Article Editing Guide

Guidelines for the preparation and writing of articles for the Journal of Architecture and Sustainable Environment

It is essential to follow the following tips and guidelines when submitting articles to prevent delays in the review and timely publication of the journal:

Dear authors, it is necessary to register your researcher ID (ORCID) on the journal's website in the author profile section.

Abstract

Print and publish articles in the fields of architecture, urban planning, urban environments, landscape architecture, architectural conservation, and architectural technology that result in sustainable urban development. For this purpose, the journal, due to its specialization only in topics related to architecture, sustainable architecture, ecology, climate, energy and urban environments, accepts articles including the following:

Architecture and sustainable architecture * New construction technologies
Landscape architecture * Urban space studies
Interior architecture, architectural studies * Environmental studies
Ecology, climate and energy * Energy in architecture
Urban design and environmental design
New construction technologies * Sustainable architecture education
History and conservation of architecture * Sociology and architecture
Contextual architecture * Philosophy and architecture
Keywords: Include 4 to 5 words that should be determined in a way that they can be used to prepare an index. These words should be completely separated.

Introduction

The template format present on the journal's website (Sanad.iau.ir/journal/jsae) is provided as a Word file. It is recommended to download the aforementioned template and adjust the contents of your prepared article in its format.

- Submitted articles that meet the initial acceptance criteria of the respected editorial board of the journal are sent to expert reviewers in that subject. The respected reviewers, apart from qualitatively evaluating the articles, suggest constructive strategies. The suggestions of the respected reviewers will be sent to the author of the article in full, but without the name and logo of the reviewer.

- Articles submitted for corrections, if no response is received from the author by the specified date (maximum 14 days, which can be extended in cases requested by the author), as well as rejected or withdrawn articles, will be removed from the journal's archive after two months, and the journal will not be responsible in this regard.

- The journal reserves the right to reject or accept, as well as edit the articles.

- The author or authors are legally responsible for the accuracy and completeness of the submitted article and do not necessarily represent the opinion or content of the journal's administrators.

- The article must be the result of the author's research and scientific work and must necessarily have led to the production of new science and knowledge. The journal welcomes articles extracted from doctoral dissertations, outstanding theses, and independent research projects, provided that they comply with the principles and criteria of scientific research methods in the relevant field and have theoretical or methodological innovation.

- The types of articles accepted in the journal that are eligible for evaluation and publication include (scientific-research, scientific-promotional, scientific review). The journal is not allowed to accept translated articles.

Review articles from experienced authors and owners of research articles in the fields in question are accepted on the condition that the research is documented by relevant sources and that they are from renowned professors in the country.

- The journal welcomes theoretical articles that critically examine and review existing scientific theories, propositions, and theoretical models, as well as the invention or presentation of new scientific models and theories by prominent experts and professors. Articles prepared by master's and doctoral students in collaboration with supervisors or advisors must be submitted to the journal under the scientific responsibility of the supervisor; otherwise, they will not be considered by the editorial board.

- The journal is not accepting authored or translated articles for publication.

- The submitted article must not have been previously published in any domestic or foreign journal or collection of foreign articles. The editorial board expects respected authors not to submit their articles to another journal for publication or review until they receive an acceptance letter from the journal.

- Persian articles should be prepared in 12B mitra font and English articles in 12 Times New Roman font using Word under Windows XP. Articles should be typed on A4 paper (with margins of 3.5 cm from the top, 3 cm from the bottom, and 3 cm from the right and left). Line spacing should be single.

- The volume of the article, including text, figures, tables, maps, references and Latin abstract, should not exceed 16 pages, in compliance with the journal's typesetting standards. (If this amount is exceeded, the journal office will not be responsible for the review and non-printing).

- Dear authors, articles that are not prepared according to the journal's established format and template will be returned to the author and will not be included in the evaluation process.

Background and theoretical foundations of the research:

Articles accepted in the initial approval stage should be structured as follows:

- The structure of the article should be scientifically composed, including the title, Persian abstract (250-350 words summarizing the introduction, research method, findings and conclusions), keywords, introduction (including the problem statement, questions, hypotheses, etc. of the research), research background and theoretical foundations, research materials and methods, research discussion and findings, conclusion and presentation of suggestions, references and references.

- For Persian articles, the title of the article should be concise, short and descriptive of the subject of the article and typed in 16 B mitra font. The author's name should also be mentioned in 12 B mitra font, and his/her academic or professional title should also be mentioned in 11 B mitra font below the first page of the article. It is necessary to mention the name of the responsible author of the article on the authors' profile page.

- Abstracts of Persian articles should be written in 11 B Lotus font, English abstracts in 11 Times New Roman font, black, and all titles in the text should be written in Bold font.

- For English articles, the title should be in 14 Times New Roman font, the name of the author of the article in 12 Times New Roman black font, and his/her scientific or professional title in 12 Times New Roman thin font should be mentioned below the Latin abstract page of the article. In addition, the e-mail address and phone number of the corresponding author should be given in the footnote.

- Subtitles should be typed in B mitra 10 Regular font (simple). English subtitles should also be typed in Times New Roman font and size 10 Regular.

- The introduction should start from the second page. The text of the introduction should be uniform and without subsections (subheadings). That is, the content of the statement of the problem, research questions, hypotheses, and research necessity should be included in the introduction without subtitles and continuously with scientific skill and with regular and correct paragraphing. Avoid heading the introduction.

Materials and Research Methods:

- The respected author should accurately indicate the type of research, method and tools of data collection. The years, months, and days that the data were used should be precisely indicated. Then, the method of data processing, how to verify the validity, reliability and standardization of the research questionnaire, etc. should be mentioned. Therefore, it is necessary and essential to use reliable sources with correct and accessible data. The exact address of the sources should be given. If sampling is used, it is necessary to mention the sampling method, the reason for its use and the method of selecting the number of samples in quantitative and qualitative terms. It is reminded that in this section, additional and unnecessary explanations that have an educational aspect should be avoided. Also, the data measurement and analysis tools, indicators and research variables should be mentioned.

- In this section, it is necessary to mention all models, methods and algorithms (mathematical relations) used in the research. The author is required to number the mathematical relations as follows, provide the necessary explanations and references.

- All relations should be typed in special software that is also available in Word. Avoid copying and pasting formulas and relations in reverse.

Relationship (1) µcom = (fuzzy total) γ

Study area: (if the article is a case study)

In this section, the study area should be briefly introduced in terms of political-geographical and demographic aspects.

- When arranging tables, maps and figures, it is mandatory to observe the following points:

A - Information in tables should not be repeated in the form of figures or diagrams in the article. The number and title should be mentioned above the table. If tables and figures are taken from other sources, the source should be mentioned below the tables and figures. At the same time, tables, maps, diagrams and figures produced by the author or authors should not be referenced to the author or authors until their source is given. For example (Source: Authors' Studies, 2016). Tables should also be prepared and arranged in a completely simple way and color formatting should not be used in them (Table Grid format should be used). The titles of the tables should be given as Table 1, Table 2, etc., and in B Lotus10 Regular font (simple and bold) above them.

B - Each column of the table should have its own title and unit. If all the figures in the table have the same unit, the unit can be mentioned in the table title.

C - Additional explanations of the title and text of the table should be provided as subtitles. Also, the width of the figures and tables should not exceed the margins of the pages. In case of an incident, it is necessary to solve this problem by the author in any possible way, and draw it in several tables.

D - The figures and diagrams of the article must be original and of good quality and in black and white. The original file of the figures (in PDF, Excel, Word) should be provided with a resolution of 600 dpi. The photos should be clear, legible, scaled and of appropriate and desirable quality (300 to 500 dpi) in one of the following formats: gif, pdf, jpg, png, tif. The font size, especially for curves (Legend), should be chosen in such a way that the figure remains legible even after being reduced in scale for printing. The source of the figure should be given in parentheses (Source: Shekouei, 2008: 50) below them.

Figure 2- Fire service coverage area and access network of Tehran Metropolitan Area in 2005 (Drawing: Authors)

Table 1- Building envelope area in Tehran Metropolitan Areas

(Source: Razavi, 2018: 23) - or source: Authors' field studies, 2018

- Avoid bringing non-standard and low-quality maps (such as maps prepared in Paint software and the like). All maps must be prepared in one of the GIS software and with the quality and standards of a geographical map (with a coordinate system, guide, direction, scale, etc.) and exported with high resolution. And they must be referred to in the text.

Discussion and presentation of findings:

- The author can use one of the words discussion or discussions and findings. In accordance with the content of the discussions and findings of each article, the author can title the discussions and findings themselves. (Abstain from numbering the titles; therefore, do not implement a thesis or dissertation format in this section).

- Each article requires writing and editing corrections, especially in the use of punctuation marks, and it is necessary for the respected author to revise the article based on the "Persian Grammar" booklet of the Persian Language Academy.

- The article must be fluent, fluent and grammatically correct, and sufficient care has been taken in choosing words. For example, Arabic words (هذا) should not be used. Also, the paragraphing of the article text should be strictly observed and all literary rules (Persian writing rules) and literary and scientific editing should be observed.

- In the Persian text, the Persian equivalent of Latin words should be used as much as possible, and if the Persian equivalent is not sufficiently expressive, the same Latin word can be cited in the subtitle by mentioning the number above the equivalent.

- The Persian quotation mark «» should be used. Not the non-Persian quotation mark " ".

- Before parentheses and quotation marks, a space should be placed between the word before and after outside the parentheses and quotation marks, but the parentheses and quotation marks should be attached to the words or numbers inside them; example: This article was published in the magazine "Culture and Media".

- The comma, period, colon, semicolon should be attached to the words before them and should be separated from the following words by a space.

- All sources in the text should be placed in parentheses and given in the form (author, year: page).

- Combinations such as: background of investigation, research background, God's relationship should be written as: background of investigation, research background, God's relationship.

- In necessary cases and cases that cause ambiguity, an accent mark should be used; example: Ali, Alii / Mubin, Mubinyin

- "Semi-space" should be observed in necessary cases; Example:

continuous verbs: "goes" instead of "goes", documentary verbs like "he wrote" instead of "he wrote", compound verbs like "to use" instead of "to use" and compound words like "archaeology" instead of "archaeology", "Karim Khan" instead of "Karim Khan", "Classification" instead of "Classification", "Nobility" instead of "Nobility" "Clothes" should be written. Plural "hi", suffixes of verbs, and words that consist of two or more components, should be written separately using a semicolon.

- The text should be free of typographical and spelling errors.

- A semi-space should only be created between the main headings and the previous line/figure/table. Do this by holding down the Ctrl+0 keys simultaneously.

Conclusion and presentation of suggestions:

- The conclusion should be the result of the results of the discussion and findings of the present research; therefore, it is necessary to present the conclusion by the author in a scientific, concise and comprehensive manner, and of course in an explanatory-analytical manner. Immediately at the end of the conclusion, the author can present his suggestions based on the research results and away from generalizations in the form of a heading. Do not give the suggestions a separate heading; rather, bring it connected to the conclusion.

- Avoid transferring and copying and pasting repetitive materials, figures, and tables in the discussions and findings to the conclusion section. The author can present the results and also the suggestions in the form of a heading in a smaller size than the normal size of the main text.

References and references:

- References and references should be mentioned in-text and also at the end of the article.

- The list of references should be given on the page after the conclusion. In the reference list section, all references that are included in the text should be typed in Latin and translated (in Persian) systematically and based on the Latin alphabet with Times New Roman 11 font.

The reference style within the article should be in APA or Chicago style and the sources cited in the text should be included in parentheses with the surname, year of publication and page number.

All internal and end references of the article should be matched to the internal and end references of the text and should be corrected and written in Latin. Please ensure that all Persian sources have been translated into English and the APA format for sources has been observed.

Also, the doi code is required for all end references.

For example: (Rezvani, 2016: 47). Or (Tacoli, 2011: 6-7). With font number 11.

For a source with two authors: (Ebrahimzadeh and Mosavi, 2013: 8) or (Rondinelli & Johnson, 2013: 6).

For a source with more than two authors: (Shakoor et al, 2018: 12)

or (Richard et al, 2016: 754).

- In the method of presenting sources and references at the end of the article as follows:

A. For a book: last name, name of the author(s), (year of publication): book title, volume number, publisher name, edition, place of publication.

Example of a book:

Fritsch, M. (2002). Measuring the quality of regional innovation systems: a knowledge productionfunction approach. International Regional Science Review, 25(1), pp: 86-101.

B. For a publication: last name, name of the author(s) (year of publication): "Article title", name of the publication, volume, place of publication, pages.

Example of a publication:

Ali Ahmadi, Alireza., Monajemzadeh, Sayed Saeed., Sadeghi, Mohammad-Ebrahim and Nozari, Hamed (2012). "Forming a Framework for the Development of Regional Innovation Systems Based on the Successful Experiences of Other Countries", Tomorrow's Management Research Journal. 2(33), 5-16.

English example of the publication:

- Coppola, E. and F. Giorgi, (2010): An assessment of temperature and precipitation change projections over Italy from recent global and regional climate model simulations. International Journal of Climatology, 30, pp: 11-32.

- If using internet sources, in addition to observing the method of citing the source explained, the internet address of the source should also be given, and then the date of internet access should be stated in parentheses.

- The method of listing sources and references in the list of references will be in alphabetical order and the minimum number of sources used should not be less than 20 sources.

- Note: In case of using student theses or dissertations, it is mandatory to mention the name of the supervisor and advisor, the title of the field and the name of the relevant university.

- Articles taken from student theses and dissertations will be published together with the names of the supervisor, advisors and the student and under the responsibility of the supervisor.

- The respected author must mention this point at the end of the article if he/she uses financial resources from universities or specific government organizations. Also, the author should mention the gratitude or appreciation to the financial or moral sponsor on the last page of the conclusion of the article.

- Rejected or withdrawn articles will be removed from the journal's archive after three months and the journal will not be responsible in this regard.

Extended English Abstract:

- The English abstract should be typed at the end of the article (after the list of references) and on a separate page and in the following format. Of course, it is necessary to explain that in the main file of the article, which should be without the names of the authors, the names and affiliations of the authors should be removed from the beginning of the abstracts and inside the figures and tables.

Also, for the journal to be indexed in international databases, it is necessary for the Extended Abstract, and the full English abstract to be between 950 and 1100 words and contain Introduction, Methodology, Results and discussion, Conclusion, so that it can be published separately. There is no need to send these two files (extended Persian and English abstracts) when initially submitting the article to the journal. Once the article has been approved and accepted by the esteemed reviewers and the final publishable file has been requested from you through the journal administration, you will need to send these two files.