Environmental Toxicology and Ecology

The Journal of Environmental Toxicology and Ecology is a peer-reviewed journal established in 2021. The journal is supported by the Society of Ecology and Ecotoxicology and is published by the same association.  

ETOXEC aims to improve interdisciplinary communication and to promote the understanding of important environmental problems and the development of methodology for their solution. The journal aims to publish original research and reviews on the behavior of pollutants, the human impact on the environment, the exposure of environmental pollutants and the effects of these pollutants on living organisms, environmental improvement and management, plant ecology and systematics, animal ecology and systematics, genetic toxicology, microbiology. 

Journal of Environmental Toxicology and Ecology; It is a national journal that publishes original research articles and reviews in the following areas:
o Animal Ecology
o Plant ecology
o Ecotoxicology
o Zoology
o Plant Systematics
o Mammalian Ecology and Systematics
o Reptile Ecology and Systematics
o Environmental Pollution
o Environmental Modeling
o Environmental Education
o Environmental Chemistry
o Environmental Microbiology,
o Environmental Health,
o Environmental Protection Issues, Experimental, Analytical, Industrial Studies
o Soil Pollution
o Water Pollution
o Drinking Water Treatment, Wastewater Treatment
o Air Pollution, Gas Disposal
o Noise Pollution and Control
o Biomonitoring and biomarkers
o Environmental nanotechnology

In addition to the manuscript, the following 3 files must be uploaded to the journal during the article submission process. You can access these files from the Article Template and Forms menu on the journal home page. 

1- Full Text File (You can prepare your article with this template)

2- Copyright Form

3- Authorship Contributions 

4-Ethics Committee Approval (If you have a study that requires Ethics Committee approval, the approval document obtained from the relevant unit will be attached to this form. This attached file will be uploaded. If Ethics Committee Permission is not required for your work, the relevant field will be filled in this form and uploaded to the Journal as "Ethics Committee Approval" section similarly.

5-Conflict of Interest 

3-Research and Publication Ethics Statement (It will be uploaded to the Journal as an Supporting File)

GENERAL REQUIREMENTS
Your paper for Environmental Toxicology and Ecology should be no longer than 20 pages, including references, appendices, figures, and tables.
Tables are a concise and effective way to present large amounts of data. You should design them carefully so that you clearly communicate your results to busy researchers. Display items (tables, figures) should be inserted into the manuscript. sequentially from 1 to n. The paper should be written in Microsoft Word. We have observed that keeping papers on the shorter side usually improves the writing and makes the logic tighter, so we are maintaining a rather strict page limit. It is important that authors follow our instructions carefully. To help you in this task, we have written this document in the recommended format and the Word version includes the embedded styles. 

Margins
In the first page which includes Title and Abstract must be 5 cm from top, 2.5 cm from bottom, left and right. For the other pages, left and right margins must be 1.5 cm and others should be 2.5 cm, with text fully justified. 

Spacing
The body text of the paper should be single-spaced and fully justified in 12 point Times New Roman font. Do not leave one-line space between paragraphs, and do not indent the first line of a new paragraph.  Use one space after punctuation marks such as periods, commas, semi-colons, and colons. No space after internal periods in abbreviations (a.m., i.e., U.S.).
Do not insert one-line space between paragraphs. Use 12 pt. line after and before the all paragraphs.

Headings
For the main headings use 12 point Times New Roman bold font, all letters caps, centered. 
For Level 2 headings, use justified 12-point Times New Roman font and capitalize the first letter of the first word. Please use the MS Word font styles for the headings

First Page Requirements

Title of the Article
Do not use a separate title page. For the article title, use 14-point Times New Roman bold font, only first letter caps, centered.

Authors
Do not write down any information about authors at this stage. Author information will be required after your submission is accepted for publishing.

Abstract and Keywords
Use no more than 300 words in the abstract to indicate the nature of the topic and to briefly summarize the findings of the paper. Put “Keywords:” on the next cell, followed by no more than five keywords.

The Body of the Paper
The body of the paper should be separated from the abstract by two-line spaces. The “body text” style used here is justified 12-point Times New Roman font. In body text, space no space after each period that ends a sentence. Do not leave a line space between paragraphs. Do NOT indent the first word of a new paragraph.
Footnotes, Figures, and Tables

Footnotes
Footnotes are generally discouraged but may be used when necessary. They should be numbered consecutively and placed at the bottom of the page on which they appear, separated from the body of the text by a line one inch long (or 10 spaces). Two footnotes on the same page should be separated by a line space. Be sure to observe the margin requirements at the bottom of the page. Footnotes should not be attached to equations.

Figures and Tables
Use a 10 pt Times New Roman font for figure and table captions. Figures and tables should appear soon after their first citation in the text and should be included in a manner that allows easy reference while reading the text. Please try to make them as legible as possible.
Figure captions should be located below the figure, centered and not bolded with no period following the figure number or at the ends of the lines.
Table captions should be located above the table on two lines, not bolded, with the table number on the first line, the description on the next line, both lines left-justified and no periods at the end of the table number or the lines. Leave one blank line between the end of the caption and the table.

For both table and figure captions, capitalize only the first letter of the first word unless a word is normally capitalized because it is a proper name. Do not use bold fonts. Do not use periods after the table and figure numbers, and no periods at the ends of the lines. Refer to all tables and figures nearby in the text.

Tables should be centered, if possible across the entire page, as shown in Table 1. The entries in the cells of the table should be left justified. The font used for the cell entries is left to the discretion of the author. In general tables look better and are easier to read if you minimize the number of vertical lines and use only horizontal lines so far as possible as shown in Table 1.

REFERENCES

Books;
E. F. Moore, “Gedanken-experiments on sequential machines,” in Automata Studies (Ann. of Math. Studies, no. 1), C. E. Shannon and J. McCarthy, Eds. Princeton, NJ, USA: Princeton Univ. Press, 1965, pp. 129–153.

Books, Monographs (Online)
G. O. Young, “Synthetic structure of industrial plastics,” in Plastics, vol. 3, Polymers of Hexadromicon, J. Peters, Ed., 2nd ed. New York, NY, USA: McGraw-Hill, 1964, pp. 15–64. [Online]. Available: http://www.bookref.com.

Editorial Book
C. Bennett, “What happens when you book an airline ticket? The collection and processing of passenger data post9/11,” in Global Surveillance and Policing: Borders, Security, Identity, E. Zureik and M. Salter, Eds., Cullompton, U.K.: Willan, 2005, pp. 113–138.

Congress and Conference Papers
D. Caratelli, M. C. Viganó, G. Toso, and P. Angeletti, “Analytical placement technique for sparse arrays,” presented at the 32nd ESA Antenna Workshop, Noordwijk, The Netherlands, Oct. 5–8, 2010.

Patent
J. P. Wilkinson, “Nonlinear resonant circuit devices,” U.S. Patent 3 624 125, Jul. 16, 1990.

Reports
E. E. Reber, R. L. Michell, and C. J. Carter, “Oxygen absorption in the earth’s atmosphere,” Aerospace Corp., Los Angeles, CA, USA,Tech. Rep. TR-0200 (4230-46)-3, Nov. 1988.

Online Reports
R. J. Hijmans and J. van Etten, “Raster: Geographic analysis and modeling with raster data,” R Package Version 2.0-12, Jan. 12, 2012. [Online]. Available: http://CRAN.R-project.org/package=raster

Theses
J. O. Williams, “Narrow-band analyzer,” Ph.D. dissertation, Dept. Elect. Eng., Harvard Univ., Cambridge, MA, USA, 1993.
N. Kawasaki, “Parametric study of thermal and chemical nonequilibrium nozzle flow,” M.S. thesis, Dept. Electron. Eng., Osaka Univ., Osaka, Japan, 1993.

Website
J. Smith. “Obama inaugurated as President.” CNN.com. http://www.cnn.com/POLITICS/01/21/obama_inaugurated/index.html (accessed Feb. 1, 2009).

Articles
M. M. Chiampi and L. L. Zilberti, “Induction of electric field in human bodies moving near MRI: An efficient BEM computational procedure,” IEEE Trans. Biomed. Eng., vol. 58, pp. 2787–2793, Oct. 2011, doi: 10.1109/TBME.2011.2158315.

R. Fardel, M. Nagel, F. Nuesch, T. Lippert, and A. Wokaun, “Fabrication of organic light emitting diode pixels by laser-assisted forward transfer,” Appl. Phys. Lett., vol. 91, no. 6, Aug. 2007, Art. no. 061103.

For more detailed information, you can access the reference guide at https://ieeeauthorcenter.ieee.org/wp-content/uploads/IEEE-Reference-Guide.pdf.

Citations

References in the text should be in square brackets. Examples;

.....Shrimps live especially in muddy, sandy-muddy or rocky rifts [1].

.....Marine animals have been reported to die each year since the 1990s [2].

.....as shown by Brown [3];


In articles with 3 or more authors; According to Author et al. [4] should be used.

In a study of this issue, Avio et al [5] reported that…..

Quotations
If a quotation contains two or more sentences and four or more lines, it should be set off from the body of the text with 1.5-inch left and right margins.

Formulas
All formulas should be placed on separate lines, justified, and numbered consecutively. Be certain that all symbols are adequately defined. Identification numbers should be placed in the right side of the formula.

Appendices
Appendices, if needed, should immediately follow the body of the paper and precede the references. Please use appendices sparingly. All tables and figures should be referred to in the text and located in the body of the paper, as near as possible to where they are referred to in the text.

Acknowledgments
If you wish to thank the reviewers, editors, or any person who contributed to the work, this thank you text should be written in this area.

Funding
Please provide all the details requested by your funding and support organizations under the heading Funding as follows:
“This study is supported by ……………... Project Number: ………………..”

If no support was received, then, under this heading "The author (s) has no received any financial support for the research, authorship or publication of this study." statement should be written.

The Declaration of Conflict of Interest/ Common Interest
Authors should indicate any conflicts of interest that may arise from financial relationships, personal relationships or competition, academic competition, or differences in ideologies or beliefs. These conflicts can be personal, commercial, political, academic or financial. As the author, you must make a report if this is the case. For example,

"In accordance with the conflict of interest policy and my ethical obligation as a researcher, I inform you that ……… [firm, institution, person] may be affected by the research reported in the accompanying document. I have fully disclosed this conflict of interest situation to the journal and I have an approved plan to manage potential conflicts.” like.
If there is no conflict of interest or common interest, then, the following statement should be written:
“No conflict of interest or common interest has been declared by the authors”.

Authors' Contribution
Under this heading, "The authors contributed equally to the study" or "The first author contributed 60%, the second author 40%." expressions such as should be included.

The Declaration of Ethics Committee Approval
If the study requires the approval of the ethics committee, the name, date, and number of the board from which the consent was obtained should be specified under this heading. In addition, information about the permit should be included in the METHOD section. A copy of the permission obtained should be added Ethics Committee Approval and Research, Publication Ethics Statement Form and must be uploaded at the article submission stage.

If the study does not require ethics committee permission, the statement "This study does not require ethics committee permission or any special permission" should be included under this heading.

In addition, if ethics committee approval is not required, the relevant field should be marked in the ETHICS COMMITTEE APPROVAL AND PUBLICATIONS ETHICS STATEMENT FORM. Then, it should be signed by the responsible author and uploaded to the system at the stage of submitting the article.

The Declaration of Research and Publication Ethics
The following statement should be included under this heading:
“The authors of the paper declare that they comply with the scientific, ethical and quotation rules of ETOXEC in all processes of the paper and that they do not make any falsification on the data collected. In addition, they declare that Environmental Toxicology and Ecology and its editorial board have no responsibility for any ethical violations that may be encountered, and that this study has not been evaluated in any academic publication environment other than Environmental Toxicology and Ecology.”

In addition, the ETHICS COMMITTEE APPROVAL AND PUBLICATIONS ETHICS STATEMENT FORM for this statement must be signed by the responsible author and uploaded as an additional file when submitting the article.

ETHICAL RESPONSIBILITIES AND DUTIES OF AUTHORS, EDITORS AND REVIEWS

Authors' Duties and Ethical Responsibilities

• Articles submitted to the Journal of Environmental Toxicology and Ecology (ETOXEC) must be the original work of the authors.

• All studies submitted to the Journal of Environmental Toxicology and Ecology are subject to a plagiarism check after being pre-checked (iThenticate plagiarism detection service is used). The similarity index in the report created after the plagiarism inspection should be at most 30%. If the similarity rate is above this rate, the work sent for publication is rejected.

• Articles with a similarity index of 30% or less are directed to the field editor. Even if the similarity rate of the article is not higher than 30%, after the similarity report evaluation, the editors may ask the authors to make corrections regarding the relevant sections in their work or remove the work from the publication process. For this reason, authors should not include fully cited paragraphs in their work.

• All responsibility for the works belongs to the author(s). Studies should be prepared in accordance with the stated international scientific ethical rules.

• ETHICS COMMITTEE APPROVAL must be obtained for all scientific research and studies that require an ethics committee decision.

Studies Requiring Ethics Committee Permission

1. All kinds of research conducted with qualitative or quantitative approaches that require data collection from the participants by using survey, interview, focus group work, observation, experiment, interview techniques,

2. Research using humans and animals (including material/data) for experimental or other scientific purposes,

3. Studies on animals,

4. Retrospective studies using personal data.

Status of studies that do not require ethics committee approval

If the study does not require the approval of the ethics committee, the “Ethics Committee Approval and Research, Publication Ethics Statement Form” that will be requested from the authors at the time of article submission should be uploaded, signed by the responsible author.

Authors should sign the “COPYRIGHT TRANSFER FORM” and upload it through the system when submitting the article to our journal. All authors or only the RESPONSIBLE AUTHOR must sign this form on behalf of all authors.

Submission of the study to the journal should be done by the responsible author, and the information of all authors of the article (author's name, e-mail address, orcid information, etc.) should be added to the system at the stage of article submission.

The contribution rates of all authors of the article to the article process should be stated under the heading "Authors's Contributions" at the end of the article before the References.

All authors should see and approve the final version of the submitted article before submission.

After the article is accepted, authors are recommended to write an acknowledgment at the end of their article, thanking the person(s) or institutions that supported the article's process. The text of thanks written to individuals should be under the ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS heading.

Acknowledgment texts given to institutions that receive funding should be written under the heading FUNDING.

If there are conflicts of interest (or community of interests) regarding the submitted article, the “Conflicts of Interest, Common Interest Statement Form” file should be uploaded to the journal while the article is submitted. If there is no conflict of interest, in the same form, "We do not have any conflicts of interest that I know (we) know, or that we (we) have in common with any institution or person. ” section should be marked and the form should be presented in that way.

When an author notices a material error or inaccuracy in his own published work, he should immediately notify the journal editor or publisher and cooperate with the editor to correct the article.

Raw data can be requested from the authors during the evaluation process regarding their articles. In such a case, authors should be present the expected information and documents.

Duties and Ethical Responsibilities of the Editorial Board

Environmental Toxicology and Ecology editors and section editors should have the ethical duties and responsibilities specified in the "CODE OF CONDUCT AND BEST PRACTICE GUIDELINES FOR JOURNAL EDITORS" and "COPE BEST PRACTICE GUIDELINES FOR JOURNAL EDITORS" guidelines published by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE). In this context;

Environmental Toxicology and Ecology editors and section editors should have the ethical duties and responsibilities specified in the "CODE OF CONDUCT AND BEST PRACTICE GUIDELINES FOR JOURNAL EDITORS" and "COPE BEST PRACTICE GUIDELINES FOR JOURNAL EDITORS" guidelines published by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE). In this context;

• The editor will evaluate articles regardless of race, gender, sexual orientation, religious belief, ethnicity, nationality, or political philosophy of the authors. The decision will be based on the importance of the article, its originality, its clarity, the validity of the study, and its relevance to the scope of the journal.

• Editors should not give any privileges to the authors of the articles submitted to the journal, and should fulfill their duties in a balanced, objective and fair manner.

• The editor should not disclose any information about a submitted article to anyone other than the corresponding author, reviewers, potential reviewers and publisher.

• Unpublished materials disclosed in a submitted manuscript will not be used by the editor or members of the editorial board for their own research purposes without the express written consent of the author.

• Editors should strive to continuously improve ETOXEC and increase its publication quality.

• They are responsible for the determination and implementation of all the policies of the journal.

• If the study was not prepared in line with the purpose and scope of the journal, they should reject the study directly.

• They should take the necessary measures to prevent possible conflicts of interest and evaluate existing statements, if any.

• During the evaluation process, they should appoint arbitrators according to the principle of blind arbitration and respect the principle of confidentiality.

• For the objective evaluation of the studies, the editors should act by checking the compatibility of the subject of the study with the expertise of the referees while determining the referees.

• When publishing issues in the journal, they should include not only articles in certain fields, but also articles in a wide range of fields within the scope of the journal.

• They should ensure the protection of personal data in the evaluated articles; must protect the individual data of the authors, referees and readers.

• Editors should respond as much as possible to questions from authors or reviewers about the process. They should also be open to negative criticism.

• Editors should check the submission files, make sure that the files other than the article file are complete, and then appoint a referee. It should be checked whether the author has uploaded all the additional statements requested by the journal in a signed manner.

• In all processes of the articles, they should act according to the rules in the publication process of the journal.

Duties and Ethical Responsibilities of Referees

• The referees are responsible for not evaluating the article in case of conflict of interest and relationship.

• The referees are responsible for evaluating the article by paying attention to the principles of confidentiality and impartiality.

• The referees cannot use the work sent to them for any purpose until the evaluation process is completed and it is published.

• While evaluating the article, the referees are responsible for not allowing the gender, nationality, religious beliefs and political views of the authors to affect the evaluation.

• Reviewers should use a courteous and constructive language while evaluating the article. Insulting, slanderous and hostile comments and expressions should be avoided.

• The referees are responsible for evaluating the article on time and by paying attention to ethical rules.

According to YÖK (Council of Higher Education) Scientific Research and Publication Ethics Directive, it is recommended to consider the following information.

Manuscript Process: The pre-evaluation phase of the editorial board is maximum 5 days. Each reviewer's evaluation period is 15 days, and if the author requests a correction, the correction period is 15 days. Under these conditions, it is expected that the entire evaluation process of an article will be completed within 35-40 days. 

ETOXEC is an Open Access journal that is aware of the need for easily accessible information for the development of science and strengthening the scientific communication network, allowing readers to reuse content without restrictions.

ETOXEC does not charge any fees from the authors, does not pay any fees to the editors, editorial board, referees and authors. Authors who submit articles for publication in the journal are deemed to have read and approved this copyright statement.