Fresenius Environmental Bulletin

AIMS AND SCOPE

Fresenius Environmental Bulletin is an international journal dealing with all aspects of the rapid growing field of environmental sciences and technology. The journal is the official journal of MESAEP (Mediterranean Scientific Association of Environmental Protection e.V.), IAES (International Academy of Environmental Safety) and SECOTOX (Society of Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety) and is published by PSP-Verlag, Freising.

THE EDITORIAL PROCESS In order to help you to better understand the editorial process, we give you here the main steps of the procedure.
Manuscript submission to the editorial office

Send us your manuscript by email and provide us with names and addresses of three relevant independent referees.
Acknowledgment of receipt of manuscript

covers all fields of pure and applied ecochemistry and -toxicology, including topics at their interfaces with the environmental and analytical sciences, the engineering and materials sciences, the earth sciences, and others. Fields covered include chemical, biochemical, biological, toxicological and physical methods of analysis, instrumentation, sampling and sample preparation, separations, miniaturized systems, chemometrics, quality assurance, method validation and process control. The increasing need to develop fast, reliable and environmentally friendly procedures and methods or even complete environmental strategies within a very narrow time frame is a task which needs - more than ever before - the extended interdisciplinary cooperation between the experts in the fields.
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We will confirm receipt of your manuscript whenever possible within a week.

Pre-selection of manuscripts

We exclude those manuscripts from the following peerreview process, which are apparently not suitable for publication in Fresenius Environmental Bulletin. We inform you, if this is the case with your manuscript.
Peer-review process

We identify two experts for your manuscript. After they have approved to read and evaluate your manuscript, we send it to them. We ask the referees to let us know their observations and opinions on your manuscript within approximately 6 weeks, but the entire review process may last considerably longer.
Manuscript revision

Therefore, Fresenius Environmental Bulletin has a pronounced interdisciplinary and practice-oriented character and is also devoted to the development of strategies for problem solving in ecochemistry and ecotoxicology and aims at fostering the cooperation between all relevant disciplines.
Fresenius Environmental Bulletin publishes Review Articles, Original Papers, Short Communications, and Book Reviews. Occassional issues are dedicated to the proceedings of relevant and topical conferences. All papers are subject to peer review

We inform you about the acceptance or non-acceptance of your manuscript for publication. If accepted, we ask you to take the recommendations of the referees into account, and you can subsequently submit the final version of the manuscript to us. Together with the acceptance letter, we will send you the copyright and reprint order form to be signed and returned to us. Note that publishing in Fresenius Environmental Bulletin is not free. Precondition is that you prepay 25 reprints. As a personal subscriber you can publish up to 2 papers free of charge.
Copyediting and typesetting

GUIDE FOR AUTHORS Manuscripts should be sent preferably and in electronic format to the following address: PARLAR SCIENTIFIC PUBLICATIONS Fresenius Environmental Bulletin (FEB) Angerstr. 12 85354 Freising - Germany Tel.: + 49-8161-48420 Fax: + 49-8161-484248 e-mail: parlar@psp-parlar.de homepage: http://www.psp-parlar.de

After receipt of payment, we will typeset your manuscript, and send it to you by email for proof-reading. You can make your corrections and amendments directly in the electronic version of the manuscript, provided you use different colours or the track-changes function which allows us to follow all your changes.
Publication

Once your manuscript has been published in Fresenius Environmental Bulletin, you will get your reprints.

PREPARATION OF MANUSCRIPTS To allow speedy publication manuscripts should be prepared carefully in accordance with the following points.

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1) Electronic submission: Authors are encouraged to submit their manuscript as an attachment file of an email to the editorial office (parlar@psp-parlar.de). 2) Manuscripts must be in the English language. With their submission, authors may suggest potential reviewers for their work. 3) Only new, previously unpublished results given in concise form, will be accepted. Known facts should only be briefly mentioned, with appropriate literature citations. 4) Title and name(s)/address of author(s): The title should be short and should identify precisely the main topic of the article. Name(s) of author(s) should come underneath the title. The first surname of the author(s) should be given in full. The 1names of Universities with Faculty, City and Country of all authors should come underneath 5) Summary: Every manuscript should be preceded by a summary. The summary (abstract) should be concise, intelligible in itself and should draw attention to the significant contents of the paper and the author's main conclusions. It should normally not exceed 250 words and should contain no uncommon abbreviations or references to literature. 6) Keywords: Up to six keywords should be suggested by the author. 7) Introduction: This should define the problem and, if possible, the frame of existing knowledge. Please ensure that people not working in that particular field will be able to understand the intention. The word length of the introduction should be 150 to 300 words. 8) Materials and Methods: Please be as precise as possible to enable other scientists to repeat the work. 9) Results and Discussion: Only material pertinent to the subject must be included. Data must not be repeated in figures and tables. This part should interpret the results in reference to the problem outlined in the introduction. 10) Conclusions 11) Acknowledgements of financial support, advice or other kind of assistance should be given at the end of the text under the heading "Acknowledgements". The names of funding organizations should be written in full. 12) Citations in the text should be by numbers in square brackets. 13) References: Responsibility for the accuracy of references rests with the authors. References are to be limited in number to those absolutely necessary. References should be numbered in the order of appearance in the text. Example:
[1] Author, N.N. and Author, N.N. (Year) Full title of the article. Journal and Volume, first and last page.

14) Corresponding author: This is placed at the end of the manuscript and contains: Name of author, address for correspondence, (phone number, fax number), email address. 15) Quantities and units must be designated using SI units. Greek, unusual symbols, abbreviations should be defined in the text at their first occurrence. 16) Figures and tables (only originals) should be numbered in arabic numerals in order of mention in the text. Use the inbuild table functions of your word processing program, not tabulators, to make tables. Color illustrations cannot be printed, they need to be submitted in black-and white (shade of grey). 17) Precondition for publishing: a minimum number of 25 reprints must be ordered and prepaid. 1 - 4 pp.: 75,- EURO + postage/handling 5 - 8 pp.: 150,- EURO + postage/ handling more than 8pp: 0.75 EURO/page x number of reprints + postage/ handling
The prices are based upon the number of pages in our journal layout (not on the page numbers of the submitted manuscript). Postage/ Handling: The current freight rate is Germany 10 , Europe 18,00 , International 30 . VAT: In certain circumstances (if no VAT registration number exists) we may be obliged to charge 7% VAT on sales to other EU member countries. MESAEP and SECOTOX members get a discount of 10% (postage/ handling full). Personal subscribers can publish up to 2 papers approved for publication free of charge (Conditions: 1. both paper must be approved for publication; 2. publication date for both papers is scheduled for the subscription period calendar year 2008) for every further paper published during the subscription period (calendar year 2008) 25 compulsary reprints must be ordered.

18) The author(s) transfer(s) the copyright to his/their article to PSP-Verlag effective if and when the article is accepted for publication. The copyright covers the exclusive and unlimited rights to reproduce and distribute the article in any form of reproduction (printing, electronic media or any other form); it also covers translation rights for all languages and countries.