title. The title should be brief but informative, not exceeding 150 characters, including spaces,
format Arial 13, bold, centered.

Name of the author(s). Full forename having capitalized initial, followed by fully capitalized
family name (caps lock), must be centered on the page. Arial 12 font is required.

The affiliation of the authors, marked with numbers on the upper right side of the name (superscript), will be indicated. The author to whom correspondence should be addressed must be indicated by an asterisk and complete address, including e-mail, must be provided. Arial 10 font is required.

Abstract. The abstract, of no more than 250 words, should be arranged in a single paragraph.
It must be written in English, and concisely outline the main findings and major conclusions of the paper. No reference should appear in the abstract. The text will be single spaced, justified and 1.25 cm indented on both sides, the selected font must be Arial 10.
Keywords. The significant key words, no more than 5, written in English below the abstract,
italic, follow the same formatting rules as the abstract, the selected font must be Arial 10.

Text. The first-order headings should be in bold letters, capitalized and left aligned on the page
with 1.25 cm tab. The second-order headings, with initial caps only, italic letters should be also left
aligned. Define abbreviations at first mention in text and in each table and figure. The metric units will be used for all quantitative values. All text citations must have corresponding references. The literature should be cited by the name and date system (e.g., Richard and Blondel, 2005) with more than two authors should be cited as Richard et al. (2005). “In press” citations should refer only to manuscripts that have been formally accepted and must include the name of publication.

References. The references should be arranged alphabetically and chronologically, with the
authors always listed with their last (family) name first. Example:

King C., Park, A., 2007, Advanced environmental monitoring (2nd ed.), John Wiley & Sons, Inc. New
York, 682 p., New York.
Meng X. G., Korfiatis G. P., Christodoulatos C., Bang S., 2005, Treatment of arsenic in Bangladesh well water using a household coprecipitation and filtration system. Water Res., 35, pp. 2805-2810.

Artwork, including figures, photographs, artwork and drafting are expected to be of professional
quality. The digital artwork should be submitted in TIFF, JPG or PSD format, with a resolution higher than 300 dpi.

In a volume for the same author, the editorial committee accepts a single article as first
author and possibly the second article as secondary author.
The main author will receive, free of charge, a copy of the volume.

Introductions & Arguments

Introductions & Arguments present the main topics of the volume. They are not peer-reviewed, and do not receive doi numbers. They should not exceed 10 pages (in Studia UBB Ambientum format).

Articles

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In Memoriam

In memoriam are manuscripts that honor a deceased personality.
They are published in English and should not exceed 5 pages (in Studia UBB Ambientum format).

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