Author Guidelines
1. Contact information
1.1. If you cannot find the information you are looking for on this page, please contact the journal's editorial assistant by following the Editorial Contact link on the relevant journal homepage. For general enquiries please contact : daru_purbaningtyas@polnes.ac.id
2. Manuscript submission
2.1. Manuscripts submitted to Jurnal Inersia should:
- present findings clearly and concisely
- state the potential engineering applications
- make reference to the state-of-the-art.
Manuscripts should not:
- be under consideration for publication in any other journal, book or conference proceedings available through a library or by purchase
2.2. If the paper is intended for a specific special issue, please make this clear when uploading your paper.
2.3. All papers are pre-screened to ensure that only the most significant are sent for review. Please ensure that your manuscript satisfies the following points:
2.3.1. Please be aware that all submissions to IET publications will now go through Ithenticate’s CrossCheck software which is a multi-publisher initiative to screen published and submitted content for originality. This is to ensure that the paper does not contravene the IET Policy in Relation to Plagiarism, Infringement of Copyright and Infringement of Moral Rights and Submission to Multiple Publications. We use CrossCheck to detect instances of overlapping and similar text in submitted manuscripts. Click here to find out more about CrossCheck.
2.3.2. Our policy is to reject manuscripts found to contain duplication of previously published work. For further information please see the IET Policy in Relation to Plagiarism, Infringement of Copyright and Infringement of Moral Rights and Submission to Multiple Publications .
2.3.3. Originality: is the work scientifically rigorous, accurate and novel? Has its value been demonstrated?
2.3.4. Motivation: does the problem considered have a sound motivation? Does the paper clearly demonstrate the scientific interest of the results?
2.3.5. Referencing: has reference been made to the most recent and most appropriate work? Is the present work set in the context of the previous work?
2.3.6. Clarity: is the English clear and well written? Poorly written English may obscure the scientific merit of your paper. Are the ideas expressed clearly and concisely? Are the concepts understandable?
Authors are encouraged to submit the names and contact details of possible reviewers (although the reviewers selected may not be from this list). These suggestions should be impartial. Authors may also indicate non-preferred reviewers if they are working in competition or have conflicts of interest with individuals or organisations.
This information should be included in a cover letter for the Editorial Office which can be uploaded with your manuscript.
You should not make any requests for fee waivers or reductions to your Article Processing Charges in your cover letter. Should your manuscript be accepted for publication you will have an opportunity to include your request at that time. Any information regarding the funding of research should be put in a cover letter/entered into the relevant information section during the submission steps and also in the acknowledgements section of your submitted paper.
The source files of your paper are required at submission as this will speed up the publication of your paper, should it be accepted. Your paper will not be sent for review until source files have been received.
3. Multiple submission
3.1. Your manuscript must not be under consideration for any other publication while it is being considered by the IET. Please read the IET Policy in Relation to Plagiarism, Infringement of Copyright and Infringement of Moral Rights and Submission to Multiple Publications carefully, or contact the relevant editorial assistant if you are in any doubt.
3.2. If your manuscript has been considered and rejected by any other publication, it is imperative that this is stated in the cover letter and in the relevant information section during the submission steps.
4. Cover Letter
4.1. Cover letters are required for all submissions.
4.2. Cover letters must include a statement of originality and confirmation that this paper has not been submitted to any other journals.
4.3. If your manuscript has previously been submitted to this or any other journal (including other IET journals) and subsequently rejected, you must provide copies of all correspondence involving the earlier submission, including the final decision letter. You must also include an additional document detailing how you have improved your paper from the previous rejected version. Please upload this document alongside both your submitted manuscript file and your cover letter. Failure to do so may cause delays or interruptions to paper processing and will result in the rejection of your manuscript.
4.4. If your manuscript was previously a conference paper, please attach the paper and details of how the manuscript has been expanded.
4.5.You should include all relevant funding information in your cover letter.
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5. Manuscript presentation
5.1. Submission template: we have recently updated our submission templates to a double column format. For our Microsoft Word submission template, please download the file. For our LaTeX template, please download. These templates contain specific information regarding the formatting, layout and policies for submissions to IET Research Journals. Additional information regarding submissions can also be found in the following subsections.
5.2. Length: original research articles, case studies and brief papers submitted to IET Research Journals should conform to a maximum length of 12 pages when formatted using our double column template provided in section 5.1. Review articles, which summarise current research in a particular area, have a maximum length limit of 18 pages. Comment papers, that critique already published papers, should be no more than 4 pages in length. These guidelines include all content such as the abstract, figures, references and the appendices.
5.3. Format: papers must be typed in a font size no smaller than 10 pt and should be in standardised fonts such as Times New Roman or Arial. All pages should be numbered.
5.4. Language, spelling and grammar: all papers must be written in UK English. If English is not your first language, you should ask an English-speaking colleague to proofread your paper. Papers that fail to meet basic standards of literacy are likely to be unsubmitted by the Editorial Office.
5.5. Author affiliations: these should immediately follow the title. For multiple-authored articles, list the full names of all the authors, followed by the full postal and email addresses, using identifiers to link an author with an address where necessary. If an author's present address is different from the address at which the work was carried out, this should be given as a footnote. All co-authors must be listed on the manuscript submission and peer review site as part of the submission process.
5.6. Abstract: this should be informative and suitable for direct inclusion in abstracting services as a self-contained article. It should not exceed 200 words. It should indicate the general scope and also state the main results obtained, methods used, the value of the work and the conclusions drawn. No figure numbers, table numbers, references or displayed mathematical expressions should be included. The abstract should be included in both the manuscript submission and peer review site submission steps and in the submitted paper.
5.7. Figures and figure captions
5.7.1. Figures will be reproduced exactly as supplied, with no redrawing or relabelling. It is therefore imperative that the supplied figures are of the highest possible quality. The preferred format is encapsulated postscript (.eps) for line figures and .tif for halftone figures with a minimum resolution of 300 dpi (dots per inch).
5.7.2. Each figure should be explicitly referred to in numerical order and should be embedded within the text at the appropriate point.
5.7.3. A maximum of four subfigures will be allowed per figure.
5.7.4. Colour figures may be used online at the request of the author (see Colour Reproduction section below).
5.8. Tables
5.8.1. Tables should be referred to explicitly in the text. Tables should be referred to in numerical order.
5.9. Mathematics and equations
5.9.1. When writing mathematics, avoid confusion between characters that could be mistaken for one another, e.g. the letter 'l' and the number one.
5.9.2. Equations should be capable of fitting into a two-column print format.
5.9.3. Vectors and matrices should be in bold italic and variables in italic.
5.9.4. If your paper contains superscripts or subscripts, take special care to ensure that the positioning of the characters is unambiguous.
5.9.5. Exponential expressions should be written using superscript notation, i.e. 5x103 not 5E03. A multiplication sign should be used, not a dot.
5.9.6. Refer to equations using round brackets, e.g. (1)
5.10. Footnotes
Please be aware that it is the IET house-style not to include footnotes in the text. If footnotes are included in a paper, they will be moved into the main body of text during the typesetting.
5.11. References
5.11.1. You should number your references sequentially through the text, and each reference should be individually numbered and enclosed in square brackets (e.g. [1]).
5.11.2. Please ensure that all references in the reference list are cited in the text and vice versa. Failure to do so may cause delays in the production of your article.
5.11.3. Please also ensure that you provide as much information as possible to allow the reader to locate the article concerned. This is particularly important for articles appearing in conferences, workshops and books that may not appear in journal databases.
5.11.4. Do not include references for papers that have been submitted and not accepted for publication. Papers that have been accepted for publication are allowed as long as all information is provided.
5.11.5. Please provide all author name(s) and initials, title of the paper, date published, title of the journal or book, volume number, editors (if any), and finally the page range. For books and conferences, the town of publication and publisher (in parentheses) should also be given.
5.11.6. If the number of authors on a reference is greater than 6 please list the first 3 authors followed by et al.
5.11.7. An average research paper should reference between 20 and 30 works, the bulk of which should be recently published (i.e. within the last 5 years) leading-edge articles in the field, preferably from top journals or conferences. You should compare your own findings to this recent research and demonstrate how your work improves on it, in order to demonstrate that your work shows a significant advance over the state of the art - a pre-requisite for publication in IET Research Journals.
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