Submissions

Author Guidelines

Note: At the initial submission stage, manuscripts may be submitted in any format. Authors are encouraged to use the guidelines and the Article Template provided below when preparing their manuscripts. If a revision is requested, the revised manuscript must be formatted according to these guidelines and submitted as a Microsoft Word (.doc or .docx) file.

Guide for Authors

Acceptance Conditions and Guidelines for Preparation of Manuscripts in the 

Journal of Climate Change & Sustainable Development Research (JCCSDR)

The Journal of Climate Change & Sustainable Development Research (JCCSDR) is published as a monthly electronic journal (12 issues per year). The journal publishes original research, review articles, and scientific findings covering a broad range of topics, including:

- Climate Change and Adaptation 

- Resilience, Vulnerability, and Impact Assessment 

- Climate Change Prevention and Mitigation 

- Climate Change and Disaster Risk Management (DRM) 

- Climate Change and Loss and Damage 

- Climate Change Modelling 

- Climate Change Education and Teaching 

- Climate Justice, including related Policy, Legislation, and Targets 

- Climate Change and Wetlands 

- Climate Change and Technology 

- Climate Change and Cities 

We invite researchers, academics, and practitioners to submit their valuable findings and studies related to these fields for consideration and publication. As the official language of the journal is English, all manuscripts must be submitted in English.

Publication Fees: 

The review and publication (printing) of manuscripts in the Journal of Climate Change & Sustainable Development Research (JCCSDR) are completely free of charge. All associated costs are covered by Green Energy Designet company(Greenedco.ir).

Guide for Authors to prepare a manuscript (writing method)

• The text of the manuscript should be written in a maximum of 15 pages with dimensions of 21 × 29.7 cm (A4) with a margin of 2.5 cm on the sides, with 1.5 line spacing, in legible letters and typed in a single column.
• All pages of the manuscript, including pages with figures, tables, or images, must have the same spacing and have page numbers. All the lines of each page must also be numbered (the numbering of the lines on each page should start from number one).
• Footnote numbers on each page must start from number one.
• It is necessary for the authors to upload the following files by the authors during the initial submission of the manuscript:
• Original manuscript (without authors' names)
• Author(s) Specification Sheet
• Letter to the editor (letter of commitment)
• Conflict of Interest disclosure form
• AI Tools Usage Declaration Form

Formatting Note: At the initial submission stage, manuscripts may be submitted in any format. Authors are encouraged to use the guidelines and the Article Template provided below when preparing their manuscripts. If the manuscript is invited for revision, the revised version must be formatted according to the guidelines below and submitted as a Microsoft Word (.doc or .docx) file.

• After reviewing, it is necessary for the authors to upload the following files by the authors:
• Manuscript file (modified)
• The highlighted changes manuscript file, where the changes made by the reviewers are marked with a separate color
• Response to the reviewers: in which the comments of the reviewers have been answered separately and in detail

Different parts of the manuscript should be prepared according to the following principles:

Specifications page:

The title of the manuscript, along with the Specifications of the author(s), including name and last name, academic rank, field of study, place of service, and the place and date of the research, should be written on a separate page, without a number. Also, it is necessary to mention the phone number (preferably mobile), fax, and postal address along with the email address of the corresponding author on this page. The number and specifications of the authors must be completely consistent with the persons registered in the system as authors.

Note: Be careful in determining the corresponding author and the order of the authors' names. After submitting the manuscript, it is not possible to change the corresponding author or add or subtract the names of persons, or change the order of the names.

Manuscript title:

In addition to the specification page, the title of the manuscript should be mentioned at the top of the first page without mentioning the name of the author(s). The title should be short, explicit, and comprehensive, and express the topic of the research, and should not exceed 20 words.

Abstract

The abstract should include all the components of the manuscript [introduction (indicating the purpose), materials and methods, results and discussion, conclusion].

Keywords

Between four and six keywords that specify the content of the manuscript and are different from the words used in the title of the manuscript.

Introduction

In this section, a brief statement of the problem, research history related to the research, the necessity of the research, and the desired purposes of the research should be given.

Materials and Methods

In this section, sufficient and explicit information should be provided about the place and method of conducting the research, along with the methods used in measuring, collecting, processing, and analyzing the data. Avoid providing full descriptions of standard or commonly used methods; instead, cite the relevant references for such procedures.

Tables and Figures

• Tables and figures should be comprehensive and expressive and not repeat the information presented in the text.
• The title of the table should be given above and the title of the figures below it, and should be entirely expressive of the results presented in the table and figure, and should include definitions and necessary information, so that the reader does not have to refer to other parts of the article to understand the table or figure. Strictly avoid writing titles in brief.
• Each table is separated from its title by a horizontal line above and from the rest of the text by a horizontal line below. Table headers (column titles) are also distinguished from the table text by a horizontal line. If necessary, use horizontal lines inside the table header box to divide the table header. Do not draw any vertical lines in the table.
• Regarding figures, you can use black and white or colored patterns. Avoid putting a frame (margin) around the figures.

Scientific name

The scientific name of all terms and specific names should be mentioned in parentheses after their common names in italics when they first appear in the text.

Units

All data should be based on the metric (SI) scale.

Equations

In case of presenting mathematical equations, all components of the equation must be precisely defined. Formulas should be typed accurately and, if possible, with an equation editor and numbered from beginning to end with numbers in parentheses.

Results and Discussion

In this section, the findings of the research should be expressed in a way that makes the reader understand the data presented in the text, figures, and tables. Avoid using words such as diagram, graph, map, image, etc., and use only the word "Figure". All data should be presented in only one form (figure or table).

Conclusion

The conclusion of the research findings considering the objectives of the experiment.

Acknowledgment

If it is necessary to thank institutions and individuals, this section should be included under the title of acknowledgment before the list of references.

References

• If references are written and inserted with EndNote software, there is no need to observe a specific reference type. Otherwise, APA format should be used.
• When referring to references, names of persons at the beginning of the sentence should be avoided as much as possible, and references should be presented at the end of the sentence and in parentheses, such as (Mohsenin, 1986). If a reference must be cited at the beginning of the sentence or in the middle of it, after writing the author's name, the author's name and the year should be given in parentheses, such as Mohammadi (Mohammadi, 2001), Samuel et al (Samuel et al., 2009), Smith and Samuel (Smith and Samuel, 2009).
• To separate references at the end of the sentence, use a semicolon ";" such as (Smith, 1999; Samuel et al., 2008; Smith and Samuel, 2009).
• The list of references should be arranged in alphabetical order of the last names of the authors of the article.
• When several works of the same author are used, the numbering of these articles should be done according to the year of their publication (from oldest to newest).
• The English title of Persian articles and publications should be in accordance with the website of the publication itself and strictly avoid translating them.
• The names of all scientific journals must be given in full. Avoid abbreviating the names of journals.
• The names of scientific journals should be mentioned in full and in italics. The name of the book, the title of projects and articles other than scientific journals are also mentioned in italics. Only the first letter of the title and its subsections are capitalized, and the rest are lowercase.

How to set the list of references:

Scientific journals:

 Farrokhi, A., Farzin, S., & Mousavi, S.F. (2021). Meteorological drought analysis in response to climate change conditions, based on combined four-dimensional vine copulas and data mining (VC-DM), Journal of Hydrology, 603, 127-135. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.2021.127135

Helmi, M., Zeraati Neyshabouri, S., Amirabadizadeh, M. & Yaghoobzadeh. M. (2024). Evaluation of SDSM, LARS-WG, and ANN methods in downscaling of temperature and precipitation for two different climates, Journal of Drought and Climate Change Research (JDCR), 1(4), 105-118. [In Persian]. https://doi.org/10.22077/jdcr.2023.6996.1049.

Book:

The first letters of the words in the book must be typed in capital letters.

Spinoni, J., Naumann, G., Vogt, J. & Barbosa, P. (2016). Meteorological Droughts in Europe: Events and Impacts - Past Trends and Future Projections, Publications Office of the European Union, Luxembourg, EUR 27748 EN, https://doi.org/10.2788/450449.

Chapter of edited book:

 Nooden, L.D. (1988). The phenomena of senescence and aging. In: Nooden, L.D., Leopald, A.C. (eds.), Senescence and Aging in Plants. Academic Press, San Diego, CA, USA, pp. 1–50.

Internet references:

Blum, A. (2000). Mitigation of drought stress by crop management. Retrieved June 15, 2010, from http://www.plantstress.com/Articles/index.asp.

Academic theses:

Salehi Tabas, M. (2019). The investigation of climate change impact on agriculture and meteorological drought of Birjand plain by DSSAT vegetarian model and drought indexes. MSc dissertation, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Birjand, Iran.

Conferences:

Berrada, B. (2004). Options for water management during drought. p. 29-37. In: E.D. Martin (ed.), Proceedings of the 4th Annual Four Corners Irrigation Workshop, 8-10 Jul. 2004. Soil and Water Conservation Society, New Mexico, USA.

Note: References to published manuscripts, summarized in abstracts of conference manuscripts, are not accepted, and less than ten percent of the references should be extracted from full conference manuscripts.

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