Open Engineering

Manuscripts
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EDITORIAL POLICY
The journal uses a closed single-blind peer review system.
Unpublished material: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. Authors are encouraged to fill in the ICMJE Conflicts of Interest Form (available here) and send it in the electronic format to the Managing Editor.

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 use of each article will be governed by the Creative Commons Attribution license. The corresponding author grants De Gruyter the license to use of the article, by signing the Open Access License. Scanned copy of license should be sent to the journal, as soon as possible.

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.　For more details the role of authors please see: https://www.degruyter.com/publishing/for-authors/for-journal-authors/role-of-authors

Peer Review process: 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 Code of Conduct and implement its advice.
See Editorial Policy for details.

SUBMISSION OF MANUSCRIPTS

Cover Letter
It is important that authors include a cover letter with their manuscript. Please explain why you consider your manuscript as suitable for publication in the journal, why will your paper inspire the other members of your field, and how will it drive research forward.

The letter should contain all important details such as:

• your full name (submitted by)
• full title of article and short title
• full list of authors with affiliations
• e-mail of the corresponding author
• contact address, telephone/fax numbers of the corresponding author
• number of attached files, if there is more than one
• status: new, reviewed or accepted (with reference ID if reviewed or accepted)

Cover letter should explicitly state that the manuscript (or one with substantially the same content, by any of the authors) has not been previously published in any language anywhere and that it is not under simultaneous consideration or in press by another journal. If related work has been submitted, then we may require a preprint to be made available. Reviewers will be asked to comment on the overlap between the related submissions.

Manuscripts that have been previously rejected, or withdrawn after being returned for modification, may be resubmitted if the major criticisms have been addressed. The cover letter must state that the manuscript is a resubmission, and the former manuscript number should be provided.

Formatting Requirements
Our contributors are asked to make sure their submissions comply with rules governing the formatting. Although the journal can provide limited technical support, it is ultimately the responsibility of the author to deliver a properly formatted electronic version of the article.

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. If you are invited to submit a revised manuscript, please provide us with individual files: an editable text and publication-quality figures.

• Text files can be submitted in the following formats: TeX/LaTeX (preferable), MS Word - standard DOCUMENT (.DOC) or RICH TEXT FORMAT (.RTF); PDF (not applicable for re-submitted or accepted manuscripts, see below)
• Tables should be submitted as MS Word or PDF (not applicable for re-submitted or accepted manuscripts, see below). Please note that a straight Excel file is not an acceptable format
• Graphics files can be submitted in any of the following graphic formats: EPS; BMP; JPG; TIFF; GIF or PDF. Please note that Powerpoint files are not accepted

Post acceptance, text files of the revised manuscript and tables are required for use in the production.

Post acceptance, text files of the revised manuscript and tables are required for use in the production. Authors are encouraged to use De Gruyter Open LaTeX template file.

Authors should clearly indicate location of tables and figures in the text if these elements are given separately or at the end of the manuscript. If this information is not provided to the editorial office, we will assume that they should be left at the end of the text.

Fonts: Only use Unicode fonts (e.g. Times New Roman, Arial).

Colored Text: Set the font color to black for the majority of the text. De Gruyter Open encourages authors to take advantage of the ability to use color in the production of figures, maps, images, and graphs. However, you need to appreciate that this will cause some of your readers problems when they print the document on a black and white printer. For this reason, you are advised to avoid the use of colors in situations where their translation to black and white would render the material illegible or incomprehensible.

Symbols and abbreviations: The use of special symbols, abbreviations, and acronyms is permitted so long as they are defined upon first mention in the article.

Headings: Headings (e.g., title of sections) should be distinguished from the main body text:

• Clearly indicate the heading hierarchy.
• Be consistent in whether or not you use headline case, or you capitalize the first word and leave the rest in lower-case.

Footnotes: Footnotes and endnotes should be avoided. Allowable footnotes/endnotes may include: the designation of the corresponding author of the paper, the current address of an author (if different from that shown in the affiliation), abbreviations and acronyms.

References: References should be listed and numbered in the order that they appear in the text. In the text, citations should be indicated by the reference number in brackets [1]. Multiple citations within a single set of brackets should be separated by commas [1, 5]. Where there are more than three sequential citations, they should be given as a range [1-4]. References in figure captions and tables should be listed after the references in the text. A complete reference should give the reader enough information to find the relevant article. Please pay particular attention to spelling, capitalization and punctuation.

Please, use Vancouver/ICMJE reference style, like below:
https://www.nlm.nih.gov/bsd/uniform_requirements.html#journals

Published Papers: Kulig, P., Zabel, B. A., Dubin, G., Allen, S. J., Ohyama, T., Potempa, J., Handel, T. M., Butcher, E. C., Cichy, J. (2007).
Staphylococcus aureus-derived staphopain B, a potent cysteine protease activator of plasma chemerin. Journal of Immunology, 178, 3713-3720.

Accepted Papers: Kulig, P., Zabel, B. A., Dubin, G., Allen, S. J., Ohyama, T., Potempa, J., Handel, T. M., Butcher, E. C., Cichy, J. (in press).
Staphylococcus aureus-derived staphopain B, a potent cysteine protease activator of plasma chemerin. Journal of Immunology.

Electronic Journal Articles: Dionne M. S., Schneider D. S. (2002). Screening the immune system. Genome Biology.
http://genomebiology.com/2002/3/4/reviews/1010.

Books and book chapters: Sambrook, J., Russell, D. W. (2001). Molecular cloning - a laboratory manual (3rd ed.), New York: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press.

Theses: Agutter A. J. (1995). Analysis of sigma factors in S. aureus (PhD thesis). Edinburgh: Edinburgh University.

Conference proceedings: Smith J., Brown P. (2007, July 11-13). Reference style guide, In: M. Scott (Ed.). Proceedings of Biochemical Society Conference.
Paper presented at Biochemical Society Conference, (Warszawa, Poland), Warsaw: Versita, 1335-1791.

Newspaper articles: Sherwin, A. (2007, July 16). The post-genomic era. The Times, 170 (3), 1-2.
Dzierzanowski, M. (2007, July 8). Horyzonty. Wprost, 18 (in Polish).

For further instructions, please carefully follow the guidelines described in Instruction for Authors.

Editor-in-Chief
William F. Ritter, University of Delaware, United States

Managing Editor
Zofia Wójciak
zofia.wojciak@degruyterbrill.com

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

Editorial Advisory Board

Barretta Raffaele, University of Naples, Italy
Brida Peter, University of Zilina, Slovakia
Da Silva Silvio Silverio, University of Sao Paulo, Brazil
Di Sarli Valeria, Italian National Research Council, Italy
Duan Jun-Sheng, Shanghai Institute of Technology, China
Eslami Mostafa, University of Mazandaran, Iran
Gorash Yevgen, University of Strathclyde, United Kingdom
Karwowski Waldemar, University of Central Florida, United States
Kowalska-Pyzalska Anna, Wroclaw University of Science and Technology, Poland
Lam James, University of Hong Kong, China
Lopes Antonio Mendes, University of Porto, Portugal
O'Regan Donal, University of Galway, Ireland
Tornabene Francesco, University of Bologna, Italy
Tounsi Abdelouahed, University of Sidi-Bel-Abbes, Algeria
Tu Jay F., North Carolina State University, United States
Turkyilmazoglu Mustafa, Hacettepe University, Turkey
Zhang Jie, Newcastle University, United Kingdom
Zolotas Argyrios, Cranfield University, United Kingdom

Editors
Agarwal Praveen, Anand International College of Engineering, India
Arunkumar T., Chennai Institute of Technology, India
Asa Eric, North Dakota State University, United States
Bǎleanu Dumitru, Lebanese American University, Lebanon
Biswas Anjan, Grambling State University, United States
Capitão Silvino Dias, Polytechnic Institute of Coimbra, Portugal
Chen Zengtao, University of Alberta, Canada
Cholewa Tomasz, Lublin University of Technology, Poland
Falcone Francisco, Public University of Navarre, Spain
Fekete Zoltán, Pazmany Peter Catholic University, Hungary
Giakoumis Evangelos G., National Technical University of Athens, Greece
Holmberg Joakim, Linköping University, Sweden
Jamaluddin Anif, Sebelas Maret University, Indonesia
Karimi Hamid Reza, Polytechnic University of Milan, Italy
Merodio Jose, Technical University of Madrid, Spain
Mongay Batalla Jordi, Warsaw University of Technology, Poland
Mucha Jacek, Rzeszow University of Technology, Poland
Njuguna James, Robert Gordon University, United Kingdom
Penta Raimondo, University of Glasgow, United Kingdom
Psuj Grzegorz, West Pomeranian University of Technology, Poland
Ruzhansky Michael, Queen Mary University of London, United Kingdom AND Ghent University, Belgium
Santos Rafael, University of Guelph, Canada
Tsiantos Vassilios,　Democritus University of Thrace, Greece
Tsonos Alexandros-Dimitrios G., Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
Ulbrich Dariusz, Poznan University of Technology, Poland
Xie Mingyang, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, China
Yarmuch Juan Luis, University of Chile, Chile

Publisher
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