Submissions

Author Guidelines

We publish original research articles, reviews and short scientific communications on applied sciences and engineering topics, to inform current research, policy and practice in all areas of common interest to social scientists, engineers, and policy makers.

Journal of Applied Science and Engineering A (JASE-A) covers all applied and fundamental aspects of mathematics, chemistry, physics, and engineering. It has three sections: "Mathematics and Computational science", "Chemical technology and Engineering" and "Physics and Environmental science".

In order to be fair to all submissions, Editorial Board cannot consider in queries about the  appropriateness of a manuscript that is submitted by e-mail outside the formal submission system.

The Editorial Board consists of experts in the natural sciences, engineering and an Editor-in-Chief. 

All research manuscripts received by the JASE-A undergo a full peer review process. The Editor-in-Chief of JASE-A is responsible for deciding which of the submitted articles will be published in the journal.

This journal uses a double-blinded review process, which means that both the identity of the reviewer and the author are hidden from the reviewers throughout the review process and vice versa. All submitted manuscripts undergo intensive peer review in consultation with members of the journal’s editorial board and independent external reviewers (usually 2-3 reviewers).

Papers must be in English and must not have been published elsewhere. Authors must agree not to submit the same material to another journal for publication. It is in the author's interest to ensure accurate and consistent presentation to avoid delays in publication.

Permissions

Authors who wish to use figures, tables, or text passages that have been published elsewhere must obtain permission from the copyright holder(s) for both print and online formats and provide proof that such permission has been granted when submitting their articles. Material submitted without such proof will be assumed to originate with the authors.

Reviewers are asked to evaluate a manuscript according to the following criteria:

• Relevance to the aim and scope of the journal
• Originality, novelty and applicability
• Scientific approach
• Relative importance
• Appropriateness of methodology, analysis, and interpretation
• Adequacy of figures, tables, and references
• English presentation and scientific writing
• Discussion and conclusions relevant to outcome and content of manuscript

All manuscripts will be reviewed within a reasonable period of time and the decision will be made by the Editor-in-Chief of the journal based on all peer reviewers’ comments.

Types of papers

The journal publishes several types of manuscripts:

• Research articles reporting original and previously unpublished research
• Short scientific communications reporting important preliminary results
• Review articles a critically assessing and summarizing existing data and areas of research 

All papers – except editorials, letters to the Editor – are peer-reviewed by at least two experts.

Research articles

This is the most common form of journal manuscript, publishing full reports of research data. The research article format is suitable for many different fields and different types of studies. It includes abstract, introduction, methods, results and discussion sections.

Short scientific communications

These papers publish short reports of data from research articles that editors believe will be of interest to many researchers and are likely to stimulate further research in the field. Because they are relatively short the format is suitable for researchers whose results are time sensitive (example e.g., in highly competitive or rapidly-changing disciplines). This format often has strict length limitation, so some experimental details may not be published until the authors write a full Research article manuscript.

Review Articles

Review articles provide a comprehensive summary of research on a particular topic, as well as an outlook on the state and development of the field. They are often written by leading scholars in a particular field at the invitation of a journal’s editor. Reviews are widely read (for example, by researchers seeking a comprehensive introduction to a field) and frequently cited. Reviews typically cite about 100 primary research articles.

Manuscript Submission

Submission of an article implies that the work described has not yet been published (except in the form of an abstract, a published paper or an academic paper). The submitting author must ensure that all eligible co-authors have been included in the author list and that they have all read and approved the submitted version of the manuscript. The manuscript may not be published in English or any other language, including electronically, in the same form without the written consent of the copyright holder.

Online Submission

Please follow the “Submit manuscript” (http://icase.mn/online-paper-submission) hyperlink and upload manuscript files following the on–screen instructions.

Source Files

Please ensure that you provide all relevant editable source files with each submission and revision. Failing to submit a complete set of editable source files will result in your article not being considered for review. Please always submit your manuscript text in common word processing formats such as .docx or LaTeX (with all figures in eps or tiff format).

Title Page

• Title: The title should be concise, informative, and describe the subject topic of the manuscript in terms that can be understood by a wide readership. Non-standard acronyms or abbreviations should be avoided. The title should be in sentence case, bold and centered (14pt, Bold).
• Authors: includes the names of all authors and their full postal and e-mail addresses. The author names are capitalized each word, 10 points, and centered below the title.
• Author affiliation: Affiliated institutions must be listed directly under the authors’ names. Include department, institution, and full address for each author. Multiple affiliations should be indicated with superscript Arabic numbers, and each should begin on a new line. (10pt, capitalized each word)
• Corresponding author: name, full address, telephone number, and e-mail address of the author to whom correspondence and proofs should be sent. The name of the corresponding author should be marked with an asterisk (*). The mailing and e-mail addresses will be appeared in the printed edition and online.

For authors who are (temporarily) not affiliated, we collect only their place of residence and country but not their e-mail address unless specifically requested.

Abstract

The abstract should be written in Times New Roman 9pt, fully justified and should not include references, figures, or tables. In the abstract, you should briefly state the purpose of the research, the main results and the main conclusions. Please prepare an abstract of approximately 150 to 250 words.

Keywords

 Provide a maximum of 8 keywords immediately following the summary. Use American spelling and avoid general and plural terms as well as multiple words (e.g., avoid 'and', 'of'). These keywords will be used for indexing. The keywords are written in Times New Roman 9pt. Please do not coincide keywords with article title.

Text Formatting

• Use a normal, plain font (e.g., 10-points, Times Roman) for the text.
• Use italics for emphasis.
• Use the automatic page numbering feature to number the pages.
• Do not use field functions.
• Use tab stops or other commands for indents, not the space bar.
• Please submit mathematical equations as editable text, not images. Use the equation editor or MathType for equations. Number all equations that need to be displayed separately from the text consecutively (if referred to explicitly in the text).

Please download the template file from the homepage of JASE-A (URL: http://icase.mn/online-paper-submission).

Headings

Please use the decimal system for headings with no more than three levels. Divide your article into clearly defined and numbered sections. Subsections should be numbered 1.1 (then 1.1.1, 1.1.2, ...), 1.2, etc. (the abstract is not included in the section numbering). Use this numbering also for internal cross-references: Do not simply refer to 'the text'. Each subsection can be given a brief heading. Each heading should be on a separate line. First level headings are in sentence case and bold, 10 points, and aligned to the left.

Manuscript organization

The text should be at least 12pt spaced and page numbered to facilitate the review process and should be organized as follows:

• Abstract
• Introduction
• Materials and methods, including if appropriate an area description, quality assurances etc.
• Results & Discussion
• Conclusions
• Funding
• Acknowledgements (if appropriate)
• References
• Tables
• Figure Captions

Language

All manuscripts must be clearly written in English (American or British usage is accepted, but not a mixture thereof).

Non-English speaking authors who do not have a good command of scientific English are requested to contact someone whose native language is English or engage a professional language editing service before submission.

Important NOTE: Manuscripts may be rejected by the Editorial Board without review if they exhibit poor English or are unsuitable for the journal because they do not achieve an acceptable level of quality, are outside the scientific aims and scope of the journal or contain evidence of scientific fraud.

Funding

Each author must individually declare all sources of funding received for the research submitted to the journal. This information includes the name of granting agencies, grant numbers, and a description of each funder’s role.

Acknowledgments

Acknowledgments for individuals and others.

References

References must be numbered as they appear in the manuscript ([1], [2,3], [4-8] etc.) and should appear in numerical order in the reference section. The list of references should include only papers that are cited in the text and that have been published or accepted for publication. Personal communications and unpublished work should be mentioned only in the text. References should be compiled at the end of the article in the order of citation in the text, not in alphabetical order. References must contain sufficient information to allow a reader to find the referenced publication. With electronic linking of references to the publications themselves now possible, consistent styling of references is especially important. The required format for references is as follows. At least 8 references should be cited.

How to display a DOI

When displaying DOIs, it’s important to follow these display guidelines. Crossref DOIs (https://www.crossref.org/display-guidelines/) should:

• always be displayed as a full URL link in the form https://doi.org/10.xxxx/xxxxx
• not be preceded by doi: or DOI:
• not use dx in the domain name part of DOI links
• and we recommend HTTPS (rather than HTTP).

Journal Article:  Author, article title, journal title, volume number, year (unless given after author’s name), page numbers or article number, (9 points)

1. Xie and M. Mirmehdi, RAGS: Region-aided geometric snake, IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, 13 (2004), pp. 640-652. https://doi.org/10.1109/TIP.2004.826124
2. De Menech, Modeling of droplet breakup in a microfluidic t-shaped junction with a phase-field model, Physical Review E, 73 (2006), 031505.

Conference Article: Author, article title, journal title, volume number, year (unless given after author’s name), page numbers or article number, DOI. (9 points)

1. Gil and P. Radeva, Curvature vector flow to assure convergent deformable models for shape modeling, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer Verlag, Proceedings of EMMCVPR, Lisbon, Portugal, 2003.
2. M. Clarke, E.A. Emerson, Design and synthesis of synchronization skeletons using branching time temporal logic, in: D. Kozen (Eds.), Workshop on Logics of Programs, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 131, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, (1981), pp. 52–71. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0025774

Books: Author, chapter title if applicable, “in” book title, abbreviated series title (if indicated), series volume (if indicated), editor(s), publisher, city, state (in most cases), year, page numbers if chapter title is given, doi.

1. Aubert and P. Kornprobst, Mathematical problems in image processing, Applied Mathematical Sciences 147, Springer Verlag, New York, 2002.
2. Constantin, C. Foias, B. Nicolaenko, and R. Teman, Integral manifolds and inertial manifolds, Applied Mathematical Sciences, 70, Springer-Verlag, New York, 1989.
3. Hautus, The formal Laplace transform for smooth linear systems, in Mathematical Systems Theory, Lecture Notes in Econ. and Math. Systems 131, G. Marchesini and S. K.Mitter, eds., Springer, New York, (1975), pp. 29–47. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-48895-5_3

Theses: Author, title, “Ph.D. thesis” (or other wording as supplied), university, location, year

1. L. Pego, Viscosities and linearized stability for shock profiles, Ph.D. thesis, University of California, Berkeley, CA, 1972.

Unpublished Works: Reports, Preprints, Manuscripts

Author, title, report or preprint number (if applicable), university or other institution, location, year

1. B. Smith, High resolution schemes, Technical report 92-00, Institute for Computer Applications in Science and Engineering, Hampton, VA, 1992.
2. L.Tseng, Compactly supported wavelets, preprint, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, 1992.
3. K. Arnold, Iterative Methods in Numerical Analysis, Preprint MIT425-890, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, 1996.

Available Online Only

1. M. Page, A Brief citation guide for internet sources in history and the humanities, http://www.nmmc.com/ libweb/employee/citguide.htm (19 March 1996).

Available in Print and Online

1. Womble, D. Greenberg, S. Wheat, and R. Riesen, Beyond core: Making parallel computer I/O practical, in Proceedings of the 1993 DAGS/PC Symposium, Hanover, NH, June 1993, Dartmouth Institute for Advanced Graduate Studies, 56–63; also available online from http://www.cs.sandia.gov/ dewombl/paralleldags93.html.
2. Anderson, Z. Bai, C. Bischof, J. Demmel, J. Dongarra, J. D. Croz, A. Green-baum, S. Hammarling, A. McKenney, S. Ostrouchov, and D. Sorensen, LAPACK User’s Guide, SIAM, Philadelphia, PA, 2nd ed., 1994; also available online from http://www.netlib.org

Foreign Language Materials: Used when the publication is originally written in non-Latin scripts (Chinese, Arabic, Russian, etc.) reference provides transliterated title and written in Latin-based scripts (French, Spanish, German, etc.) do not translate names. Provide a translation of the title in square brackets.

8. Krenke, and V. G. Khodakov, O svyasi povercknostnogo tayaniya lednikov s temperaturoy vozdukha [On the relationship between melt of glaciers and air temperature], Materialy Glyatsiologicheskikh Issledovaniy [Data of Glaciological Studies], 12, (1966), pp. 153–163. [In Russian]

Always use the standard abbreviation of a journal’s name according to the ISSN List of Title Word Abbreviations, see ISSN LTWA

Tables and figures

• Figures and tables should be centered. Both figure and table captions should be written in Times New Roman and numbered consecutively with Arabic numbers. Examples are as follows:
• All tables should be numbered with Arabic numerals.
• Tables should always be cited in the text in consecutive numerical order.
• For each table, please provide a table caption (title) explaining the components of the table. It is always placed above the table, centered if shorter than one line, beginning with a paragraph indent if longer.

• Both figure and table captions should be Times New Roman, and enumerated using Arabic numbers. Caption begins with Table (in bold) followed by a number and with period. The caption text is 9-point body. The caption ends with a period. The table text is 9-point body.
• Identify previously published material by indicating the original source in the form of a reference at the end of the table caption.
• Footnotes to tables should be identified by superscript lower-case letters (or asterisks for significance values and other statistical data) and included beneath the table body.
• Caption begins with Figure (in bold) followed by a number and with period. The caption text is 9-point body. The caption ends with a period. It is always located under the figure, centered if shorter than one line, beginning with a paragraph indent if longer. A figure may have parts (a), (b). All figures in one paper should be treated alike, however, and normally the author’s arrangement should be respected. A caption is not required.
• Figures are cited with abbreviations, e.g., Fig. 3.
• In-text citations to multipart figures appear as, e.g., Fig. 3(a).
• Change citations such as “in the diagram below” to, e.g., in Fig. 3.

Artwork and Illustrations Guidelines

Electronic Figure Submission

• Supply all figures electronically.
• Indicate what graphics program was used to create the artwork.
• For vector graphics, the preferred format is EPS; for halftones, please use TIFF format. MSOffice files are also acceptable.
• Vector graphics containing fonts must have the fonts embedded in the files.

Line Art

• Definition: Black and white graphic without shading.
• Do not use faint lines and/or lettering and verify that all lines and lettering within the figures are legible at the final size.
• All lines should be at least 0.1 mm (0.3pt) wide.
• Scanned line drawings and line drawings in bitmap format should have a minimum resolution of 300 dpi.
• Vector graphics containing fonts must have the fonts embedded in the files.

 Color Art

• Color images free for online publication.
• If black and white will be shown in the print version, make sure that the main information will still be visible. Many colors become indistinguishable when converted to black and white. A simple way to check this is to make a xerographic copy to see if the necessary distinctions between the different colors are still visible.
• If the figures are printed in black and white, do not refer to color in the captions.
• Color illustrations should be submitted as RGB (8 bits per channel).

Ethical Responsibilities of Authors

This journal is committed to upholding the integrity of the scientific record. As a member of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) the journal will follow the COPE guidelines on how to deal with potential acts of misconduct.

Authors should refrain from misrepresenting research results which could damage confidence in the journal, the professionalism of scientific authorship, and ultimately the entire scientific endeavor. Maintaining the integrity of the research and its presentation is supported by following the rules of good scientific practice, which include:

The manuscript should not be submitted to more than one journal for simultaneous consideration. The submitted work should be original and should not have been published in any other form or language (partially or in full), unless the new work concerns an expansion of previous work. (Please provide transparency on the re-use of material to avoid the concerns about text-recycling (‘self-plagiarism’).

A single study should not be split into multiple parts to increase the number of submissions, and submitted to various journals or to one journal over time (i.e. ‘salami-slicing/publishing’).

Concurrent or secondary publication is sometimes justifiable, provided certain conditions are met. Examples include: translations or a manuscript that is intended for a different group of readers.

Results should be presented clearly, honestly, and without fabrication, falsification or inappropriate data manipulation (including image based manipulation). Authors should adhere to discipline-specific rules for acquiring, selecting and processing data.

No data, text, or theories by others are presented as if they were the author’s own (‘plagiarism’). Proper acknowledgements to other works must be given (this includes material that is closely copied (near verbatim), summarized and/or paraphrased), quotation marks (to indicate words taken from another source) are used for verbatim copying of material, and permissions secured for material that is copyrighted.