1、投稿方式：在线投稿。

2、刊内网址（202506期）：

http://www.scar.ac.cn/

https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/research-in-cold-and-arid-regions

3、投稿系统：

https://www2.cloud.editorialmanager.com/rcar/default2.aspx

4、刊内邮箱：scar@lzb.ac.cn

5、刊内电话：0931-8267850；8761290

6、出刊日期：双月刊，逢双月出版。

7、官方微信公众号：寒旱区科学RCAR

8、官网信息：2026年12月31日前不收版面费审稿费。

2026年3月5日星期四

Guide for Authors

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Introduction

Types of paper

Contributions

falling into the following categories will be considered for

publication: Original research papers, review articles, discussions and

editorials.

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.

Before you begin

Ethics in publishing

Please see our information pages on Ethics in publishing and Ethical guidelines for journal publication.

Submissions

to KeAi journals are automatically screened using iThenticate's

CrossCheck within the editorial system to detect plagiarism issues

including instances of overlapping and similar text in submitted

manuscripts. Details can be found here. High similarity papers will be

desk rejected.

Declaration of interests

For

transparency, for manuscripts submitted after October 30, 2025, all

authors are requested to disclose any financial and personal

relationships with other people or organizations that could

inappropriately influence (bias) their work. Examples of potential

conflicts of interest include employment, consultancies, stock

ownership, honoraria, paid expert testimony, patent

applications/registrations, and grants or other funding. Authors should

complete the declaration of competing interest statement using this

template and upload to the submission system at the Attach/Upload Files

step. Note: Please do not convert the .docx template to another file

type. Author signatures are not required. If there are no interests to

declare, please choose the first option in the template. This statement

will be published within the article if accepted. More information.

Submission declaration and verification

Submission

of an article implies that the work described has not been published

previously (except in the form of an abstract or as part of a published

lecture or academic thesis or as an electronic preprint, see 'Multiple,

redundant or concurrent publication' section of our ethics policy for

more information), that it is not under consideration for publication

elsewhere, that its publication is approved by all authors and tacitly

or explicitly by the responsible authorities where the work was carried

out, and that, if accepted, it 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

originality, your article automatically screened by the originality

detection service CrossCheck.

Use of inclusive language

Inclusive

language acknowledges diversity, conveys respect to all people, is

sensitive to differences, and promotes equal opportunities. Content

should make no assumptions about the beliefs or commitments of any

reader; contain nothing which might imply that one individual is

superior to another on the grounds of age, gender, race, ethnicity,

culture, sexual orientation, disability or health condition; and use

inclusive language throughout. Authors should ensure that writing is

free from bias, stereotypes, slang, reference to dominant culture and/or

cultural assumptions. We advise to seek gender neutrality by using

plural nouns ("clinicians, patients/clients") as default/wherever

possible to avoid using "he, she," or "he/she." We recommend avoiding

the use of descriptors that refer to personal attributes such as age,

gender, race, ethnicity, culture, sexual orientation, disability or

health condition unless they are relevant and valid. These guidelines

are meant as a point of reference to help identify appropriate language

but are by no means exhaustive or definitive.

Please

write your text in good English (American or British usage is accepted,

but not a mixture of these). Authors who feel their English language

manuscript may require editing to eliminate possible grammatical or

spelling errors and to conform to correct scientific English may wish to

use the English Language Editing service available from Elsevier's

WebShop.

Author contributions

For

transparency, we encourage corresponding authors to provide co-author

contributions to the manuscript using the relevant CRediT roles. The

CRediT taxonomy includes 14 different roles describing each

contributor's specific contribution to the scholarly output. The roles

are: Conceptualization; Data curation; Formal analysis; Funding

acquisition; Investigation; Methodology; Project administration;

Resources; Software; Supervision; Validation; Visualization;

Roles/Writing - original draft; and Writing - review & editing. Note

that not all roles may apply to every manuscript, and authors may have

contributed through multiple roles. More details and an example.

Changes to authorship

This policy concerns the addition, deletion, or rearrangement of author names in the authorship of accepted manuscripts:

Before

the accepted manuscript is published in an online issue: Requests to

add or remove an author, or to rearrange the author names, must be sent

to the Journal Manager from the corresponding author of the accepted

manuscript and must include: (a) the reason the name should be added or

removed, or the author names rearranged and (b) written confirmation

(e-mail, fax, letter) from all authors that they agree with the

addition, removal or rearrangement. In the case of addition or removal

of authors, this includes confirmation from the author being added or

removed. Requests that are not sent by the corresponding author will be

forwarded by the Journal Manager to the corresponding author, who must

follow the procedure as described above. Note that: (1) Journal Managers

will inform the Journal Editors of any such requests and (2)

publication of the accepted manuscript in an online issue is suspended

until authorship has been agreed.

After

the accepted manuscript is published in an online issue: Any requests

to add, delete, or rearrange author names in an article published in an

online issue will follow the same policies as noted above and result in a

corrigendum.

Copyright

This

journal is a peer reviewed, fully open access journal owned by

Northwest Institute of Eco-Environment and Resources, Chinese Academy of

Sciences. Northwest Institute of Eco-Environment and Resources retains

copyright of the overall compiled journal and the compiled issues. For

open access publishing, this journal uses a licensing agreement. For the

single article, Authors will transfer copyright to Northwest Institute

of Eco-Environment and Resources, Chinese Academy of Sciences, and KeAi

Communications Co., Ltd. and Northwest Institute of Eco-Environment and

Resources, Chinese Academy of Sciences will be granted non-exclusive

publishing and distribution rights.

Author rights

As an author you (or your employer or institution) have certain rights to reuse your work. More information.

Responsible sharing

Find out how you can share your research published in Elsevier journals.

Role of the funding source

You

are requested to identify who provided financial support for the

conduct of the research and/or preparation of the article and to briefly

describe the role of the sponsor(s), if any, in study design; in the

collection, analysis and interpretation of data; in the writing of the

report; and in the decision to submit the article for publication. If

the funding source(s) had no such involvement then this should be

stated. Please see https://www.elsevier.com/open-access/agreements.

Open Access

Every

peer-reviewed research article appearing in this journal will be

published open access. This means that the article is universally and

freely accessible via the internet in perpetuity, in an easily readable

format immediately after publication. To provide open access, this

journal has an open access fee (also known as an Article Processing

Charge, APC) which needs to be paid by the authors or on their behalf

e.g. by their research funder or institution. The open access

publication fee for this journal is USD 1000, plus taxes. For all

articles submitted before 31-Dec-2026, the article publication charge

will be waived making it free to submit to the journal. The OA

publishing fee shall be paid by the Northwest Institute of

Eco-Environment and Resources, Chinese Academy of Sciences.

A

CC user license manages the reuse of the article. All articles will be

published under one of the following licenses upon author choice, for

more details please visit link

(https://www.keaipublishing.com/en/journals/research-in-cold-and-arid-regions/open-access-journal/

Elsevier Researcher Academy

Researcher

Academy is a free e-learning platform designed to support early and

mid-career researchers throughout their research journey. The "Learn"

environment at Researcher Academy offers several interactive modules,

webinars, downloadable guides and resources to guide you through the

process of writing for research and going through peer review. Feel free

to use these free resources to improve your submission and navigate the

publication process with ease.

Submission

Submission

to this journal proceeds totally online. Use the following guidelines

to prepare your article. Via the homepage of this journal (Research in

Cold and Arid Regions (keaipublishing.com)) you will be guided stepwise

through the creation and uploading of the various files. The system

automatically converts source files to a single Adobe Acrobat PDF

version of the article, which is used in the peer-review process. Please

note that even though manuscript source files are converted to PDF at

submission for the review process, these source files are needed for

further processing after acceptance. All correspondence, including

notification of the Editor's decision and requests for revision, takes

place by e-mail and via the author's homepage, removing the need for a

hard-copy paper trail. If you are unable to provide an electronic

version, please contact the editorial office/journal prior to

submission: Email:scar@lzb.ac.cn telephone: +86-931-8367850

ORCiD

ID: Our journal supports the use of ORCiD ID. Authors are encouraged to

provide ORCiD ID at submission. Authors are encouraged to provide ORCiD

ID at submission.

Preparation

Peer review

This

journal operates a double blind review process. All contributions will

be initially assessed by the editor for suitability for the journal.

Papers deemed suitable are then typically sent to a minimum of two

independent expert reviewers to assess the scientific quality of the

paper. The Editor is responsible for the final decision regarding

acceptance or rejection of articles. The Editor's decision is final.

More information on types of peer review.

All

manuscripts would be first reviewed by editorial office. Any papers

fail to meet the basic standard of the journal would be desk rejected

for reasons like out of scope, ethical conflicts, high similarities,

lack of originality, flaws in research design or methods, etc. Then,

editorial office would reassign selected papers to editor-in-chief.

Editor-in-chief

would invite multiple reviewers to review this paper or assign an

editorial board member to invite reviewers to review this.

After

at least 2 reviewers give their reviews and comments, Editor-in-chief

(or the assigned editor) would provide feedbacks based on review

comments to the authors including his own review comments.

When author submits the revised manuscript, the assigned editor and editor-in-chief would collaborate to make final decision

For

submissions from Editor-in-Chief, Associate Editors, Guest Editor(s),

and other journal Board members, and authors who have conflicts of

interest with them, we ensure that the paper is handled confidentially

by a different team member.

For

submissions to Special Issues, if there are conflicts of interest

between the GE(s) and authors, the submissions will be handled by

another Editor from Editorial Board who will manage the peer review

process and make the decision whether to accept or reject the paper

after peer review.

Referees

We

suggest, as part of the submission process, providing the names of 2

peers who are experts in the related area that could be called upon for

peer review. Please be aware of any conflicts of interest which could

include but are not limited to the below:

The reviewer should have no prior knowledge of your submission;

The reviewer should not have recently collaborated with any of the authors;

Reviewer nominees from the same institution as any of the authors are not permitted

Only

suggested reviewers who have an academic and/or institutional email

address will be considered. Email addresses with generic domain names

(Gmail, Hotmail, Yahoo, AOL, etc.) will be disregarded.

Please note that the editor retains the sole right to decide whether or not the suggested reviewers are used.

For more information please visit our Support site

Additional Information

Tables

and figures may be presented with captions within the main body of the

manuscript; if so, figures should additionally be uploaded as high

resolution files.

Editorial Policies

For

information on Editorial Policies for journal publication refer to

https://www.keaipublishing.com/en/editors/editorial-policies/

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