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Sustainable Cities and Society SUSTAINABLE CITIES AND SOCIETY AUTHOR INFORMATION PACK TABLE OF CONTENTS XXX . • Description p.1 • Audience p.2 • Impact Factor p.2 • Abstracting and Indexing p.2 • Editorial Board p.2 • Guide for Authors p.4 ISSN: 2210-6707 DESCRIPTION . Sustainable Cities and Society (SCS) is an international journal focusing on fundamental and applied research aimed at designing, understanding, and promoting environmentally sustainable and socially resilient cities. We encourage submission of cross-cutting, multi-disciplinary research in the areas of, 1. Smart cities and resilientenvironments; 2. Alternative/clean energysources, energy distribution, distributed energy generation, and energy demand reduction/management; 3. Monitoring and improving air quality in built environment and cities (e.g., healthy built environment and air quality management); 4. Energy efficient, low/zero carbon, and greenbuildings/communities; 5. Climate change mitigation and adaptation in urban environments; 6. Green infrastructure and BMPs; 7. Environmental Footprintaccounting and management; 8. Urban agricultureand forestry; 9. ICT, smart grid and intelligent infrastructure; 10. Urban design/planning, regulations, legislation, certification, economics, and policy; 11. Socialaspects, impacts and resiliency of cities; 12. Behaviormonitoring, analysis and change within urban communities; 13. Healthmonitoring and improvement; 14. Nexusissues related to sustainable cities and societies; 15. Smart city governance; 16. Decision Support Systems for trade-off and uncertainty analysis for improved management of cities and society; 17. Big data, machine learning, and artificial intelligence applications and case studies; 18. Critical infrastructure protection, including security, privacy, forensics, and reliability issues of cyber-physical systems. 19. Water footprint reduction and urban water distribution, harvesting, treatment, reuse and management; 20. Wastereduction and recycling; 21. Wastewater collection, treatment and recycling; 22. Smart, clean and healthy transportation systems and infrastructure; AUTHOR INFORMATION PACK 23 Sep 2021 www.elsevier.com/locate/scs 1 We support a wide range of methodological and technical approaches including experimental, observational, monitoring and management studies and policy analysis. In addition to fundamental and applied papers, review articles on important developments will be considered. AUDIENCE . Energy assessors, architects, building service engineers, mechanical engineers, civil engineers, surveyors, policy makers, environmentalists, government officials, politicians, economists, building physics specialists, planners, urban regeneration specialists. IMPACT FACTOR . 2020: 7.587 © Clarivate Analytics Journal Citation Reports 2021 ABSTRACTING AND INDEXING . Ei Compendex Science Citation Index Expanded Scopus INSPEC EDITORIAL BOARD . Editor-in-Chief Fariborz Haghighat, Concordia University, Montréal, Quebec, Canada Managing Editor Zhuangbo Feng, Southeast University, Nanjing, China Associate Editors Nasrin Aghamohammadi, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Enrico Fabrizio, Polytechnic of Turin, Torino, Italy Benjamin, C.M. Fung, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada Ryozo Ooka, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan Editorial Board Leonidas Anthopoulos, University of Thessaly Department of Business Administration, Larissa, Greece Marco Beccali, University of Palermo, Palermo, Italy Umberto Berardi, Ryerson University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada Shi-Jie Cao, Southeast University School of Architecture, Nanjing, China Rui Alexandre Castanho, WSB University, Dabrowa Gornicza, Poland Zhi Chen, Concordia University, Montréal, Quebec, Canada Ruchi Choudhary, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom Mohamed El Mankibi, National Graduate School of Public Works, Vaulx en Velin, France Mehmet Esen, Firat University, Technology Faculty, Energy Systems Engineering Department, Elazığ, Turkey Dagmar Haase, Humboldt-University of Berlin Department of Geography, Berlin, Germany Aya Haghishima, National University Corporation Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan Shahram Jadid, Iran University of Science and Technology, Tehran, Iran Nadeem Javaid, COMSATS University Islamabad, Islamabad, Pakistan Gwanggil Jeon, Incheon National University, Incheon, South Korea Sumin Kim, Yonsei University, Seoul, South Korea Azra Korjenic, TU Wien University, Wien, Austria Peleg Kremer, Villanova University, Villanova, Pennsylvania, United States of America Borong Lin, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China Jesus Lizana, University of Seville, Sevilla, Spain Becky Loo, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China Janaina Macke, University of Caxias do Sul, CAXIAS DO SUL, Brazil Fuzhan Nasiri, Concordia University, Montréal, Quebec, Canada S. Thomas Ng, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China Jose Orosa, University of A Coruna, A Coruna, Spain Satu Paiho, VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland Ltd, VTT, Finland AUTHOR INFORMATION PACK 23 Sep 2021 www.elsevier.com/locate/scs 2 Sara Paiva, Polytechnic Institute of Viana do Castelo, Viana do Castelo, Portugal David J. Sailor, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, United States of America Ferdinando Salata, University of Rome La Sapienza, Roma, Italy Uroš Stritih, University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia Theocharis Tsoutsos, Technical University of Crete, Chania, Greece Ramalingom Velraj, Anna University Chennai, Chennai, India Tan Yigitcanlar, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia Zhun Yu, Hunan University, Changsha, China Yanping Yuan, Southwest Jiaotong University, Chengdu, China Z. John Zhai, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, Colorado, United States of America AUTHOR INFORMATION PACK 23 Sep 2021 www.elsevier.com/locate/scs 3 GUIDE FOR AUTHORS . Your Paper Your Way We now differentiate between the requirements for new and revised submissions. You may choose to submit your manuscript as a single Word or PDF file to be used in the refereeing process. Only when your paper is at the revision stage, will you be requested to put your paper in to a 'correct format' for acceptance and provide the items required for the publication of your article. To find out more, please visit the Preparation section below. INTRODUCTION The entire submission and review process for Sustainable Cities and Society is handled electronically, which shortens publication times. All papers should be submitted electronically through https://www.editorialmanager.com/SCSI/default.aspx Original papers (preferably no more than 20 double line spaced manuscript pages including tables and illustrations), review articles, short communications (no more than 10 double line spaced manuscript pages including tables and figures), book reviews. Text accompanying figures should be reasonably brief and not extensive. Discussions: Any comment on or discussion of a published paper should be emailed directly to the Editor, NOT submitted via the electronic submission system. It must be received by the Editor within three months of the online publication of the paper under discussion. Submission checklist You can use this list to carry out a final check of your submission before you send it to the journal for review. Please check the relevant section in this Guide for Authors for more details. Ensure that the following items are present: 1. Title page (with author affiliation details) One author has been designated as the corresponding author with contact details: • E-mail address • Full postal address 2. Manuscript (without author details): •Ensure author details are removed from manuscript file •Double line spacing with font size of 12 points •Single-column format with continous line numbering • Include keywords • All figures (include relevant captions) • All tables (including titles, description, footnotes) • Ensure all figure and table citations in the text match the files provided • Indicate clearly if color should be used for any figures in print Graphical Abstracts / Highlights files (where applicable) Supplemental files (where applicable) Further considerations • Manuscript has been 'spell checked' and 'grammar checked' • All references mentioned in the Reference List are cited in the text, and vice versa • Permission has been obtained for use of copyrighted material from other sources (including the Internet) • A competing interests statement is provided, even if the authors have no competing interests to declare • Journal policies detailed in this guide have been reviewed • Referee suggestions and contact details provided, based on journal requirements For further information, visit our Support Center. BEFORE YOU BEGIN Ethics in publishing Please see our information on Ethics in publishing. AUTHOR INFORMATION PACK 23 Sep 2021 www.elsevier.com/locate/scs 4 Declaration of competing interest All authors must disclose any financial and personal relationships with other people or organizations that could inappropriately influence (bias) their work. Examples of potential conflicts of interest include employment, consultancies, stock ownership, honoraria, paid expert testimony, patent applications/ registrations, and grants or other funding. Authors should complete the declaration of competing interest statement using this template and upload to the submission system at the Attach/Upload Files step. Note: Please do not convert the .docx template to another file type. Author signatures are not required. If there are no interests to declare, please choose the first option in the template.
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