Guidelines for Authors
To ensure a smooth submission, review, and publication process, all authors are kindly requested to carefully read and follow the guidelines and documents provided below. Compliance with these instructions is essential to ensure that each manuscript meets the required academic, ethical, and formatting standards for review and potential publication.
Conference Theme:
“Advancing Earth and Environmental Science through Innovative Green Technologies for Sustainable Development Goals.”
- Instructions on how to prepare your article: click here
- Publication rights form (to be signed by at least one author): click here
- Ethical guidelines: click here
- General editorial guidelines: click here
- Full Paper Template: click here
- Paper Submission: click here
- Peer-Review Process: click here
Authors are strongly encouraged to ensure that their manuscripts strictly follow the provided template, formatting rules, publication ethics, and scope of the conference prior to submission. Manuscripts that do not comply with these requirements may be returned for correction or may not be considered for review.
Careful manuscript preparation will support a smoother review process and increase the opportunity for successful acceptance and publication in the conference proceedings. All submitted papers should be original, scientifically sound, written in proper English, and relevant to the scope of The International Conference on SDGs and Green Technology (ICST) 2026.
ICST 2026 welcomes original research papers, empirical studies, applied research, case studies, and interdisciplinary works related to earth and environmental sciences, green energy and environmental technology, sustainable engineering, applied technology, and SDGs-related studies. Priority will be given to papers that demonstrate scientific novelty, practical contribution, sustainability relevance, and alignment with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
The ICST 2026 committee is currently submitting the conference proceedings for consideration to be published in IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science, subject to the review process, publication policies, and requirements of IOP Publishing.
Preparing your proceedings paper
IOP Conference Series uses author-supplied PDFs for all online and print publication. Authors must prepare their papers using Microsoft Word or LaTeX, according to the guidelines and templates, and then convert these files to PDF.
It is important to ensure that when you submit your paper, it is in its final form ready for publication, and has been thoroughly proofread. IOP do not copy edit or reformat papers and will not send out author proofs prior to publication. Post-publication changes are not permitted, so please ensure that your paper has been checked for errors.
As a general rule we would advise that an author does not submit more than two articles to a conference. This includes papers that they have co-authored.
Our guidance on what constitutes authorship is available here: https://publishingsupport.iopscience.iop.org/questions/ethics-of-authorship/
By submitting a paper an author and all co-authors are assumed to agree with the terms of the IOP Proceedings Licence.
Do not submit your papers directly to IOP Publishing; please contact your conference organizer for submission instructions.
Paper format
– The paper size is European A4.
– Margins are 4cm (top), 2.5cm (left and right) and 2.7cm (bottom).
– There are no page numbers, headers or footers within the paper.
– Text is single spaced, not double spaced.
– All fonts are embedded.
– All pages are portrait (landscape pages should be rotated).
– The abstract text should be indented 25mm from the left margin and there should be 10mm space after the abstract before you begin the main text of your article, starting on the same page as the abstract.
– The maximum paper length is 8 pages, including figures, tables, and references.
– The manuscript may contain a maximum of 15 references/citations.
Paper content
– The paper includes the author name(s) and affiliation(s) (full address including country).
– All articles must contain an abstract.
– Papers must use inclusive language. At IOPP we follow these industry-wide Guidelines on Inclusive Language and Images in Scholarly Communication.
– All figures and tables should be numbered in numerical order. Please ensure that figure/table numbers are not duplicated or missed.
– Figures are legible and placed within the text, not collected at the end of the document.
– If section headings are numbered, ensure that they are numbered numerically, and no numbers are duplicated or missing.
– Displayed equations should follow a naming convention in numerical order, i.e. (1), (2), (3) etc or by section, i.e. (1.1), (1.2) etc. Ensure every displayed equation has its own number and none are duplicated or missing.
– Reference lists are checked for accuracy. References can only be linked via CrossRef if they are correct and complete. Check the templates and guidance page for further reference styling information.
– If numbering references (Harvard system) ensure that references are numbered numerically, every reference has its own number and no numbers are duplicated or missing.
– Ensure that all references are cited in the text and that all citations have a corresponding reference.
– Finally, please ensure that the paper is thoroughly proofread to check the standard of English and ensure wording is clear and concise.
Templates and guidelines for proceedings papers
Essential guidelines
Please follow these essential guidelines when preparing your paper:
Templates
Authors must prepare their papers using our Microsoft Word or LaTeX2e templates, and then convert these to PDF format for submission:
Multimedia
If you would like to submit multimedia to accompany your paper, you might find these guidelines useful:
Additional information
Additional information such as How to Cite an IOP Conference Series Paper, Copyright and Permissions, IOP Proceedings Licence, and Generative AI (including ChatGPT) policies can be found on the official IOP Publishing guidelines page:
https://publishingsupport.iopscience.iop.org/author-guidelines-for-conference-proceedings/
