The journal publishes four issues per year and does not include special subject volumes. Engineering Spectrum only accepts manuscripts written in English.
Please ensure that your manuscript is written in correct and fluent English (either American or British usage is accepted, but do not mix the two). Authors who feel that their manuscript may require language editing to correct grammar or spelling and to conform to standard scientific English are encouraged to use a professional English language editing service.
Engineering Spectrum welcomes the submission of original research articles and review articles.
Original research article
An original research article reports detailed and previously unpublished research and is classified as primary literature. Its structure typically includes an introduction and background, problem definition, hypotheses, methods, results, interpretation of findings, and discussion. These papers are generally substantial, with a typical length of 3,000–6,000 words.
Review article
A review article provides an up-to-date, critical overview of the current state of knowledge on an important topic in engineering. It summarizes previous developments, highlights recent advances, and offers an outlook on future directions. Review articles are usually long, typically ranging from 3,000 to 10,000 words, depending on the scope of the topic.
A separate Title Page must be prepared, including:
Manuscript title
Full names of all authors
Affiliations of all authors
E-mail addresses of all authors
On the following page, where the main text begins, author names, affiliations, and e-mail addresses must not be included to facilitate the review process.
The manuscript text for initial submission should be prepared as follows:
One-sided, single-column format
12-point font size
Double line spacing throughout
All pages must be numbered
Continuous line numbering must be used on all pages except the title page
Times New Roman or any other clear, readable font may be used
Authors may use appropriate section headings and subheadings that match the subject of the article. However, for original research papers, the following sections are mandatory:
Abstract
Introduction
Materials and Methods (or an equivalent methods section)
Results and Discussion
Conclusions
The Abstract must contain 200–300 words.
Avoid overly crowded or unreadable plots and graphics.
Use appropriate and clearly labeled axes.
Ensure that symbols and data sets are clear and easily distinguishable.
Use uniform lettering and sizing in all figures/artwork.
Number illustrations according to their sequence in the text.
Figures and tables must always be cited in the text in consecutive numerical order.
Figure parts should be denoted by lowercase letters (a, b, c, etc.).
If an appendix contains figures, continue the consecutive numbering from the main text. Do not restart figure numbering as “A1, A2, A3, etc.”
If you include figures or other material that have been previously published elsewhere, you must obtain permission from the copyright holder(s) for both print and online formats. In such cases, material from other sources should be clearly acknowledged.
Submit tables as editable text, not as images.
Tables may be placed either next to the relevant text in the article or on separate page(s) at the end of the manuscript.
Number tables consecutively in the order of their first appearance in the text and place any table notes below the table body.
Use tables sparingly and avoid presenting data in tables that duplicate information already described in the text.
Avoid vertical rules and shading in table cells.
Tables must always be cited in the text in consecutive numerical order.
Vectors and tensors should be clearly indicated in the manuscript.
Equation numbers should appear in parentheses, numbered consecutively, and placed on the right-hand side of the equation.
All equation numbers must be cited in the text.
Use the following sequence of parentheses: ) ] }.
Mathematical symbols and formulae should be typed, not handwritten.
Take particular care to clearly distinguish:
The number one (1) and the letter “l”
Zero (0) and the letter “O”
If a large number of symbols are used, the author must provide a nomenclature list of these symbols and their definitions on a separate page.
All parameters must be written in italics, except for subscripts. For units, abbreviations, and symbols, authors may refer to British Standards BS 350 (1991) and 3763 or ISO/R31.
After acceptance, the manuscript must be formatted according to the journal template:
Main text in two-column format
Times New Roman, 10-point font
12-point line spacing
Template font size, line spacing, and margins must not be altered
Main sections and subsections should be numbered consecutively. All references listed at the end of the paper must be cited in the main text using numerals in square brackets, e.g. [1, 2–5].
The paper is divided into three main parts:
Front matter: title, authors’ names, abstract, and keywords
Main body: main text, references, and nomenclature
Author information: authors’ short biographies
Sections must be edited in double-column format. Tables and figures should preferably be placed at the top or bottom of the columns.
Tables should be prepared in 9-point font.
If a table or figure is wider than one column, it may be placed at the top or bottom of the page spanning both columns.
Figures must have a minimum resolution of 300 dpi.
Both black-and-white and color figures are acceptable.
Each table and figure must be cited in the text.
References should be listed at the end of the paper in 9-point font and numbered consecutively. For journal articles, volume, issue number, page range, and year of publication must be provided.
The reference list must follow standard APA referencing style. For more information, authors may consult:
https://www.mendeley.com/guides/apa-citation-guide
Important: Citations should demonstrate the integration of the article within the scholarly community and its surrounding research field. Articles that rely heavily on non-scholarly sources such as personal webpages, blogs, commercial product pages, device or software manuals, or references that cannot be accessed are not acceptable.
Authors must include a Conflict of Interest statement declaring that there is no conflict of interest related to the study, or clearly describe any potential conflicts.
Authors should fill in the Acknowledgements section to thank their funders and any individuals or institutions that contributed to the work.
For manuscripts with two or more authors, the CRediT taxonomy (Contributor Roles Taxonomy; see https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/leap.1210) must be used to describe each author’s contribution.
The corresponding author is responsible for providing accurate CRediT details, offering a clear and transparent description of each author’s role in the published article.
The roles of all authors must be listed using the 14 CRediT categories. Authors may have contributed to more than one role. The CRediT information must be provided after the authors’ short biographies.
The roles may include, but are not limited to:
Conceptualization: Ideas; formulation or evolution of overarching research goals and aims.
Data curation: Management activities to annotate (produce metadata), clean, and maintain research data (including software code where needed for data interpretation) for initial use and later reuse.
Formal analysis: Application of statistical, mathematical, computational, or other formal techniques to analyze or synthesize study data.
Funding acquisition: Acquisition of financial support for the project leading to this publication.
Investigation: Conducting the research and investigation process, including experiments and data/evidence collection.
Methodology: Development or design of methodology; creation of models.
Project administration: Management and coordination responsibility for planning and execution of the research activity.
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 computer code and supporting algorithms; testing of existing code components.
Supervision: Oversight and leadership responsibility for planning and execution of the research activity, including mentorship external to the core team.
Validation: Verification, whether as part of the activity or as a separate step, of the overall reproducibility of results/experiments and other research outputs.
Visualization: Preparation, creation, and/or presentation of the published work, specifically data visualization and graphical presentation.
Writing – original draft: Preparation, creation, and/or presentation of the published work, specifically 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.
Example of author contribution statement using CRediT:
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.