Instructions for Authors

Instructions for Authors

Enacted January 1, 2014
Last revised Oct 1, 2024

 

As an official journal of the Korean Society of Ecology and Infrastructure Engineering, the journal of Ecology and Resilient Infrastructure (ERI) aims to promote and disseminate emergent disciplines and technologies between ecology and infrastructural engineering. The journal aims to act as a forum for ecologists, engineers, and landscape architects to jointly discuss the studies of natural ecosystems under the influence of human activities, focusing mainly on the implementation of environmentally sound and sustainable urban and infrastructural developments. The journal also aims to provide a forum for promoting “green infra” as a resilient infrastructure of a network of high-quality green and blue spaces and other environmental features, which is designed and managed to deliver a wide range of ecosystem services and protect biodiversity in both rural and urban settings.


 This journal encompasses broadly the areas of (1) eco-technology, (2) bioengineering, (3) ecosystem restoration including streams, wetlands, coastal areas, and contaminated lands, (4) pollution control and enhancement of amenity of infrastructures by ecosystems, and (5) network design of urban green infrastructure.


 Manuscripts should be prepared for submission to ERI according to the following instructions.

1. Copyright and Creative Commons Attribution license
2. Research and publication ethics
3. Author qualifications, language requirement
4. Submission and peer review
5. Manuscript preparation
6. Final preparation for publication
7. Article processing charges
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1. Copyright and Creative Commons Attribution license

• Copyright
The Korean Society of Ecology and Infrastructure Engineering (publisher) holds the copyright on all submitted materials and the right to publish, transmit, sell, and distribute them in the journal or other media. The publisher applies the Creative Commons Attribution license to works it publishes. Under this license, although the publisher retains ownership of the copyright for content, it allows anyone to download, reuse, reprint, distribute, and/or copy the content for non-commercial purposes.

 

• Open Access License
Every article appearing in this journal will be published as open-access. Articles are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derives (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Author(s) do not need to permission to use tables or figures published in ERI in other journals, books, or media for scholarly and educational purposes.

 

• Article Sharing (Author Self-Archiving) Policy
ERI is an open access journal, and authors who submit manuscripts to ERI can share their research in several ways, including on preprint servers, social media platforms, at conferences, and in educational materials, in accordance with our open access policy. However, it should be noted that submitting the same manuscript to multiple journals is strictly prohibited.

 

2. Research and publication ethics

The journal adheres to the ethical guidelines for research and publication described in Guidelines on Good Publication (http://publicationethics.org/resources/guidelines) and the ICMJE Guidelines (http://www.icmje.org). Further, all processes of handling research and publication misconduct shall follow the applicable COPE flowchart (https://publicationethics.org/resources/flowcharts).


Detailed information is on https://www.jeri.or.kr/journal-information/pages/Research%20and%20Publication%20Ethics/.


3. Author qualifications, language requirement

• Author qualifications
Researchers throughout the world can submit a manuscript if the scope is appropriate for ERI. In case of Korean authors, at least 50 % of the authors should be members of the Korean Society of Ecology and Infrastructure Engineering.


• Language
Manuscripts should be submitted in clear and concise scientific Korean or English. In Korean manuscripts, the title, author names, affiliations, and keywords should be provided in both Korean and English. The abstract, tables, figures, and references must be written in English.  


4. Submission and peer review

• Submission
Authors must submit the manuscript file online via https:// kseie.jams.or.kr/. Submission of a manuscript implies that (1) the work described has not been published; (2) it is not under consideration for publication elsewhere; (3) its publication has been approved by all co-authors; and (4) research described in the manuscript was conducted in accordance with the laws of the country in which it was conducted.


• Peer review
Double-blind peer review: When a manuscript is submitted to the ERI, the Editorial Office checks if the manuscript was prepared according to the guidelines, gives it a manuscript number (e.g., ERI15-01) and assigns it to one of managing editors for initial quality check. The manuscript number should be referred to in any subsequent communications between the corresponding author and the Editor or the Editorial Office. The initial quality check of the manuscript includes its format, adherence to the aims and scope of the journal, and plagiarism. All manuscripts are reviewed confidentially by at least two qualified reviewers including members of the editorial board. The authors’ names and affiliations are removed during peer review (double-blind peer review). The reviewers operate under the Guidelines for Reviewers.


Decision: The corresponding author is generally notified of the Editor's decision to accept, reject, or require modification or revision by the Editor or the Editorial Office within 15 working days of submission. Manuscripts that have been rejected may be resubmitted once the major criticisms have been properly addressed. When a manuscript is returned to the corresponding author for modification or revision, it should be returned to the editor within 3 months, or it may be considered withdrawn. The authors should supply the Response to the reviewers along with the modified or revised manuscript. When the editor has decided that a manuscript is acceptable for publication, the corresponding author and the Editorial Office will be notified. If necessary, the corresponding author will be asked to re-edit the manuscript to improve the English.


Appeals of decisions: Authors who wish to appeal a decision should contact the Editor-in-Chief, explaining in detail their reasons for the appeal. All appeals will be discussed with at least one other editor. If those editors do not agree, the appeal will be discussed at a full editorial meeting.


5. Manuscript preparation

• Type of articles
Contributions to the journal are classified into either: Original Article, Review Article or Short Communications. Original articles and short communications can be submitted any time. Review articles are invited by the Editorial Board or need approvals of the Board before the submission.
Original Articles: Original articles are full-length manuscripts of value and interest to our readers. They should report results of thought-provoking and original studies. The original articles should not exceed 10 printed pages (about 10,000 words).
Review Articles: Review articles are a thought-provoking opinion piece or essay founded in fact, sometimes containing speculation, on topics of general interest and relevance to the readership of the journal. The review articles should not exceed 10 printed pages (about 10,000 words).
Short Communications: Short communications describe a method, application or case study that illustrates a new or existing principle or presents an innovative way to solve a problem. The short communications are limited to 5 pages (about 5,000 words).


For manuscripts exceeding the allowed length, the approval of the Editorial Board is needed and the authors should bear the type-setting costs for the additional pages.


• Manuscript formatting
The manuscript should be written in English or Korean. The preferred software is MS Word. The text must be double-spaced, with consecutive line numbers and page numbers included. If you have prepared your paper using other systems, you are requested to convert to PDF format and send the PDF only at submission.


• Structure of manuscript
Article sections should appear in the following order: (1) Title page, (2) Abstract, (3) Main text sections (Introduction, Methods, Results, Discussion, Conclusions), (4) Acknowledgments (optional), (5) References, (6) Notation list (optional), (7) Appendix (optional).
 

(1) Title page
The following items should be included on the title page: the title of the manuscript, author list, each author’s affiliation, the name and email address of the corresponding author. 


Authors should take care to ensure that the title is specific and accurately reflects the final, post–peer reviewed version of the paper. Each word should start capital letters except articles, prepositions and conjunctions.


e.g.) Fatigue Behavior and Probabilistic Fatigue Analysis of Concrete Offshore Structures


The affiliation(s) including the author’s post position and zip code(s) should be provided. The corresponding author’s e-mail address should be provided. It is not permitted to add, delete, or change the order of authors after manuscript submission.


e.g.) Joon Heo1 and Gil Dong Hong2*
1 Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Civil Engineering, Seoul National University, Seoul 08826, Korea
2 Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, Hankuk University, Seoul 08826, Korea
* Corresponding author: kjournal@ksce.or.kr, ORCID 0000-0001-8041-6230

 


(2) Abstract and keywords
The abstract should be written in about 250 words or less in one complete paragraph, including brief outlines and major conclusions on the contents of the article. It should not include any quotes on tables, numerical formulae, or references. Please provide 4~6 keywords which can be used for indexing purposes. Keywords are alphabetized and separated by commas.


e.g.) KEYWORDS: Civil engineering, Ecology, Infrastructure, Korea 

 


(3) Main text
Structure: The main text consists of introduction, methods (or materials and methods, etc.), results, discussion (or results and discussion), conclusions, acknowledgement, references, appendix and so on. In introduction, it is expected that authors include the background and motivations of their work, the current status of related works, the scope of their work, and so on. In the body section (methods, materials, etc.), authors can detail basic theories and assumptions. The theoretical and experimental analysis can appear along with reviews and comparisons of previous work. At the end of the manuscript, authors are encouraged to explicitly state in the conclusions how their work contributes to the overall body of knowledge for the profession. Each section can have sub-titles with sub-numbers.


e.g.)
1. Introduction

 

2. Methods
2.1 Study sites
2.2 Field investigation

 

3. Results
3.1 Characteristics of river bed
3.1.1 Soil types

 

4. Discussion
4.1 Relationships between vegetation and river bed characteristics

 

5. Conclusions


Symbols and terms: It is recommended that symbols and terms be used in conventional ways with conventional meanings. Symbols and abbreviations should be defined when they appear first, except for SD (standard deviation), SE (standard error), and n (number of samples). Using the common name of biological species is recommended, with the scientific name included and italicized upon first mention.


Units: Use of SI unit system is required. The negative exponent is preferred to a solidus ‘/’ in the units. When combining units, include a space between them. (e.g., "gm-2 s-1" instead of "gm-2s-1"). When using a solidus (/), do not include a space (e.g., "g/m2" instead of "g / m2"). It is recommended to put a space between the numeric and the unit except %, ℃, ° and ′. Units of time are indicated by "yr", "wk", "day", "hr", "min", and "s". Liters are indicated by "L".


e.g.) 10 m, 10 m-1 (or 10/m, acceptable), 10 m s-1 (or m/s, acceptable), 10 g m-2 s-1 (but g/m2/s, unacceptable), 10%, 10℃, 10°


Equations: Equations are not written along with the sentences. All the symbols used in equations should be indicated in a separate line, and in italics. Even symbols used in the text should also be in italics. All displayed equations should be numbered at the right end, sequentially throughout the entire manuscript, including Appendixes. Equations should be in the body of a manuscript.


e.g.) f = ma (Eq. 1)


The in-text reference to equations is made as follows.


e.g.) Eq. 2, Eqs. 1 and 2

 

 

(4) Figures and tables
All figures and tables are created in English and should be placed on separate pages after the reference section. Authors should write numbers and titles under figures. Images in JPG, TIFF, or PNG format with a minimum resolution of 300 dpi are recommended. Utilize Arial font for the text within the image. Since the width of a figure would be less than 7 cm in a printed paper, authors should take care that the characters, symbols and lines are clearly discernable. 


Tables should appear in separate pages. Table numbers and titles should be written in the upper portion of the tables. When using abbreviations in a table or figure, each abbreviation should be fully explained when it first appears in the table or figure.


Titles of figures and tables: The format of titles of figures and tables follows the following examples. If two or more figures are listed under the same title, sub-titles with ‘(a), (b), etc.’ can be assigned to each figure. All displayed figures and titles should be numbered sequentially throughout the entire manuscript, including Appendixes.


e.g.)
Fig. 1. Schematic flow diagram.
Fig. 1. Schematic flow diagram. (a) water, (b) soil.
Table 1. Summary of resilient modulus test results.


The in-text reference to figures and tables is made as follows.


e.g.) Fig. 2, Fig. 3 (a), Table 5, Figs. 3 and 4, Tables 3 (a) and 3 (b), Figs. 1-3. 

 


(5) Acknowledgements
Authors may include an Acknowledgments section to recognize any advisory or financial help received. This section should appear after the Conclusions and before the references. 

 

 

(6) References
In-text citations: The journal uses the author-date method for in-text references, whereby the source reads as the last names of the authors, then the year If there are three or more authors, it is cited as 'First author et al. year'.


e.g.) The results of Zoch (1934) is used in many hydrological models (McCarthy 1938, Clark and Nash 1945, Wood et al. 1959a). Researches by Kim and Cho (2011) and Park et al. (2014) are in progress.

 

Reference list: References cited in text that are not found in the reference list will be deleted or queried by the Editorial Office. Likewise, all references included in the References section must be cited in the text. All references should be written in English. A References section must be included that lists all references alphabetically by last name of the first author. For references with the same last name of the first author, the last name of the next author is used in the alphabetical order, and then, the published year or the title is used. The name of journals should be written in full name, not abbreviation. For references written in languages other than English, the listing should be finished with the language used in parentheses, e.g., (in Korean), (in Japanese), (in German), (in French).


Journal articles
Rahuel, J.L. 1993. Modeling of river bed evolution for bedload sediment mixtures. Ecological Engineering 11: 151-160.


Rahuel, J.L. and Holly, F.M. 1993. Modeling of river bed evolution for bedload sediment mixtures. Ecological Engineering 11(2): 151-160.


Rahuel, J.L., Holly, F.M., and Chollet, J.P. 1993. Modeling of river bed evolution for bedload sediment mixtures. Journal of Hydraulic Engineering 115: 1521-1542.


Books
Kim, C.G. and Aoe, A. 1996. Ecological Engineering. McGraw-Hill Book Co., Seoul, Korea. (in Korean)


Cho, S.K. 1966. Community structure and function of Korean streams. In, Kim, A.B. (ed.), The Streams in Korea. Hanyang Press, Incheon, Korea. pp. 1-30. (in Korean) 


Blong, R.J. 1985. Gully sidewall development in New South Wales Australia. In, El-Swanify, J., Moldenhauer, S.A. and Lo, A. (eds.), Soil Erosion and Conservation. Soil Conservation Society, Ankeny, lowa, USA. pp. 574-584.


Conference papers
Salter, S.H. 1981. Absorbing wave makers and wide tanks. Proceedings of Conference on Directional Wave Spectra Applications, Berkeley, California, USA. pp. 185–202.
 

Scientific and technical reports
American Society of Civil Engineers. 2016. Minimum design loads and associated criteria for buildings and other structures. ASCE/SEI 7-16, Reston, Virginia, USA. 


Dombroski, D.A. 2014. A deterministic spatially-distributed ecohydraulic model for improved riverine system management. Technical Rep. No. SRH-2014-26, Bureau of Reclamation, Denver, Colorado, USA. 
 

Dissertations
Baptist, M.J. 2005. Modelling floodplain biogeomorphology. PhD thesis, Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands.
 

Websites
Frisch, M. 2007. A low-entropy constraint from influencing the past. http://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/archive/00003390. Accessed 26 June 2009.

 


(7) Appendix 
The appendix should appear after the tables and figures. It should be written in English and labeled as 'Appendix 1', 'Appendix 2', and so forth."


6. Final preparation for publication

• Final version
After the paper has been accepted for publication, the author(s) should submit the final version of the manuscript. The names and affiliations of the authors should be double-checked, and if the originally submitted image files were of poor resolution, higher resolution image files (a minimum resolution of 300 dpi) should be submitted at this time. Color images must be created as CMYK files. The electronic original should be sent with appropriate labeling and arrows. The EPS, TIFF, Adobe Photoshop (PSD), JPEG, and PPT formats are preferred for submission of digital files of photographic images. Symbols (e.g., circles, triangles, squares), letters (e.g., words, abbreviations), and numbers should be large enough to be legible on reduction to the journal’s column widths. All of the symbols must be defined in the figure caption. If the symbols are too complex to appear in the caption, they should appear on the illustration itself, within the area of the graph or diagram, not to the side. If references, tables, or figures are moved, added, or deleted during the revision process, they should be renumbered to reflect such changes so that all tables, references, and figures are cited in numeric order.
 

• Manuscript corrections
Before publication, the manuscript editor may correct the manuscript such that it meets the standard publication format. The author(s) must respond within 2 days when the manuscript editor contacts the author for revisions. If the response is delayed, the manuscript’s publication may be postponed to the next issue.  
 

• Galley proof
The author(s) will receive the final version of the manuscript as a PDF file. Upon receipt, within 3 days, the editorial office (or printing office) must be notified of any errors found in the file. With the exception of typographical errors, incorrect data or updated information regarding references, no extensive changes will be made in the manuscript at the proof stage. Any errors found after this time are the responsibility of the author(s) and will have to be corrected as an erratum.


7. Article processing charges

Publication charge: 180,000 Korean Won per manuscript 
Over-page charge above 8 pages of the final PDF: 30,000 Korean Won per page


Contact us

Editorial Office: Korean Society of Ecology and Infrastructure Engineering
Room 1514, #20, Teheran-ro 25-gil, Gangnam-gu, Seoul 06130, Korea 
E-mail: kseie2013@gmail.com, Tel: +82-2-552-7550