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Clear guidance for preparing, submitting, and sharing climate and development research.

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Author Guidelines

Authors are invited to submit original research, reviews, and perspective articles addressing climate change, disasters, and development. Submissions should be clearly structured, ethically conducted, and prepared for double-blind peer review.

Prepare a concise title, a self-contained abstract, keywords, highlights where applicable, complete references, and clear statements on funding, conflicts of interest, ethics, and data availability. Submit the manuscript file separately from any identifying information.

Authors are responsible for permissions for photographs, documents, datasets, and other third-party material. All listed authors must approve the submission and author order.

Submission Preparation Checklist

All submissions must meet the following requirements.

  • The submission follows the Author Guidelines and is within the journal scope.
  • The work has not been published or submitted elsewhere.
  • The manuscript is anonymized for double-blind review and identifying details are supplied separately.
  • The title, abstract, keywords, highlights, references, tables, and figures are complete and consistently labeled.
  • Funding, conflicts of interest, ethics, and data availability statements are included where applicable.
  • Permission has been obtained for all third-party material.