Submission Guidelines for the Journal of Sustainable Real Estate

Submission Requirements

Authors should submit a manuscript that is double‐spaced and paginated. The cover page, which will be removed before the manuscript is sent to a referee, should contain: the title, all authors and their affiliations (mailing addresses), phone and fax numbers, and email addresses. Except for the cover page, all pages should be numbered consecutively. Submitted manuscripts should be original research, and the names appearing on the article should be that of the individuals who conducted the research. The article should not be under review simultaneously at another journal nor substantially resemble articles that are under review at another journal. Upon acceptance, ARES automatically owns the copyright of the article. The transfer of copyright will ensure the widest possible dissemination of information. Submission via email is strongly encouraged. Except for the final version, manuscripts can be submitted via email in Word or PDF file formats to [email protected]. Submitted papers will be sent to referees via e‐mail, whenever it is feasible. For papers submitted via e‐

mail, the expected turn‐around‐ time is 8 weeks. For hard copy submissions, the expected turn‐

around‐time is twelve weeks, but we strongly recommend electronic submissions. Upon acceptance, authors will have to submit a Word version of the manuscript electronically. Articles and correspondence can also be directed to:

Norm Miller, Editor Journal of Sustainable Real Estate University of San Diego Burnham-Moores Center for Real Estate 5998 Alcala Park, Avila Building, San Diego, CA 92111 Tel: (619) 260-7939 E-mail: [email protected] Style Guidelines An abstract of not more than 100 words, summarizing your research purpose, method and findings, is required. Headings Primary, secondary and tertiary heading should be indicated by numbering or in outline fashion (i.e., I, II, A, B, i, ii, etc.). Such outlining/numbering is for editorial purpose only and will not appear in print.

Summary

Each manuscript should include at the end of the text, a non‐technical summary statement of the main conclusions.

Exhibits Illustrations must be titled and numbered consecutively as exhibits with Arabic numbers. Please check that the text contains a reference to each exhibit. Verify that all numerical amounts add up to totals shown in the tables and that significant digits are rounded to no more than 2 or 3 numbers. All figures need to be sharp, clear and laser‐quality.

Mathematical Proofs and Equations Lengthy mathematical proofs and extensively detailed mathematical tables should be placed in an appendix (or omitted entirely) and every effort should be made to explain the proofs. Equations should be placed on a separate line, centered and numbered consecutively at the right margin.

Endnotes

Endnotes in the text must be cited consecutively. They should be double‐spaced and appear on a separate page. Avoid numerous and lengthy endnotes. References References must be presented alphabetically by the last name of the author. References must be dated, and the citations in the text must agree. Only those references cited within the text should be included. The references must fit the following format:

Deutsch, C. H., Commercial Property: Retail Space; For Retailers, It?s Space for Hard‐Put

Landlords, The New York Times, January 26, 1992, 10:1.

Judge, G. G., W. E. Griffiths, R. C. Hill, H. Lutkepohl and T.‐C. Lee, The Theory and Practice of

Econometrics, second edition, New York: John Wiley, 1985. Kinnard, W. N., Tools and Techniques for Measuring the Effects of Proximity to Radioactive

Contamination of Soil on Single‐Family Residential Sales Prices, Paper presented at the

Appraisal Institute Symposium, October 1991. Shilton, L., W. O?Connor, K. Teall and J. R. Webb, Real Estate Taxation and Commercial Loan Underwriting, Decision Sciences, 1992, 23:5, 1162-1173. Mills, E. S., The Value of Urban Land, In H. S. Perloft, (ed.), The Quality of the Urban Environment, Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University, 1971. Acknowledgment Authors may include a brief acknowledgment. It should appear after the references, but only after a paper has been accepted for publication. Open Access Authors must also agree to the open access policy of this journal. See http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ If we accept the paper it will be an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.

Special Note Authors are strongly advised to review a recent issue of the Journal of Sustainable Real Estate to confirm that their manuscript is in the style the Journal requires at www.josre.org. At least one of the authors must be a member of ARES or one of its sister organizations (ERES, AsRES, PRES,

LARES, or AfRES). For non‐members, a submission fee of $135 is required (or whatever the current one year Academic Membership dues are for ARES) and should be made payable to ARES and sent to the current secretary with a copy of the note to the Editor of JOSRE. If authors wish or need this request for membership waived they need simply submit a request to the Senior Editor and it will be waived. Double-Blind Peer Review Guidelines This journal uses double-blind review, which means that both the reviewer and author identities are concealed from the reviewers, and vice versa, throughout the review process. To facilitate this, authors need to ensure that their manuscripts are prepared in a way that does not give away their identity. To help with this preparation please ensure the following when submitting to Social Science & Medicine:  Submit the Title Page containing the Authors details and Blinded Manuscript with no author details as 2 separate files.

Information to help prepare the Title Page This should include the title, authors' names and affiliations, and a complete address for the corresponding author including telephone and e-mail address.

Information to help prepare the Blinded Manuscript Besides the obvious need to remove names and affiliations under the title within the manuscript, there are other steps that need to be taken to ensure the manuscript is correctly prepared for double-blind peer review. To assist with this process the key items that need to be observed are as follows:  Use the third person to refer to work the Authors have previously undertaken, e.g. replace any phrases like “as we have shown before” with “… has been shown before [Anonymous, 2007]” .  Make sure figures do not contain any affiliation related identifier  Do not eliminate essential self-references or other references but limit self-references only to papers that are relevant for those reviewing the submitted paper.  Cite papers published by the Author in the text as follows: ‘[Anonymous, 2007]’.  For blinding in the reference list: ‘[Anonymous 2007] Details omitted for double-blind reviewing.’  Remove references to funding sources  Do not include acknowledgments  Name your files with care and ensure document properties are also anonymized.