Submissions

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Submission Preparation Checklist

As part of the submission process, authors are required to check off their submission's compliance with all of the following items, and submissions may be returned to authors that do not adhere to these guidelines.
  • The submission has not been previously published, nor is it before another journal for consideration (or an explanation has been provided in Comments to the Editor).
  • The submission file is in OpenOffice, Microsoft Word, or RTF document file format.
  • Where available, URLs for the references have been provided.
  • The text is single-spaced; uses a 12-point font; employs italics, rather than underlining (except with URL addresses); and all illustrations, figures, and tables are placed within the text at the appropriate points, rather than at the end.
  • The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines.
  • Permission has been obtained for use of copyrighted material from other sources.
  • Fill in the complete information of the manuscript and authors (full name, postal address, email address, phone number) in the journal system.

Author Guidelines

Online Submissions

Before submitting a paper, the author must first create an account if you don't have one

or log in if you already have one.

Please remember to tick a role as "author" during the registration process so you can submit a manuscript!

The manuscript can be prepared following the explanation below, or download the submission template.

 

Manuscript Preparation

The manuscript must be written in English between 2000-7000 words and can be prepared either using Microsoft Word, or Latex. For latex users there is no special template, please use document class “article” and submit the pdf file. When accepted, all manuscripts will be edited by Journal Editing Team to the publication format using Latex

Articles

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Copyright Notice

Mechanical Science Reports (MSR) accepts manuscripts that have not been published elsewhere and are not under consideration for publication by other print or electronic media.

Authors who publish with this journal agree to the following terms:

Authors retain copyright and grant the journal right of first publication with the work simultaneously licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 CC BY-SA International License that allows others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.

Authors are allowed to copy and distribute the article, with an acknowledgement of its initial publication in this journal (with a link to the formal publication through the relevant DOI).

Authors are permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) before and during the submission process, as it can lead to productive exchanges and earlier and greater citation of published work.

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