AUTEX Research Journal

MANUSCRIPTS

AUTEX Research Journal encourages the submission of both substantial full-length bodies of work and shorter manuscripts that report novel findings. There are no specific length restrictions for the overall manuscript or individual sections; however, we urge the authors to present and discuss their findings in a concise and accessible manner.

All submissions must be made via online submission system Editorial Manager. In case of technical difficulties, please contact the Managing Editor of this journal at Malgorzata.Komadowska@degruyter.com

SUBMISSION OF MANUSCRIPTS
Text files can be submitted in the following formats: .doc, .rtf. We accept submission of text, tables and figures as separate files or as a composite file. For your initial submission, we recommend you upload your entire manuscript, including tables and figures, as a single PDF file.
For detailed information, please see Instruction for Authors

EDITORIAL POLICY
Unpublished material: Submission of a manuscript implies that the work described is not copyrighted, published or submitted elsewhere, except in abstract form. The corresponding author should ensure that all authors approve the manuscript before its submission.
Ethical conduct of research: The authors must describe and confirm safeguards to meet ethical standards when applicable. See Editorial Policy for details.
Conflict of interest: When authors submit a manuscript, they are responsible for recognizing and disclosing financial and/or other conflicts of interest that might bias their work and/or could inappropriately influence his/her judgment. If no specified acknowledgement is given, the Editors assume that no conflict of interest exists.
Copyright: All authors retain copyright, unless – due to their local circumstances – their work is not copyrighted. The copyrights are governed by the Creative-Commons Attribution Only license (CC-BY) which is compliant with Plan-S. The corresponding author grants the journal the license to use of the article, by signing the License To Publish.

Authorship: Authorship should be limited to those who have made a significant contribution to the conception, design, execution, or interpretation of the reported study. All those who have made significant contributions should be listed as co-authors. Where there are others who have participated in certain substantive aspects of the research project, they should be named in an Acknowledgement section. The corresponding author should ensure that all appropriate co-authors (according to the above definition) and no inappropriate co-authors are included in the author list of the manuscript, and that all co-authors have seen and approved the final version of the paper and have agreed to its submission for publication.
Peer Review Process: Our standard policy requires each paper reporting primary research or secondary analysis of primary research, together with relevant supplementary materials, to be reviewed by at least two Referees and the peer-review process is single-blind. The Editors reserve the right to decline the submitted manuscript without review, if the studies reported are not sufficiently novel or important to merit publication in the journal. Manuscripts deemed unsuitable (insufficient originality or of limited interest to the target audience) are returned to the author(s) without review. The Editor seeks advice from experts in the appropriate field. Research articles and communications are refereed by a minimum of two reviewers, review papers by at least three. Authors are requested to suggest persons competent to review their manuscript. However, please note that this will be treated only as a suggestion, and the final selection of reviewers is exclusively the Editor's decision. The final decision of acceptance in made by Managing Editor or, in case of conflict, by the Editor-in-Chief.
Scientific Misconduct: This journal publishes only original manuscripts that are not also published or going to be published elsewhere. Multiple submissions/publications, or redundant publications (re-packaging in different words of data already published by the same authors) will be rejected. If they are detected only after publication, the journal reserves the right to publish a Retraction Note. In each particular case Editors will follow COPE’s Core Practices and implement the advices.

Editor-in-Chief
Savvas G. Vassiliadis, University of West Attica, Greece

Associate Editors
Diana P. Ferreira, University of Minho, Portugal
Ilda Kazani, Polytechnic University of Tirana, Albania
Boris Mahltig, Hochschule Niederrhein, Germany
Maryam Naebe, Deakin University Australia
Pierre Ouagne, Université de Bretagne Sud, France
Danmei Sun, Heriot-Watt University, Scotland

Editorial Board
Ilze Baltina, Riga Technical University, Latvia
Mirela Blaga, IASI University, Romania
Omar Cherkaoui, School of Textile and Clothing industries, Morroco
Ada Ferri, Politecnico di Torino, Italy
Recep Eren, Bursa Uludag University, Turkey
Anica Hursa Sajatovic, University of Zagreb, Croatia
Nawar Kadi, University of Borås, Sweden
Olena Kyzymchuk, Kyiv National University of Technologies and Design, Ukraine
Daiva Mikučionienė, Kaunas University of Technology, Lithuania
Stelios Mitilineos, University of West Attica, Greece
Yasir Nawab, National Textile Univesity, Pakistan
Barbara Simončič, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
Snezana Stankovic, University of Belgrade, Serbia
George Stylios, Heriot-Watt University, Scotland
Valentina Trovato, University of Bergamo, Italy
Peng Wang, University of Haute-Alsace, France
Xin Wang, RMIT University, Australia
Xungai Wang, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong

Managing Editor
Małgorzata Komadowska, Poland
malgorzata.komadowska@degruyter.com

Assistant Managing Editor
Kumaran Rengaswamy
Assistant Managing Editor, Compuscript
AssistantManagingEditor@degruyter.com

AUTEX Research Journal is covered by the following services:

• Arianta
• Astrophysics Data System (ADS)
• Baidu Scholar
• BazTech
• Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS) - CAplus
• Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS) - SciFinder
• CNKI Scholar (China National Knowledge Infrastructure)
• CNPIEC - cnpLINKer
• Dimensions
• DOAJ (Directory of Open Access Journals)
• EBSCO Discovery Service
• Engineering Village
• Google Scholar
• Inspec
• Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST)
• J-Gate
• Journal Citation Reports/Science Edition
• JournalGuide
• Naver Academic
• Naviga (Softweco)
• PaperChem
• Polymer Library
• Primo Central (ExLibris)
• ProQuest (relevant databases)
• QOAM (Quality Open Access Market)
• ReadCube
• ScienceON (Korea Institute of Science and Technology Information)
• Scilit
• SCImago (SJR)
• SCOPUS
• Semantic Scholar
• Sherpa/RoMEO
• TDNet
• TEMA Technik und Management
• Ulrich's Periodicals Directory/ulrichsweb
• WanFang Data
• Web of Science - Essential Science Indicators
• Web of Science - Science Citation Index Expanded
• WorldCat (OCLC)
• X-MOL
• Yewno Discover