Journal of the Korean Ecological Engineering Society issued by the Korean Ecological Engineering Society publishes in several main sections, i.e., Research Paper, Review Paper, Technical Note, and Scientific Information considered from all disciplines of ecological engineering. It is understood that the submitted work has not been published elsewhere such as other scientific journals, publishers or electric media, and also not currently under consideration for publication. It should be written either by Korean or English. The submitted manuscript is evaluated by three referees who are appointed by Editorial Board. The Online Submission System can be used for all processes including submission, peer-review and revision of the manuscript.

Copyright
The copyright of an article published in this journal belongs to Korean Ecological Engineering Society. In case of an article contributed by more than two authors, a corresponding author should play a role to take care of all issues like its corresponding and signing the Copyright Agreement on behalf of authors participated in. The Copyright Agreement is available at the website of Korean Ecological Engineering Society (http://www.keesociety.or.kr) or from Editorial Office. It generally guarantees the copyright of the printed and online article.
Disclaimer
Either publisher, editor or referees has no legal liability with regard to errors, omission or hypothesis found in the published article.
Ethics
With scientific and technical information in a help of ecological engineering pursuing sustainable usage and management of ecology, ecological restoration, environment-friendly harvesting, the Journal of the Korean Ecological Engineering Society is intended to meet national and global needs for the sustainable development of the low carbon green society, based on the ecological management principle. Editorial Policy on the ethics of Journal of the Korean Ecological Engineering Society is not described in the Author’s Guide, but rather follow the Guidelines on Good Publication Practice (http://publicationethics.org/resources/ guidelines).
Authorship
All authors should provide significant contributions to the article submitted, by deeply involving in research design, data acquisition, analysis/ interpretation, and writing and revision processes of the manuscript. The participated authors should note all responsibilities and accountabilities for the content of the article, and agree with the final version of the submitted manuscript.
Conflicts of Interest Statement
The corresponding author must fully disclose any potential conflicts of interest that may influence on data interpretation among authors upon the manuscript submission. It is included that research agency or institute, employment, advocacy group, grants, honoraria, royalties and so forth. Especially, the financial funding agency must be clearly uncovered.
Originality and Reproduction
The submitted manuscript must be novel and original. It is understood that the submitted work has not been published elsewhere such as other scientific journals, publishers or electric media, and also not currently under consideration for publication. Any contents in the article must not be reproduced without permission from Editorial Board or Editor-in-chief. The authors who plagiarize any materials without permission regardless of right-holders will be disclosed at this journal and punished for their reproduction based on related regulations.

1. Types of Manuscript

Types of manuscript published by Journal of the Korean Ecological Engineering Society include Research Paper, Review Paper, Technical Note, and Scientific Information dealing with diverse subjects and information on ecological engineering. The submitted manuscript should have not been published elsewhere such as other scientific journals, publishers or electric media, and also not currently under consideration for publication.

2. Manuscript Writing

2.1 Writing format
A manuscript should be written in both Korean or English. It is highly recommended to use Hangul Word file for Korean and Microsoft Word file for English if editing of the text for typesetting is required. Manuscript must be written with Sinmyungjo font, a 10-point font size and 180% spacing between lines for Korean, and with Arial font, a 10-point font size and double spacing between lines for English. 2.2 Size
A manuscript should be prepared less than 20-printed pages by including all contents such as main text, figures, tables and references. 2.3 Composition
2.3.1 Korean article
Korean article should be comprised of title, author names, affiliations in Korean first, and then duplicate them in English, which typically includes an Abstract and Keywords in English, and Introduction, Material and Methods, Results, Discussion, Conclusion, Acknowledgements in Korean, and finally References.
2.3.2 English article
English article should be comprised of title, authors, affiliations in English first, and then duplicate them in Korean, which typically includes an Abstract, Keywords, Introduction, Material and Methods, Results, Discussion, Conclusion, Acknowledgements, and finally References.
2.3.3 The Results and Discussion sections may be combined into one section, if needed.
2.4 Title
The title should be concise, accurate and informative to represent all contents of the manuscript. The first alphabet of the title and proper nouns (name, place name, etc.) should be written in capital letters.
2.5 Author names and affiliations
Author names with different affiliations should be marked with superscript Arabic numbers (1, 2, 3, etc.) right above on their names for their identification. The corresponding author should be indicated with super script asterisk (*) right above on his/her name. In addition, his/her email address is disclosed at the bottom of the first printed-page of the manuscript.
2.6 English abstract and keywords
English Abstract should be written concisely and clearly less than 250 words. Keywords should be listed within six words with the Alphabetical order.
2.7 Text
Each title of Text should be indicated with Arabic numbers (e.g., 1 Introduction, 2 Materials and Method, 3 Results and Discussion and 4 Conclusion).
2.8 Units, abbreviations, numerals, parenthesis and symbols
① All units should be separated from the front number other than °C, % and coordinate (e.g., 15 mg/L, 33 psu, 20°C, 31%, 127°32′E, etc.).
② Special characters such as ㎕, ㎤, ㎜, ㎞, etc. should not be used throughout text. Instead, use Alphabetical characters such as µL, cm3, mm, km, etc.
③ All acronyms should be spelt out the first time they are used in text. Thereafter, the acronym can be used alone, if appropriate [e.g., Eco-Efficiency Index (EEI)].
④ Full Latin names of species should be used when they are first used in text, at the first of a sentence, or at the legends of figures and tables. Thereafter, the abbreviated species name can be used, if appropriate.
⑤ A parenthesis should be separated from the front word [e.g., 2 µm-polycarbonate filter (Millipore, USA)]
⑥ Logic symbols such as +, －, ±, ≥, etc. should be separated from both front and back words (e.g., 3 ± 0.2, p < 0.05, etc.).
⑦ The range symbol, ‘－’ should be used between numbers instead of ‘~’ (e.g., 10－13; ‘10 － 13’ means ‘10 minus 13.’)
2.9 Figures and tables
Figures and tables should be arranged according to the orders in Text with Arabic numbers. Their legends and explanations must be written in English even for Korean manuscript. They should have enough resolution to be clearly understood after printing. Their legends and explanations should be understandable by themselves even without referring the text. The legends are placed below figures and above tables. Only the first character is written in the capital letter. The figure that contains more than two images or photographs should be differentiated by small letters [e.g., (a), (b), (c), etc.] and subtitles. The position in which each figure or table is inserted in the text should be consecutively indicated.
e.g.) Fig. 1. Distribution of coastal wetlands in major estuaries of Korea. (a) Han River Estuary, (b) Nakdong River Estuary, (c) Keum River Estuary.
e.g.) Table 1. Physicochemical characteristics of riparian areas in the lower reach of the Han River in 2009
e.g.) Main wetlands in Korean coasts are distributed at the estuaries of Han, Nakdong and Geum rivers (Fig. 1).
2.10 References
2.10.1 Citations in the text
① Last/family names are used in Korean and English article with the publication year.
② Both author names are given, when two authors are involved.
③ Only the first author name is given, when more than two authors are involved, and followed by et al.
e.g.) according to Jorgensen (2001), Odum and Odum (2000)
e.g.) in the studies of Costanza et al. (1997, 2003)
e.g.) in the previous studies (Martin et al., 2006; Woodward and Wui, 2001)
2.10.2 Listing method of references
①References are arranged in Korean alphabetically for Korean article and in alphabetically for English article.
②References with the same first author name are arranged the alphabetical orders of the second and third authors. References with the same authors are arranged in the order of publication years. References with the same authors and publication years are arranged in Alphabetical order of the titles of the articles.
③Two or more articles by the same author(s) are listed chronologically; two or more in the same year are indicated by a, b, c, etc.
④All author or editor names are listed for an article or book, but the project director is only listed for a research report.
⑤Journal names are all spelt out (e.g., Ecological Engineering)
2.10.3 Writing method of references
①An article in the journal is given in the order of authors. publication year. title. journal name, volume no. and pages.
e.g.) Mitsch, W.J. and J.W. Day. 2006. Restoration of wetlands in the Mississippi-Ohio-Missouri (MOM) River basin: experience and needed research. Ecological Engineering, 26: 55－69.
②An article in the Proceeding is given in the order of authors. publication year. (editors), title. conference, publisher, city and pages.
e.g.) Mitsch, W.J. 1977. Energy conservation through interface ecosystems. In: A. Rocco, R.A. Fazzolareand C.B. Smith (eds.), Energy Use Management. Proceeding soft he International Conference, Pergamon Press, Oxford, pp. 875－881.
③An article in the book is given in the order of authors. publication year. title. editor, book title. publishing agency or publisher, city and pages.
e.g.) Jorgensen, S.E. and F. Muller. 2000. Ecosystems as complex systems. In: S.E. Jorgensen and F. Muller (eds.), Handbook of Ecosystem Theories and Management. Lewis Publishers, Boca Raton, pp. 5－20.
④A book is given in the order of authors. publication year. book tile. publishing agency or publisher, city and pages.
e.g.) Kadlec, R.H. and R.L. Knight. 1996. Treatment Wetlands. CRC Press, Boca Raton, 893 pp.
⑤Master or doctoral thesis is given in the order of author. publication year. title. degree, agency, city and pages.
e.g.) Tilley, D.R. 1998. Energy basis of forest systems. Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Florida, Gainesville, 296 pp.
⑥A report is given in the order of author. publication year. title. report number, agency, city and pages.
e.g.) Ministry of Land, Transport and Maritime Affairs. 2008. Ecosystem survey of coastal wetlands. Ministry of Land, Transport and Maritime Affairs, 382 pp.
⑦Information of the website is given in the order of authors. publication year. website title and Uniform Resource Locator (URL) (access date).
e.g.) Water Resources Management Information System (WAMIS). 2006. http://www.wamis.go.kr. (1st Jan. 2016)

3. Manuscript Submission

Authors are encouraged to submit manuscripts anytime to a journal’s online manuscript submission system which is available at the homepage of the Korean Ecological Engineering Society (http://www.keesociety.or.kr).

4. Peer-Review, Acceptance and Revision

①Editor-in-chief of Editorial Board are responsible for the acceptance of the submitted manuscript.
②The revision of the manuscript is only allowed to the first draft. In principle, it is limited to correct the manuscript without typo errors.
③The manuscript that does not meet Editorial Policy will be returned without review.

5. Charges for Review and Publication

①Authors have to pay charges for review on the submitted manuscript submission and production charges for publication.
②The charges for Review is 40,000 won in Korean currency per manuscript and production charges for publication is 10,000 won for the first eight pages and 20,000 won for additional published page each.
③Charges for express review is 80,000 won in Korean currency per the submitted manuscript and the production charges for publication is 20,000 won for the first eight pages and 40,000 won for additional published page each.
④Authors have to pay actual cost for color pages.
⑤Authors are supplied for twenty free offprints, and have to pay actual cost for additional printings.

6. Others

Other editorial policies that are not described in this Instructions for Authors are delegated to Editorial Board.

1. Appointment of Referees

1.1 Editorial Board appoints referees.
1.2 In general, three referees are appointed for the evaluation of the submitted manuscript, who are experts on the subject. If necessary, the editor can appoint more than three referees depending on the characteristic of a submitted manuscript.

2. Review Guidelines

Referees appointed by Editorial Board should objectively evaluate after considering several factors whether the submitted manuscript meets the general scope of Journal of the Korean Ecological Engineering Society, originality, logic, completeness and so forth.
2.1 Originality
The submitted manuscript should have not been published elsewhere such as other scientific journals, publishers or electric media, and also currently not under consideration for publication. It should meet more than one of the following criteria.
①Is its subject, contents and methods original?
②Does it bring up scientifically or socially important issues?
③Does it contribute to prove status of the relevant subject?
④Does it have technical value for experiences obtained from plan, design, construction, etc. for the relevant subject?
⑤Does it collectively organize for the timely subject and suggest the new perspective on it?
2.2 Logic
The submitted manuscript must be reviewed with reference to the following criteria to verity that it does not have any scientific errors and contains objectively reliable contents.
①Does it cite correct references with regard to its content?
②Does it clearly describe experimental conditions and methods?
③Does it conduct appropriate comparison and estimation with the previous studies?
④Does it deduce rational conclusion based on the results?
2.3 Completeness
The submitted manuscript must be written concisely and accurately based on Instructions for Authors. It should fulfill the following criteria.
①Suitability of the overall manuscript composition
②Clarity of study aims and results
③Relatedness to the previous studies
④Suitability of used terminology and sentence expression
⑤Clarity and suitability of figures and tables
2.4 Applicability
The submitted manuscript must contain scientific or practical values. It should meet more than one of the following criteria.
①Can it be applied to other studies?
②Does it contribute to scientific development?
③Does it exhibit values for practical application?
④Does it propose future perspective of the relevant subject in terms of scientific or technical aspects?

3. Decision of Evaluation

The editor evaluates the submitted manuscript based on the Section 2 and decides one of the following five judgments. He or she must clarify the rational reasons for Rejection.
3.1 Acceptance without revision
The submitted manuscript can be published without revision
3.2 Acceptance after minor revision
The submitted manuscript can be published after minor revisions on typos, grammatical errors.
3.3 Acceptance after major revisions
The submitted manuscript can be published after major revisions and evaluate.
3.4 Rejection
The submitted manuscript is rejected, when it does not meet the scope of this journal or have no suitable originality, logic or completeness.
3.5 Recommendation as technical note
The submitted manuscript is recommended to be published as Technical Note, when it does not have sufficient contents for full-length Research Paper.

4. Period of Review

Appointed referees must return the manuscript to Editorial Office immediately, if it is not suitable for evaluation. The editor should look for another referee to evaluate if the appointed referee does not provide feedback within the designated period.
4.1 General review
Referees should give the review results within four weeks.
4.2 Express review
Referees should give the review results within two weeks.

5. Express Review

Express review evaluation sends the review decision (acceptance or rejection) to authors within one month. However, the final decision can be delayed for a while, when the first evaluation was decided as ‘Acceptance after major revision.’

6. Process of Review

6.1 First review
①The editor provides the final decision on the submitted manuscript, when more than two referees decide ‘Acceptance without revision’ or ‘Acceptance after minor revision.’
②The submitted manuscript is rejected, when more than two referees decide ‘Rejection’.
③In other cases, the revised manuscript is evaluated again and decided based on Sections ① and ②.
6.2 Evaluation after revision
①The editor provides the feedback of results to the authors and asks possible revisions, when the first review was decides as ‘Acceptance after major revision.’
②The authors must revise the manuscript according to referees’ comments and corrections. Without special reasons, they should send the revised manuscript and Author’s Response back to the editor through Online Submission System within two months. It is advised to download and use the formal document from the website. It is regarded as ‘No Intension of Publication’, when Author’s Response does not arrive within the indicated period.
③It is a general rule that the revised manuscript is sent back to the referees again who did evaluate the manuscript at the first round.
④The editor provides the final decision of the submitted manuscript, when more than two referees decide ‘Acceptance without revision’ or ‘Acceptance after minor revision.’
⑤The submitted manuscript is rejected, when more than two referees decide ‘Rejection.’
6.3 Notification of the evaluation decision
①Editorial Board should notify the review decision to the authors as soon as possible, after receiving and collecting the evaluation results from all three references.
②The authors who received the evaluation decision should prepare the revised manuscript and Authors’ Response according to the evaluation results and upload them through Online Submission System as soon as possible. The authors should describe in detail in Authors’ Response (including first and second reviews) to see how the referees’ comments and corrections were reflected at the revised manuscript.
6.4 Final review decision
①Editorial Board finally decides acceptance or rejection of both submitted and revised manuscripts, of which review results were approved as ‘Acceptance’ from more than two referees, after collectively taking the submitted manuscript, referees’ comments and authors’ response into account.
②Editorial Board can reject the acceptance of the submitted manuscript, after considering one referee’s decision of ‘Rejection’ when his or her comments or corrections are considered highly reasonable, though the other two referees give decisions of ‘Acceptance’ for it.
③Editorial Board can directly give questions to authors and/or referees for the final evaluation decision about the manuscript and referees’ comments and corrections. Then the authors and/or referees should give the direct responses. It is possible that Editorial Board appoints the third party referee for evaluating the responses.
6.5 Treatment as rejection
The submitted manuscript will be finally treated as ‘Rejection’ if it is met the following cases.
①The authors does not send the revised manuscript back within two months after receiving the evaluation results.
②The authors does not respond to the editor’s questions within two months.
6.6 Refutal
Authors can send refutation to Editorial Board for the review decision within one month in the written form after receiving the decision.
Editor-in-Chief reviews the refutal, and gives his or her own decision or discuss it with the members of Editorial Board depending to the raised issues.
6.7 The others
The other issues that are not mentioned in this Editorial Policy follow the decisions of Editorial Board.