Energy & Environment
"This journal is a member of COPE"
Energy & Environment is an interdisciplinary journal inviting energy policy analysts, natural scientists and engineers, as well as lawyers and economists to contribute to mutual understanding and learning, believing that better communication between experts will enhance the quality of policy, advance social well-being and help to reduce conflict. The journal encourages dialogue between the social sciences as energy demand and supply are observed and analysed with reference to politics of policy-making and implementation. The rapidly evolving social and environmental impacts of energy supply, transport, production and use at all levels require contribution from many disciplines if policy is to be effective. In particular E & E invite contributions from the study of policy delivery, ultimately more important than policy formation. The geopolitics of energy are also important, as are the impacts of environmental regulations and advancing technologies on national and local politics, and even global energy politics. Energy & Environment is a forum for constructive, professional information sharing, as well as debate across disciplines and professions, including the financial sector. Mathematical articles are outside the scope of Energy & Environment. The broader policy implications of submitted research should be addressed and environmental implications, not just emission quantities, be discussed with reference to scientific assumptions. This applies especially to technical papers based on arguments suggested by other disciplines, funding bodies or directly by policy-makers.
"This journal is a member of COPE"
| Dr Yiu Fai Tsang | The Education University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong |
| Prof John Byrne | University of Delaware, USA |
| Prof Ki-Hyun Kim | Hanyang University, Korea |
| Prof Ashok Pandey | CSIR-Indian Institute of Toxicology Research, Lucknow, India |
| Prof Nanqi Ren | Harbin Institute of Technology, China |
| Prof Jörg Rinklebe | University of Wuppertal, Germany |
| Prof Filip Tack | Ghent University, Belgium |
| Prof Chi Keung Woo | The Education University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong |
| Prof Yuanhui Zhang | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA |
| Prof Kitae Baek | Chonbuk National University, Korea |
| Prof Vincenzo Bianco | University of Genoa, Italy |
| Dr Matthew Cotton | University of York, UK |
| Dr Hana Kim | Sejong University, South Korea |
| Dr Taejin Kim | Stony Brook University, USA |
| Dr Harn Wei Kua | National University of Singapore, Singapore |
| Dr Su Shiung Lam | Universiti Malaysia Terengganu, Malaysia |
| Prof Jechan Lee | Department of Environmental and Safety Engineering, Ajou University, South Korea |
| Dr Carlo Migliardo | University of Messina, Italy |
| Dr Abdul-Sattar Nizami | King Abdulaziz University, Saudi Arabia |
| Prof Young-Kwon Park | School of Environmental Engineering, University of Seoul |
| Prof Ajit K Sarmah | The University of Auckland, New Zealand |
| Prof Hocheol Song | Sejong University, South Korea |
| Dr Madeline Taylor | The University of Sydney, Australia |
| Prof Qiang Wang | China University of Petroleum, China |
| Dr George Xydis | Aarhus University, Denmark |
| Dr Rui Zhao | Southwest Jiaotong University, China |
| Dr Liandong Zhu | Wuhan University, China |
| Dr Dario Assante | International Telematic University Uninettuno, Italy |
| Dr B. Chitti Babu | Indian Institute of Information Technology, Design & Manufacturing Kancheepuram, India |
| Dr Jayanta Biswas | University of Kalyani, India |
| Dr Ka Lai Chow | Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong |
| Dr Richard S. Courtney | Cornwall, UK |
| Dr Norbert Edomah | Pan-Atlantic University, Nigeria |
| Prof Wolfgang Eichhammer | Fraunhofer Institute for Systems and Innovation Research FhG-ISI, Germany |
| Prof Ying Fan | Chinese Academy of Sciences, China |
| Dr Lei Gao | CSIRO Land and Water, Australia |
| Dr María Teresa García-Álvarez | University of A Coruna, Spain |
| Dr Korhan Gokmenoglu | Eastern Mediterranean University, Turkey |
| Dr Md. Hasanuzzaman | University of Malaya, Malaysia |
| Dr Paolo Iodice | University of Naples Federico II, Italy |
| Prof Ryo Kohsaka | Tohoku University, Japan |
| Dr Pawan Kumar | Central University of Jammu, India |
| Prof Jechan Lee | Department of Environmental and Safety Engineering, Ajou University, South Korea |
| Dr Yu Bon Man | The Education University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong |
| Dr Manu V. Mathai | Azim Premji University, India |
| Prof Michael Mehling | University of Strathclyde, UK |
| Dr Atle Midttun | Norwegian School of Management, Norway |
| Mr Julian Morris | Reason Foundation, USA |
| Monjur Mourshed | Cardiff University, UK |
| Dr Evanthia A. Nanaki | University of Western Macedonia, Greece |
| Dr Giulio Santori | University of Edinburgh, UK |
| Dr Binoy Sarkar | University of Sheffield, UK |
| Prof Sabry M. Shaheen | Kafrelsheikh University, Egypt |
| Dr Ajay Kumar Singh | CSIR-Central Institute of Mining and Fuel Research, India |
| Dr Maciej M. Sokolowski | University of Warsaw, Poland |
| Prof Malin Song | Anhui University of Finance and Economics, China |
| Dr Chunfai Yu | BNU-HKBU United International College, China |
| Dr Wen Wen Shelley Zhou | Hong Kong Centre for Carbon Innovation, University of Edinburgh, Hong Kong |
| Prof ZhongXiang Zhang | Tianjin University, China |
"This journal is a member of COPE"
Please read the guidelines below then visit the Journal’s submission site https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/eae to upload your manuscript. Please note that manuscripts not conforming to these guidelines may be returned. Remember you can log in to the submission site at any time to check on the progress of your paper through the peer review process.
Only manuscripts of sufficient quality that meet the aims and scope of Energy & Environment will be reviewed.
There are no fees payable to submit or publish in this journal.
As part of the submission process you will be required to warrant that you are submitting your original work, that you have the rights in the work, and that you have obtained and can supply all necessary permissions for the reproduction of any copyright works not owned by you, that you are submitting the work for first publication in the Journal and that it is not being considered for publication elsewhere and has not already been published elsewhere. Please see our guidelines on prior publication and note that Energy & Environment may accept submissions of papers that have been posted on pre-print servers; please alert the Editorial Office when submitting (contact details are at the end of these guidelines) and include the DOI for the preprint in the designated field in the manuscript submission system. Authors should not post an updated version of their paper on the preprint server while it is being peer reviewed for possible publication in the journal. If the article is accepted for publication, the author may re-use their work according to the journal's author archiving policy.
If your paper is accepted, you must include a link on your preprint to the final version of your paper.
If you have any questions about publishing with SAGE, please visit the SAGE Journal Solutions Portal
- What do we publish?
1.1 Aims & Scope
1.2 Article types
1.3 Special Issues
1.4 Writing your paper - Editorial policies
2.1 Peer review policy
2.2 Authorship
2.3 Acknowledgements
2.4 Funding
2.5 Declaration of conflicting interests
2.6 Research Data - Publishing policies
3.1 Publication ethics
3.2 Contributor's publishing agreement
3.3 Open access and author archiving - Preparing your manuscript
4.1 Article structure
4.2 Formatting
4.3 Artwork, figures and other graphics
4.4 Supplemental material
4.5 Reference style
4.6 English language editing services - Submitting your manuscript
5.1 ORCID
5.2 Information required for completing your submission
5.3 Permissions - On acceptance and publication
6.1 SAGE Production
6.2 Online First publication
6.3 Access to your published article
6.4 Promoting your article - Further information
Before submitting your manuscript to Energy & Environment, please ensure you have read the Aims & Scope.
Energy & Environment accepts Original Articles of between 4,000-6,000 words. Review Papers should be between 12,000-15,000 words. Short Communications should be between 1,000-3,000 words.
To ensure conciseness, follow these maximum word count guidelines: Original Articles: 6,000 words; Review Papers: 15,000 words; and Short Communications: 3,000 words. Cover letters must state the manuscript word count, which includes text, figures captions, and table legends, but not references.
Energy & Environment welcomes Special Issues, please see our guidelines for further information.
The SAGE Author Gateway has some general advice and on how to get published, plus links to further resources.
1.4.1 Make your article discoverable
When writing up your paper, think about how you can make it discoverable. The title, keywords and abstract are key to ensuring readers find your article through search engines such as Google. For information and guidance on how best to title your article, write your abstract and select your keywords, have a look at this page on the Gateway: How to Help Readers Find Your Article Online.
Energy & Environment adheres to a rigorous double-blind reviewing policy in which the identity of both the reviewer and author are always concealed from both parties.
As part of the submission process you will be asked to provide the names of 2 peers who could be called upon to review your manuscript. Recommended reviewers should be experts in their fields and should be able to provide an objective assessment of the manuscript. Please be aware of any conflicts of interest when recommending reviewers. Examples of conflicts of interest include (but are not limited to) the below:
- The reviewer should have no prior knowledge of your submission,
- The reviewer should not have recently collaborated with any of the authors,
- Reviewer nominees from the same institution as any of the authors are not permitted.
Please note that the Editors are not obliged to invite/reject any recommended/opposed reviewers to assess your manuscript.
All parties who have made a substantive contribution to the article should be listed as authors. Principal authorship, authorship order, and other publication credits should be based on the relative scientific or professional contributions of the individuals involved, regardless of their status. A student is usually listed as principal author on any multiple-authored publication that substantially derives from the student’s dissertation or thesis.
All contributors who do not meet the criteria for authorship should be listed in an Acknowledgements section. Examples of those who might be acknowledged include a person who provided purely technical help, or a department chair who provided only general support.
Please supply any personal acknowledgements separately to the main text to facilitate anonymous peer review.
2.3.1 Writing assistance
All contributors who do not meet the criteria for authorship should be listed in an Acknowledgements section. Examples of those who might be acknowledged include a person who provided purely technical help, or a department chair who provided only general support.
Please supply any personal acknowledgements separately to the main text to facilitate anonymous peer review.
Energy & Environment requires all authors to acknowledge their funding in a consistent fashion under a separate heading. Please visit the Funding Acknowledgements page on the SAGE Journal Author Gateway to confirm the format of the acknowledgment text in the event of funding, or state that: This research received no specific grant from any funding agency in the public, commercial, or not-for-profit sectors.
2.5 Declaration of conflicting interests
Energy & Environment encourages authors to include a declaration of any conflicting interests and recommends you review the good practice guidelines on the SAGE Journal Author Gateway.
At SAGE we are committed to facilitating openness, transparency and reproducibility of research. Where relevant, The Journal encourages authors to share their research data in a suitable public repository subject to ethical considerations and where data is included, to add a data accessibility statement in their manuscript file. Authors should also follow data citation principles. For more information please visit the SAGE Author Gateway, which includes information about SAGE’s partnership with the data repository Figshare.
SAGE is committed to upholding the integrity of the academic record. We encourage authors to refer to the Committee on Publication Ethics’ International Standards for Authors and view the Publication Ethics page on the SAGE Author Gateway.
3.1.1 Plagiarism
Energy & Environment and SAGE take issues of copyright infringement, plagiarism or other breaches of best practice in publication very seriously. We seek to protect the rights of our authors and we always investigate claims of plagiarism or misuse of published articles. Equally, we seek to protect the reputation of the journal against malpractice. Submitted articles may be checked with duplication-checking software. Where an article, for example, is found to have plagiarised other work or included third-party copyright material without permission or with insufficient acknowledgement, or where the authorship of the article is contested, we reserve the right to take action including, but not limited to: publishing an erratum or corrigendum (correction); retracting the article; taking up the matter with the head of department or dean of the author's institution and/or relevant academic bodies or societies; or taking appropriate legal action.
3.1.2 Prior publication
If material has been previously published it is not generally acceptable for publication in a SAGE journal. However, there are certain circumstances where previously published material can be considered for publication. Please refer to the guidance on the SAGE Author Gateway or if in doubt, contact the Editor at the address given below.
3.2 Contributor's publishing agreement
Before publication, SAGE requires the author as the rights holder to sign a Journal Contributor’s Publishing Agreement. SAGE’s Journal Contributor’s Publishing Agreement is an exclusive licence agreement which means that the author retains copyright in the work but grants SAGE the sole and exclusive right and licence to publish for the full legal term of copyright. Exceptions may exist where an assignment of copyright is required or preferred by a proprietor other than SAGE. In this case copyright in the work will be assigned from the author to the society. For more information please visit the SAGE Author Gateway.
3.3 Open access and author archiving
Energy & Environment offers optional open access publishing via the SAGE Choice programme. For more information please visit the SAGE Choice website. For information on funding body compliance, and depositing your article in repositories, please visit SAGE Publishing Policies on our Journal Author Gateway.
4. Preparing your manuscript for submission
Subdivision - numbered sections
Divide your article into clearly defined and numbered sections. Subsections should be numbered 1.1 (then 1.1.1, 1.1.2, ...), 1.2, etc. (the abstract is not included in section numbering). Use this numbering also for internal cross-referencing: do not just refer to 'the text'. Any subsection may be given a brief heading. Each heading should appear on its own separate line.
1. Introduction
State the objectives of the work and provide an adequate background, avoiding a detailed literature survey or a summary of the results. This should not be more than three pages in general.
2. Material and methods
Provide sufficient details to allow the work to be reproduced by an independent researcher. Methods that are already published should be summarized, and indicated by a reference. If quoting directly from a previously published method, use quotation marks and also cite the source. Any modifications to existing methods should also be described.
Theory/calculation
A Theory section should extend, not repeat, the background to the article already dealt with in the Introduction and lay the foundation for further work. In contrast, a Calculation section (as part of Materials and Methods) represents a practical development from a theoretical basis. Do not give here basics or fundamental principles or known information.
3. Results and Discussion
Results should be clear and concise, and be part of a single section, discussing the significance of the results of the work, not repeat them. Extensive citation and discussion of the published literature should be avoided.
4. Conclusions
The main conclusions drawn from results should be presented in a short Conclusions section (maximum 100 words).
Appendices
If there is more than one appendix, they should be identified as A, B, etc. Formulae and equations in appendices should be given separate numbering: Eq. (A.1), Eq. (A.2), etc.; in a subsequent appendix, Eq. (B.1) and so on. Similarly for tables and figures: Table A.1; Fig. A.1, etc.
4.2 Formatting
The preferred format for your manuscript is Word. LaTeX files are also accepted. Word and (La)Tex templates are available on the Manuscript Submission Guidelines page of our Author Gateway.
4.3 Artwork, figures and other graphics
For guidance on the preparation of illustrations, pictures and graphs in electronic format, please visit SAGE’s Manuscript Submission Guidelines.
Figures supplied in colour will appear in colour online regardless of whether or not these illustrations are reproduced in colour in the printed version. For specifically requested colour reproduction in print, you will receive information regarding the costs from SAGE after receipt of your accepted article.
This journal is able to host additional materials online (e.g. datasets, podcasts, videos, images etc) alongside the full-text of the article. For more information please refer to our guidelines on submitting supplementary files.
Energy & Environment adheres to the SAGE Vancouver reference style. View the SAGE Vancouver guidelines to ensure your manuscript conforms to this reference style.
If you use EndNote to manage references, you can download the SAGE Vancouver EndNote output file
Maximum up to 25, 50, and 150 references for short communication, original articles, and review papers, respectively.
4.6 English language editing services
Authors seeking assistance with English language editing, translation, or figure and manuscript formatting to fit the journal’s specifications should consider using SAGE Language Services. Visit SAGE Language Services on our Journal Author Gateway for further information.
Energy & Environment is hosted on SAGE Track, a web based online submission and peer review system powered by ScholarOne™ Manuscripts. Visit https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/eae to login and submit your article online.
IMPORTANT: Please check whether you already have an account in the system before trying to create a new one. If you have reviewed or authored for the journal in the past year it is likely that you will have had an account created. For further guidance on submitting your manuscript online please visit ScholarOne Online Help.
As part of our commitment to ensuring an ethical, transparent and fair peer review process SAGE is a supporting member of ORCID, the Open Researcher and Contributor ID. ORCID provides a unique and persistent digital identifier that distinguishes researchers from every other researcher, even those who share the same name, and, through integration in key research workflows such as manuscript and grant submission, supports automated linkages between researchers and their professional activities, ensuring that their work is recognized.
The collection of ORCID IDs from corresponding authors is now part of the submission process of this journal. If you already have an ORCID ID you will be asked to associate that to your submission during the online submission process. We also strongly encourage all co-authors to link their ORCID ID to their accounts in our online peer review platforms. It takes seconds to do: click the link when prompted, sign into your ORCID account and our systems are automatically updated. Your ORCID ID will become part of your accepted publication’s metadata, making your work attributable to you and only you. Your ORCID ID is published with your article so that fellow researchers reading your work can link to your ORCID profile and from there link to your other publications.
If you do not already have an ORCID ID please follow this link to create one or visit our ORCID homepage to learn more.
5.2 Information required for completing your submission
You will be asked to provide contact details and academic affiliations for all co-authors via the submission system and identify who is to be the corresponding author. These details must match what appears on your manuscript. The affiliation listed in the manuscript should be the institution where the research was conducted. If an author has moved to a new institution since completing the research, the new affiliation can be included in a manuscript note at the end of the paper. At this stage please ensure you have included all the required statements and declarations and uploaded any additional supplementary files (including reporting guidelines where relevant).
Please also ensure that you have obtained any necessary permission from copyright holders for reproducing any illustrations, tables, figures or lengthy quotations previously published elsewhere. For further information including guidance on fair dealing for criticism and review, please see the Copyright and Permissions page on the SAGE Author Gateway.
6. On acceptance and publication
Your SAGE Production Editor will keep you informed as to your article’s progress throughout the production process. Proofs will be made available to the corresponding author via our editing portal SAGE Edit or by email, and corrections should be made directly or notified to us promptly. Authors are reminded to check their proofs carefully to confirm that all author information, including names, affiliations, sequence and contact details are correct, and that Funding and Conflict of Interest statements, if any, are accurate. Please note that if there are any changes to the author list at this stage all authors will be required to complete and sign a form authorising the change.
Online First allows final articles (completed and approved articles awaiting assignment to a future issue) to be published online prior to their inclusion in a journal issue, which significantly reduces the lead time between submission and publication. Visit the SAGE Journals help page for more details, including how to cite Online First articles.
6.3 Access to your published article
SAGE provides authors with online access to their final article
Publication is not the end of the process! You can help disseminate your paper and ensure it is as widely read and cited as possible. The SAGE Author Gateway has numerous resources to help you promote your work. Visit the Promote Your Article page on the Gateway for tips and advice.
Any correspondence, queries or additional requests for information on the manuscript submission process should be sent to the Energy & Environment editorial office via the address below. Please remember to include your manuscript ID for any enquiries sent to the Editor.
Yiu Fai Tsang, tsangyf@eduhk.hk