Information For Authors

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Applied Science and Engineering Progress is an international, peer-reviewed, open access scientific journal which publishes research works related to applied science and technology. The articles will be examined by a scientific editorial committee and anonymous reviewers under double-blinded scheme. All peer-reviewed accepted manuscripts with high research quality and ethical standards are published with free access to all readers. All articles submitted to Applied Science and Engineering Progress are reviewed based on the following aspects, originality of work (no plagiarism), relevance to the scope of the journal, systematical and clarity of presentation (correct language and presentation) and novelty of work.

General instructions

Use Template to prepare your manuscript.
Submission manuscript in MS Word only.
Manuscript length should not longer than twelve printed pages.
The paper size is 18.4 cm x 26 cm in height. Set page margins at 25 mm for the top and 20 mm for the bottom margins, 10 mm for left, and 10 mm for right. The first page and all uneven pages should have a right-hand layout: right margin at 10 mm and left margin at 10 mm. The even pages should have a left hand layout: left margin at 10 mm and right margin at 10 mm.
Paragraph lines should be single-spaced.

Article title

Put the title under the top margin. The title should be in 12-point Times New Roman Bold with left-justification.
The first letter of the first word and of all major words must be capitalized, major words must start with a capital.

Authors name and addresses

The authors’ names and affiliations should be typed in 10-point Times New Roman.
The corresponding author should be marked as superscript *
Emails of the corresponding author must be written below the address

Abstract

Should not exceed 250 words. Typed in 10-point Times New Roman
Provide a brief summary of the contents of your paper. The abstract should state briefly the purpose of the research, the key results and conclusions.
Uncommon abbreviations should be avoided. If needed, they must be defined at their first mention in the abstract.
References are excluded.

Keywords

Authors have to provide 4 to 6 keywords.
The keywords should be typed in 10-point Time New Roman and each keyword must be separated with a comma.

Introduction

Introduction should describe finding from pioneer work, importance of research and relevance to the current work.
Introduction should be supported by sufficient and reasonable references.

Materials and methods

The methods should be described in sufficient details about the preparations of solutions, chemicals, data collection and the instrumentation.
The make, the numbers, and the model of the instruments should be mentioned.
The method for statistical analysis and the level of significance chosen shall be clearly stated.

Results

The findings presented in the tables or in the graphical form must be described.
The data should be statistically analyzed and the level of significance is to be mentioned.
All tables and figures must have a caption and a legend.

Discussion

This part must describe the implication of the results, the logical statements in support of the findings of the author.
There must not be repetitive statement of conclusion.
The author may write the applications and the importance of the work to peer-researcher and society.

Conclusions

This section is where authors could describe the summary of the work and highlight of finding in this work.
The content should not repetitive with discussion.
The references should not be included.

Acknowledgements

The acknowledgement should be concise and must be written about the original supporters of the work and funding agency.

Author Contributions

For research articles with multiple authors, please provide a short paragraph outlining each author's contributions using the following statements:

1. Conceptualization: X.X. and Y.Y.

2. Methodology: X.X.

3. Software: X.X.

4. Validation: X.X., Y.Y., and Z.Z.

5. Formal analysis: X.X.

6. Investigation: X.X.

7. Resources: X.X.

8. Data curation: X.X.

9. Writing—original draft preparation: X.X.

10. Writing—review and editing: X.X.

11. Visualization: X.X.

12. Supervision: X.X.

13. Project administration: X.X.

14. Funding acquisition: Y.Y.

Additionally, please state: "All authors have read and agreed to the published version of the manuscript." To understand the meaning of these terms, please refer to the CRediT taxonomy. It is important to ensure that authorship is limited to individuals who have substantially contributed to the work. No gift authorship is accepted based on our policy.

Funding

Authors are encouraged to include the following statements in your manuscript:

1. "This research received no external funding." or

2. "This research was funded by [Name of Funder], grant number [Grant Number]."

Please double-check the accuracy of the details and use the standard spelling of funding agency names.

Conflict of interest

All authors are requested to declare no conflict of interest including any financial, personal or other relationships with other people or organizations that can influence their work. Authors should indicate “The authors declare no conflict of interest” in the manuscript.

References

The relevant works must be cited and listed at the end of the paper.
Their numbers must be run chronologically in the order of citation appearance.
Unpublished data and information from personal contact are not allowed to be used as references.
To cite the references in the text body of the paper, use the number in square bracket, e.g. [1], [2], [1]–[3]. Each citation should be followed by a full stop.
Examples of references to journal articles and papers, technical reports, proceedings, and books are illustrated as follows:

Book :

[1] G. O. Young, “Synthetic structure of industrial plastics,” in Plastics, 2nd ed., vol. 3, J. Peters, Ed. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1964, pp. 15–64.

Periodicals:

[2] E. P. Wigner, “Theory of traveling-wave optical laser,” Physical Review, vol. 134, pp. A635–A646, Dec. 1965.

Articles from Conference Proceedings:

[3] D. B. Payne and J. R. Stern, “Wavelength-switched passively coupled single-mode optical network,” in Proceeding of IOOC-ECOC, 1985, pp. 585–590.

Standards/Patents:

[4] G. Brandli and M. Dick, “Alternating current fed power supply,” U.S. Patent 4 084 217, Nov. 4, 1978.

Electronic Sources

[5] S. L. Talleen. (1996, Apr.). The Intranet Architecture: Managing information in the new paradigm. Amdahl Corp., CA. [Online]. Available: http://www.amdahl.com/doc/products/bsg/intra/infra/html

Terminology and symbols

The nomenclature must be appear at the end of the paper. The SI units are highly recommended for this journal.

Style

Avoid using bold and underlining in your paper.
Use a consistent spelling style throughout the paper (US or UK).
Use single quotes.
Use %, not percent.
Do not use ampersands (&) except as part of the official name of an organization or company.
Keep hyphenation to a minimum. Do not hyphenate ‘coordinate’ or non words, such as ‘nonlinear’.
Do not end headings with full stops.
We recommend using no more than three levels of headings, for example,
Do not start headings at the foot of a column or with only one line of text below. Put the heading on the next column or page.

Mathematics text and equations

Equations should be justified to the left margin and numbered at the right margin. Leave a single space before and after the equation, as indicated in the Equation (1) below,

(1)

Use the 10 points, Times New Roman for the equation, e.g. italics for variables, bold for vectors (without arrows), bold italic for variable vectors, and capital bold italic for variable matrices.
The order of brackets should be {[( )]}, except where brackets have special significance.

Figures and tables

Make sure that all figures, tables, graphs and line drawings are clear, sharp and of highest quality for publication.
Lines weights range from 0.2 points to 1.5 points.
Diagrams, graphics, and preferred photographs should be prepared in gray scale.
The characters or numbers in the figures and/or tables must be typed as 10-point Times New Roman (8-point minimum).
Prepare tables as editable text and not as images for publishing process of journal editorial team.
Avoid using vertical rules and shading in table cells.
Your figures could be created by Microsoft Office. When those artworks are finalized, please “save as” or convert your images to one of the following formats:

- EPS (or PDF): Vector drawings, embed all used fonts.

- TIFF (or JPEG): Color or grayscale photographs (halftones), keep to a minimum of 300 dpi.

- TIFF (or JPEG): Bitmapped (pure black & white pixels) line drawings, keep to a minimum of 1000 dpi.

- TIFF (or JPEG): Combinations bitmapped line/half-tone (color or grayscale), keep to a minimum of 500 dpi.

For color artwork, please make sure that files are in TIFF, JPEG, EPS, PDF or Microsoft Office formats with the correct resolution.

Numbering, captions and positioning

The figure and table numbering must be provided in consecutive order, e.g. Figure 1, Figure 2, Figure 3 or Table 1, Table 2, Table 3.
The caption of a figure must be placed under the figure itself. And the caption of a table must be placed above the table.
Use (a), (b), (c) to distinguish individual subjects in a composite figure. For example, Figure 1 (or Table 1) must be used for referencing in the text.
Make sure that the size of figures and tables must be fitted to the page margins, and do not wrap the text around the figures.

Figure 1: Example of picture scanned into the paper.

Table 1: Example of table

Changes in authors

After the first round of review process, authors may include additional co-authors that contribute in revision of the manuscript. In this case, corresponding authors can submit the request to add co-authors along with revision materials. The request will be directed to Editor in Chief with the supportive reason to explain the contribution of additional co-authors and declare of conflict of interest by all co-authors.

Ethics of human and animal experimentation

Those articles which are describing experimental work on humans or animals should submit an approval of the ethical committee of the institution where the actual work was carried out. The research must meet the applicable international standards of the ethics of experimentation and research integrity. Authors should indicate whether the procedures followed were in accordance with the ethical standards of the responsible committee on human experimentation. For research involving animals, authors should indicate whether the procedures followed were in accordance with the standards set forth in the Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals.

Proof Correction

Once the article is accepted after peer review, the article is published online and a PDF in journal format is prepared to be published in hardcopy version.

A copy of this PDF file is e-mailed to corresponding author for proofreading.
The proofreading reading of the article should be very careful before sending back to the managing editor and then PDF version will be uploaded on website as online publication.

After acceptance

A digital object identifier (DOI) is a unique alphanumeric string assigned by a registration agency (the International DOI Foundation) to identify content and provide a persistent link to its location on the Internet. The assigned DOI is never subjected to changes. Hence, it is an ideal medium for citing a document, particularly ‘Articles in press’ as their full bibliographic information is not received by them.

Licensing Policy:

Applied Science and Engineering Progress is an open access journal, therefore we follow the Creative Commons Attribution-Non commercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported License, in which;

The authors reserve all major rights of the published article like proprietary and patents rights.
The Applied Science and Engineering Progress and the author will equally enjoy other benefits of the published article in future works of their own, such as lectures, press release, views in text books, periodicals, reprinting of the whole or a part of the published article.
In the case of republication of the whole, part, or parts there of, in periodicals or reprint publications by a third party, written permission must be obtained from the Editor‐in‐Chief of Applied Science and Engineering Progress.

Ethics in publishing

Applied Science and Engineering Progress’s Publication Ethics is based on the guidelines and standards developed by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE : https://publicationethics.org/).

Submission and Copyright declaration

After acceptance by peer-review, a copyright form is requested from corresponding authors to confirm that the work has not been either published or under consideration for publication in elsewhere.

Plagiarism

Plagiarism and self-copying contents are absolutely prohibited in Applied Science and Engineering Progress. To ensure the originality of submitted manuscripts, ASEP uses Turnitin software to screen for plagiarism content of the submitted manuscript and supporting materials. A thorough investigation will be conducted if the software raises any concerns regarding potential plagiarism (e.g., similarity exceeding 20%).

Supporting materials

ASEP encourages authors to submit the supporting materials to provide supplementary details to the submitted manuscript when it is necessary. However, we allow to submit only one file of the supporting material per one submission. These materials can include data sets, code, and additional figures or tables or any other relevant information contributing to the reader's comprehension of the research.

Correction and retraction policies

Submission of valid corrections will be allowed by the chief editor and erratum will be published after careful consideration by the editor and the Editorial board. Retractions will be taken into action immediately if publication misconducts are found.

Privacy Statement

The names and email addresses entered in this journal site will be used exclusively for the stated purposes of this journal and will not be made available for any other purpose or to any other party.