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Submission Preparation Checklist

As part of the submission process, authors are required to check off their submission's compliance with all of the following items, and submissions may be returned to authors that do not adhere to these guidelines.
  • The manuscript has not been previously published;
  • The manuscript is not concurrently under consideration for publication elsewhere;
  • If accepted, the manuscript will not be submitted or published elsewhere in the same form;
  • The submission file is in Microsoft Word (.doc or .docx) file format;
  • All author names have been entered into the submission system based on the order presented in the article;
  • One author has been elected as the corresponding author with complete contact details: E-mail address and full affiliation address;
  • All keywords have been included;
  • All figures with captions have been provided in the manuscript;
  • All tables with titles (including description and footnotes, if any) have been provided in the manuscript;
  • Where available, DOIs for the references have been provided;
  • The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines

Author Guidelines

Kindly use this template to facilitate the formatting of your paper - JCEST Template

Manuscript style

A. General

The article must be in English and typed in a single column with single line spacing in a Microsoft Word format file (.doc or .docx) with all the figures and tables embedded in the text.

All text must be formatted with Times New Roman font type. The main body text should be typed using an 11-point font size. Headings should be numbered consecutively and formatted in CAPITAL and bold letters using the 12-point font size. Sub-headings should be formatted in 11-point font size. Sub-Sub-headings should be formatted in italic with the 11-point font size.

The first page of the manuscript should comprise:

(1) a title that represents the content of the paper (16-point Times New Roman, CAPITAL, and bold letters);

(2) all the name(s) (12-point Times New Roman) and contact detail(s) (11-point Times New Roman) of author(s), i.e., full affiliations with addresses. Furthermore, identify the corresponding author by an asterisk (*) with extra information, e.g., telephone number, fax number, and E-mail address;

(3) a self-contained abstract of a maximum of 300 words (11-point Times New Roman) with no reference to figures, tables, equations, or bibliographic references, and

(4) a maximum of 5 keywords (10-point Times New Roman) separated by commas after the abstract.

The manuscript should not exceed 10,000 words.

B. Tables and figures

The captions for Tables and Figures should be formatted using a 10-point font size.

Tables and figures should be consecutively numbered and referred to in the text in the following manner, e.g., Figure 1(c), Figures 1 and 2, Figures 1(b)-(d), Table 1, Tables 3-4, etc.

Tables should be in editable text (i.e., not as images) and have captions right before the tables.

Figures should be suitably placed in the text with captions after them.

C. Units and mathematical expressions

All scientific units must follow the System Internationale (SI) format.

The mathematical expressions should be consecutively numbered and referred to in the text in the following manner, e.g., Equation (1), Equations (2)-(5), etc.

Mathematical expressions must be entered using the equation function given in Microsoft Word 2007 or newer versions. Non-editable images of equations are not acceptable.

D. Conflicts of Interest

A conflict of interest is any financial or non-financial, professional or personal relationship that may inappropriately affect the research design, conduct, or reporting. Declaring conflicts of interest is a key part of open research publishing and helps readers take potentially influential factors into account. All authors must declare any relevant interests from three years prior to the start of research and writing. Interests after that time must also be declared if they might still constitute potential biases.

Financial competing interests that require disclosure include: employment with organisations that have a financial stake in the research outcome; stock ownership or options in such organisations; consultation fees; speaking honoraria; paid expert testimony; royalties; and patents whose value could be influenced by the publication of the findings. Non-financial competing interests include unpaid leadership roles in relevant organisations, personal or professional relationships that may affect the work, and strongly held personal beliefs related to the manuscript's subject. These obligations also apply to the authors' immediate family members. Authors with editorial or advisory roles at JCEST must inform the editorial office before submitting and include a recusal statement in the Conflicts of Interest section, confirming they are fully detached from the manuscript's peer review process.

E. References

Make sure that all references cited in the main text also appear in the reference list (and vice versa).

Number the citations in the main text sequentially in square brackets [1] following the order in which they appear. For instance: “.... is found [2,3]. Timoshenko and Goodier [4] obtained the analytical solution by …”.

Number the references in the references list after the conclusion of the paper in square brackets [1] in their appearance order in the text.

Examples of citation format (following the APA style) for [1] journal and [2] book are demonstrated as follows:

[1] Choi, Y. S., Kim, J. G., & Lee, K. M. (2006). Corrosion behavior of steel bar embedded in fly ash concrete. Corrosion Science, 48(7), 1733-1745. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.corsci.2005.05.019

[2] Cook, R. D., Malkus, D. S., Plesha, M. E., & Witt, R. J. (2007). Concepts and Applications of Finite Element Analysis. 4th edition. New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

 

Review

JCEST exercises a double-blind reviewing process.

After passing the preliminary check by the editors, all submitted papers will go through a rigorous peer-review procedure to judge their novelty and impact.

Papers that have addressed all remarks satisfactorily and are recommended by at least two expert referees will be finally accepted for publication in JCEST.

 

Proof

Proof will be sent to the corresponding author for typesetting errors correction.

Major modifications to the original manuscript will not be permitted at this phase.

Proof must be returned within 48 hours of receipt, after which it is considered satisfactorily presented and hence will proceed to production.

Please note that the galley proofs are provided to ensure the accuracy of the content before publication. The final published version may contain formatting changes or adjustments that are not reflected in the galley proof.

Copyright Notice

During the manuscript submission process, the corresponding author, on behalf of all authors, will be asked to agree to the terms of the Open Access Publishing Agreement by checking the designated agreement box (see Copyright & Licensing for more information).

Open Access Publishing Agreement

1) By agreeing to these terms, the author(s) retain full copyright and grant UNIMAS Publisher the right of first publication. The author(s) also grant UNIMAS Publisher permission to reproduce, recreate, translate, extract, or summarize, and to distribute and display in any forms, formats, and media. The author(s) can reuse their papers in their future printed work without first requiring permission from UNIMAS Publisher, provided that the author(s) acknowledge and refer to the publication in the Journal.

2) The author(s) agree that their articles published under UNIMAS Publisher are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, for non-commercial purposes, provided the original work of the author(s) is properly cited.

3) The author(s) are responsible for ensuring their submitted work is original and does not infringe any existing copyright, trademark, patent, statutory right, or proprietary right of others. The corresponding author has obtained permission from all co-authors prior to submission to the journal. Upon submission of the manuscript, the author(s) agree that no similar work has been or will be submitted or published elsewhere in any language. If the submitted manuscript includes materials from others, the authors have obtained permission from the copyright owners.

4) By agreeing to this statement, the author(s) declare that the research which they have conducted complies with the current laws of the respective country and UNIMAS Journal Publication Ethics Policy. Any experimentation or research involving humans or the use of animal samples must obtain approval from the Human or Animal Ethics Committee in their respective institutions. The author(s) agree and understand that UNIMAS Publisher is not responsible for any compensational claims or failure caused by the author(s) in fulfilling the above-mentioned requirements. The author(s) must accept the responsibility for releasing their materials upon request by the Chief Editor or UNIMAS Publisher.

5) The author(s) should have participated sufficiently in the work and ensured the appropriateness of the content of the article. The author(s) should also agree that they have no commercial attachments (e.g., patent or license arrangement, equity interest, consultancies, etc.) that might pose any conflict of interest with the submitted manuscript. The author(s) also agree to make any relevant materials and data available upon request by the editor(s) or UNIMAS Publisher.

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