Author Guidelines

ATTENTION: Please use the Template of the Article for submission.

The expected coverage of the articles published in the Innovative Engineering and Sustainability Journal (IESJ) includes the broad theme of but is not limited to, innovative theories and applications in civil engineering, electrical engineering, mechanical engineering, industrial engineering, water resources engineering, environmental engineering, biomedical engineering, instrumentation engineering, urban engineering, cross-cutting issues of technology and sustainability, with the focus area are particularly in Southeast Asia and Asia. 

The Innovative Engineering and Sustainability Journal considers the following type of publications:

• Full-length original articles with 5,500-7,000 words (including references);
• Opinions, viewpoints, or comments on particular relevant issues with 1,000-2,000 words;
• Invited Reviews with up to 3,000 words;

The full-length original articles should normally result from the original research which has not been published elsewhere. An opinion, viewpoint, or comment, on the other hand, is a short article that does not offer a full-length type of original research. An opinion or a viewpoint or a comment may highlight current issues on built-environment and sustainability and may also criticize a published paper in IESJ.

 

PUBLICATION ETHICS STATEMENT:

The Innovative Engineering and Sustainability Journal adopts the publication ethics and publication malpractice statement, which is based on the Code of Conduct and Best-Practice Guidelines for Journal Editors (Committee on Publication Ethics, 2011).

Editors' responsibilities

Publication decisions

The editor is responsible for deciding which of the papers submitted to the journal will be published. The editor will evaluate manuscripts without regard to the authors' race, gender, sexual orientation, religious belief, ethnic origin, citizenship, or political philosophy. The decision will be based on the paper’s importance, originality, and clarity, and the study’s validity, and its relevance to the journal's scope. Current legal requirements regarding libel, copyright infringement, and plagiarism should also be considered.

Confidentiality

The editor and any editorial staff must not disclose any information about a submitted manuscript to anyone other than the corresponding author, reviewers, potential reviewers, other editorial advisers, and the publisher, as appropriate.

Disclosure and conflicts of interest

Unpublished materials disclosed in a submitted paper will not be used by the editor or the members of the editorial board for their own research purposes without the author's explicit written consent.

Reviewers' responsibilities

Contribution to editorial decisions

The peer-reviewing process assists the editor and the editorial board in making editorial decisions and may also serve the author in improving the paper.

Promptness

Any selected referee who feels unqualified to review the research reported in a manuscript or knows that its prompt review will be impossible should notify the editor and withdraw from the review process.

Confidentiality

Any manuscripts received for review must be treated as confidential documents. They must not be disclosed to or discussed with others except as authorized by the editor.

Standards of objectivity

Reviews should be conducted objectively. Personal criticism of the author is inappropriate. Referees should express their views clearly with supporting arguments.

Acknowledgment of sources

Reviewers should identify cases in which relevant published work referred to in the paper has not been cited in the reference section. They should point out whether observations or arguments derived from other publications are accompanied by the respective source. Reviewers will notify the editor of any substantial similarity or overlap between the manuscript under consideration and any other published paper of which they have personal knowledge.

Disclosure and conflict of interest

Privileged information or ideas obtained through peer review must be kept confidential and not used for personal advantage. Reviewers should not consider manuscripts in which they have conflicts of interest resulting from competitive, collaborative, or other relationships or connections with any of the authors, companies, or institutions associated with the papers.

Authors' duties

Reporting standards

Authors of original research reports should present an accurate account of the work performed as well as an objective discussion of its significance. Underlying data should be represented accurately in the paper. A paper should contain sufficient detail and references to permit others to replicate the work. Fraudulent or knowingly inaccurate statements constitute unethical behavior and are unacceptable.

Data access and retention

Authors could be asked to provide the raw data of their study together with the paper for editorial review and should be prepared to make the data publicly available if practicable. In any event, authors should ensure accessibility of such data to other competent professionals for at least ten years after publication (preferably via an institutional or subject-based data repository or other data center), provided that the confidentiality of the participants can be protected and legal rights concerning proprietary data do not preclude their release.

Originality, plagiarism, and acknowledgment of sources

Authors will submit only entirely original works, and will appropriately cite or quote the work and/or words of others. Publications that have been influential in determining the nature of the reported work should also be cited.

Multiple, redundant or concurrent publication

In general, papers describing essentially the same research should not be published in more than one journal. Submitting the same paper to more than one journal constitutes unethical publishing behavior and is unacceptable.

Manuscripts that have been published as copyrighted material elsewhere cannot be submitted. In addition, manuscripts under review by the journal should not be resubmitted to copyrighted publications. However, by submitting a manuscript, the author(s) retain the rights to the published material. In case of publication, they permit the use of their work under a CC-BY license [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/], which allows others to copy, distribute and transmit the work as well as to adapt the work and to make commercial use of it.

Authorship of the paper

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.

The corresponding author ensures that all contributing co-authors and no uninvolved persons are included in the author list. The corresponding author will also verify that all co-authors have approved the final version of the paper and have agreed to its submission for publication.

Disclosure and conflicts of interest

All authors should include a statement disclosing any financial or other substantive conflicts of interest that may be construed to influence the results or interpretation of their manuscript. All sources of financial support for the project should be disclosed.

Fundamental errors in published works

When an author discovers a significant error or inaccuracy in his/her own published work, the author should promptly notify the journal editor or publisher and cooperate with the editor to retract or correct the paper in form of an erratum.

References

Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE). (2011, March 7). Code of Conduct and Best-Practice Guidelines for Journal Editors. Retrieved from http://publicationethics.org/files/Code_of_conduct_for_journal_editors_Mar11.pdf

 

PREPARATION FOR SUBMISSION

General Conditions:

The article submitted to Innovative Engineering and Sustainability must be an unpublished article or an article that is not being submitted to any other journal, and if published, will not be republished without consent of the Journal. The author is fully responsible for the use of copyrighted materials in his/her article. If published, the copyright of the article belongs to the author and the Journal.

The use of MS Word, OpenOffice, LibreOffice and given Template:

The author must submit an article in MS Word or OpenOffice format only. The article prepared must follow the template provided by the Journal. The author may download the template in the Author Guidelines section. The Tables and Figures must be embedded in the manuscript. Figures must be provided in high-resolution size.

Structure of the Article:

For the full-length original articles, the structure should normally follow the following format:

• Title: the title should normally be concise but informative. The title should be in the “Title” case;
• Author names and affiliations: Indicate the normal order of the name of the authors. All authors must provide his/her affiliation; email address and phone number (includes country and area code). The corresponding author, the author who will communicate during the process, must be indicated;
• Abstract: should contain the background of the study, objectives, methodology, and results within a maximum of 200 words;
• The Sections: the author has the freedom to choose the heading of the sections to suit the appropriate flow and order of the discussion towards the clarity of the article. This is an example.

The author may or may not follow this example:

• Introduction: this section contains the background, significance, and objectives of the study;
• Methodology: this section discusses the methods used in the research/study;
• Results and Discussions: This section provides clear and concise results of the research/study and provides sufficient detail of the discussions on the results (what, why, and how);
• Conclusions: this section concludes the discussions and offers policy implications if any.

Each Section may contain Sub-sections. Sections and Sub-sections must be numbered. This is an example:

1.    Introduction [Segoe UI, bold, 12pts] – Level 1

[single space, 11 pts]

The relationship between the high-density residential area and the energy consumption of the transportation has been sufficiently studied in different development of the cities. [Cambria Math, 11 pts]. [no indentation]

[single space, 11 pts]

Another paragraph … [no indentation]

1.1.   Background of the Study [Cambria Math, bold, 12 pts, Title Case, numbered] – level 2

 [space: single, 11 pts]

1.2.   Significance

a.   The Breakthrough [Cambria Math, 12 pts, Title Case, numbered with a, b, c, etc.]

b.   Supporting the National Policy

2.   Objectives

3.   Methodology

4.   Results and Discussions

5.   Conclusions and Recommendations

For other articles i.e. Opinions, Viewpoints, and Comments, the sections can be varied and adjusted according to the needs towards the clarity of the messages brought by the articles.

Units:

The article must use an SI unit. When expressing figures, the article must use the following format: 1,948.52 (use comma to separate thousands, and period to express decimal). But, the Year 2014 should not be a comma or period.

The formula of Mathematics:

Authors may use an embedded equation editor in MS Word for complex mathematical expressions, but use normal text for simple equations/expressions. For example, x/y=a exp. y (to express x over y equal to a to the power of y).

Tables:

Table Caption must appear at the top and be numbered consecutively. Place footnote belongs to the table at the bottom of the table body. The footnote must be a smaller size font i.e. 9pts. The caption must be clear and concise.

Figures:

The caption of the Figure must appear at the bottom of the Figure and be numbered consecutively. The caption of the Figure should not be embedded in the figure rather place separately. The caption must be clear and concise.                                                                            

References:

All references cited in the text must be present in the reference list and vice versa. For web reference, the full URL and date of access should be given. The reference list must appear in Alphabetical order at the end of the article. Web references must be separated from non-web references and should be put after non-web references.

Within the text: for a single author (last name of the author, year of publication), for example (West, 2012). For two authors (both authors’ last names, year of publication), for example (Wackernagel and Rees, 1996). For three or more authors (first author’s last name and et al., year of publication), for example (Ratti et al., 2005), but in the reference list, all authors’ names must be present.

The Reference Style:

For Journal publication: (please do not abbreviate the journal names)

• Simpson, J.R. (2002). Improved Estimates of Tree-shade Effects on Residential Energy Uses. Energy and Buildings, 34:1067-1076

Book:

• Watson, R.D, and K.S. Chapman (2002). Radiant Heating and Cooling Handbook. McGraw-Hill Handbooks, New York.

Edited Book:

• Mettam, G.R., Adams, L.B. (2009). How to prepare an electronic version of your article, in Jones, B.S., Smith, R.Z. (Eds.), Introduction to the Electronic Age. E-Publishing Inc., New York, pp. 281-304.

Internet Sources:

• Energy Price Information, US Department of Energy. http://www.eia.doe.gov/emeu/international/prices.html. Retrieved on 8 August 2010.

 

NOTES:

Articles will be reviewed with a double-blind review process. The authors should propose three reviewers (Name, Affiliation, E-mail Address) with different affiliations with the authors. The Journal has the right to use or not to use the proposed reviewers according to its discretion.