Editorial Policies

Editorial

Day-to-day editorial matters, submitted manuscripts and all enquiries are managed on a part-time basis by the Journal Editor, who is supported by an Editorial Committee.

Peer-review

All submissions are subject to peer-review, at the editor's discretion (depending on the nature of the submission). Reviewers are selected based on their expertise's relevance to a given submission. Generally, two reviewers will be invited, but this number may vary. The NJE adheres to a double-blind review system, whereby both author and reviewer identities are concealed from one another. Reviewers have the choice of accepting a manuscript as suitable for publication, referring the manuscript back to the authors for improvement, or rejecting it as unsuitable.

As a journal, we acknowledge our responsibility to facilitate Namibian reviewing experiences. However, our reviewers reflect a balance of global and local expertise. Given our limited capacity and resources, and as a completely open-access journal, we are unable to pay reviewers. However, to acknowledge their contrubtion, reviewers will be given the choice of being identified once a manuscript has successfully passed the review process and has been accepted for publication. At that time, but only with the reviewer's permission, authors will be requested to insert an appropriate acknowledgement, otherwise they will be required to acknowledge 'anonymous reviewers'.

Post-publication changes

When minor errors that do not fundamentally affect the content of an article become apparent after publication, they will be inserted in an Erratum section that will appear on the last page of the paper, below any original text. The modified version will be re-uploaded to on-line repositories and will replace the version already there.

In case of major post-publication issues that require retraction of the article, all reference to the article on the web site and all uploaded versions will be replaced with a notice giving only the title and authorship, plus a statement of retraction.

Archiving

Articles are downloadable free of charge from the NJE web site, and are also independently archived both at Environmental Information Service Namibia, http://www.the-eis.com/, and the Internet Archive, https://archive.org/index.php.

NJE is therefore compliant with the requirements for electronic publication of new species names of both the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature, https://www.iczn.org/, and the International Code of Botanical Nomenclature, https://www.iapt-taxon.org/icbn/main.htm.

Ethics

NJE values freedom of speech and encourages discourse on controversial subjects, but will not accept any articles that promote or are the result of any questionable activities or harmful rhetoric. This includes but is not limited to: practices that are unethical, dishonest, illegal, inhumane, detrimental to the environment, detrimental to species survival, detrimental to human rights and dignity, or represent blatant marketing, advertisement or plagiarism. In cases where unethical practices only become apparent post-publication, the affected article may be retracted based on a decision by the Editorial Committee.

Financial support

There are no charges to authors for publishing in NJE, nor does NJE benefit financially from published articles. The costs of producing the journal are covered by the not-for-profit Namibian Chamber of Environment and their donors, none of whom derive any financial benefit from NJE, nor do they influence the content in any way.

Privacy Statement

The names and email addresses entered in this journal site will be used exclusively for the stated purposes of this journal and will not be made available for any other purpose or to any other party.

Copyright and licencing

Articles in this journal are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

Contact details

Editor's email: editor@nje.org.na

Journal web site: https://nje.org.na/

Physical address: c/o Namibian Chamber of Environment, 18 Nachtigal Street, Windhoek, Namibia. http://www.n-c-e.org/