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Author Instructions

2.4.7 Abbreviations
Abbreviations should be defined upon first appearance in the abstract, main text, and in figure or table captions and used
consistently thereafter. Non-standard abbreviations are not allowed unless they appear at least three times in the text.
Abbreviations in titles and keywords should be avoided, except for the ones which are widely used.

2.4.8 Italics
General italic words like vs., et al., etc., in vivo, in vitro; t test, F test, U test; related coefficient as r, sample number as n,
and probability as P; and biology species in Latin.
2.4.9 Units
SI Units should be used. Imperial, US customary and other units should be converted to SI units whenever possible. There
is a space between the number and the unit (i.e., 23 mL). Hour, minute, second should be written as h, min, s.

2.4.10 Numbers
Numbers appearing at the beginning of sentences should be expressed in English. When there are two or more numbers
in a paragraph, they should be expressed as Arabic numerals; when there is only one number in a paragraph, number < 10
should be expressed in English and number > 10 should be expressed as Arabic numerals. 12345678 should be written as
12,345,678.

2.4.11 Equations
Equations should be editable and not appear in a picture format. Authors are advised to use either the Microsoft Equation
Editor or the MathType for display and inline equations.

2.5 Submission Link
Submit an article via https://www.oaecenter.com/login?JournalId=cf.

3. Research and Publication Ethics
3.1 Publication Ethics Statement
Carbon Footprints fully adheres to the Code of Conduct and the Best Practice Guidelines of Committee on Publication
Ethics (COPE).

The Editors of this journal enforce a rigorous peer-review process together with strict ethical policies and standards to
guarantee to add high-quality scientific works to the field of scholarly publication. Unfortunately, cases of plagiarism,
data falsification, image manipulation, inappropriate authorship credit, and the like, do arise. The Editors of Carbon
Footprints take such publishing ethics issues very seriously and are trained to proceed in such cases with zero tolerance
policy.

Authors wishing to publish their papers in CF must abide to the following:
• The author(s) must disclose any possibility of a conflict of interest in the paper prior to submission.
• The authors should declare that there is no academic misconduct in their manuscript in the cover letter.
• Authors should accurately present their research findings and include an objective discussion of the significance of their
findings.
• Data and methods used in the research need to be presented in sufficient detail in the manuscript so that other
researchers can replicate the work.
• Authors should provide raw data if referees and the Editors of the journal request.
• Simultaneous submission of manuscripts to more than one journal is not tolerated.
• Republishing content that is not novel is not tolerated (for example, an English translation of a paper that is already
published in another language will not be accepted).
• The manuscript should not contain any information that has already been published. If you include already published
figures or images, please get the necessary permission from the copyright holder to publish under the CC-BY license.
• Plagiarism, data fabrication and image manipulation are not tolerated.
• Plagiarism is not acceptable in OAE journals.

Plagiarism involves the inclusion of large sections of unaltered or minimally altered text from an existing source without
appropriate and unambiguous attribution, and/or an attempt to misattribute original authorship regarding ideas or results,
and copying text, images, or data from another source, even from your own publications, without giving credit to the
source.
As to reusing the text that is copied from another source, it must be between quotation marks and the source must be

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