Authors Guidelines

IJARST accepts research and review manuscripts in Engineering Science and Computing and other related technologies. For more details on subjects, Authors can refer subjects covered section.

IJARST Journal Paper Format 

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Submission By E-Mail

Submission of Manuscripts will be done By Mailing the Managing Editor at (editorijarst@gmail.com)

Please Note the following when submitting by Email:

§  The Subject Line Should be: Manuscript Issue No (Example:- Jan 2016 Issue)  "Paper Title"

§  The Cover letter should be undersigned by all the authors(optional).

§  The Manuscript should be sent in .doc / .docx format.

§  The cover letter should also include the domain of research in which the Manuscript is submitted in order to fasten the review process of the manuscript.

Specific Notes for Authors

§  All manuscripts are accepted with the understanding that they have not been published previously are not under consideration for publication by another journal

§  If copyrighted material is used, the author should obtain the necessary copyright release and submit it along with the manuscript

§  All papers will be acknowledged and refereed.

§  All papers of the journal are peer reviewed by three independent reviewers. Acceptance is granted when two reviewer's recommendations are positive.

§  The review process is double-blind; that is, the reviewer does not know who the manuscript author(s) is and the author(s) does not know who has reviewed the manuscript. 

Paper Submission Guidelines

1. The manuscripts should clearly describe new and carefully confirmed results and experimental procedure which should be given in required details for others to verify the work.
2. The submitted papers MUST be written in English using "MS Word" with the specified IJARST double column format. "Times New Roman" and font size of 12 should be used. 
3. The submitted papers should be grammatically correct, Additional fee may be charged by the editor for correction if the manuscript has extensive grammatical mistakes which would be intimated to the corresponding author before final acceptance.
4. The research manuscript should contain minimum 5 pages to maximum of 25 pages
5. After acceptance, all manuscript must be submitted in prescribed IJARST A4 DOUBLE COLUMN FORMAT.
6. Submissions must include a Title page, Abstract, Key words, Introduction, Materials and methods, Results, Discussion, Conclusion, Acknowledgement (if any) and References 

How to write your Resrech Paper?

TITLE PAGE

          The title should contain the author name and the institution name and address by indicating suitable superscripts. Title page should contain title of the paper in bold face, title case (font size 24), names of the authors in normal face, upper case (font size 11) followed by the address(es) in normal face lower case (font size 10). An asterisk (*) must be placed after the corresponding authors name as superscript whose email id, fax, telephone number can be given at the bottom left corner of the title. Corresponding author has the responsibility to ensure that all co authors are aware and approve the contents of the submitted manuscript.

ABSTRACT

          This section should start on a new page and should detail the problems, experimental approach, major findings and conclusion in one paragraph and should appear on the second page. Avoid abbreviation, diagram and references in the abstract. It should be single – spaced and should not exceed 250 words for full papers.

KEYWORDS

          Author(s) must give about 4-6 key words which can identify the most important subjects covered by the paper. They must be placed at the end of the abstract.

INTRODUCTION

          The manuscript should include a brief introduction stating the purpose of the investigation and relating the manuscript to similar previous research. Only information essential to the arguments should be presented.

MATERIALS AND METHODS

          This section must contain specific details about the materials studied, instruments used, specialized sources and related experimental details which allows other research worker to reproduce the results. Obtain permission for all fully borrowed, adapted, and modified tables and provide a credit line in the footnote.

RESULTS AND DISCUSSIONS

          The results should be concisely presented. Results and discussion may be separate or combined based on the authors requirement. Tables and figures should be designed to maximize the comprehension of the experimental data. The interpreted results should be explained clearly in discussions and should relate them to the existing knowledge in the field as clearly as possible. Tables, Graphs and figures (Illustrations) should be inserted in to the main text at respective place they should appear when published and should have appropriate numbers and titles with an explanatory heading. The table, graph and figures heading may have smaller font titles but should not be less than 10 pt in size. Labels of the table, graph and figures MUST be in the text form and should not form part of the image. Colour photographs and illustrations (line drawings, halftones, photos, photomicrographs etc) must be clean originals or digital files would be charged that may be intimated along with the acceptance letter. Those photographs must be clear and sharp. Digital files are recommended for highest quality reproduction and should follow the following guidelines

* 300dpi or higher sized to fit journal page

* JPEG, GIF, TIFF and PDF formats are preferred)

 ACKNOWLEDGEMENT (IF ANY)

          This section can be kept at the end of the manuscript before reference section and should not be more than 50 words. This section can be used to acknowledge the help of those who do not qualify for authorship or to acknowledge funding, donated resources or significant contribution to the research

REFERENCES

          References to the literature cited for the manuscript should be numbered in order of appearance in the manuscript and cited in the text with superscript numbers. The reference number should follow the following format.

Example Journal reference

N.G. Hingorani and L. Gyugyi, Understanding FACTS, concepts and technology of Flexible AC Transmission systems, piscatway, NJ: IEEE press, 2000.

Example Book reference

S. A. Edwards. The Nanotech Pioneers, Wiley-VCH Verlag, Weinheim, 2006, pp. 1-14.

Example Patent reference

H. Aviv, D. Friedman, A. Bar-Ilan and M. Vered. Submicron emulsions as ocular drug delivery vehicles, U.S. Patent US 5496811, 1996.

 PUBLICATION FEES

IJARST is an open access journal and to manage the various costs associated with the Journal management, for all accepted papers there is a manuscript handling/article processing fee.

The author(s) of each accepted paper is required to pay the publication charge which is very nominal fees.

We charge US$ 50 for Authors (per article).

COPYRIGHT

Each manuscript must be accompanied by a statement that it has been neither published nor submitted for publication, in whole or in part, either in a serial, professional journal or as a part in a book which is formally published and made available to the public. For the mutual benefit and protection of authors and publishers it is necessary that authors provide formal written consent to publish and transfer of copyright before the publication of the article.

The corresponding author can download the form and after getting authors and co-authors signature it can be send as an attachment file after scanning to the journal or by post/courier along with the publication charges. 

 

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On acceptance of submitted manuscript for publication in IJARST, 

The following two must be sent to the Managing Editor, IJECS, via email (editorijarst@gmail.com).

A MS Word file of the complete and exact content of the final version of the accepted manuscript in the IJARST Paper Format, 

A signed copy of IJARST Copyright Agreement (to comply with the Copyright law, authors are required to complete and sign). 

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