SUBMISSION PREPARATION CHECKLIST

As part of the submission process, authors are required to check off their submission's compliance with all of the following items, and submissions may be returned to authors that do not adhere to these guidelines.

1. The submission should not have been previously published, 
2. The submission should not have been submitted to  another journal for consideration (or an explanation has been provided in Comments to the Editor).
3. The submission file is in acceptable Microsoft Word, RTF, or Word Perfect document file format.
4. Where available, URLs for the references have been provided.
   
5. The text is single-spaced; uses a 12-point font; employs italics, rather than underlining (except with URL addresses); and all illustrations, figures, and tables are placed within the text at the appropriate points, rather than at the end.
   
6. The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines .
   
7. Every effort has been made to ensure that the submission is ready for peer review according to the journal's review policy.
   

COPYRIGHT NOTICE

While publishing in KDU-J-BESC, the author is legally responsible for complying with the copyright laws and the laws of privacy and libel. If an author uses any work by another person in any way, good scholarly and publishing practice requires that proper credit is given, citing the source of the work borrowed. When works have more than one source, each must be cited. A photograph, an image, or a table must be accompanied by a credit line naming the owner. In an image, both the photographer as well as the owner of the subject of the image must be cited. A text quoted in translation must credit the author, the translator, and usually also the publisher of the translation.

One’s own work, if it has been previously published elsewhere, must also be credited. If this cited text is extensive, it must be mentioned either in a footnote or endnote.

Giving credit for all borrowings does not relieve an author from the need to obtain permissions. The author is legally required to obtain permission to reproduce, photograph, translate, or paraphrase any work or part of a work that is protected by copyright.

Built-environment journal cannot be held responsible for any shortcomings of non-adherence to these. It does not generally ask the authors to transfer their copyrights to the publisher, unless it is so required.

KDU-J-BESC is to be licensed under a platform such as Creative Commons 

This means it allows for redistribution, commercial and non-commercial, as long as it is passed along unchanged and in whole, with credit to the authors.

Visit  https://creativecommons.org/licenses/   for further details.

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.