Publication Frequency and Language
The Journal publishes 4 issues per year without special subject volumes. Engineering Perspective only accepts manuscript submissions written in English.
Editorial Procedures and Peer Review
All manuscripts received by the journal will be checked by the Editor to determine whether they have been prepared properly and comply with the journal's ethical policies. Manuscripts that do not comply with the ethical rules of the journal or meet the journal standards will be rejected by the Editor-in-Chief before peer review. Manuscripts that are not properly prepared will be returned to the authors for correction and resubmission. The Editor-in-Chief may consult the journal's associate editors to determine whether the article fits within the scope of the journal and is scientifically appropriate. Manuscripts that are found unsuitable may be rejected by the editor-in-chief without being evaluated by the reviewer. For the articles that meet the required criteria, the peer review evaluation process is initiated by the Editor-in-Chief or the assistant editors to be assigned by the editor-in-chief.
Peer Review
For the peer-review process, the article will be assigned to at least two independent experts. A single-blind review is applied where the identities of the authors are known to the reviewers. If there is no common decision as a result of the reviewer evaluations, the editor may send the article to new reviewers to receive additional evaluation reports.
Journal assistant editors, members of the editorial board, and guest editors who have expertise in the relevant field may be appointed as reviewer. Potential reviewers suggested by the authors may also be considered. Reviewers must not have published with any of the co-authors in the past three years and must not work or collaborate with any institution of the co-authors of the currently submitted article.
PREPERATION
Submission for reviewing
A Title page that including manuscript title, authors names, affiliations and emails must be prepared. In the next page after title page, author names, affiliations and emails must not be given. The text of the manuscript must be prepared in two sided one column, 12 pt and double line spacing. All pages must be numbered and continuous line numbering (except title page) must be used. Times new roman or any other readable font can be used for first submission format. Authors can use proper section titles and subtitles regarding the subject of the article. However, Abstract, Introduction, Materials and methods (or a relevant), Results and discussions and conclusions sections are mandatory for a research paper. The word number in abstract section must be 200-300. You can checked the sample submission document.
Manuscript format after acceptance
The accepted paper should be prepared in two columns. The main text of the manuscript must be written in Times New Roman, font 10, 12-point line spacing. The font size, line spacing, and margin of the template must not be altered. Authors can use template document to prepare the manuscript to submission.(Manuscript Template) .
Main sections and subsections should be numbered consecutively. All of the references given at the end of the paper that listed consecutively should be cited in the main text with numerals in a square bracket [1, 2-5].
The paper is divided into three parts. The first part includes the title, author’s name, abstract, and keywords. The second part is the main body of the paper that includes the references and nomenclature. The third part is the author’s profile.
Sections must also be edited in double column. Tables and figures should be located at the top or bottom of the columns if possible. Tables should be prepared in font 9. If any table of figure is large than one column, figure or table can be located at the bottom or top of the page with one column. Figures must have at least 300 dpi resolution. Black and white or colored figures are acceptable. Each table and figure should be cited in the text.
References should be listed at the end of the paper in font 9. They should be numbered consecutively. While referring a journal paper, volume, number, page numbers and year must be given. Standart APA referencing style must be used in reference list. For more information about APA referencing style authors may check the link : https://www.mendeley.com/guides/apa-citation-guide
Authors must declare that there is no conflict of interest in the study.
Authors should fill the "Acknowledgement" section to thank their funders.
Authors must present CRediT taxonomy (Contributor Roles Taxonomy [https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/leap.1210]) when there are two or more authors.
The corresponding author is expected to present CRediT details that provide the opportunity to share an accurate and detailed description of the authors' contributions to the published article.
The role(s) of all authors must be listed, using 14 relevant categories in CRediT taxonomy.
Authors may have contributed in multiple roles.
This information must be provided after the authors' short bios.
The roles of authors may be classified as the followings, but not limited to:
Conceptualization : Ideas; formulation or evolution of overarching research goals and aims.
Data curation : Management activities to annotate (produce metadata), scrub data and maintain research data (including software code, where it is necessary for interpreting the data itself) for initial use and later re-use.
Formal analysis : Application of statistical, mathematical, computational, or other formal techniques to analyze or synthesize study data.
Funding acquisition : Acquisition of the financial support for the project leading to this publication.
Investigation :Conducting a research and investigation process, specifically performing the experiments, or data/evidence collection.
Methodology :Development or design of methodology; creation of models.
Project administration :Management and coordination responsibility for the research activity planning and execution.
Resources :Provision of study materials, reagents, materials, patients, laboratory samples, animals, instrumentation, computing resources, or other analysis tools.
Software :Programming, software development; designing computer programs; implementation of the computer code and supporting algorithms; testing of existing code components.
Supervision :Oversight and leadership responsibility for the research activity planning and execution, including mentorship external to the core team.
Validation : Verification, whether as a part of the activity or separate, of the overall replication/reproducibility of results/experiments and other research outputs.
Visualization :Preparation, creation and/or presentation of the published work, specifically visualization/data presentation.
Writing - original draft : Preparation, creation and/or presentation of the published work, specifically writing the initial draft (including substantive translation).
Writing - review & editing : Preparation, creation and/or presentation of the published work by those from the original research group, specifically critical review, commentary or revision – including pre- or post-publication stages.
The corresponding author may use the following example to state author contributions as authorship credits:
Hamit Solmaz: Conceptualization, Supervision, H. Serdar Yücesu: Conceptualization, Writing-original draft, Validation, Alper Calam: Data curation, Formal analysis, Emre Yılmaz: Writing-original draft, writing-review&editing, software.
Source: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/leap.1210
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