万维提示：
1、投稿方式：在线投稿。
2、刊内网址（202506期）：
https://www.journals.elsevier.com/geography-and-sustainability
自动跳转至：
https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/geography-and-sustainability
https://www.bnuacademic.cn/xueShuJournal/GeoSus（刊内公布，但打不开）
3、投稿系统：
https://www.editorialmanager.com/GEOSUS
4、主办单位相关网址：
https://geo.bnu.edu.cn/xwzx/112847.html
（北京师范大学地理科学学部）
5、刊内邮箱：geosus@bnu.edu.cn
6、刊内电话：010-58804351
7、出刊日期：双月刊，逢双月出版。
8、官方微信公众号：Geography and Sustainability（geosusbnu）
2026年3月16日星期一
Guide for authors
【官网信息】
About the journal
Aims and scope
Geography and Sustainability aims to serve as the focal point for developing, coordinating and implementing interdisciplinary research and education to promote sustainable development through an integrated geography perspective. The journal encourages wider analysis and innovative thinking about global and regional sustainability by bridging and synthesising natural and human sciences.
Geography and Sustainability welcomes original, high-quality research articles, review articles, short communications, technical comments, perspective articles and editorials on the following themes:
Geographical Processes: Interactions with and between water, soil, atmosphere and the biosphere and their spatio-temporal variations;
Human-Environmental Systems: Interactions between humans and the environment, resilience of socio-ecological systems and vulnerability;
Ecosystem Services and Human Wellbeing: Ecosystem structure, processes, services and their linkages with human wellbeing;
Sustainable Development: Theory, practice and critical challenges in sustainable development;
Geo-data and Sustainability Models: Geodata and models to support sustainable development and decision-making
Article types
Contributions falling into the following categories will be considered for publication: Full length article or original research paper (please find a template here), review article, short communication, comment, perspective and editorial. Please ensure that you select the appropriate article type from the list of options when making your submission. Authors contributing to special issues should ensure that they select the special issue article type from this list.
Types of Articles instruction
1. Full Length Article: A full-length article should be a substantial and in-depth research study regarding a particular state of issue through several techniques or approaches. The main text should be approximately 6,000 words in length, but it should not exceed 8,000 words (excluding abstract, references, tables, figures, and appendices). A 250-word abstract, a maximum of 80 references and up to 10 displayed items (figures and tables) are allowed. A full-length article should include Introduction, Materials and methods, Results, Discussion, Conclusions, and References, which can be accompanied by Supplementary information. The sections of Materials and methods, Results, and Discussion should be divided by numbered topical subheadings.
2. Review Article: A review article should provide recent developments in scientific disciplines, including historical overviews, recent scientific advances, and perspectives for future development. It should be critical, balanced, and scholarly. The main text should be approximately 6,000 words in length, but it should not exceed 8,000 words (excluding abstract, references, tables, figures, and appendices). A 250-word abstract, a maximum of 100 references and up to 10 displayed items (figures and tables) are allowed. A review article can be accompanied by supplementary information.
3. Short Communication: A short communication provides a brief study of high quality and general interest. It should be published quickly. A short communication is expected to be approximately 3000 words with up to 4 displayed items, a 250-word abstract, and a maximum of 20 references. Short Communications can be accompanied by supplementary information.
4. Editorials: Editorials are written by the Editor-in-Chief, Associate Editors, Guest Editors, Editorial Board Members, or invited scientists and experts. Editorials are not typically peer-reviewed articles with less than 3,000 words in main text, up to 20 references, and no more than 2 displayed items (tables and figures).
5. Perspectives: Perspectives present a new and unique viewpoint on existing problems, fundamental concepts, or prevalent notions on a specific topic, propose and support a new hypothesis, or discuss the implications of a newly implemented innovation. Perspectives focus on current advances and future directions on a topic with personal opinion, and may include original data. Compared to Reviews, they are more forward looking and speculative with a narrower field of view. Perspectives are usually short peer-reviewed articles less than 5,000 words in main text, a 250-word abstract, no more than 50 references, and up to 6 displayed items (figures and tables). Perspectives can be accompanied by Supplementary information.
6. Comment: Comments are opinionated articles on a topical scientific issue, a relevant policy or a newly published article in the journal. Comments are suggested to develop a proposed solution in detail while focusing on an issue or problem. For comments on a recent publication, they can either challenge or extend one or more aspects of a focal article with a respective and constructive tone. A comment is generally with a short length of approximately 2,000 words in main text and 15 references. It is encouraged to provide 1 figure or table, but not prerequisite.
7. Highlight: Highlights aim to highlight and explain potential scientific importance of a most recent exciting research work. Highlights should be approximately 1,500 words in main text, up to 1 displayed items (figures and tables) and 10 references.
8. Letter to the editor: Letter to the editor is for scientific comments on recently published articles or discusses an important, novel research result. Letters are usually not divided by section headings, and are generally approximately 1,000 words including introductory paragraph, main content, conclusions, up to 5 references, author names and affiliations.
9. Book Review: A book review provides a personally critical appraisal of a book by evaluating such aspects as theme and argument, organization and writing style, scientific significance, etc. Book reviews are invited submissions or approved submissions by the editor and unsolicited contributions are not accepted. Book reviews in Geography and Sustainability address the topics in the cross-disciplinary field of integrated geography and sustainability science. Book reviews are generally short articles with approximately 1,000 words and up to 10 references.
10. News and Views: New and views articles inform readers about new scientific advances or important events in the field of integrated geography and sustainability science. This is a commission-only section. The length of the article generally should not exceed 1000 words with less than 5 references.
Peer review
This journal follows a double anonymized review process. Your submission will initially be assessed by our editors to determine suitability for publication in this journal. If your submission is deemed suitable, it will typically be sent to a minimum of two reviewers for an independent expert assessment of the scientific quality. The decision as to whether your article is accepted or rejected will be taken by our editors.
Read more about peer review.
Our editors are not involved in making decisions about papers which:
they have written themselves.
have been written by family members or colleagues.
relate to products or services in which they have an interest.
Any such submissions will be subject to the journal's usual procedures and peer review will be handled independently of the editor involved and their research group. Read more about editor duties.
Authors may submit a formal appeal request to the editorial decision, provided it meets all the requirements and follows the procedure outlined in Elsevier’s Appeal Policy. Only one appeal per submission will be considered and the appeal decision will be final.
Special issues and article collections
The peer review process for special issues and article collections follows the same process as outlined above for regular submissions, except, a guest editor may send the submissions out to the reviewers and may recommend a decision to the journal editor. The journal editor oversees the peer review process of all special issues and article collections to ensure the high standards of publishing ethics and responsiveness are respected and is responsible for the final decision regarding acceptance or rejection of articles.
Open access
We refer you to our open access information page to learn about open access options for this journal.
Ethics and policies
Ethics in publishing
Authors must follow ethical guidelines stated in Elsevier's Publishing Ethics Policy.
Submission declaration
When authors submit an article to an Elsevier journal it is implied that:
the work described has not been published previously except in the form of a preprint, an abstract, a published lecture, academic thesis or registered report. See our policy on multiple, redundant or concurrent publication.
the article is not under consideration for publication elsewhere.
the article's publication is approved by all authors and tacitly or explicitly by the responsible authorities where the work was carried out.
if accepted, the article will not be published elsewhere in the same form, in English or in any other language, including electronically, without the written consent of the copyright-holder.
To verify compliance with our journal publishing policies, we may check your manuscript with our screening tools.
Authorship
All authors should have made substantial contributions to all of the following:
The conception and design of the study, or acquisition of data, or analysis and interpretation of data.
Drafting the article or revising it critically for important intellectual content.
Final approval of the version to be submitted.
Authors should appoint a corresponding author to communicate with the journal during the editorial process. All authors should agree to be accountable for all aspects of the work to ensure that the questions related to the accuracy or integrity of any part of the work are appropriately investigated and resolved.
Changes to authorship
The editors of this journal generally will not consider changes to authorship once a manuscript has been submitted. It is important that authors carefully consider the authorship list and order of authors and provide a definitive author list at submission.
The policy of this journal around authorship changes:
All authors must be listed in the manuscript and their details entered into the submission system. Changes can only be made prior to acceptance, and only if approved by the journal editor. This includes additions, deletion, or rearrangement of author names.
Requests to change authorship must be made by the corresponding author using this form. The corresponding author must provide the reason for the request to the journal editor with written confirmation from all authors, including any authors being added or removed, that they agree with the changes. Requests which do not comply with the instructions outlined in the form will not be considered.
This journal does not allow authorship changes after acceptance. This includes additions, deletions, or the rearrangement of author names, including changes to the corresponding author.
The review process may be paused while a change in authorship request is being considered.
Approved authorship changes will result in a corrigendum if the manuscript has already been accepted.
Any unauthorized authorship changes may result in the rejection of the manuscript or retraction if the article has already been published.
Declaration of competing interests
All authors must disclose any financial and personal relationships with other people or organizations that could inappropriately influence or bias their work. Examples of potential competing interests include:
Employment
Consultancies
Stock ownership
Honoraria
Paid expert testimony
Patent applications or registrations
Grants or any other funding
Affiliation with the journal as an Editor or Advisory Board Member
The declarations tool should always be completed.
Authors with a journal affiliation to declare should enter the following text under “Other Activities” within the declarations tool and should inform the journal and publisher prior to completing the submission process:
Given their role as [insert journal role title], [insert your name] had no involvement in the peer-review of this article and has no access to information regarding its peer-review. Full responsibility for the editorial process for this article was delegated to another journal editor.
Editorial disclosure statements will be included as a footnote and/or in the declaration of competing interest section of the article.
Authors with no competing interests to declare should select the option "I have nothing to declare".
The resulting Word document containing your declaration should be uploaded at the "attach/upload files" step in the submission process. It is important that the Word document is saved in the .doc/.docx file format. Author signatures are not required.
Funding sources
Authors must disclose any funding sources who provided financial support for the conduct of the research and/or preparation of the article. The role of sponsors, if any, should be declared in relation to the study design, collection, analysis and interpretation of data, writing of the report and decision to submit the article for publication. If funding sources had no such involvement this should be stated in your submission.
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