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The Bulletin of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology(BECT) is a peer-reviewed journal that offers rapid review and publication. Accepted submissions will be presented as clear, concise reports of current research for a readership concerned with environmental contamination and toxicology. Scientific quality and clarity are paramount.
As indicated in the Instructions for Authors, articles suitable for inclusion in BECT should be brief; complete manuscripts, including title, authors/affiliations, abstract, text, figures, tables, and references, must not exceed 8 (eight) pages. All manuscripts must be prepared and submitted in accordance with Instructions for Authors. BECT does not have the capacity to publish Supplementary Information, so manuscripts must be complete in the submitted form.
Research papers that present a variation, extension, or confirmation of topics that have already been extensively studied or are not considered to be of immediate interest to readers will be returned. BECT will not accept a series of short papers on the same or closely related topics. Review articles, abstracts, and archival papers will not be accepted for publication.
Authors of archival articles should consider submitting their manuscripts to Archives of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology.
(http://www.springer.com/environment/ environmental+toxicology/journal/244).
Authors of review articles should consider submitting their manuscripts to Reviews of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology (http://www.springer.com/series/398).
Experimental design and objective(s) must be clearly articulated, and the data must be analyzed and interpreted using appropriate statistical methods.
Manuscripts are expected to address one or more of the following themes:
Analytical Methodology
The editors welcome manuscripts on innovative analytical methods pertaining to chemicals of environmental interest. It is imperative that any new technique be compared with older techniques. Manuscripts describing methods that are simply repeats of older methods with a different substrate will be considered, but the onus will be on the author to explain innovative aspects of the method.
Manuscripts presenting methods for analyses for which methods have been standardized and for which copious data are available will not be considered for publication unless the new method can be demonstrated to have clear advantages associated with economy, improved performance, and/or reductions in waste or use of hazardous substances. Descriptions of new methods, procedures, or techniques must be sufficiently detailed to permit their adoption in other laboratories.
All reports of new methods must characterize analytical precision and accuracy, recoveries (for extraction or pre-concentration techniques), limits of detection and quantitation, and the operating parameters used with analytical instrumentation. Analytical methods-related manuscripts are rejected at a high rate because many of thesubmitted manuscripts do not significantly improve upon an existing method.
Environmental Distribution
Environmental distribution studies document the concentrations of chemicals in environmental media. Editors welcome submission of manuscripts reporting results of studies that demonstrate how chemicals partition between environmental media in natural and anthropogenically altered environments. BECT will not accept manuscripts that simply document concentrations of chemicals in the environment without interpretation; e.g., the presentation of temporal monitoring data without an explanation of the findings and their potential significance.
Environmental Dissipation
Investigations of this type should consider the potential fate of the studied chemical(s) in surrounding environmental media rather than reporting only dissipation measurements and discussing potential human exposure. The focus of these studies should include characterizing spatial or temporal patterns of contamination, the transfer and fate of contaminants, and/or characterizing exposures to chemicals in various media.
Distribution and dissipation studies linking model outputs with empirical data (i.e., model calibration or validation) are welcome. All papers reporting chemical concentrations must specify the QA/QC procedures, the analytical limits of detection and quantitation, and the operating parameters of analytical instrumentation. Contemporary measurement techniques using chemical-specific separation and detection are expected.
Exposure, Bioaccumulation, and Risk Assessment
BECT invites the submission of papers with the objective of characterizing and quantifying chemical exposure in humans and wildlife. Papers in this theme should characterize variations in chemical concentrations in environmental media (air, water, food) and provide linkages to exposure thresholds such as tolerable daily intakes, predicted no-effect concentrations, environmental quality guidelines, or relevant toxicological information used for hazard/risk assessment.
Bioaccumulation studies may involve calibration of toxicokinetic parameters, model development, or empirical descriptions of chemical movement in organisms and/or food webs. As noted for manuscripts with an environmental distribution theme, manuscripts reporting concentrations also must report QA/QC procedures, limits of detection and quantitation and the operating parameters for analytical instrumentation.
Toxicology Studies
Toxicology studies uncover the mode of action and effects of chemical exposure at all levels of biological organization (i.e., molecular, biochemical, cellular, tissue, whole organism, population, community). BECT welcomes toxicology studies using in vitro techniques, molecular techniques, toxicogenomics, tissue pathology, model organisms and non-traditional laboratory organisms.
Toxicology studies that are human-focused or use rodent models exclusively for human risk analysis and epidemiology should be submitted elsewhere. Toxicology studies should involve appropriate controls (including positive controls), treatments with multiple doses or concentrations and should be interpreted using appropriate statistical methods. Manuscripts will not be accepted if test dosages or concentrations in exposure media are not analytically confirmed. Additionally, papers that do not report the results of studies representing environmentally realistic exposures will be rejected.
Wildlife Toxicology
Wildlife toxicology includes studies on the effects of environmental pollutants on populations of free-ranging and captive animals. Where appropriate, experimental designs must be replicated, use appropriate controls or reference sites and be interpreted using the appropriate statistical analyses.
Unreplicated experiments will be considered only if they involve examination or the non-lethal collection of tissues or fluids for investigating cause of death or contaminant exposure/effects in threatened, endangered, or otherwise rare or difficult to sample species. Biological end points may include biomarker responses, endocrine effects, immunotoxicity, genotoxicity or integrative effects on growth, reproduction, behavior, deformities, or mortality. Studies on epizootics are encouraged where clear linkages between biological effects and exposure to chemical pollutants can be established.
Microbial Studies
BECT invites submissions of papers with the objective of characterizing the effectiveness of microorganisms to degrade and/or remediate contaminants in various environmental media. Note that in vitro studies using a single organism isolate or multiple organism isolates to degrade environmental contaminants must be field-validated or they will not be accepted. In addition, all papers in this area must fulfill the basic research requirements related to the above topic areas.

Editor-in-Chief
Erin Bennett
Great Lakes Institute for Environmental Research
University of Windsor, Windsor, ON, Canada
ebennett@uwindsor.ca
Past Editors-in-Chief
John Hylin (1966 – 1978),University of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI, USA
Yutaka Iwata (1978 – 1983),University of California, Riverside, CA, USA
Herbert N. Nigg (1983 – 2012),University of Florida, Lake Alfred, FL, USA
Senior Editors
Graciela Arbilla, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Mace Barron, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Gulf Breeze, FL, USA
Mirco Bundschuh, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences Uppsala, Sweden
Dan Call, Environmental Research and Information Analysts, LLC Dubuque, IA, USA
Parthasarathi Chakraborty, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, West Bengal, India
Ken G. Drouillard, University of Windsor, ON, Canada
Cheng Gu,Nanjing University, Jiangsu, China 
David Janz, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK, Canada
Wayne Jiang, Michigan State University, Lansing, MI, USA
Robbie Kroger, Mississippi State University, MS, USA
Richard Lizotte, USDA-ARS, Oxford, MS, USA
Christopher D. Metcalfe, Trent University Peterborough, Ontario, Canada
Matthew T. Moore, USDA-ARS National Sedimentation Laboratory Oxford, MS, USA
Iraklis Panagiotakis, ENYDRON – Environmental Protection Services, Athens, Greece
Gordon Paterson, SUNY-ESF, Syracuse, NY, USA
Gabriela Rodríguez-Fuentes, Unidad de Química Sisal, Facultad de Química, UNAM Yucatán, México
Ralf Schulz, University of Koblenz-Landau, Germany
Christopher Schmitt, USGS-CERC, MO, USA
Daniel Snow, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Nebraska, USA
Sebastian Stehle, University of Koblenz-Landau, Germany
Viviane Yargeau, McGill University, QC, Canada
Huan Zhong, Nanjing University, Jiangsu, China
Editorial Board
Ahmed Abdelmoneim, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA
Ehab Abdelraheem, Agriculture Research Center, Dokki, Egypt
Lutz Ahrens, Swedish University of Agriculture Sciences, Sweden
Álvaro Alonso, University of Alcalá, Madrid, Spain
Angelos Anastasopolos, Health Canada, Ottawa, ON, Canada
Rais Ansari, Nova Southeastern University, FL, USA
Flor Arcega-Cabrera, Unidad de Química-Sisal, UNAM, Yucatán, Mexico
Frank Bailey, Middle Tennessee State University, Murfreesboro, TN, USA
Denise Beckles, The University of the West Indies, St. Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago
Paolo Benedetti, National Research Council, Monterotondo, Rome, Italy
Candace Bever, USDA-ARS, Albany, CA, USA
Joseph Bohr, State of Michigan, MI, USA
Jennifer Bouldin, Arkansas State University, Jonesboro, AR, USA
Amy Brooks, Cambridge Environmental Assessments, Cambridge, UK
Andrew Bramburger, University of Minnesota Duluth, MN, USA
Kevin Buhl, Department of Interior, Yankton, SD, USA 
King Ming Chan, Chinese University, Hong Kong, China 
Da Chen, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, IL, USA 
Jinping Cheng, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong, China
Jay Clausen, US Army Corps of Engineers, Hanover, NH, USA
Jessica Coleman, US Army Corps of Engineers, Vicksburg, MS, USA
Zachary Collier, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, USA
Keith Cooper, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, USA
Daniel Cristol, College of William & Mary, Williamsburg, VA, USA
Sean Crowe, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, CA
James Dabrowski, CSIR, Pretoria, South Africa 
Jennifer Daley, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
Rebecca Dalton, Department of Biology, Carleton University, Ottawa, ON, Canada
Timothy Dawson, Badger Technical Services, Duluth, MN, USA
Emily Deaver, Southwest Minnesota State University, Marshall, MN, USA
Xin Deng, California, EPA, Sacramento, CA, USA
Fatih Deniz, Harran University, Sanliurfa, Turkey
Jeff Denny, US EPA ORD-NHEERL, Duluth, MN, USA 
William Dew, Trent University, Peterborough, ON, Canada
Curtis Eickhoff, Nautilus Environmental Company Inc., Burnaby, BC, Canada
Diana Eignor, US Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, DC, USA
Michelle Embry, ILSI Health and Environmental Sciences, Institute, Washington, DC, USA
Jerry Farris, Arkansas State University, Jonesboro, AR, USA
Ian Fearon, British American Tobacco, Southampton Hampshire, UK
Alexander Feckler, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Uppsala, Sweden
Aaron Fisk, University of Windsor, ON, Canada
Andreas Focks, Wageningen University, the Netherlands
Christy Foran, US Army Engineer Research and Development Center, Concord, MA, USA
Nika Gaelic, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, NE, USA
Fernando Galvez, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, USA
Weimin Gao, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX, USA
Natalia Garcia-Reyero, US Army Corps of Engineers, Vicksburg, MS, USA
Piero Gardinali, Florida International University, Miami, FL, USA
Nicholas Gathergood, Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia
Gerardo Gold-Bouchot, Texas A&M University, TX, USA
Michelle Gray, University of New Brunswick, NB, Canada
Kory Groetsch, Michigan Department of Community Health, MI, USA
David Hala, University of North Texas, Denton, TX, USA
Michael Hawrelak, Lambton Scientific, Sarnia, ON, Canada
Diane Henshel, Indiana University, Indianapolis, IN, USA 
Brendan Hickie, Trent University, Peterborough, ON, Canada
Robert Hoke, Haskell Global Centers for Health and Environmental Sciences, DuPont, Newark, DE, USA
Matt Huddleston, Synterra, Greenville, SC, USA
Duane B. Huggett, EAG Laboratories, San Diego, CA, USA
Seunghun Hyun, Korea University, Seoul, South Korea 
Chris Ivey, USGS-CERC, MO, USA
Xiaowei Jin, China National Environmental Monitoring Center, Beijing, China 
David Johnson, GHD, Dallas, TX, USA
Theresa Johnson, EMD Serono, Billerica, MA, USA
Jinho Jung, Korea University, Seoul, Korea
Collins Kamunde, University of Prince Edward Island, Charlottetown, PE, Canada
Bhupendra Kaphalia, The University of Texas Medical Branch, TX, USA
Pervinder Kaur, Punjab Agricultural University, India
Ben Kefford, University of Technology Sydney, Australia
Alan Kennedy, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Vicksburg, MS, USA
Firoze Khan, The University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX, USA 
Marcel Klees, North Rhine-Westphalian State Agency for Nature, Environment, and Consumer Protection, Essen, Germany
David Klein, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX, USA
Daiani Kochhann, Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia, Manaus, Amazonas, Brazil
Vladimir Kodzhahinchev, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK, Canada
Katrin Kuhl, IBACON GmbH, Rossdorf, Germany
Valerie Langlois, Royal Military College of Canada, Kingston, ON, Canada
Ramon Lavado, Baylor University, Waco, TX, USA
Carolyn Lee, ExxonMobil Biomedical Sciences, Annandale, NJ, USA 
Lianzhen Li, Yantai Institute of Coastal Zone Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shandong, China
Zhi-Hua Li, Chinese Academy of Fisheries Sciences, Wuhan, China
Igor Linkov, U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center, Concord, MA, USA
Vania Lucia Lora, Universidade Federal de Santa Maria, Brazil
Fernando Martínez-Jerónimo, Escuela Nacional de Ciencias Biológicas, I. P. N. Col. Santo Tomas, Mexico
Jonathan Maul, Syngenta, Greensboro, NC, USA
Kerry Mcphedran, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK, Canada
Mirta Menone, Instituto de Investigaciones Marinas y Costeras, Mar del Plata, Argentina
Karina Miglioranza, Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata, Argentina
Premysl Mikula, University of Veterinary and Pharmaceutical Sciences Brno, Brno, Czech Republic
Hyo-Bang Moon, Hanyang University, Ansan, South Korea
Cynthia Murray-Gulde, Chevron EMC, TX, USA
Sandra Newall, US Army Corps of Engineers, Vicksburg, MS, USA
Guodong Niu, The Florida International University, Miami, FL, USA
Som Niyogi, University of Saskatchewan, Canada
Elsa Noreña-Barroso, Unidad de Química-Sisal, Fac. de Química, UNAM, Yucatán, Mexico
Teresa Norberg-King, USEPA, Duluth, MN, USA
Nelson O’Driscoll, Acadia University, Wolfville, NS, Canada
Jill Olin, Michigan Technological University, Houghton, MI, USA
Grzegorz Orlowski, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poznań, Poland
Ryan Otter, Middle Tennessee State University, Murfreesboro, TN, USA
David Ownby, Towson University, MD, USA
Vimal Chandra Pandey, Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar University, Lucknow, India
Gordon Paterson, Michigan Technological University, Houghton, MI, USA
Andrew Pawlisz, Conestoga-Rovers & Associates, Dallas, TX, USA
Alison Nimrod Perkins, Eli Lilly and Company, Indianapolis, IN, USA
Bryn Phillips, University of California, Davis, CA, USA
Rialet Pieters, North-West University, Potchefstroom, South Africa
Holly Puglis, USGS-CERC, MO, USA
Greg Pyle, University of Lethbridge, AB, Canada
Jason Raine, University of Saskatchewan, Canada
Jes J. Rasmussen, Aarhus University Silkeborg, Denmark
Barnett Rattner, USGS, Laurel, MD, USA
Fiona Regan, Dublin City University, Ireland
Mary Ann Rempel-Hester, Aquatic Toxicology Support, Bremerton, WA, USA
John Rimoldi, University of Mississippi, MS, USA
Syed Rizvi, Nova Southeastern University, Fort Lauderdale, FL, USA
Neil Rose, University College London, UK
Gunther Rosen, U.S. Navy/SPAWAR, San Diego, CA, USA
Scott Rush, Mississippi State University, Starkville, MS, USA
Salim Samina, University of Houston, TX, USA
Greg Sandala, Mount Allison University, Halifax, NS, Canada
Yelena Sapozhnikova, United States Department of Agriculture Wyndmoor, PA, USA
Thorstan Schad, Institute of Environmental Safety, Monheim, Germany
April Van Scoy-DaSilva, University of California at Davis, CA, USA
Steve Sheffield, Bowie State University, MD, USA 
Maulin Shah, Enviro Technology, Ankleshwar, Gujarat, India
Zhimin Shi, Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center, LA, USA
Kamaleshwar Singh, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX, USA 
Corinna Singleman, CUNY Graduate Center, New York, NY, USA
Chris Smith, Redshift Technologies, Inc., New York, NY, USA
Jeff Steevens, USGS-CERC, MO, USA
Guanyong Su, Nanjing University of Science and Technology, Nanjing, China
Burton Suedel, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Vicksburg, MS, USA 
Ewa Szalinska, AGH University of Science and Technology, Cracow, Poland
Jingchun Tang, Nankai University Tianjin, China
Matthew TenEyck, University of Wisconsin-Superior, WI, USA
Atac Tuli, California Environmental Protection Agency, Sacramento, CA, USA
Heather Tyler, USDA-ARS, Stoneville, MS, USA
Theodore Valenti, Sygenta Crop Protection LLC, Greensboro, NC, USA
Arjun Krishna Venkatesan, SUNY-Stony Brook, Stony Brook, NY, USA
Mohammad Valipour, Payame Noor University, Tehran, Iran
Patricks Voua Otomo, North-West University, Potchefstroom, North-West, South Africa
Yi Wan, Peking University, Beijing, China
Jing Wang, DuPont Crop Protection, Newark, DE, USA
Lynn Weber, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK, Canada
Christopher Weisener, University of Windsor, ON, Canada 
Morgan Willming, US Environmental Protection Agency, Gulf Breeze, FL, USA
Chris Wilson, University of Florida/IFAS-IRREC, FL, USA
Nathan Wintle, PDX Wildlife, Portland, OR, USA
Chris Wong, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong, China
Thomas Wynn, Alkermes, Inc., Waltham, MA, USA
Shen Yu, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xiamen, China 
Linduo Zhao, Oak Ridge National Lab, Oak Ridge, TN, USA
Xiaowei Zhang, Nanjing University, China
Bingsheng Zhou, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, China
Haseeb Zubair, University of South Alabama, Mobile, AL, USA
Jochen Zubrod, University of Koblenz-Landau, Landau, Germany