"Environmental Research Letters is a free-to-read journal dedicated to bringing together intellectual and professional scientists, economists, engineers and social scientists, as well as the public sector and civil society who are engaged in efforts to understand the state of natural systems and, increasingly, the human footprint on the biosphere."
Daniel M Kammen, Editor-in-Chief
Environmental Research Letters (ERL) is an open-access research journal intended as the meeting-place of the research and policy communities concerned with environmental change and management.
The journal's coverage reflects the increasingly interdisciplinary nature of environmental science, recognizing the wide-ranging contributions to the development of methods, tools and evaluation strategies relevant to the field. Submissions from across all components of the Earth system, i.e. land, atmosphere, cryosphere, biosphere and hydrosphere (freshwater and marine), and exchanges between these components are welcome.
The core of ERL's content draws from observations, numerical modelling, theoretical and experimental approaches to environmental science, and especially science relevant to policy, impacts, and decision-making. In addition, approaches from a range of physical and natural sciences, economics, and political, sociological and legal studies are strongly encouraged.
Typical areas of interest will include:
For information about the ERL publication criteria please see the specific journal article requirements.
Concise, high impact original research articles not normally more than 4000 words.
Commissioned commentaries highlighting the impact and wider environmental implications of research appearing in ERL.
ERL uses an article numbering system which allows articles to be added to an issue one at a time, while maintaining separate sections for editorial material, Perspectives and Letters. Articles should be referenced by using the six-digit article number in place of a page number, for instance:
Kammen D M 2006 Environ. Res. Lett. 1 010201
The pages in the PDF file of each article are numbered from 1. These page numbers should not normally be included in a reference. However, if it is desirable to indicate the length of an article, this can be done by including the number of pages, in parentheses, after the article number, for example:
Kammen D M 2006 Environ. Res. Lett. 1 010201 (3pp)
Each article in a volume has a unique six-digit number, the first two digits indicate the issue number, the next two the type of article and/or its subject area and the final two are a counter indicating the sequence number for the article within its issue and category.