Submission guidelines
Instructions for authors
Contributions should comply with the following standard structure:
- Name of the contribution
- Names and addresses of authors and institutions, the corresponding author’s e-mail
- Abstract (max. 15 lines)
- Introduction
- Experimental
- Results (and Discussion)
- (Discussion)
- Conclusions
- (as the case may be) Acknowledgements
- Literature
We accept for publication three types of contributions:
- original articles (articles containing original research data)
- technical notes (articles with direct connection to industrial practice or case studies)
- reviews (critical literature surveys)
Manuscript preparation
In your articles, follow the terminology according to EN ISO 8044:2000 „Corrosion of metals and alloys: Basic terms and definitions “.
Write your manuscript in one of the common text editors (e.g. Word, LibreOffice). Please do not write in LaTex. Export the text in an acceptable format, such as DOC(X), RTF or TXT. Font size min. 11 points, no limitations as to the font, line spacing 1.5. (Articles are typeset anyway, no exact format is thus necessary. If you are interested, you can use a template placed in the FOR AUTHORS).
Figures and tables may be included in the main document. If necessary, higher-resolution versions of the figures will be requested.Literature references in the text should be put in square brackets. References in the Literature part should comply with the ACS (American Chemical Society) standard. You can use the EndNote reference style placed in the FOR AUTHORS bookmark. Should the format of literature or references be incomplete, the article will be returned for revision!
Languages
We accept articles in English language.
Submission
We provide very fast publication procedure. Our peer review is fast, fair and constructive. In a review procedure, the article is submitted to a reviewer (single blind peer review), who provides their opinion on the content of the paper. If the paper is approved, comments are anonymously sent back to the authors, who, having modified it, return the final version of the text to the editorial board. The article is published in the journal as soon as it is feasible in terms of time and space.
Article processing charges
The journal has article processing charge (APC) 200 EUR. The APC is applicable after article acceptance for publication and only in case that the article contains Acknowledgement to any financial source (grant, project, etc.).