Information For Authors

General Information
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Editorial Objectives

Engineering International is a multidisciplinary, international, double-blind peer-reviewed scholarly journal dedicated to publishing high-quality research in engineering, technology, applied sciences, industrial innovation, and interdisciplinary technical studies.

The journal aims to provide a professional academic platform for researchers, scholars, engineers, and practitioners to exchange innovative ideas, technical developments, analytical studies, and interdisciplinary research findings relevant to contemporary engineering and scientific advancement.

All submitted manuscripts undergo editorial screening and peer evaluation to ensure academic quality, originality, technical relevance, and scholarly integrity before publication. 

Submissions

Prospective authors should ensure that submitted manuscripts fall within the journal’s scope and comply with the journal’s submission and author guidelines.

Engineering International considers original research-based submissions, including technical, analytical, conceptual, and interdisciplinary studies relevant to engineering, technology, and applied sciences.

Submitted manuscripts should clearly present the research objectives, methodology, findings, discussion, and conclusions in a scholarly and academically structured manner. 

Review process

All submitted manuscripts undergo an initial editorial screening to assess their suitability for the journal’s scope and publication standards.

Manuscripts that pass the initial screening are forwarded for double-blind peer review by independent reviewers with relevant subject expertise. Based on reviewers’ comments and editorial evaluation, the Editor-in-Chief or Managing Editor makes the final decision regarding acceptance, revision, or rejection.

The journal also uses plagiarism screening tools to evaluate the originality and academic integrity of submitted manuscripts. 

Copyright

By submitting and publishing a manuscript in Engineering International, authors agree that the copyright of the published work is held by the publisher.

Authors are responsible for ensuring that submitted manuscripts are original and do not infringe upon the rights of any third party. Published materials may not be reproduced, distributed, or republished without prior written permission from the publisher, except where permitted under the journal’s licensing and access policies.


License

Engineering International operates under a hybrid access publication model. Access to published articles may be subject to download or access charges unless the article has been published under the journal’s Open Access option.

Authors may choose to make their articles openly accessible by paying the applicable Open Access publication charge. Open Access articles published under this option are distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0).

Under this license:

• Attribution must be given to the original source and author(s).
• Materials may not be used for commercial purposes.
• Users may not distribute modified versions of the work.

Non-Open Access articles remain subject to the journal’s standard copyright and access policies.

Archiving

Engineering International preserves its digital scholarly content through recognized archival and preservation systems, including CLOCKSS and LOCKSS, to ensure long-term accessibility and digital preservation of published materials. 

Permissions

Prior to article submission, authors are responsible for obtaining permission to use any copyrighted material, including figures, tables, images, or substantial text excerpts that are not originally created by them. Manuscripts containing unresolved permission issues may be delayed or declined for publication. 

Informed Consent and Research Ethics

For research involving human participants, authors must confirm that informed consent was obtained and that the study complied with applicable ethical standards and institutional requirements. Where relevant, manuscripts should include statements regarding ethics approval, participant consent, and necessary research permissions.

COPE (Committee on Publication Ethics)

Engineering International follows recognized publication ethics standards and editorial best practices. The journal supports ethical publishing principles consistent with the guidance of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE). 



Manuscript Requirements

Please prepare your manuscript before submission, using the following guidelines:

Format
All files should be submitted as a Word document (docx.).

Article Length
Articles should be between 2500 and 5000 words in length. This includes all text including references and appendices. Please allow 280 words for each figure or table.

Article Title
A title of not more than twelve (12) words should be provided.

Article Title Page
An Article Title Page should be submitted alongside each individual article using the followings: 

  • Article Title
  • Author Details (see below)
  • Acknowledgments
  • Author Biographies
  • Abstract (see below)
  • Keywords (see below)
  • Article Classification (see below)


Author Details
Details should be supplied on the Article Title Page including:

  • Full name of each author
  • Affiliation of each author, at the time research, was completed
  • Where more than one author has contributed to the article, details of who should be contacted for correspondence
  • E-mail address of all contributor authors
  • Brief professional biography of each author.


Abstract
Authors must supply an abstract on the Article Title Page. On the Article Title Page, set out including:

  • Purpose (mandatory)
  • Design/methodology/approach (mandatory)
  • Findings (mandatory)
  • Research limitations/implications (if applicable)
  • Practical implications (if applicable)
  • Social implications (if applicable)
  • Originality/value (mandatory)

Maximum is 300 words in total (including keywords and article classification, see below).

Keywords
Please provide up to 7 keywords on the Article Title Page, which encapsulate the principal topics of the paper.
Whilst we will endeavor to use submitted keywords in the published version, all keywords are subject to approval by Engineering International's in-house editorial team and may be replaced by a matching term to ensure consistency.

Article Classification
Categorize your paper on the Article Title Page, under one of these classifications:

  • Research paper
  • Technical notes
  • Conceptual paper
  • Case study
  • Literature review
  • Working paper


Headings
Headings must be concise, with a clear indication of the distinction between the hierarchy of headings. The preferred format is for first-level headings to be presented in bold format and subsequent sub-headings to be presented in medium italics.

Research Funding
Authors must declare all sources of external research funding in their article and a statement to this effect should appear in the Acknowledgements section. Authors should describe the role of the funder or financial sponsor in the entire research process, from study design to submission.

Figures
All Figures (charts, diagrams, line drawings, web pages/screenshots, and photographic images) should be submitted in electronic form. 
All Figures should be of high quality, legible, and numbered consecutively with Arabic numerals. Graphics may be supplied in color to facilitate their appearance on the online database.

  • Figures created in MS Word, MS PowerPoint, MS Excel, Illustrator should be supplied in their native formats. Electronic figures created in other applications should be copied from the origination software and pasted into a blank MS Word document or saved and imported into an MS Word document or alternatively create a .pdf file from the origination software.
  • Figures which cannot be supplied in as the above are acceptable in the standard image formats which are: .pdf. If you are unable to supply graphics in this format then please ensure they are .tif, .jpeg, or .bmp at a resolution of at least 300dpi and at least 10cm wide.
  • To prepare web pages/screenshots simultaneously press the "Alt" and "Print screen" keys on the keyboard, open a blank Microsoft Word document and simultaneously press "Ctrl" and "V" to paste the image. (Capture all the contents/windows on the computer screen to paste into MS Word, by simultaneously pressing "Ctrl" and "Print screen".)
  • Photographic images should be submitted electronically and of high quality. They should be saved as .tif or .jpeg files at a resolution of at least 300dpi and at least 10cm wide. Digital camera settings should be set at the highest resolution/quality possible.


Tables
Tables should be typed and included in the main body of the article (not in a separate file). 

References
References to other publications should be in Harvard style and carefully checked for completeness, accuracy, and consistency. This is very important in an electronic environment because it enables your readers to exploit the Reference Linking facility on the database and link back to the works you have cited through CrossRef.

You should cite publications in the text: (Adams, 2006) using the first named author's name or (Adams and Brown, 2006) citing both names of two, or (Adams et al., 2006), when there are three or more authors. At the end of the paper, a reference list in alphabetical order should be supplied, numeric referencing list {example [1], [2] } should not be submitted for evaluation:

For books
Surname, Initials (year), Title of Book, Publisher, Place of publication.
e.g. Harrow, R. (2005), No Place to Hide, Simon & Schuster, New York, NY.

For book chapters 
Surname, Initials (year), "Chapter title", Editor's Surname, Initials, Title of Book, Publisher, Place of publication, pages.
e.g. Calabrese, F.A. (2005), "The early pathways: theory to practice – a continuum", in Stankosky, M. (Ed.), Creating the Discipline of Knowledge Management, Elsevier, New York, NY, pp. 15-20.

For journals
Surname, Initials (year), "Title of article", Journal Name, volume, number, pages.
e.g. Capizzi, M.T. and Ferguson, R. (2005), "Loyalty trends for the twenty-first century", Journal of Consumer Marketing, Vol. 22 No. 2, pp. 72-80.

For published conference proceedings
Surname, Initials (year of publication), "Title of paper", in Surname, Initials (Ed.), Title of published proceeding which may include place and date(s) held, Publisher, Place of publication, Page numbers.
e.g. Jakkilinki, R., Georgievski, M. and Sharda, N. (2007), "Connecting destinations with an ontology-based e-tourism planner", in Information and communication technologies in tourism 2007 proceedings of the international conference in Ljubljana, Slovenia, 2007, Springer-Verlag, Vienna, pp. 12-32.

For unpublished conference proceedings
Surname, Initials (year), "Title of paper", paper presented at Name of Conference, date of conference, place of conference, available at URL if freely available on the internet (accessed date). 
e.g. Aumueller, D. (2005), "Semantic authoring and retrieval within a wiki", paper presented at the European Semantic Web Conference (ESWC), 29 May-1 June, Heraklion, Crete, available at http://dbs.uni-leipzig.de/file/aumueller05wiksar.pdf (accessed 20 February 2007).

For working papers
Surname, Initials (year), "Title of article", working paper [number if available], Institution or organization, Place of organization, date.
e.g. Moizer, P. (2003), "How published academic research can inform policy decisions: the case of mandatory rotation of audit appointments", working paper, Leeds University Business School, University of Leeds, Leeds, 28 March.

For encyclopedia entries (with no author or editor)
Title of Encyclopedia (year) "Title of entry", volume, edition, Title of Encyclopedia, Publisher, Place of publication, pages.
e.g. Encyclopaedia Britannica (1926) "Psychology of culture contact", Vol. 1, 13th ed., Encyclopaedia Britannica, London and New York, NY, pp. 765-71.
(For authored entries please refer to book chapter guidelines above)

For newspaper articles (authored)
Surname, Initials (year), "Article title", Newspaper, date, pages.
e.g. Smith, A. (2008), "Money for old rope", Daily News, 21 January, pp. 1, 3-4.

For newspaper articles (non-authored)
Newspaper (year), "Article title", date, pages.
e.g. Daily News (2008), "Small change", 2 February, p. 7.

For electronic sources
If available online, the full URL should be supplied at the end of the reference, as well as a date that the resource was accessed.
e.g. Castle, B. (2005), "Introduction to web services for remote portlets", available at http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/library/ws-wsrp/ (accessed 12 November 2007).
Standalone URLs, i.e. without an author or date, should be included either within parentheses within the main text, or preferably set as a note (roman numeral within square brackets within text followed by the full URL address at the end of the paper).