International Journal of Applied Mechanics
Submission Guidelines
All submissions to IJAM are handled electronically. Manuscripts must be submitted online via Editorial Manager (EM) at http://www.editorialmanager.com/ijam/login.asp, a fully webbased submission, peer-review, and tracking system. Upon submission authors should specify to which section the paper belongs.
New Authors:: If you are submitting via this new system for the first time, you will first be required to register. From the account you create, you will be able to monitor your submission and make subsequent submissions.
Submission of a paper implies that the paper has not been published and is not being considered for publication in another journal. Once a paper is accepted for publication in this journal, the author is assumed to have transferred the copyright to World Scientific Publishing Co.
Manuscripts are to be prepared according to the instructions provided. They should be prepared using the format files of the journal for TEX style files of MS Word style file. The format files can be downloaded from the website. Free TEX program is available at http://www.tug.org/interest.html#free
Hardcopy submissions or submissions via email to the managing editors are not encouraged and will only be accepted when the online submission system is disrupted.
Any manuscript, which does not conform to the instructions, may be returned to authors for revision before publication.
Once the paper is accepted, authors are assumed to transfer copyrights of the paper to World Scientific Publishing Company.
Page Charge: There are no page charges for submissions under 15pp (using the journal’s template). For overlength papers (i.e. papers with 16 or more pages) a charge of US$40 per additional page will be charged for all article types (i.e. US$40/page from pg 16 onwards). For articles submitted before 13 October 2014, waivers may be granted at the Editor-in-chief's discretion.
All illustrations/figures will be printed in black & white; illustrations/figures will only be available in color in the electronic edition of the journal. Authors are to ensure that all illustrations/figures provided can be clearly seen/read when produced in black & white.
World Scientific encourages authors for whom English is not their first language to seek assistance from a fluent English speaker prior to submission. Alternatively, authors may contact organisations like Enago for assistance. This makes it easier for the editors and reviewers to check your manuscript. World Scientific reserves the right to return manuscripts written in poor English without review.
World Scientific has collaborated with Enago to provide Academic English editing and translation services to help authors get their research submission-ready. Authors can choose from a range of editing services and get their manuscripts edited by Enago's professional PhD native editors. Authors that wish to use this service will receive a 30% discount on all editing services. To find out more information or get a quote, please visit: https://www.enago.com/worldscientific.
Detailed instructions for preparation of manuscripts are available in:
Latex2e (readme / Download)
MS-Word (ZIP files) (readme / Download)
