Korea-Australia Rheology Journal
Instructions for Authors
Korea-Aust. Rheol. J. (Author Information revised on April 17, 2017)
A. Submission of manuscripts
1. Manuscripts for the Korea-Australia Rheology Journal should be submitted online at: http://www.editorialmanager.com/karj.
2. Manuscripts which do not meet the instructions for authors will not be sent out for review and will either be rejected outright or returned to the authors for resubmission.
3. All works should be original and have not been previously published in any journals, books, or peer reviewed compilation. Korea-Australia Rheology Journal publishes original articles, short communications, and review papers. Short communications present important new results and should not normally exceed four printed journal pages.
4. Every article is subject to peer-review. Authors are encouraged to submit names and addresses of up to four potential reviewers for their manuscripts, although the editors reserve the right not to approach them.
5. Authors planning a review paper should first contact one of the Editors-in-Chief. Letters to the Editor and news announcements are also accepted through the advice of the Editors.
B. Manuscript preparation
1. All manuscripts must be written in English.
2. Acceptable manuscript file types include Word and PDF. PDF is acceptable only for the new submission; a source Word file is required for following processes.
3. Manuscripts should be typed double-spaced throughout and paper size should be 210 mm × 297 mm (A4) or 8.5 in × 11 in (Letter) with margins of at least 25 mm on all sides.
4. The content should be ordered as follows: title, authors’ full name, affiliations and addresses, e-mail address of the corresponding author, abstract (not exceeding 300 words), five keywords, text body, acknowledgments, list of symbols, appendices, references, table and figure captions. The abstract should be a summary of the whole paper, not the conclusions alone. The text body should be reasonably subdivided into sections and subsections.
5. References should be cited in the text, using author(s), and the year of publication; for example, prior work by Phillips (1994), by Boger and Walters (1997), and by Chun et al. (2009). Both authors are cited when there are two and the phrases et al. or and co-workers are employed to cite a publication having more than two authors. The references are compiled at the end of the manuscript in alphabetical order of the first author. Abbreviations of journals should conform to Chemical Abstracts. Example reference formats are given below:
Phillips, R.J., 2003, A singularity method for calculating time-dependent viscoelastic flows with integral constitutive equations, J. Fluid Mech. 481, 77-104.
Boger, D.V. and K. Walters, 1993, Rheological Phenomena in Focus, Elsevier, Amsterdam.
Chun, M.-S., C. Kim, and D.E. Lee, 2009, Conformation and translational diffusion of a xanthan polyelectrolyte chain: Brownian dynamics simulation and single molecule tracking, Phys. Rev. E 79, 051919/1-10.
6. Mathematical and chemical symbols, equations, and formulae should be typed using special editor. All equations must be numbered sequentially in Arabic numerals in parentheses on the right-hand side of the page.
7. Authors are required to use the International System of Units (SI Unit) and their standard abbreviations.
8. Illustrations must be original drawings, setting the graphic for a minimum 600 dpi resolution. Details of notation such as subscripts and superscripts, as well as labels and numbers on figure axes, must be legible after reproduction in the sheet. The smallest letter size will be 2 mm.
Computer graphics files (JPG, TIFF, or EPS) must be submitted after the paper is accepted in the cases of halftone art, shaded figures, and figures in gray scale. All figures must be numbered consecutively and referred to in the text. Captions for all figures must be compiled on a separate sheet. If figures are taken from copyrighted material, it is understood that the author has obtained permission from the copyright holder for their reproduction.
Color illustrations in online only is free of charge. Those in the print version can be accepted with the author's charge if essential to the paper. The author should contact one of the Editors for this case.
C. Proofs and reprints
Authors whose manuscripts have been accepted for publication will receive the galley proofs. They must proofread the article very carefully, by indicating corrections on the proof and preparing a separate list of corrections. Responsibility for detecting errors rests with the author, and it will be not considered to be published without any proof reading. Queries should be addressed to the Editor to which the paper was submitted. Agreement to the terms of Copyright Transfer form is required for publication in this journal. The journal dose not access page charges. Ordering reprints (minimum 10copies) can be requested to the office of the Korean Society of Rheology.
D. Research Data Policy
The journal encourages authors, where possible and applicable, to deposit data that support the findings of their research in a public repository. Authors and editors who do not have a preferred repository should consult Springer Nature’s list of repositories and research data policy.
• List of Repositories
• Research Data Policy
General repositories - for all types of research data – such as Figshare and Dryad may also be used. Datasets that are assigned digital object identifiers (DOIs) by a data repository may be cited in the reference list. Data citations should include the minimum information recommended by DataCite: authors, title, publisher (repository name), identifier.
• DataCite
Springer Nature provides a research data policy support service for authors and editors, which can be contacted at researchdata@springernature.com.
This service provides advice on research data policy compliance and on finding research data repositories. It is independent of journal, book and conference proceedings editorial offices and does not advise on specific manuscripts.
• Helpdesk
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