Electromechanical Energy Conversion Systems

Manuscript preparation

 

EECS Template

 

Original Research Articles: Original research articles are detailed studies that researchers report. They describe the purpose of the study and the method by which they conduct the research. The obtained results are interpreted and possible improvements will be discussed.  

Review articles: Review articles conduct a comprehensive study on a certain topic by critically investigating the published literature on the specified subject. They analyze and compare the findings of the previous studies and find gaps for potential future research.

The body of the article should structured under 7 main headings:

1. Background and aim

 2. Materials and methods 

3. Results 

4. Discussion 

5. Conclusion 

6. Acknowledgements (if any)

7. References (should be in Vancouver Style). 

 

Manuscript submission guidelines:

All manuscripts must be submitted online through the website. First-time users will have to register at this site. Registered authors can keep track of their articles after logging into the site using their username and password.

If you experience any problems, please do not hesitate to get in touch with the editorial office by e-mail at eecs@nri.ac.ir. 

The submitted manuscripts that are not as per the “Instructions to Authors” would be returned to the authors for technical correction, before they undergo editorial/peer-review. Generally, the manuscript should be submitted in the form of separate files:

[1] Title Page/Covering Letter/Conflict of Interest:

1. The type of manuscript (original article, review article, Letter to the editor, etc.), title of the manuscript, names of all authors/ contributors (with their highest academic degrees, designation, and affiliations), and name(s) of department(s) and/or institution(s) to which the work should be credited. All information that can reveal your identity should be here. Use TEXT/DOC/DOCX files. Do not zip the files.
2. Source(s) of support in the form of grants, equipment, or all of these;
3. A statement that the manuscript has been read and approved by all the authors, that the requirements for authorship as stated earlier in this document have been met, and that each author believes that the manuscript represents honest work, if that information is not provided in another form (see below); and
4. The name, address, email, and telephone number of the corresponding author, who is responsible for communicating with the other authors about revisions and final approval of the proofs, if that information is not included in the manuscript itself. 

[2] Blinded Article file: The main text of the article, beginning from Abstract till References (including tables) should be in this file. The file must not mention the authors' name, the institution at which the study was done, or the Acknowledgement. Page headers/running title can include the title but not the authors' names. Manuscripts not in compliance with the Journal's blinding policy will be returned to the corresponding author. Use rtf/doc files. If the file size is large, graphs can be submitted as images separately without incorporating them in the article file to reduce the size of the file. The pages should be numbered consecutively, beginning with the first page of the blinded article file.

[3] The contributors' / copyright transfer form (template provided below) has to be submitted in original with the signatures of all the contributors within two weeks of submission via email as a scanned image. Print-ready hard copies of the images (one set) or digital images should be sent to the journal office at the time of submitting the revised manuscript. High-resolution images (up to 5 MB each) can be sent by email.

 

Ethics of Research and Publication:

The ethical policy of the Journal is based on the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) guidelines and complies with the International Committee of Journal Editorial Board codes of conduct. Readers, authors, reviewers, and editors should follow these ethical policies once working with the Journal. The ethical policy of the journal is liable to determine which of the typical research papers or articles submitted to the journal should be published in the concerned issue. The publishing decision is based on the suggestion of the journal's reviewers and editorial board members. The ethical policy insisted the Editor-in-Chief, may confer with other editors or reviewers in making the decision. The reviewers are necessary to evaluate the research papers based on the submitted content in a confidential manner.  The reviewers also suggest the authors improve the quality of the research paper by their reviewing comments.  Authors should ensure that their submitted research work is original and has not been published elsewhere in any language. Applicable copyright laws and conventions should be followed by the authors.  Any kind of plagiarism constitutes unethical publishing behavior and is unacceptable.  For information on this matter in publishing and ethical guidelines please visit http://publicationethics.org.

 

Authorship Criteria:

 To ensure authorship for the submitted manuscripts, the contributors should meet the following three conditions:

• Conception and design, acquisition of data, or analysis and interpretation of data has been done by the author 
• Either drafting the article or revising it critically for important intellectual content has been done by the author
• The final approval of the version to be published has been given by the author. Each contributor should have participated sufficiently in the work to be allowed to take public responsibility for suitable portions of the content.

Study design and ethical approval: Good research should be well-justified, well-planned, appropriately designed, and ethically approved. To conduct research to a lower standard may constitute misconduct. The authors are responsible for the whole scientific content as well as the accuracy of the bibliographic information.

Data analysis: Data should be appropriately analyzed, but inappropriate analysis does not necessarily amount to misconduct. Fabrication and falsification of data do constitute misconduct.

Conflicts of interest: Conflicts of interest comprise those which may not be fully apparent and which may influence the judgment of the author, reviewers, and editors. They have been described as those which, when revealed later, would make a reasonable reader feel misled or deceived. They may be personal, commercial, political, academic, or financial. “Financial” interests may include employment, research funding, stock or share ownership, payment for lectures or travel, consultancies, and company support for staff.

Peer-review: This journal uses double-blind peer review, which means that both the reviewer and author identities are concealed from the reviewers, and vice versa, throughout the review process. To facilitate this, authors need to ensure that their manuscripts are prepared in a way that does not give away their identity. Authors have the right to communicate to the editor if they do not wish their manuscript to be reviewed by a particular reviewer because of potential conflicts of interest. No article is rejected unless negative comments are received from at least two reviewers.

Plagiarism: Plagiarism ranges from the unreferenced use of others’ published and unpublished ideas, including research grant applications to submission under “new” authorship of a complete paper, sometimes in a different language. It may occur at any stage of planning, research, writing, or publication: it applies to print and electronic versions. All the manuscripts submitted to Electromechanical Energy Conversion Systems (EECS) are checked by the iThenticate for possible plagiarism. The authors are expected to check the manuscript for plagiarism before submission.

If plagiarism is detected during peer review, the submission can be rejected. If plagiarism is detected after publication we reserve the right, as necessary, to issue a correction or retract the article. We reserve the right to notify the institutions of authors about the plagiarism that was found before or after publication.

Corrections and retractions

To maintain the integrity of academic records, Electromechanical Energy Conversion Systems (EECS) may have to publish corrections or retractions of papers published in the journal. According to agreed academic community norms, corrections or corrections of published articles are made by publishing an Erratum or Retraction article, without altering the original article in any other way than by adding a prominent connection to the Erratum / Retraction article. The original article remains in the public domain and should be commonly indexed to the subsequent Erratum or Retraction. We may have to delete the material from our website and archive sites in the exceptional event the material is considered to infringe those rights or is defamatory.

It may be necessary for the original author(s) to make minor corrections to published articles by making a comment on the published Article. It will only be acceptable if the modifications do not affect the article's results or conclusions.

Corrections

Changes to published articles that affect the article's meaning and conclusion but do not invalidate the article in its entirety may be corrected, at the discretion of the editor(s), by publishing an Erratum indexed and linked to the original article. Changes in authorship of published articles are corrected through an Erratum.

Retractions

If the scientific information in an article is significantly compromised on rare occasions it may be appropriate to retract published articles. In these cases, Electromechanical Energy Conversion Systems (EECS) must comply with the COPE guidelines. Retracted papers are indexed and the original article is referred to.

 

 ORCID Number:

It is mandatory to provide the ORCID (Open Researcher and Contributor ID) number of the corresponding author and all co-authors upon submission of the manuscript to the Electromechanical Energy Conversion Systems (EECS). Orcid number of all co-authors should be provided on the Title page of the manuscript. It can be obtained for free at: https://orcid.org/register.

Guarantor

One or more authors should take responsibility for the integrity of the work from the inception to the publishing of the article. This author will be designated as the guarantor.

Conflict of Interest

The authors are required to declare all competing financial and non-financial interests regarding the publication during the submission of their work. All authors will declare any manuscript-related conflict of interest, including but not limited to commercial, personal, political, and intellectual aspects. All editors, editorial staff, and reviewers will also report potential conflicts of interest associated with the submissions for which they work.

Acknowledgments

The authors are required to acknowledge anyone who has contributed to the work submitted, but may not meet the authorship criteria. It is mandatory to state any support with third-party translations or editing, such as professional commercial writing/editing services. The authors will get permission from all of those mentioned in the section on Acknowledgments.

 References:

All references should be cited within the text; otherwise, these references will be automatically removed. Authors are responsible for ensuring that the information in each reference is complete and accurate. The references should be numbered consecutively in the order in which they appear in the text (Vancouver System). All references must be numbered consecutively and citations of references in text should be identified using numbers in square brackets (e.g., “as discussed by some authors [2]”; “as discussed elsewhere [1, 5, 12]”). Please include the DOI number.

 

Tables & Figures:

• Tables should be self-explanatory and should not duplicate textual material. 
• Place the explanatory matter in the footnotes, not in the heading. 
• Explain in footnotes all non-standard abbreviations that are used in each table. 
• Obtain permission for all fully borrowed, adapted, and modified tables and provide a credit line in the footnote.
• For footnotes, use the following symbols in this sequence: *, †, ‡, §, ||, , **, ††, ‡‡
• Labels, numbers, and symbols should be clear and of uniform size. 
• If a figure has been published, acknowledge the original source and submit written permission from the copyright holder to reproduce the material. A credit line should appear in the legend for figures for such figures.
• The Journal reserves the right to crop, rotate, reduce, or enlarge the photographs to the desired size. 

 Article Processing Charge:

As Niroo Research Institute has supported all of the publishing costs of Electromechanical Energy Conversion Systems (EECS), the article processing charge and any other publication fees in the journal are free for authors.

Subscription Fee
Electromechanical Energy Conversion Systems (EECS) is published as an open-access electronic journal, so there is no subscription fee for audiences.